SLIDE: By The Goo Goo Dolls

*Note lyric changes in VERSE 1 and VERSE 2 (italicized).

**It is recommended that guitarists capo in the first fret and play in G (so the verse
chords would be: Em7 D Cadd9).

INTRO (No drums):

[[: Fm7(no 5) Eb5 |Db5(9) Ab Eb/G :]]

VERSE (Tambourine enters):

Fm7 Eb
Could you whisper in my ear
Dbadd9
The things you want to feel
I'd give you anything
Feel my heart pumpin
Fm7 Eb
Do you wake up on your own
Dbadd9
And wonder where you are
Or live with all your faults

PRE-CHORUS (Drums/cymbals hit and sustain on every other beat 1,

i.e. Db):
Eb Db
I wanna wake up where you are
Eb Db
I won't say anything at all

CHORUS (Drums enter):

Eb |Db Ab |Db Ab |Db Ab |Eb |Eb |
So why don't you slide Yeah we're gonna let it
Db Ab |Db Ab |Db Ab |Eb |Eb |
Slide

VERSE (Same chords as previous VERSE):

Don't you love the life you lived
The priest is on the phone
Your father hit the wall
Your ma disowned you
Don't suppose I'll ever know
What it means to be a man
Of something I can just change
Or live around it

PRE-CHORUS (Same chords as previous pre-chorus):

I wanna wake up where you are
I won't say anything at all

CHORUS (Same chords as previous chorus):

So why don't you slide
Mmmmm slide

BRIDGE:
Db Ab |Db Ab |
And I'll do anything you ever dreamed to be complete
Db Ab |Eb |Eb |
Little pieces of the nothing that fall
Fm7 Eb
Oh May put your arms around me
Db Ab/C
What you feel is what you are
Db Eb
And what you are is beautiful
Fm7 Eb
Oh May do you wanna get married
Db |Db |
Or run away...

INSTRUMENTAL:
Db Ab |Db Ab |Db Ab |Eb |Eb |

BRIDGE (Same chords as previous BRIDGE):

And I'll do anything you ever
Dreamed to be complete
Little pieces of the nothing that fall
Oh oh oh May put your arms around me
What you feel is what you are
And what you are is beautiful
Oh May do you wanna get married
Or run away

PRE-CHORUS (Same chords as previous PRE-CHORUSES):

I wanna wake up where you are
(mumbled) I wont say anything

OUTRO:
Db Ab |Db Ab |
And I'll do anything you ever dreamed to be complete
Db Ab |Eb |Eb |
Little pieces of the nothing that fall
Db Ab |Db Ab |
And I'll do anything you ever dreamed to be complete
Db Ab |Eb |Eb |
Little pieces of the nothing that fall

Db Ab |Db Ab |Db Ab |
Oh slide Why don't you slide into my room, yeah just
Eb |Eb |
Slide into my room oh and we'll run away, run away, run away

ENDING:
Fm7(no 5) Eb5 |Db5(9) Ab Eb/G
Fm7(no 5) Eb5 |Db5(9) Ab ||