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Coming Up For Air

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Coming Up For Air

	  		Another song the Key of Tim... Dm! This one's been a live favourite for a  
year or two and  has finally made it to CD on the Thankyou EP. The C/E   
indicates that the chord is a C but the bass is inverting  it by playing 
the chord's 3rd (E) as the lowest note in the mix. The lead-in note to the 
second F chord in the chorus is an E, I've notated it as e->F. 
 
 
Intro: 
Dm   C/E   F   G 
 
Verse: 
Dm          C/E           F          G 
Glad you're here 'cause I need you tonight 
 
Dm   C/E   F   G 
 
Chorus: 
F    C                 Dm 
Yeah I'm coming up for air 
                   e->F 
Hello, how you doing up  
            C                Dm 
here? Gonna kiss you now with you 
          F        C 
I'm going up on my one knee 
        Dm                      e->F 
In the middle of this it goes on forever 
       C                Dm 
Yeah, I'm coming up for air 
 
Glad you're here 'cause I need you, I need you  
Dm   C/E   F   G 
tonight 
 
Chorus: 
F    C                 Dm 
Yeah I'm coming up for air 
                   e->F 
Hello, how you doing up  
C       Dm 
here? 
 
 
Dm   C/E   F   G 
 
Dm              C/E            F        G 
How's your old boyfriend, the one after me? 
 
Dm   C/E   F   G 
 
Dm                C/E            F        G 
He hasn't seen the piano from this angle has  
Dm   C/E   F   G 
he? 
 
Chorus: 
F    C                 Dm 
Yeah I'm coming up for air 
                   e->F 
Hello, how you doing up  
            C                Dm 
here? Gonna kiss you now with you 
      F        C 
Going up on my one knee 
        Dm                      e->F 
In the middle of this it goes on forever 
      C                Dm 
Yeah I'm coming up for air 
 
 
Bridge: 
Bb     F 
Let it all out 
    C                      Dm 
The people round here can't hear themselves think 
Bb         F            C 
    In the morning the planes 
            Gm 
And we can sleep right  
        Gm 
Sleep right through them 
 
Instrumental break 
Dm   C/E   F   G 
 
     Dm           C/E               F             G 
Fine wine in the freezer, some cat whining on the stereo 
 
Dm   C/E   F   G 
 
Dm          C/E    
Oh why did he leave her?  
F            G    Dm   C/E   F   G 
Because we're all fools 
   Dm           C/E                             F 
My hand on your back, where your wings would've been 
               G 
If you'd had a pair 
Dm          C/E         F    G 
Now I'm not aching for you anymore 
 
 
Chorus: 
F    C                 Dm 
Yeah I'm coming up for air 
                   e->F 
Hello, how you doing up  
            C                Dm 
here? Gonna kiss you now with you 
          F        C 
I'm going up on my one knee 
      Dm               
The middle of this it goes on forever 
F       C                Dm 
Yeah, I'm coming up for air 
 
Instrumental 
Bb   F   C   Dm 
 
Bb        F             C 
   In the morning the planes  
        Dm 
we can sleep through them 
Bb     F 
Let it all out 
    C                      Dm 
The people round here can't hear themselves think 
Bb         F            C 
    In the morning the planes 
            Gm 
And we can sleep right  
Gm 
sleep right through them 
 
 
Chorus: 
F    C                 Dm 
Yeah I'm coming up for air 
                   e->F 
Hello, how you doing up  
            C                Dm 
here? Gonna kiss you now with you 
          F        C 
I'm going up on my one knee 
        Dm                      e->F 
In the middle of this it goes on forever 
       C                Dm 
Yeah, I'm coming up for air 
F       C                Dm 
Yeah, I'm coming up for air 
F       C                Dm 
Yeah, I'm coming up for air 
		  

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