E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-2h4p2p0-0-----------------0-----------------------------------------------|
D|--------4--0-2-0-----0-2-0-------------------------------------------------|
A|------------3---3-1/2------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

[Verse Lick]

E|------------------------------or| play the last three notes------10p8-------|
B|--------------8--7/8/15\12----| like this and skip the slide--7h8------------|
G|----7h9p7------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-10------10-9--------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|


Chords

Intro Lick  
G         Am          C -> Verse Lick (x2)


G         Am          C -> Verse Lick
Hello its been awhile
G          Am          C -> Verse Lick  
You know I wished you well
                                                                                                            
G         Am          C -> Verse Lick 
I wrote a song for you
G                       Am            C -> Verse Lick
So break the chains and damn the cell
                                                                                                            
          G             Am           
You wrote love, love is everywhere
C                          -> Verse Lick  
In the notebook you gave me
G                   Am                 C -> Verse Lick  
You made a list of joys for me and you put your name first
G F#/G Em 
How?
G F#/G Em
How?
G  F#/G   Em        D
How is no man is an island?
G       Em 
Well with California 

C       B/C     Am
Sliding off the chart
                                                                                                           
G                  Em
Pack your suitcase up
 
C          B/C       Am
And make a brand new start
G       Em  
California  

C       B/C     Am
Sliding Off the map
G                  Em
Hurry now, can you make it home 

C       B/C     Am
Can you make it back?
C  B/C  Am                      C  B/C  Am    
     If nothing's built to last

C   D
Why don't you... 

Intro Lick ->      G         Am          C -> Verse Lick 
Just put me out on Alcatraz?
                   
G         Am          C -> Verse Lick

G                 Am         C -> Verse Lick  
I've been accused a time or two

G                     Am            C -> Verse Lick   
Of having sentimental attributes Of hanging on too long
G              Am             C -> Verse Lick     
When nostalgia is a vice that captures a warm place in time
G                   Am          C -> Verse Lick      
And like a cool fog rolling in, clouding up the heart and minds
G F#/G Em   
Whoa!
G F#/G Em   
Whoa!
G  F#/G   Em        D  
Oh well no man's an island
                                                                                                              
          G       Em 
Well with California 

C       B/C     Am
Sliding off the chart
                         
G                  Em
Pack your suitcase up
 
C          B/C       Am
And make a brand new start
    
G       Em  
California  

C       B/C     Am
Sliding Off the map
       
G                  Em
Hurry now, can you make it home

C       B/C     Am
Can you make it back?
C  B/C  Am                      C  B/C  Am    
     If nothing's built to last

C   D
Why don't you... 

Intro Lick ->      G         Am          C -> Verse Lick 
Just put me out on Alcatraz?
                   
G         Am          C -> Verse Lick                              
G              Am            C     ->      Verse Lick
And every tear in your past, the reservoir you blink away
G                    Am             C      ->  Verse Lick  
Washing down all the hilly streets, out into the bay
G            Am          C      ->       Verse Lick    
No man is an island, but each one does his time
G                Am                 C     
To see if he can tough it out, in a prison of the mind
G                    Am                 C      ->             Verse Lick   
And like a note to a lover, through the blue lines you can see
                                                                                                            
G                  Am              C    
A chance to stay a prisoner, or an easy way to break yourself free!
                                                                                                            
(Break yourself free!)
G       Em 
Whoa California 

C       B/C     Am
Sliding off the chart
                                                                        
G              Em 
Pack your suitcase 

C    B/C          Am
Baby open up your heart
 G       Em 
California 

C       B/C     Am
Sliding off the map
G                  Em
Hurry now, can you make it home 

C       B/C     Am 
Can you make it back?
C       B/C     Am 

C  B/C  Am                      C  B/C  Am    
     If nothing's built to last

C   D
Why don't you... 

Intro Lick ->      G         Am          C -> Verse Lick 
Just put me out on Alcatraz?
                   
G         Am          C      G [Final Strum]     

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| h   Hammer-on
| p   Pull-off
| /   Slide up
| \   Slide down
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