Always Forever

(Philip Wickham)
Key: D
Form: V1 –C – T – V2 – C - B1 – T – B2 – C

Turnaround: D Bm A

Verse 1
D Bm
You are the hand that catches my fall.
A G
You are the friend that answers my call.
D Bm
You are my day. You are my night.
A G A
You are my love and all of my life.

Chorus
D A Bm G
You are the love I need, You are the air I breathe,
D A G
You are my love, my life always forever.
D A Bm G
I would lay down my life just to be by Your side,
D (Bm) A (F#m) G
You are my love, my life always forever, always forever.

Verse 2
D Bm
You are the grace that covers my sin.
A G
You're everything, the beginning and end.
D Bm
You have my soul my heart and my mind.
A G A
You have my love and all of my life.

Bridge1: D F#m7 Bm A

Bridge 2:

D A Bm G
Hallelujah hallelujah
D A G
Hallelujah forever
Tracking Arrangement

Verse 1
- Acoustic, G1*, P1
- Very subtle, quick pad to bring in the song. I don’t want it to be as
sudden of a start as original.

Chorus 1
- Concert bass drum roll starting three counts prior to chorus, crecendo
into down beat of chorus. Tons of verb. Make it huge.
- Acousitic, Bass, G2, P2
- G2 crecendo in starting three measures prior to chorus. In full
throughout entire chorus 1.

Turnaround 1
- Drums, Acoustic, Bass, G2, G3, P2

Verse 2
- Drums, Acoustic, Bass, G4, P2

Chorus 2
- Drums, G5, G6, Bass, Acoustic, P2

Bridge 1
- Drums G5, G6, G7, Bass, Acoustic, P2
- G5 & G6 move from strumming on downbeat only to strumming on
each beat (8th notes).

Turnaround 2
- Acoustic, G8

Bridge 2
- Drums, Bass, G8, Acoustic, G5, G6
- Fade in G5 & G6 last two measures of bridge 2.

Chorus 3
- All tracks, except lead vocal, cuts on the downbeat of chorus 3. Let all
track’s verb carry and add a little “thingy” with a delay that hits only
once on the downbeat and dies pretty quickly. Listen to measure 95
for reference.
- Everything back in on downbeat of third measure of chorus 3.
- Drums, G7, G5, G6, Bass, Acoustic, P2
*
G1 = Clean, single strum on each chord.
• G2 = Overdrive, single string, constant 16th notes.
• G3 = Overdrive, spotty notes here and there, lots of verb.
• G4 = Fairly clean, random chord 16th note strumming (possibly two parts).
• G5 = Huge overdrive, single strum on each chord.
• G6 = Same as G5, different voicing.
• G7 = Overdrive Lead.
• G8 = Clean Lead, two strings alternating 16th notes.
• P1 = ?
• P2 = Dreamy, little bit of lows, mostly mid and high range frequencies.