Tuning: Standard
Key G
E5 = x79900
CM7 = x35500
G6 = x10121200
D6sus2 = x57700
Bsus4 = x24400
G5 = 3550xx
INTRO/ RIFF:
Guitar 1:
e|----------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--3-3-3---3-3-3---3-3-3---1-1-0---3-3-3---3-3-3---3-3-3---1-1---------|
G|-0------0------------------------0------0-----------------------------|
D|---------4------43------32------2--------4------43------32----0h2-4h5-|
A|----------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------------------------------------|
VERSE 1:
RIFF
Here’s to the twilight
Here’s to the memories
RIFF
These are my souvenirs
My mental pictures of everything
VERSE 2:
RIFF
Here’s to the late nights
Here’s to the firelight
RIFF
These are my souvenirs
My souvenirs
CHORUS 1: (The chords are right, but I haven’t tabbed this yet)
E5 CM7
I close my eyes and go back in time
G6 D6sus2
I can see you smiling, so alive
E5
We were so young
CM7
We had no fear
G6
We were so young
Bsus4 RIFF
We had no idea that life was just happening
RIFF
Life was just happening
VERSE 3:
RIFF
Here’s to your bright eyes
Shining like fireflies
RIFF
These are my souvenirs
The memory of a lifetime
PRECHORUS: (play RIFF)
RIFF
We were wide-eyed with everything
Everything around us
RIFF
We were enlightened by everything
CM7
Everything
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/s/switchfoot/souvenirs_crd_ver_4.html ]
CHORUS 2:
E5 CM7
So I close my eyes and go back in time
G6 D6sus2
I can see you smiling, so alive
E5 CM7
I close my eyes and go back in time
G6 Bsus4
You were just a child and so was I
E5
We were so young
CM7
We had no fear
G6
We were so young
Bsus4
We had no idea
BRIDGE 1:
E5 CM7 G6 Bsus4
That nothing lasts forever
E5 CM7
Nothing lasts forever
G5 Bsus4
Nothing lasts, nothing last
E5 CM7
You and me together
Bsus4 Dsus2
Were always now or never
BRIDGE 2:
G (let ring)
RIFF
Can you hear me?
RIFF
Can you hear me?
INTERLUDE:
CM7
G6 Dsus2 Bsus4 CM7
G6 Dsus2 Bsus4 CM7
CHORUS 3:
G6 D6sus2
I close my eyes and go back in time
Bsus4 CM7
I can see you smiling, you’re so alive
G6 D6sus2
I close my eyes and go back in time
G6
You were wide-eyed
CM7
You were wide-eyed
Bsus4
We were so young
CM7
We had no fear
G6
We were so young
D6sus2
We had just begun
Bsus4 CM7
A song we knew but had never sung
G6 Bsus4
It burned like fire inside our lungs
E5 CM7 Bsus4 D6sus2
Life was just happening (Nothing lasts, nothing lasts forever)
E5 CM7 Bsus4 D6sus2
Life was just happening (Nothing lasts, nothing lasts forever)
OUTRO:
G-RIFF
I wouldn’t trade it for anything
My souvenirs
