CENTER AISLE

Artist: Caedmon's Call

Album: Caedmon's Call

Words and Music by Derek Webb

Copyright 1997 Cumbee Road Music

Transcribed by Bryce Inman (from the Caedmon's Call Songbook)

http://caedmons-call.com/guitar_tab/songbook.shtml





Em9          024030

C2(add#4)    x34030

D2sus(no5)   x50030

G5           3x0033

D2/F#        200230

D2           x00230

Em7          020030

A7sus4       002030

C2           x32030

G/F#         200033





Legend:

       % = D.S. al CODA

       * = CODA





Guitar: capo 3rd fret





intro: Em9





Em9                   C2(add#4)                    D2sus(no 5)     G5  D2/F#

Thank God I'm back in my car, and drivin' home, and drivin' home.

Em9                           C2(add#4)          D2

'Cause the air was thin and so cold back in there.

          Em7                     A7sus 

It was my first time, won't be my last time

        C2                   D2                       Em9

And the questions rise, expectations fall in light of it all.

                        C2(add#4)          D2sus(no 5)  G5         D2/F#

There aren't words to say; words aren't remembered, but presence is.

Em9                     C2(add#4)             D2             E7

   A good friend once told me, and he was there, he was there.

                    A7sus4        C2                  D2

But she wasn't there.  And it's not fair, and it's not fair.





%

G5                   G/F#       Em7                          D2

    What crimes have you committed, demanding such a penance,

                       C2                                   G5

that couldn't wait for five more minutes and a cry for help?

                   G/F#     Em7                        D2

'Cause this room is so peaceful and this room is so quiet.

3rd time to CODA**                                   2nd time to CODA*  

                 Em7                C2              Em9

And I hate the silence, and I can't walk the center aisle.





                                     C2(add#4)

Well, I've been here for over three hours,

D2sus(no 5)            G5  D2/F#

            behind the flowers,

Em9                      C2(add#4)      D2          Em7

   so beautiful and young.  And so alive, and so in need of someone,

           A7sus4                           C2           D.S. Al CODA %

someone to talk to them.  'Cause theirs are fragile lives.





*CODA

Em7                          A7sus4

   And I think about my brother,

Em7                     A7sus4

   and how i just stood there

Em7                        A7sus4                C2

   with my hands in my pockets and my heart in my throat.





Em9                        C2(add#4)            D2sus(no 5)       G5  D2/F#

   Thank God I'm back in my car and drivin' home, and drivin' home.

Em9                    C2(add#4)       D2          Em7

   But in that place I leave all my days of taking life for granted

           A7sus4               Em7

   and the words I wrote for her and my best friend crying,

A7sus4                 C2      D.S. al CODA %

   and a young girls lying on all out hearts.





**CODA

Em7

lence.

C2                 Em7                C2              Em9

  And I hate the silence, and I can't walk the center aisle