Isolation chords by Warsaw

Chords with lyrics (Ver. 2)

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: C majorC

Difficulty: Novice

Album: Closer (1980)

Version for a standalone guitar mixing bass and synth elements


Intro:
(bass riff)
e||----------------------|----------------------|
BB||----------------------|----------------------|
G+G||----------------------|----------------5555--|
D MajorD||-3555-3555-3555-------|-3555-3555-3555-------|
A augmentedA||----------------3333--|----------------------|  x3
E MajorE||----------------------|----------------------|

(synth)
BB A augmentedA G+G FF G+G
BB A augmentedA G+G FF G+G
BB A augmentedA G+G FF G+G

Verse 1:
G+G       FF       G+G
In fear every day, every evening
G+G       FF      G+G
He calls her aloud from above
G+G     FF       G+G
Carefully watched for a reason
G+G       FF     G+G
Painstaking devotion and love
G+G       FF      G+G
Surrendered to self preservation
G+G        FF      G+G
From others who care for themselves
G+G        FF       G+G
A augmentedA blindness that touches perfection
G+G          FF    G+G
But hurts just like anything else

Chorus:
BB A augmentedA G+G FF  G+G
     Isolation
BB A augmentedA G+G FF  G+G
     Isolation
BB A augmentedA G+G FF  G+G
     Isolation

(bass riff)

Verse 2:
G+G     FF         G+G
Mother I tried please believe me
G+G       FF      G+G
I'm doing the best that I can
G+G         FF        G+G
I'm ashamed of the things I've been put through
G+G         FF    G+G
I'm ashamed of the person I am

Chorus:
BB A augmentedA G+G FF  G+G
     Isolation
BB A augmentedA G+G FF  G+G
     Isolation
BB A augmentedA G+G FF  G+G
     Isolation

(bass riff)

Verse 3:
G+G        FF      G+G
But if you could just see the beauty
G+G          FF     G+G
These things I could never describe
G+G         FF      G+G
These pleasures a wayward distraction
G+G     FF      G+G
This is my one lucky prize

(bass riff)

(synth)
G+G FF G+G FF G+G FF G+G FF

Outro:
G+G      FF      G+G      G+G      G+G
 Isolation, isolation, isolation, isolation, isolation.

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