Tab by Chris Campbell

Capo second fret, played fingerpicked and strummed.  Throw away the pick for this one.

This song as played on White Ladder is for two guitars.  However, David can play both parts when in concert.  This song can be played to sound good with one guitar, but you have to combine the two parts.  This notation is taken directly from the Live at the Point concert, so it can be done.

Chords are relative to capo and are inexact.  The chords listed here are not the exact names, and fingerings only are given.  Since some of the open strings are not played in the song, don't play all the notes indicated.  See the tab explanation for how to exactly play this song.

 A1  D1   E  D2   G   A  F#  Em   D
--5-------0--10---3---0---2-------2----
----------0-------0---2-------0---3----
--6---6---1--11-------2---3---0---2----
--0---4---2-----------2-------2---0----
--4---5---2---9---2---0---1---2---0----
--5-------0--10---3-------2---0--------

ACTUAL TAB: (chorus) "we were born with our eyes..." etc.
E     D2       E              E
--------10-------------10--------
---------------------------------
-1---------11---1---------11--1---
-2--------------2-------------2---
-2----9---------2----9--------2---
-0---10---------0---10--------0---

"can you tell me why..?" etc.
    G      A
----3--------------  (X2)
------0---3-2-0----
-------0--2---2--2-
-------0--2---2----
---2------0--------
---3---------------

"fools and their madness all around, know that the light don't sleep"
G        F#     Em   D
--3--------2---------3----
----0----------------2----
-------0-----3---0---3----
-----------------2---0----
-2---------------2---0----
-3--------2------0--------

     A1                                  D1 A1           D1
Take this silver lining Keep it in your own sweet head,
     A1                             D1   A1         D1
Shine it when the night is burning red,
     A1                                    D1 A1            D1
Shine it in the twilight Shine it on the cold cold ground,
     A1                                    D1 A1           D1
Shine it till these walls come tumbling down,

     E                 D2                 E        D2
We were born with our eyes wide open, so alive with wild hope now,
    E                G                     A
Can you tell me why time after time, They drag you down,
    G                 A       G                   F#
Down in the darkness deep, Fools in their madness all around,
  Em                       D
Know that the light don't sleep,
 
    A1                                  D1   A1        D1
Step into the silence, Take it in your own two hands,
    A1                                         D1   A1     D1
And scatter it like diamonds All across these lands
    A1                                    D1  A1    D1
Blaze it in the morning Wear it like an iron skin
    A1                                       D1 A1     D1
Only things worth living for Innocence and magic-amen

     E                 D2                 E        D2
We were born with our eyes wide open, so alive with wild hope now,
    E                G                     A
Can you tell me why time after time, They drag you down,
    G                 A       G                   F#
Down in the darkness deep, Fools in their madness all around,
  Em                       D
Know that the light don't sleep,

Interlude
solo A1 D1 A1 D1 etc...

     E                 D2                 E        D2
We were born with our eyes wide open, so alive with wild hope now,
    E                G                     A
Can you tell me why time after time, They drag you down,
    G                 A       G                   F#
Down in the darkness deep, Fools in their madness all around,
  Em                       D
Know that the light don't sleep,
 Em                        D
Know that the light don't sleep

G                     A
Time after time They drag you down
G                    A
Down in the darkness deep
G                        F#
Fools in their madness all around
Em                        D
Know that the light don't sleep
Em                        D
Know that the light don't sleep

Exit:
A1 D1 A1