Driving with the brakes on

Artist: Del Amitri (English)
User: Dirk Trenaman
Duration: 240 seconds
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Dirk Trenaman,
November 3, 2025, 5:19 PM
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Tuning: E A D G B ECapo: 3rd fret
Cmaj7  x32000
C      x32010
Asus2  x02200
Am     x02210
F      133211
G      320033
 
INTRO/VERSE/CHORUS:
Alternate between Cmaj7 and C as well as Asus2 and Am (index finger).
 
 
[Verse 1]
 C
Driving through the long night
                                          Am
trying to figure who's right and who's wrong.
                      C
Now the kid has gone.
                                                             Am               C
I sit belted up tight. She sucks on a match light, glowing bronze, steering on.
       F                        G
And I might be more a man if I stopped this in its tracks
               C             Am
and said come on, let's go home.
     F
But she's got the wheel,
     G                                   Am     F
and I've got nothing except what I have on.
 
 
[Chorus]
                               C
When you're driving with the brakes on.
                                 Am
When you're swimming with your boots on.
                       F              G
It's hard to say you love someone,
                          Am      F   G
and it's hard to say you don't.
 
 
[Verse 2]
 C
Trying to keep the mood right,
                                   Am
trying to steer the conversation from
                   C
the thing we've done.
                                                               Am                
She shuts up the ashtray and I say "It's a long way back now hon", and she just 
    C
yawns.
          F                             G                              C         
And we might get lost someplace, so desolate that no one where we're from would 
       Am
ever come.
       F
But she's got the wheel
      G                         Am     F
and I've got to deal from now on.
 
 
[Chorus]
                               C
When you're driving with the brakes on.
                                 Am
When you're swimming with your boots on.
                       F              G
It's hard to say you love someone,
                          Am      F   G
and it's hard to say you don't.
 
 
[Bridge]
                      C             Am   F
But unless the moon falls tonight,
                       Am    F    C
unless continents collide.
                 Am      F    G
Nothin's gonna make me
                Am      F    G
break from her side.
 
 
[Chorus]
                                   C
'Cos when you're driving with the brakes on.
                                 Am
When you're swimming with your boots on.
                       F              G
It's hard to say you love someone,
                          Am      F   
and it's hard to say you don't.
                       F              G
It's hard to say you love someone,
                          Am      F   C
and it's hard to say you don't.

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