RUNNIN’ ON EMPTY 
JACKSON BROWNE
(BROWNE MAY PLAY IN OPEN TUNING; STANDARD TUNING BELOW.)

[Intro]    3x     [8 BEATS]      

[Verse 1]
             
Looking out at

             
 the road rush

             
ing under my w

    [ 
heels
             
Looking back a

             
t the years go

             
ne by, like so

          [ 
 many summer f


ields
             
In sixty-five 

             
I was seventee

             
n, and running

      [ 
 up 101
             
I don’t know w

             
here I’m runni

              
ng now, I’m ju

   
st running on

[Chorus]
Runnin’ [] on, runnin’ on [] empty
Runnin’ [] on, runnin’    [] blind
Runnin’ on, []  running into the [] sun, but I’m running be[]hind.

[Verse 2]
[] Gotta do what you [] can just to keep your [] love alive  [ ]
[] Trying not to con[]fuse it with what you [] do to survive  [ ]
[] In sixty-nine I was [] twenty-one, and [] called the road my own [ ]
[] I don’t know when that [] road turned onto the [] road I’m on.

SOLO OVER INTRO:    3x    [8 BEATS]      

[Bridge] [1ST AND 3RD LINES SYNCOPATED] 
          
 Everyone I kn

             
ow,         ev

           
erywhere I go
           
 People need s

             
ome reason to 

             
believe; (I do

              
n’t know about

             
 anyone but me

      
)
           
 If it takes a

            
ll night,   th

             
at’ll be all r

ight
             
 If I can get 

             
you to smile b

                    [     
efore I leave

[Verse 3]
[] Looking out at the [] road rushing under my wheels []  [ ]
[] I don’t know how to [] tell you all just how [] crazy this life feels [ ]
[] I look around for the [] friends I… used to [] turn to pull me through [ ]
[] Looking into their [] eyes I see them [] running too

[Chorus]

[VERSE 4] NOTE VARIATIONS ON 2ND AND 4TH LINES
[] Honey you really [] tempt me; you know the [] way you look so [ ] kind 
[] I’d love to stick A[]round but I’m running behind [     ]
[] You know I don’t even [] know what I’m hoping to find [     ]
[] Running into the [] sun but I’m running behind [     HOLD  FOR 8 BEATS]

[  ] OUTRO UNTIL SIGNAL (10x?) THEN [] FULL MEASURE  [] FULL MEASURE [   ]