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Song title:      Learning To Breathe
Original Album:  Fires

Words and Music by Nerina Pallot
Copyright © 2005 Idaho / Echo Records
Published by Idaho Records

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


INTRO:
Chords:
F   133211    Am  577555
Gm  355333    Bb  688766


Guitar Figure 1

[play:]
  F
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-----------------------------3______---------------------------3____
|-----0---3-------1---3-----------|-----0---3-------1---3-----------|
|-1-------------------------------|---------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |


[then play:]  [x3]
  F
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
___---------------------------3______---------------------------3____
|-----0---3-------1---3-----------|-----0---3-------1---3-----------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |

                                               [third time: Oh, this...]



VERSE1:
Notes:
Guitar Figure 1 is the basis of the verses.

Chords:
F  133211 or x33211
C  x35553 oe x32010


  F
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-----------------------------3______---------------------------3____
|-----0---3-------1---3-----------|-----0---3-------1---3-----------|
|-1-------------------------------|---------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |
  F
  road is     long,       this road is  wide,           it  takes



  F
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
___---------------------------3______---------------------------3____
|-----0---3-------1---3-----------|-----0---3-------1---3-----------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |

 more than    luck        to  last      the ride.           It takes



  F
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
___---------------------------3______---------------------------3____
|-----0---3-------1---3-----------|-----0---3-------1---3-----------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |

 strength and it      takes         courage         to      sur - 


  C
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-10--9-------10___---9-----------|-10--9-------10___---9-----------|
|---------10------------------9---|---------10------------------9---|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |
  C
- vive                                                      And did



  F
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-----------------------------3______---------------------------3____
|-----0---3-------1---3-----------|-----0---3-------1---3-----------|
|-1-------------------------------|---------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |
| F
  someone     ev   -  er      say   to you,            "There's nothing



  F
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
___---------------------------3______---------------------------3____
|-----0---3-------1---3-----------|-----0---3-------1---3-----------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |

  bound in    thought you can-not   do?"                Well, I've

  seen some   things  but not       all of      them    came



  C
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-10--9-------10___---9-----------|-10--9-------10___---9-----------|
|---------10------------------9---|---------10------------------9---|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |
  C
  true.



CHORUS:
Chords:
Bb 688766           Dm x57765
F  x8 10 10 10 8    C  x35553 or 8 10 10 988


                         | Bb                       | F
So, I don't want to be the last, don't want to be the first,

                | Dm                    | C
Don't want to be alone with my thoughts tomorrow,

                | Bb                       | F
Don't want to be afraid, don't want to look away,

  | Dm        | C
I'm learning to breathe.


                   | Bb                       | F
Don't want to be the last, don't want to be the first,

            | Dm                | C
I just need a hope and a light to follow,

                   | Bb                    | F
Like sailors look to stars to find their way home,

  | Dm        | C           | Bb
I'm learning to breathe on my own.



VERSE2:
Notes:
Play as in VERSE1.

Chords:
F  133211 or x33211
C  x35553 or x32010


  | F              | %
And I know a man who lost his wife,

          | %                  | %
This is the way he chooses to de-scribe his life,

        | F                      | %                 | C
He says,   "If I think too much, I find there's just a hole,"


    | F                | %
But before she went, she left a son,

        | F                 | %
He says, "Dad, you're not the only one,

    | %            | %             | C
Maybe love is just a requiem for the soul".



[repeat CHORUS]



BRIDGE:
Chords:
Bb 688766
F  x8 10 10 10 8


| Bb
  Oh, do you still feel small?

     | %
Just a speck of life on an ocean wave,

| %                          | Bb    | F
  Does it pull us all? Does it pull us all?


[Guitar SOLO]


CHORUS:
Chords:
Bb  688766    Dm  x57765
F   133211    C   x35553


                         | Bb                         | F
So, I don't want to be the last, I don't want to be the first,

                | Dm                    | C
Don't want to be alone with my thoughts tomorrow,

                | Bb                       | F
Don't want to be afraid, don't want to look away,

  | Dm        | C
I'm learning to breathe.


                   | Bb                       | F
Don't want to be the last, don't want to be the first,

            | Dm                | C
I just need a hope and a light to follow,

                   | Bb                    | F
Like sailors look to stars to find their way home,

  | Dm        | C           | Bb
I'm learning to breathe on my own.

  | Dm        | C           | Bb
I'm learning to breathe on my own.

  | Dm        | C           | F
I'm learning to breathe on my own.