How to Play "Spiralling" by Keane on guitar

Learn how to play "Spiralling" by Keane, an acoustic guitar tutorial. Follow along with this demonstration, tabs and lyrics here:

Tuning: Eb

INTRO:

G | A Bm | A | G x4

Intro riff:

e|————0–2-2—0-2-0—————|

B|–0–0–2-3—————-3—–0-0—–|

G|——————————2——-2–|

D|—————————————–|

A|—————————————–|

E|—————————————–|

Bm A x2

VERSE:

Bm A Bm A

I'm waiting for my moment to come

G A G A

I'm waiting for the movie to begin

Bm A Bm A

I'm waiting for a revelation

G A G A

I'm waiting for someone to count me in

PRE-CHORUS:

Bm F#m

Cos now I only see my dreams, in everything I touch

A Em

Feel their cold hands on, everything that I love

Bm F#m

Cold like some, magnificant skyline

A Em G

Out of my reach, but always in my eyeline now

CHORUS:

G A Bm A

We're tumbling down

G G

We're spiralling

A Bm A

Tied up to the ground

G

We're spiralling

Bm A x4

VERSE:

Bm A Bm A

I fashioned you from jewels and stone

G A G A

I made you in the image of myself

Bm A Bm A

I gave you everything you wanted

G A G A

So you would never know anything else

PRE-CHORUS:

Bm F#m

But everytime I reach for you, you slip through my fingers

A Em

Into cold sunlight, laughing at the things that

Bm F#m

I had planned, the map of my world gets

A Em G

Smaller as I sit here, pulling at the loose threads now

CHORUS (with riff):

G A Bm A

We're tumbling down

G G

We're spiralling

A Bm A

Tied up to the ground

G

We're spiralling

G A Bm A

When we fall in love

G G

We're just falling

A Bm A

In love with ourselves

G G

We're spiralling

BRIDGE:

Bm - A x9 (Tom speaks over these chords)

Did you wanna be a winner?

Did you wanna be an icon?

Did you wanna be famous?

Did you wanna be the president?

Did you wanna start a war?

Did you wanna have a family?

Did you wanna be in love?

(Bm)

Did you wanna be in love?

Bm - A x8

(I never saw the light

I never saw the light

I waited up all night

But I never saw the light)

CHORUS(with riff)