Jackson Browne - If I Could Be Anywhere Chords

[intro]

Dm


[Verse]


G                         Bb                  F
Sliding on the shimmering surface between two worlds
G                         Bb         F
Standing at the center of time as it uncurls
Gm                          Bb
Cutting through the veil of illusion
Gm                 Dm
Moving beyond past conclusions
Gm               Bb               F
Rendering all doubt and confusion clear


[Chorus]

Dm
If I could be anywhere
              F
If I could be anywhere
              Bb              Eb
If I could be anywhere right now
                   F
I would want to be here


[Verse]

G                        Bb                              F
Searching for the future among the things we're throwing away
G                             Bb                    F
Swimming through the ocean of junk we produce every day
Gm                     Bb
You have to admit it's clever
          Gm                   Dm
Maybe the pinnacle of human endeavor
                Gm                      Bb                F
When things are made to throw away but never made to disappear


[Chorus]

Dm
If I could be anywhere
              F
If I could be anywhere
              Bb          Eb
If I could be anywhere in time
                   F
I would want to be here


[Verse]

Dm              F            A            Bb
The Romans, the Spanish, the British, the Dutch
Dm          F             Eb        Bb
American exceptionalism - so out of touch
Dm             F         A          Bb
Successions of empire repeating its course
A              Gm         A         Gm
Extracting the wealth and ruling by force
A      A sus      A
On and on through time

[Pre - Chorus]

        Bb          F       A         Dm
But the world can't take it very much longer
    Bb       F                   A           Dm
And we won't make it 'less we're smarter and stronger
    Bb               F         A    Dm    Eb    C
The world's gonna shake itself free of our greed somehow


[Chorus]

Dm
If I could be anywhere
              F
If I could be anywhere in time
              Bb           Eb
If I could be anywhere and change things
                    F
It would have to be now


[Bridge]

     Eb                   Bb
They say nothing lasts forever
            F            A             Dm
But all the plastic ever made is still here
    Eb                      Bb                 F
And no amount of closing our eyes will make it disappear


[Pre - Chorus]

        Bb          F       A         Dm
And the world can't take it very much longer
    Bb       F                   A           Dm
And we won't make it 'less we're smarter and stronger
    Bb            F            A      Dm    Eb   C
The world's gonna shake itself free of our greed somehow
        Bb          F        A            Dm
And the world can't take it, that you can see
       Bb           F       A            Dm
If the oceans don't make it neither will we
    Bb            F            A       Dm     Eb    C
The world's gonna shake itself all the way free somehow


[Chorus]

Dm
If I could be anywhere
              F
If I could be anywhere in time
              Bb           Eb
If I could be anywhere and change the outcome
                    F
It would have to be now