You Can Only Get So High Chords & Tabs
You Can Only Get So High Chords
This is a different twist on this great song
Standard Tuning
Intro
Distortion Abm E B F# x1
Picked = 123 123 Abm E B F# x2
Verse 1 Picked = 123 123
Abm /// /// E /// ///
Hard time wake up this morning
B /// /// F# /// ///
Closed the blinds so I can see
Abm /// /// E /// ///
First light came without a warning
B /// /// F# /// ///
Hit the sunrise, get the daylight it’s out of me
Abm /// /// E /// ///
Down seven times alone for breakfast
B /// /// F# /// ///
Chasing down where's last night cloudy memory
Abm /// /// E /// ///
Empty bottle preach the gospel
B /// /// F# /// ///
Another shot ain’t coming close to saving me
B (Barre chord on Fr7)
Close to saving me
Break
F# Abm E
Chorus 1 (All Barre Chords)
B
You can only get so high
F#
Then you got a come down
Abm
Twisted in the clouds, just like a kite
E
Back in just despair up in the sky
B
Flying in the freehold
F#
Before you know it is your last call
Abm Absus4
I'll take one more drink and two packs of love
E F#
Driving out the demons in the sky
B Abm
You can only get so high
B Abm
You can only get so high
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Verse 2 - Picked = 123 123
Abm /// /// E /// ///
Life was one long after party
B /// /// F# /// ///
My welcome was too long of a stay
Abm /// /// E /// ///
The guitar sings the same old story
B /// /// F# /// ///
But they leave it out, got the bills of getting paid
Abm /// /// E /// ///
You keep yourself 10 second chances
B /// /// F# /// ///
So I ain’t quitting I’m just leaving for a while
Abm /// /// E /// ///
Ended like some many bad romances
B /// /// F# /// ///
One more picture left before you say goodbye
Chorus 2 (All Barre Chords)
B
You can only get so high
F#
Then you got a come down
Abm
Twisted in the clouds, just like a kite
E
Back in just despair up in the sky
B
Flying in the freehold
F#
Before you know it is your last call
Abm Absus4
I'll take one more drink and two packs of love
E F#
Driving out the demons in the sky
B Abm
You can only get so high
B Abm
You can only get so high
Bridge (All Barre Chords)
F# Abm
Endless limitation that I keep on gettin' back
F# Abm
I guess I stopped by sitting down with me, myself and I
F# G Abm Absus4 (hold reverb)
I think it's best to leave my desperation to desire
Chorus 3 (All Barre Chords)
B
You can only get so high
F#
Then you got to come down
Abm
Twisted in the clouds, just like a kite
E
Back in despair up in the sky
B
Flying in the freehold
F#
Before you know it is your last call
Abm Absus4
I'll take one more drink and two packs of love
Chorus to out (All Barre Chords)
B
You can only get so high
F#
Till your bottle melt a breakdown
Abm
You can only hurt so many times
E
Before the truth falls from the lie
B
Flying in the freehold
F#
Just before you hit the last one
Abm Absus4
They only get one more chance and one last goodbye
E F#
It took me a lifetime to realize
B Abm
You can only get so high
B Abm
You can only get so high
Run B pentatonic to end or
B Abm
Then you got a come down
