Walking On A Wire chords by Lowen And Navarro

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: E

Difficulty: Intermediate

Intro:
  E   C     G   D
| 1 2 3 4 | 1 2 3 4 |


Verse:
      E          C        G  D       E        C     G D
Don't waste your breath,       don't waste my time
     E        C        G       D       E     C  G  D
If I hear one more excuse I'll lose my mind
            E     C      G  D     E           C        G  D
It's been a quiet war           behind closed doors

         E       C       G         D       E  C     G  D
Ain't it getting hard to keep your balance anymore?


First Chorus, half length:
             E    C   G  D
Walking on a wire
             E    C   G  D
Higher and higher
             E                 C       G
You told the truth, but you're still a liar
D            E    C   D
Walking on a wire


Verse:
            E         C     G  D                 E    C      G  D
You deal in black and white       and everything in between
         E            C      G       D      E             C     G  D
You were blessed with such finesse I almost know what you mean
          E        C     G  D      E       C           G  D
Now I can close my eyes,        pretend to let it pass
        E       C        G         E        C     G     D
But you live on borrowed time, and it would never last


Chorus:
             E    C   G  D
Walking on a wire
             E    C   G  D
Higher and higher
             E                 C       G
You told the truth, but you're still a liar
D            E    C   G  D
Walking on a wire

             E    C   G  D
Walking on a wire
             E    C   G  D
Higher and higher
             E                 C       G
You told the truth, but you're still a liar
D            E    C   D
Walking on a wire


Bridge:
    Bm
And how does it feel with the whole world watching?
       Bm
Do you feel like you're gonna fall?
       Bm              C                   G      Gsus4 G Gsus2 G Gsus4
Was it safer with your back up against the wall?
Bm
Why did you try when you know you were losing?
Bm                   C                 E       C  G  D
Just one mistake and you would lose it all...

(instrumental with E C G D three more times)


      E          C        G  D       E        C     G D
Don't waste your breath,       don't waste my time
     E        C        G       D       E     C  G  D
If I hear one more excuse I'll lose my mind


Chorus:
             E    C   G  D
Walking on a wire
             E    C   G  D
Higher and higher
             E                 C       G
You told the truth, but you're still a liar
D            E    C   G  D
Walking on a wire

             E    C   G  D
Walking on a wire
             E    C   G  D
Higher and higher
             E                 C       G
You told the truth, but you're still a liar
D            E    C   D
Walking on a wire


Specific chord fingerings:
Gsus4 320013
Gsus2 3x0233

(Notes)

Get the rhythm of the E C G D down -- use the original recording for the strumming/arpeggiating pattern.
Once you've got that, it's a matter of working within the cadence of the words.  As noted above, the
progression goes over two measures with chord changes hitting on beats 1 and 3 over the two measures.

At the end of the bridge, do the G chords with one each beat kind of like when you the "Dsus4 thing\