Driving with the Brakes On
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Chords in this song
Strum
D-DU-UDU
G
e|-3---3---4---6
B|-4---4---4---3
G|-3---5---5---3
D|-5---5---6---3
A|-6---3---6---5
E|-3---3---4---6
Acoustic Gtr./Clean Tone
Driving through the long night
Trying to figure who's right and who's wrong
Now the kid has gone. I sit belted up tight.
She sucks on a match light, glowing bronze, steering on.
And I might be more a man if I stopped this in it's tracks
And said come on, let's go home. But she's got the wheel.
And I've got nothing except what I have on.
When you're driving with the brakes on.
When you're swimming with you're boots on.
It's hard to say you love someone
And it's hard to say you don't.
Trying to keep the mood right,
trying to steer the conversation from
The thing we've done. She shuts up the ashtray
and I say "it's a long way back now, hun." And she just yawns.
And we might get lost someplace so desolate that
no one where we're from would ever come. But she's got the wheel.
And I've got to deal from now on.
When you're driving with the brakes on.
When you're swimming with you're boots on.
It's hard to say you love someone
And it's hard to say you don't.Elec. Gtr./Dist. Tone
But unless the moon falls tonight,
unless continents collide.
Nothing's gonna make me
break from her side.Acoustic Gtr./Clean Tone
When you're driving with the brakes on.
When you're swimming with you're boots on.
It's hard to say you love someone
And it's hard to say you don't.
It's hard to say you love someone
Am C <--- Strum once(End.)
And it's hard to say you don't.
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Readable chord sheet for Driving with the Brakes On by Del Amitri
[C] [Am] [F] [G]
e|-3---3---4---6
B|-4---4---4---3
G|-3---5---5---3
D|-5---5---6---3
A|-6---3---6---5
E|-3---3---4---6
Acoustic Gtr./Clean Tone
[C]
[C]Driving through the long night
Trying to figure who's right and who's [Am]wrong
Now the kid has go[C]ne. [C]I sit belted up tight.
She sucks on a match light, glowing b[Am]ronze, steering [C]on.
And I [F]might be more a man if I [G]stopped this in it's tracks
And said come [C]on, let's go [Am]home. But [F]she's got the wheel.
And [G]I've got nothing except what I have [C]on.
[C]When you're driving with the brakes on.
When you're swimming with you're [Am]boots on.
It's hard to say you love so[F]meone [G]
And it's hard to say you don't. [C]
[C]Trying to keep the mood right,
trying to steer the conversation [Am]from
The thing we've do[C]ne. [C]She shuts up the ashtray
and I say "it's a long way back now, [Am]hun." And she just y[C]awns.
And we [F]might get lost someplace so [G]desolate that
no one where we're f[C]rom would ever [Am]come. But [F]she's got the wheel.
And [G]I've got to deal from now [C]on.
[C]When you're driving with the brakes on.
When you're swimming with you're [Am]boots on.
It's hard to say you love so[F]meone [G]
And it's hard to say you don't.E[C]lec. Gtr./Dist. Tone
But unless the moon [C]falls tonig[Am]ht, [F]
unless continents coll[Am]ide. [F] [C]
Nothing's gonna [Am]make me[F] [G]
break from her [Am]side.A[F]cous[G]tic Gtr./Clean Tone
When you're driving with the [C]brakes on.
When you're swimming with you're [Am]boots on.
It's hard to say you lov[F]e someone [G]
And it's hard to say you [Am]don't. [F] [G]
It's hard to say you love s[F]omeone [G]
Am C <--- Strum once(End.)
And it's hard to say you don't.