Shadow

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+: Blow note
−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *: Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

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Tab

SHADOW
By: John Shanks, Kara Dioguardi 
    & Ashlee Simpson
Key: G

-6 7  -7   -7   -7
I was six years old
 -6  7  -7   -7   -7 -8  7
When my par-ents went a-way
6  7   -7   -7  -7  7 -7  -7   -7
I was stuck in-side a bro-ken life
-7  -7  -7   7   7 -8
I could-n’t wish a-way
 6   7   -7  -7 -7
She was beau-ti-ful
-6*  7  -9  8   -8    8   -8
She had ev-‘ry-thing and more
 7  -7 -7  -7   7  -7  -7  -7
And my es-cape was hid-ing out
 7  -7   -7  -6  -6   10
And run-ning for the door
 9   10 10 -10 10    10
Some-bod-y lis-ten please
5   6   6  6  6   6  -6*  6 6-5
It used to be so hard be-ing me
chorus
 7   7  7   7  -8  -8
Liv-in’ in the sha-dow
-5  6    7    7    7  -8
Of some-one elses-‘s dream
  6   7   7  -6  -7* -7* -7
Try’n to find a hand to hold
 6  7   7    7    7    7   7  -7
But ev-‘ry touch felt cold to me

 6  7  7  6  -8    -8
Liv-in in a night-mare
-5 6  6   7  -9   -7
A nev-er end-ing sleep
-6* -6   7   7 -6 -7* -7* -7
But now that I am wide a-wake
6   -7*   -7* 7    7  -7-7*-77
My chains are fi-n’lly free
 -6    7   -7  -7 -7  7
Don’t feel sor-ry for me

REPEAT TO MY CHAINS THEN
 -6*   7   -7* -7 -7* -8
Don’t feel sor-ry for me
 5   -4   4  -4   4   -4    4  -4    -5  5
Moth-er, sis-ter, fa-ther, sis-ter, moth-er
4   -5    5     -4   4
Ev-‘ry-thing’s cool now
5   -4   4  -4   4   -4    4  -4    -5  5
Moth-er, sis-ter, fa-ther, sis-ter, moth-er
4   -5    5     -4   4
Ev-‘ry-thing’s cool now
3  4   6   7   6
Oh my life is good
 -3   4   -6   6   6 -5 6-5   6
I’ve got more than an-y-one should
-3 4   6   7   6
Oh my life is good
-3   4   -6  -6 -5  5   5
And the past is in the past
-5 -5  6  7   7   6   -8  -7
I was liv-in’ in the shad-ow
6    7    7   -7*-7* -7* 7
So don’t feel sor-ry for me
  6    7   -7  -7    6    7   -7  -7 -8  7
Don’t feel sor-ry, don’t feel sor-ry for me
  6    7   -7  -7    6    7   -7  -7 -8  7
Don’t feel sor-ry, don’t feel sor-ry for me
 6  7   -6  6  -6  6  -5  6   -5  5  -5   5
Liv-in’ in liv-in’ in liv-in’ in the sha-dow
 8  -9  8  -8  8   -8 -8  8   -7 7 -7-7*-7 7
Liv-in’ in liv-in’ in liv-in’ in a  new   day

All the days collide 
One less perfect than the next
I was stuck inside someone else’s life
And always second best
Oh, I love you now
‘Cause now I realize
That it’s safe outside
To come alive in my identity
So if you’re listening
There’s so much more to me
You haven’t seen
To chorus

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