Long way    (video)

 

    Am - D (2x)      +  C - D (2x)

 

                                 C                                                    D

1. His eyes appear vacant, he'd taken more than his share,

                                     C                                    D

    trying hard not to awaken the voice of regret in his ear.

                                      C                                                         D

    He can't escape the timeline, so much worse than he had feared,

                         C                                               D

    lived every moment wishing the past would disappear.

 

                    G             - C                 D   C

He took the long way         on the freeway.

                     G           - C              Em - D   C

He took the long way        on the fr…..eeway.

 

+  C - D

 

                                     C                                                              D

2. She was his all and everything, but her strength, it needed space,

                                     C                                          D

    her love was but a haunting, she left but never went away.

 

                      G            - C               D   C

She took the long way       on the freeway.

                      G            - C              Em - D    C

She took the long way       on the fr…….eeway.

                      G            - C               D   C

She took the long way       on the freeway.

                      G            - C              Em - D    C

She took the long way       on the fr…….eeway.

 

+  Em - D - C (2x)     +  Am - D (4x)

 

+  CHORUS

 

                         Em    G         C - Em - D - C

+  She took the long, long wa………………y.

 

  Am                                                                    C

+    Well, it couldn't be had what he wanted to hold.

                                   C - G    - C                               D      - C

    So he dared to let g…….o,       he should have known.

 

                      G            - C               D   C

She took the long way       on the freeway.

                      G            - C              Em - D    C

She took the long way       on the fr…….eeway.

 

+  instrumental = last CHORUS       +  Em - D - C - G

 

 

    (Eddie Vedder)