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SHIMMER by Shawn Mullins (Soul's Core)
Submitted by Darin.

Capo on 3

chords:                   odd chords:
Em: 0 2 2 0 0 0
Em7: 0 2 2 0 3 0          Em9: 0 2 4 0 0 0   this one's used only in chorus 3  
D: x 0 0 2 3 2            D/F#: 2 0 0 2 3 2 (use your thumb with this one)
G5: 3 2 0 0 3 3                  This one's only used in choruses 3 and 4                      
C9: x 3 2 0 3 0
Am: x 0 2 2 1 0           progressions:
Cma7: x 3 2 0 0 0         Dsus4  progression: regular D to Dsus4 (x 0 0 2 3 3)
C: x 3 2 0 1 0             This is done quickly between the C of the verse and
C9addG: x 3 2 0 3 3        the C9addG of the chorus. So it's the connector of the 
Dadd2: x 0 0 2 3 0         verse and the chorus.

Verse 1:
Em       D                 G5
  Sharing with us what he knows
Em       D                  G5
  Shining eyes are big and blue
Em       D                 C9
  And all around him water flows
      Am                         Cma7
  This world to him is new, this world to him is new

Em   D       G5
  To touch a face 
Em   D      G5
  To kiss a smile
Em        D           C9
  And new eyes see no race
      Am                       C          Dsus4 prog.
  The essence of a child, the essence...

Chorus 1:
C9addG          G5           D          Em
  He's born to shimmer, he's born to shine
 C        G5       D
  He's born to radiate
C9addG    G5               D       Em7
  He's born to live, he's born to love
      C9           G5          D      Dadd2
  But we will teach him how to hate

Verse 2:
And true love it is a rock
Smoothed over by a stream
And no tickin' of a clock
Truly measures what that means, truly measures what that means
 
And this thing we call our time
I heard a brilliant woman say
She said, "You know it's crazy how I want to try and capture mine..."
I think I love this woman's way, I think I love this woman's...

Chorus 2:
C9addG       G5         D        Em
  Way she shimmers, the way she shines
  C   G5      D
  The way she radiates
  C9addG       G5         D        Em7
  The way she lives, the way she loves
 C9        G5          D
  The way she never hates

Bridge:
  Am                           C
  Sometimes I think of all the shit that can surround me
  G5                     D
  I know it all as bein' mine
  Am                        C
  But she kisses me and she wraps herself around me
  G5                              D
  She gives me love, she gives me time, yea-yeah now

               C9addG   G5    D        Em 
  And I feel fine, hey yeah, hey hey, yeah
         C9     G5     D    Dadd2
  I feel fine

Verse 3:
Em     D            G5
  But time I cannot change
Em      D             G5
  So here's to lookin' back
Em                   D                  C9
  You know I drink a whole bottle of my pride and toast to change
 
  Am                                C                                                 Dsus4
 To keep these demons off my back , just get these demons off my back

Chorus 3 (done softly, with picking instead of strumming):
Cause I want to shimmer, I want to shine
I want to radiate
I want to live, I want to love
I wanna try and learn how not hate, try not to hate, yeah yeah

Chorus 4:
We're born to shimmer, we're born to shine
We're born to radiate
We're born to live, we're born to love
We're born to never hate