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Song title:       The Starting Line
Original Album:   Strangeland

Words and Music by Tim Rice-Oxley, Tom Chaplin, Richard Hughes and Jessie Quin
Copyright © 2012 Island Records (UK) Limited
Published by BMG Music Publishing

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


INTRO:
Chords:
C   x32010 or 335553
Em  022000 or 079987
G   320033 or 355433

[play:  C  Em  G  C]  [x2]


VERSE:
Chords:
C   x32010 or 335553    F   x33211 or 133211
Em  022000 or 079987    Am  x02210 or 577555
G   320033 or 355433

C                 Em                G                  C
  This town was a lover's stage but now you can't recognise
    C                     Em              G
The streetlights that are daggers to your eyes
F                     Am               F                 C
  You can't find your bearings, you're slipping into the ground
F                  Am            Em     G
  The scene has no colour and no sound.


VERSE:
C             Em          G                     C
  You still believe in me after the things I've done
C            Em             G
You fear for what we have become
F                 Am        F                   C
  The ground is uneven, you stumble from day to day
F                      Am                  Em
  You tread where it's easy, although your feet are like lead
                       F
And you gotta get underway


CHORUS:
Chords:
F   x33211 or 133211    Am  x02210 or 577555
C   x32010 or 335553    G   320033 or 355433
Em  022000 or 079987    Dm  x00231 or 557765

F         C               Em       Am
Drag your heart up to the starting line
F            C                    G
  Forget the ghosts that make you old before your time
F          C           Em     Am
  It's too easy to get left behind
Dm                 
I know you've been kicked around
    F                                         C  Em  G  C
But tie up your thoughts and lay them down on me.


[play:  C  Em  G  C]


VERSE:
C               Em         G                   C
Each heart is a paper kite blown around by the breeze
C                       Em                  G
Love won't rest 'til it brings you to your knees
F              Am    F                    C
  Some find it easy, some will never even know
F                          Am
You think you've done your journey,
         Em                                               F
Then you stumble and find that there's such a long way to go


CHORUS:
Chords:
F   x33211 or 133211    Am  x02210 or 577555
C   x32010 or 335553    G   320033 or 355433
Em  022000 or 079987    Dm  x00231 or 557765
                        Bb  xx0331 or 133211

(F)       C               Em       Am
Drag your heart up to the starting line
F            C                    G
  Forget the ghosts that make you old before your time
F          C           Em     Am
  It's too easy to get left behind
Dm 
I know you've been kicked around
    F
You wanna be lost but now you're found
Bb
Let's take the back way into town
F                                        C  Em  G  C 
Drink to the bad times, lay them down on me


[play:  C  Em  G  C]


VERSE:
C               Em                   G                   C
Girl, I still believe in you, you're too good to fall so low
      C            Em            G
We're gonna find a better life I know
F              Am         F                 C
Things will be clearer as soon as we make a start
F                    Am
  We'll be that much nearer
          Em                                       F                    
We're too old to just stand here waiting to break apart


CHORUS:
(F)       C               Em       Am
Drag your heart up to the starting line
F            C                    G
  Forget the ghosts that make you old before your time
F          C           Em     Am
  It's too easy to get left behind
Dm
I know you've been kicked around
    F                                         C  Em  G    C
But tie up your thoughts and lay them down on me,    on me...

   C  Em  G  C
On me...


[ends on C]