Song: We Are the People
Artist: Empire of the Sun
Album: Walking on a Dream
Transcribed by Ben Donnelly & Katy Scott
Note: We have been listening to this album non-stop over Christmas 2008.
Play around with the chords that you think sound the best.
The second guitar brings in a richer sound (just the substitute the alternative
versions of the chords).
Normal Tuning
Chords
Guitar #1
Em 022000
E7sus4 020200
C x35500
D xx0323
Guitar #2
Em (alt) 079080
E7sus4 (alt) 0(12)0(11)00
C(alt) 320010
D (alt) xx0230
Intro - Em, E7sus4, C, Em, E7sus4
Verse #1
We can remember swimming in December
Heading for the city lights in 1975
We share in each other nearer than father
The scent of a lemon drips from your eyes
Bridge #1
We are the people that rule the world
A force running in every boy and girl
All rejoicing in the world
Take me now – we can try
Verse #2 (Same as before)
We lived an adventure love in the summer
Followed the sun till night reminiscing other times of life
For each every other the feeling was stronger
The shock hit eleven – got lost in your eyes
Chorus:
I can’t do well when I think you’re gonna leave me
But I know I try
Are you gonna leave me now
Can’t you be believing now
(Repeat Chorus)
Verse #3
Can you remember and humanise
It was still where we’d energised
Lie in the sand and visualise like it’s 75 again
Bridge:
We are the people that rule the world
A force running in every boy and girl
All rejoicing in the world
Take me now – we can try
(Repeat Chorus) X2
I know everything about you
You know everything about me
Know everything about us
(Repeat Chorus) X4 till fade