Learning To Live Chords & Tabs
Dream Theater: Learning to Live
Transcribed by Ádám Bodnár (ytsejam@falcon.sch.bme.hu), from the official
guitar scores.
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Guitars tacet
Verse 1:
There was no time for pain
No energy for anger
The sightlessness of hatred slips away
Walking through winter streets alone
He stops and takes a breath
With confidence and self-control
Verse 2:
I look at the world and see no understanding___
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I'm waiting to find some sense of strength
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I'm begging you from the bottom of my heart to show me understanding
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I need to live life like some
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people never will so find me kindness find me beauty find me truth
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When temptation brings me to my knees and I
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[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/d/dream_theater/learning_to_live_tab_ver_2.html ]
lay here drained of strength show me kindness show me beauty show me truth
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The way your heart sounds makes all the difference It's what de-
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cides if you'll endure the pain that we all feel. The way your heart beats makes all the
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difference in learning to live
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Here before me is my soul. I'm learning to live. w/Fill 1.
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Fill 1:
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I won't give up 'til I've no more to give. No more to give!
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Rhy.Fig.1 End Rhy.Fig.1
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w/Rhy Fig.1(5 times)
Listening to the city
Whispering it's violence
I set out watvhing from above
The '90s bring new questions
New solutions to be found
I fell in love to be let down.
Once again we dance in the crowd at times a step a - way From a
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common fear that's all spread out I won't listen to what you say
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Once you touch you stand alone to face the bitter fight
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Once I reached for love and now I reached for life.
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Another chance to live my life
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Free the sensation in my heart To
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ride the wings of dreams In - to changing hor - i - zons
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It brings inner peace wiyhin my mind As I'm
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lifted from where I've split my life I hear an innocent voice
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I hear kind - ness beau - ty and truth____________________
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