Trip Around the World (Chords)

These are the official lyrics and chords for the song “Trip Around the World”. It’s track #5 from the album “Don’t Forget Me”.

The “rock song” of this album. A relatively simple and short one, especially because it doesn’t have a bridge and instead uses an electric guitar solo.

That’s also why the chords are quite basic. I like to start by playing them the normal way, but during the song I transition to playing the “power chord” version of them.

Verse 1

Em         G
 I wish you luck on your trip around the world

  Em    G  C
I wish time would let you fly by

  Em C/B Am   F 
It’s all for nothing girl

Em           G
 I wish you strength on your walk to sacred grounds

  Em    G   C
I wish time would hand you insight

 Em  C/B    C    D
It’s not for most and it’s certainly not fair

Chorus 1

      Cadd9      D
Sometimes the good time’s falling apart

      Cadd9 (High E-string transition)
Sometimes we can’t escape from this rollercoaster

Em   G
Ride __ I’m falling behind

C
Need more time

D
Running through our mind __

Post-Chorus 1

Em G Em

Verse 2

I wish you love from the people there above
I wish you would come home safely
Or it’s all for nothing girl

I wish you speed on your course around the stone
I wish I had known your freedom
But it’s fear I know, and never lets me go

Chorus 2

Sometimes the good girls run in our head
Sometimes the light we gave, is the light we never
Had __ I’m wasting my life
In my mind
I must have called a thousand times _

Post-Chorus 2

Em G Em
D C D

Solo

(repeat a few times, play something cool over it)
Em G C B7

C -> C/B -> C/A -> C/G
D (for transition to last chorus)

Chorus 3

Sometimes the far lands run through our heads
Sometimes we can’t escape to a life we cannot
Have __ I’m stuck in the grind
Need more time
Repeating that same line __

Post-Chorus

Em G C Am
       Time and time and time
       That line that line that line

Em (hard end on this)