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Native Tongue chords by
Switchfoot
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2019Alternative
Verse 1
Em

Sing to me, baby, in your native tongue

Sing the words of the wise and the young
G

Show me the place

where your words come from
D

Love is the language,

love is your native tongue
Em

Feel your heartbeat bang the drum

Open up your eyes and fill your lungs
G

The same word from

where the stars are flung
D

Love is the language,
Chorus 1

love is your native tongue
Em

My heart is a beating drum

My head in oblivion
C

My soul, such a long way from
Am
Bm

My lips, my lungs, my native tongue
Em

My friend, where did we go wrong?

My Lord, we forgot our sound
D

My soul, such a long way from
B

My lips, my lungs, my native tongue
Em

(Oh-woah-oh-woah-oh) My native tongue
Verse 2

(Oh-woah-oh-woah-oh) My native tongue
Em

Sing it to me, whisper into my ear

Accuser's voices start to disappear
G

In the wind, in the tongues of the flame
D

In my soul, in my one true name, oh
Em

Back before we learned

the words to start a fight

Back before they told us

that the haters were right
G

He spoke the truth,

"let there be" and there was
D

Love is the language,
Em

love is your native tongue
Chorus 2
Em

My heart is a beating drum

My head in oblivion
C

My soul, such a long way from
Am
Bm

My lips, my lungs, my native tongue
Em

My friend, where did we go wrong?

My Lord, we forgot our sound
D

My soul, such a long way from
B

My lips, my lungs, my native tongue
Bridge 1
Em

So sing it loud, get loud, get
D

Louder than the voices in the crowd, yeah
Am

Even when they tried

to drown you out, eh
C
B

Your lips, your lungs, your native tongue
Em

So sing it out, get loud, get
D

Louder than the darkness

and the doubts, eh
Am

Louder than the curses

and the shouts, yeah
C
D

Your lips, your lungs, your native tongue
Em

(Oh-woah-oh-woah-oh)
Chorus 3

(Oh-woah-oh-woah-oh)
Em

My heart is a beating drum
G

My head in oblivion
C

My soul, such a long way from
Am
Bm

My lips, my lungs, my native tongue
Em

My friend, where did we go wrong?
G

My Lord, we forgot our sound
D

My soul, such a long way from
B

My lips, my lungs, my native tongue
Em

(Oh-woah-oh-woah-oh) My native tongue

(Oh-woah-oh-woah-oh)
Em
Am

Outro 1
Em

I want the world to sing
G

in her native tongue
A

To sing it like when we were young
C

Back before the pendulum
B

had swung to the shadows
Em
G

I want the world to sing in her native tongue
A

Maybe we could learn to sing along
C

To find a way to use our lungs
B

for love and not the shadows
Em
G

I want the world to sing in her native tongue
A

To sing it like when we were young
C

Back before the pendulum
B

had swung to the shadows
Em
G

I want the world to sing in her native tongue
A

Maybe we could learn to sing along
C

To find a way to use our lungs
B
for love and not the shadows

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Chords
  • Em

  • G

  • D

  • C

  • Am

  • Bm

    2
  • B

    2
  • A

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