Barely Breathing (chrom)

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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

BARELY BREATHING chrom
By: Duncan Sheik
Key: G

 -5  -8  -7   -7    7    -7  7
Well, I know what you’re do-ing, 
6  6  6   7   6   -7
I see it all too clear 
-5-8 -7  -7    7  -7  7
I on-ly taste the sa-line 
 3   3  6   6  7   6    -7
when I kiss a-way your tears 
-5   -8  -7 -7  7  -7  7
You real-ly had me go-ing, 
 6    6  7  6  -7
Wish-ing on a star 
-5   -8    -7    -7   7   -7    7
the black holes that sur-round you 
 3   6   6 7  6  -7
are heav-i-er by far 
-5-5   -8   -9  -7   7  -7  7
I be-lieved in your con-fu-sion, 
7   7   -6*  7  -6*6
so com-plete-ly torn 
6   -8   -7   -7   7   -7   7  -77 
it must have been that yes-ter-day 
 3   3   6   6   7  6   -7 
was the day that I was born 
  -5    -8   -7  -7 7  -7  7
There’s not much to ex-am-ine, 
 6    6   7   6   -7
noth-ing left to hide 
-5   -8  -7  -7   7  -7 -7  7
You real-ly can’t be ser-i-ous 
 3   6   6   7  6  -7
you have to ask me why 
-8 -7  7  -7-88-8-77
I say good-   bye... 

   7  -8 -8  -8  8    -8    7
‘Cause I am bare-ly breath-ing 
 7 -8  -7    -7   7  -8
And I can’t find the air 
 -8    -8  -8  8-8 -8   7
don’t know who I’m kid-ding 
-5 -8 -7 -7  -8   7
Im-ag-in-ing you care 
-5 -8  -8    -8    8    -8   7
And I could stand here wait-ing 
-8  -7  7  -7  7  -8
ooh for an-oth-er day 
-5  -8   8   -8   8    -8    8   -8
I don’t sup-pose it’s worth the price, 
 8    -8    8   -8
It’s worth the price 
 8   -9    8  -8  -7  8-8-7-87
The price that I would  pay 

-5  -8  -7 -7   -7   -7   7
and ev-‘ry-one keeps ask-ing, 
  7    7  -6* 7 -6*6
what’s it all a-bout? 
6   -8  -7 -7 7  -7  7-77
It used to be so cer-tain 
 3  6   6    7   6  -7 
now I can’t fig-ure out 
 -8  -7  -7  7   -7   7
What is this at-trac-tion? 
  6   6   7    6  -7
Don’t it fill the day 
-5   -8  -7   -7  7  -7  -77
and noth-ing left to rea-son 
 3  6  6   7  6   -7
and on-ly you to blame 
 -8  -7 -7 7    -7
Will it ev-er change? 

   7  -8 -8  -8  8    -8    7
‘Cause I am bare-ly breath-ing 
 7 -8  -7    -7   7  -8
And I can’t find the air 
 -8    -8  -8  8-8 -8   7
don’t know who I’m kid-ding 
-5 -8 -7 -7  -8   7
Im-ag-in-ing you care 
-5 -8  -8    -8    8    -8   7
And I could stand here wait-ing 
-8  -7  7  -7  7  -8
ooh for an-oth-er day 
-5  -8   8   -8   8    -8    8   -8
I don’t sup-pose it’s worth the price, 
 8    -8    8   -8
It’s worth the price 
 8   -9    8  -8  -7  8-8-7-87
The price that I would  pay 
   7  -8 -8  -8  8    -8    7
‘Cause I am bare-ly breath-ing 
-5  -5   -8   -8  8 -8  7  -8 7 -7-8-77
But I’m think-ing it o-ver an-y-  way... 
-5   -8   -8  8 -8  7  -8 7 -7-8-77
I’m think-ing it o-ver an-y-  way... 

-5 -9  -8  -7  7 -77 -7  -8  -8
I come to find I may nev-er know 
-5  -8  -7   7   -5 -5   7    -6 -5-6
a chang-ing mind is it friend or foe? 
-5 -9 -8  -7 -5  -7  -8 -8-77
I rise a-bove I sink be-low 
-5  -8  -7  7   -5   7   -6 -5-6 
and ev-‘ry time you come and go 
   7     -6    7  -6 -5-66-55
Please don’t come and go 

  -5  -8 -8  -8  8    -8    7
‘Cause I am bare-ly breath-ing 
 7 -8   -7   -7   7  -8
And I can’t find the air 
 -8    -8  -8  8-8 -8   7
don’t know who I’m kid-ding 
-5 -8 -7 -7  -8   7
Im-ag-in-ing you care 
-5 -8  -8    -8    8    -8   7
And I could stand here wait-ing 
-8   -7  7  -7  7  -8
Ooh, for an-oth-er day 
-5  -8   8   -8   8    -8    8   -8
I don’t sup-pose it’s worth the price, 
 8    -8    8   -8  
It’s worth the price 
 8   -9    8  -8  -7  8-8-7-87
The price that I would pay 
-5  -5   -8   -8  8 -8  7  -8 7 -7
But I’m think-ing it o-ver an-y-way 
-5   -8   -8  8 -8  7  -8 7 -7-8-77
I’m think-ing it o-ver an-y-way

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