Running On Empty - Jackson Browne

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Capo: Fret 1
Tuning: Open G, D G D G B D

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Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b31HAm1dI_s&feature=related  
 
Tuning (low to high) C G D G B D  
(capo at 1st fret to match tuning in video or tune up to C#-G#-D#-G#-C-D#) 
 
Chords:  
 
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 -- 44200x  
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 – 220210 
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 – 2202xx 
 
 
[Guitar Intro]

           
 
 
[Verse]

             
Looking out at

             
 the road rush

             
ing under my w

           
heels 
             
Looking back a

             
t the years go

              
ne by like so 

             
many summer fi

      
elds 
             
In sixty-five 

             
I was seventee

             
n and running 

         
up 1-0-1 
          
I don't know w

           
here I'm runni

              
ng now, I'm ju

          
st running on 
 
 
[Refrain]

             
Running on - r

           
unning on empt

y 
             
Running on - r

        
unning blind 
             
Running into t

     
he sun 
              
But I'm runnin

      
g behind 
 
 
[Verse]

             
Gotta do what 

             
you can just t

              
o keep your lo

            
ve alive 
             
Trying not to 

             
confuse it wit

             
h what you do 

       
to survive 
             
In sixty-nine 

             
I was twenty-o

             
ne and I calle

              
d the road my 

  
own 
          
I don't know w

           
hen that road 

              
turned onto th

          
e road I'm on 


[Refrain]

             
Running on - r

           
unning on empt

y 
             
Running on - r

        
unning blind 
             
Running into t

     
he sun 
              
But I'm runnin

      
g behind 


[Solo]
 

[Bridge]
 
           
Everyone I kno

            
w, everywhere 

      
I go 
            
People need so

           
me reason to b

 
elieve 
              
I don't know a

      
bout anyone bu

t me 
            
If it takes al

         
l night, that'

             
ll be all righ

 
t 
             
If I can get y

            
ou to smile be

             
fore I leave 
 
 
[Verse]
 
             
Looking out at

             
 the road rush

             
ing under my w

         
heels 
             
I don't know h

             
ow to tell you

              
 all just how 

             
crazy this lif

    
e feels 
             
I look around 

             
for the friend

              
s that I used 

             
to turn to to 

          
pull me throug

h 
          
Looking into t

           
heir eyes I se

          
e them running

    
 too 
 

[Refrain]

             
Running on - r

           
unning on empt

y 
             
Running on - r

        
unning blind 
             
Running into t

     
he sun 
              
But I'm runnin

      
g behind 
 
 
[Verse]

             
Honey you real

                         
ly tempt me 
             
You know the w

              
ay you look so

   
 kind 
             
I'd love to st

          
ick around but

              
 I'm running b

        
ehind,  
             
Running on- 

              

        
              
You know I don

          
't even know w

              
hat I'm hoping

            
 to find 
             
Running blind 

              
- Running into

          
 the sun but I

             
'm running beh

(     
ind 
 
 
[Outro]

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