Shake Me Awake

Intro Chords:
E A E   A E B E

    E                      A
When bliss can't be found
E
I stumble around
     F#m              B
In a daze without a destination
E                     A
If you wanna go now, honey honey
 E
Save me a seat
 F#m                   B
Cuz I know I'd find relief
 F#m                    B
Oh, if I could just suspend my 
disbelief

 A          E
Oh! I got low for a minute
    A                             
To think about the places I don't 
E           G#m
go when I'm stuck in the race
A            E
Oh! I gotta let go of tomorrow
        Am
Cuz I never would've missed today

                  E
Come and shake me awake (shake, 
shake me awake)
                 G#m
And pull me far away (so far away)
          Bm                       
From the endless circles I've been 
        A
running in
                         E
I've had about all I can take (so 
take, take, take me away)
               G#m
So take me far away (so far, far 
away)
      Bm
To a life that's far less ordinary
  A
Before I'm in the mortuary

E  A

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E                     A
If day becomes dusk
E
Don't let that stop us
        F#m             B
On our way to something more 
uncertain
E                      A
Cuz when we arrive, oh honey honey
E
Wherever we're goin'
       F#m           B
We may never want to leave
        F#m                B
So just stay a while with me


                  E
Come and shake me awake (shake, 
shake me awake)
                 G#m
And pull me far away (so far away)
          Bm                       
From the endless circles I've been 
        A
running in
                         E
I've had about all I can take (so 
take, take, take me away)
               G#m
So take me far away (so far, far 
away)
      Bm                           A
To a life that's far less ordinary


C#m                     G#
How did I get so obsessed with time?
 C#m                        G#
When there's no way I could know
 C#m                       F#
How long I'll be before my time
    B                         E
So you and I should carve a little 
out before I go
 C#m                 G#
Maybe attend more matinees
 C#m                   G#
Spend more time at the park
C#m                             
Be less concerned with what the 
F#
haters say
 B                       E
Cuz they're just haters (they're 
just haters anyway)


 A          E
Oh! I got low for a minute
    A                             
To think about the places I don't 
E           G#m
go when I'm stuck in the race
A            E
Oh! I gotta let go of tomorrow
      Am
Or I never would've

Never would've

Never would've

Never would've

Never would've

Missed today


                  E
Come and shake me awake (shake, 
shake me awake)
                 G#m
And pull me far away (so far away)
          Bm                       
From the endless circles I've been 
        A
running in
                         E
I've had about all I can take (so 
take, take, take me away)
               G#m
So take me far away (so far, far 
away)
      Bm
To a life that's far less ordinary
  A
Before I'm in the mortuary