[Tab] On My Side

May 26 2021 Tab Lyrics Chords Guitar English

This is the official tab for my song “On My Side”.

It’s track #7 from the album “Keeping the Sunset on my Side”.

This song has some very weird chords! However, once you’ve seen them a few times, they aren’t that hard, and you’ll also notice the patterns.

(For example, the verse chords are just the same shape moving up and down the fret. Literally. Place your finger in a line, such that you barre the lower four strings, and move it up/down and you’re 90% there.)

Here’s the list of chords:

Intro

E6sus9 – A6sus9 – Fsus* – F6sus9

Verse

E6sus9 A6sus9 Fsus*      F6sus9
Finders keepers, when the doubt erases everything we do
Finders keepers, when I’m slowly sleeping afraid of waking up

Pre-Chorus

E6sus9 (move higher and higher on the high E-string)
So eyes open, I turn away

Chorus

A6sus
It’s shaping up to be a

A#dim(b6)
Cloudy day

B*  G6sus9
But my heart is

F6sus9
Slowly

E6sus9
Taunted

D6(11)    D6(11)/C
Back

Verse

Finders keepers, when I store my spirit closely guarded in it
Finders keepers, if I don’t remember, the ghost is lost forever

Pre-Chorus

You see, no luck on my side

Chorus

Note! On the third phrase ("… might softly") I extend the same chord for one extra bar. I don’t know why I did that, but it ended up being in the song, so I rolled with it.

It’s shaping up to be a
Cloudy day
But the rain might softly
Wash clean
The scene
Here

Intermezzo

Bit of plucking/improv on D6(11) -> D6(11)/C

Verse

Find me sleeping, wake me up already, if you think I’m ready
Guide me, steep blur, a foggy future fails me, but nothing else will pay me

Pre-Chorus

Please just make a choice

Chorus

Note! After “busy day”, we do not get a short pause/breather before going to the next section (like in the previous choruses).

It’s shaping up to be a
Busy day
With my head still
Burning
Churning
Possibilities

Outro

The chorus is softly plucked one last time, just because I like it.

Then, from that D6(11)/C, gradually move towards a regular C. (For example, via a chord with a C# in the bass.)

Why? So we can flow into the last section …

Post-Song

Note! This is simply the very first part of this album, repeated here because of artistic reasons. (It makes the album cohesive, thematic and nicely closes it out.)

    C      F  C
I’ve been calling out, but nobody’s there

       F    C
I’m keeping the sunset on my side

I’ve been resting here, but there’s no repair
I’m keeping the sunset on my side

I’ve found crushing souls, but no room to spare
So guess what? The sunset stays on my side