Life and Love and Why
Switchfoot
CD: The Legend of Chin
C  1997  re:think
TAB:   Alan wAges   saw97a@timon.acu.edu

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                                Life and love and why
                                child, adult, then die

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     all of your hoping and all of your searching for what

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    ask me for what am i living or what gives me strength
      that i'm willing to die for

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    take away from me    this monstrosity

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    cause my futile thinking not gonna solve nothing todight
 Bm                    F#\A#                  
ask me for what am i living or what gives me
  G                    F#        G   A
strength that i'm willing to die for

CHORUS>
         D
could it be this
            A
could it be bliss
             Bm                   G
could it be all that i ever have missed
            D
could it be true
             A 
can life be new
            Bm
and can i be used
           G        Bm  G    Bm   G   A
can i be used
D          G          D           A
give me a reason for life and for death
        D          G               D         A
and a reason for drowning while i hold my breath
  Bm (7997xx)            A# (6x46xx)
something to laugh at a reason to cry
   A (5x44xx)              G# (4x44xx)            G     A
everyone's hopeless and hoping for something to hope for
                 G      A
yea  something to hope for

CHORUS>
could it be true
can life be new
could it be all that i am is in you
could it be this could it be bliss
can it be you 
can it be you

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