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You Held the World in Your Arms Guitar Tablature
Idlewild – You Held The World In Your Arms

Intro
C#m	E	B	A
C#m	E	B	A

Verse
C#m  B  A
Every face, even the one you saw yesterday
It looks different today
'Cos everything's changed since yesterday
In every possible way
Things seem different today
Not like yesterday

Pre-Chorus
A   C#m  B
Is consideration
A   C#m  B
More like an exception
A   C#m  B
of consideration?
A   C#m  B

Chorus 1
C#m	E	B	A
'Cos you have the world in your arms tonight
C#m	E	B	A
And what if you held the world in your arms?

Verse
C#m  B  A
When you're secure, do you feel much safer?
As days never change, and it's three years later
It's like your life hasn't changed,
And it's three years late, so how does it feel, to be 
three years late? And watching your youth drift away
What seems different, seems 
different today and what seems different, seems 
different today

Pre-Chorus
A   C#m  B
Is consideration
A   C#m  B
More like an exception
A   C#m  B
of consideration?
A   C#m  B








Chorus 2
C#m	E	B	A
'Cos you have the world in your arms tonight
C#m	E	B	A
And what if you held the world in your arms?
C#m	E	B	A
You have the world in your arms tonight
C#m	E	B	A
And what if you held the world in your arms?

Bridge/Solo
C#m	E	B	A
(tonight...) 
C#m	E	B	A
(tonight...)
C#m	E	B	A
C#m	E	B	A

Chorus 3
C#m	E	B	A
'Cos you have the world in your arms tonight
C#m	E	B	A
And what if you held the world in your arms?
C#m	E	B	A
You have the world in your arms tonight
C#m	E	B	A
And what if you held the world in your arms?

The following 3 riffs can be played an octave down

Chorus Riff 1 (played over all intro and chorus verse + the first three lines of chorus 2 and lines 1 & 3 of chorus 3)
E|------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-14--16-16h17--16--12--16h17--16--16--14--------------------------|
G|------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------|

Chorus Riff 2 (played on line 4 of chorus 2 and line 2 of chorus 3)
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-14--16-16h17--16--12--16h17--16--16--14-12-10-9-10-12-14-16------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Ending (last line of chorus)
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-14--16-16h17--16--12--16h17--16--16--14-12-10-9-7-5-4-2~~--------|
G|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|




Pre-chorus Riff
E|-5-4---5-4------5-4---5-4------5-4---5-4------5-4---5-4-----4-----|
B|-----5-----5--------5-----5--------5-----5--------5-----5-------7~--|
G|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------------|



Verse (repeated)
E|----------------------------------|
B|------------------------12-------|
G|----13----11-9-------------11--|
D|-11----11------13-14-13-------|
A|----------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------|

(for acoustic version; just played instead of normal rhythm)
E|---------------------------------|
B|-------7------------------------|
G|-----6---6----------------------|
D|---6-------6------7-------9----|
A|-4--------------7---7---9---9--|
E|--------------5-------7---------|


Bridge/Solo
E|------------------------------------------------|
B|-14--17-16-14--12--17-16-14-12--16--14-|X2
G|------------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------|

E|---------------------------------------------------|
B|14-16-17--17-16-14-12--10-9-12--14--12-9-|
G|---------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------|

E|------------------------------------------------------------|
B|10--9-10--9-10--9-10-7--9-7--9-7--9-5-4-2-4-5-7-9-|
G|------------------------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------|

Chords
   C#m  E   B    A
E|--4---7---7---5-------------------------------------------------------|
B|--5---7---7---5-------------------------------------------------------|
G|--6---9---6---6-------------------------------------------------------|
D|--6---9---9---7-------------------------------------------------------|
A|--4---7---9---7-------------------------------------------------------|
E|-----------7---5-------------------------------------------------------|
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