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    America - Razorlight: Verse

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    The song "America" by Razorlight describes feelings of restlessness and unease in America. Over guitar chords, the singer lights cigarettes because he can't sleep and finds nothing interesting on TV or radio. The chorus reflects on watching and feeling panic in America for his whole life, with trouble in America. A guitar break separates verses describing yesterday being easy but now feeling lost without direction or meaning. The singer pleads to be held and told his partner will be there for him.

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    America - Razorlight: Verse

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    The song "America" by Razorlight describes feelings of restlessness and unease in America. Over guitar chords, the singer lights cigarettes because he can't sleep and finds nothing interesting on TV or radio. The chorus reflects on watching and feeling panic in America for his whole life, with trouble in America. A guitar break separates verses describing yesterday being easy but now feeling lost without direction or meaning. The singer pleads to be held and told his partner will be there for him.

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    The song "America" by Razorlight describes feelings of restlessness and unease in America. Over guitar chords, the singer lights cigarettes because he can't sleep and finds nothing interesting on TV or radio. The chorus reflects on watching and feeling panic in America for his whole life, with trouble in America. A guitar break separates verses describing yesterday being easy but now feeling lost without direction or meaning. The singer pleads to be held and told his partner will be there for him.

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    America - Razorlight: Verse

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    Stephen Mc Grane
    The song "America" by Razorlight describes feelings of restlessness and unease in America. Over guitar chords, the singer lights cigarettes because he can't sleep and finds nothing interesting on TV or radio. The chorus reflects on watching and feeling panic in America for his whole life, with trouble in America. A guitar break separates verses describing yesterday being easy but now feeling lost without direction or meaning. The singer pleads to be held and told his partner will be there for him.

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    America - Razorlight

    Verse
    G A
    |. . . . |. . . .|
    What a drag it is

    D G
    |. . . . |. . . .|
    The shape i'm in

    G A
    |. . . . |. . . .|
    Well I go out somewhere

    D G
    |. . . . |. . . .|
    Then I come home again

    G A
    |. . . . |. . . .|
    I light a cigarette

    D G
    |. . . . |. . . .|
    'Cause I can't get no sleep

    G A
    |. . . . |. . . .|
    Theres nothing on the TV nothing on the radio

    D G
    |. . . . |. . . .|
    That means that much to me

    Chorus
    G A D G
    |. . . . |. . . . |. . . . |. . . .|
    All my life, Watching America

    G A D G
    |. . . . |. . . . |. . . . |. . . .|
    All my life, There's panic in America

    Em A D G
    |. . . . |. . . . |. . . . |. . . . |
    Oh Oh Oh, Oh, There's trouble in America

    Em A D
    |. . . . |. . . . |. . . . |
    Oh Oh Oh, Oh, There's trouble in America
    Verse 2 - Same chords as the first verse

    Yesterday was easy


    Happiness came and went
    I got the movie script
    But I don't know what it meant

    I light a cigarette
    'Cause I can't get no sleep
    Theres nothing on the TV nothing on the radio
    That means that much to me
    Theres nothing on the TV nothing on the radio
    That I can believe in

    Chorus - Same chords as the first verse

    All my life
    Watching America
    All my life
    There's panic in America
    Oh Oh Oh, Oh
    There's trouble in America
    Oh Oh Oh, Oh
    There's panic in America
    Oh Oh Oh, Oh

    Break – (Guitar Only) G A D, G A D

    Verse 3
    G A
    Yesterday was easy
    D G
    Yes I got the news
    G A D G
    When you get it straight, but stand up you just can't lose
    G A D G
    Give you my confidence, all my faith in life
    G
    Don’t stand me up
    A
    Don't let me down
    D G
    I need you tonight
    G A D G
    To hold me, say you'll be here
    G A D G
    To hold me, say you'll be here
    G A D G
    To hold me, say you'll be here

    Chorus
    Main riff

    The riff spilts up into four sectoins with each one based around similar arpeggios of the
    chords G, A*, D, G

    part 1
    G A* D G
    e-------------------------------------------------|
    b-------------------10----------------------------|
    g--------7--------------------9p7-9p7----------7--|
    d------9---------11----11--------------7-----9----|
    a---10-----10/12-----------9--------------10------|
    e-------------------------------------------------|

    part 2
    G A* D G
    e-------------------------------------------------|
    b--------8----------10----------------------------|
    g------------------------------11-9--7---------7--|
    d------9---------11----11--------------7-----9----|
    a---10-----10/12-----------9-9------------10------|
    e-------------------------------------------------|

    part 3
    G A D G
    e--------10-7-------9-----------7-----------------|
    b----------------------10----------10---7h8-------|
    g------7---------9--------------------------------|
    d-------------7--------------------------------9--|
    a---10---------------------9-9--------------10----|
    e-------------------------------------------------|

    part 4
    G A* D G
    e-------------------------------9--10--7----------|
    b-------------------------------------------------|
    g--------7----------7--------------------------7--|
    d------9---------11---11---------------------9----|
    a---10-----10/12-----------9-9------------10------|
    e-------------------------------------------------|

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