Dashboard Confessional – Vindicated Acoustic
Vindicated is one of our favorite Dashboard Confessional songs to play live. Here’s an acoustic version of it from Luke and Juan.
“Vindicated” is a song by Dashboard Confessional released on the 2004 soundtrack for the film Spider-Man 2 as well as on Dashboard Confessional’s 2006 album, Dusk and Summer, as a bonus track on some pressings and on deluxe edition versions. Played over the film’s end credits, “Vindicated” is the theme for the film.
Initially, a song titled “I Need a Sure Thing” was to be used on the Spider-Man 2 soundtrack; but, after having received a special screening of the film, Carrabba penned “Vindicated” in 10 minutes,[2][3][4] inspired by and reflecting the theme of the film.[5]
“I Need a Sure Thing” has since then been performed during the Dusk and Summer Tour but not thereafter.
Reception
“Vindicated” was released to radio on June 1, 2004.[6] “Vindicated” received significant airplay on U.S. alternative rock radio stations in late 2004, peaking at #2 on Billboard’s Alternative Songs chart. It was held off from the #1 spot by Three Days Grace‘s “Just Like You“.[7]
Dashboard Confessional – Vindicated Acoustic chords
D Bm
Hope dangles on a string
Asus4
Like slow spinning redemption
G
Winding in and winding out
D
The shine of it has caught my eye
And roped me in
Bm Asus4
So mesmerizing, so hypnotizing
G
I am captivated
[Chorus]
D
I am Vindicated
G
I am selfish
I am wrong
Bm
I am right
I swear I’m right
Asus4
I swear I knew it all along
D
And I am flawed
G
But I am cleaning up so well
Bm Asus4
I am seeing in me now the things you swore you saw yourself
D
So clear
Bm
Like the diamond in your ring
Asus4
Cut to mirror your intentions
G
Oversized and overwhelmed
D
The shine of which has caught my eye
Bm Asus4
And rendered me so isoloated, so motivated
G
I am certain now that
[Chorus]
Bm
So turn
Asus4
Up the corners of your lips
Bm
Part them and feel my finger tips
Asus4
Trace the moment, fall forever
Bm
Defense is paper thin
Asus4
Just one touch and I’d be in
G
Too deep now to ever swim against the current
D
So let me slip away
Bm
So let me slip away
Asus4
So let me slip away
G
So let me slip against the current
D
So let me slip away
Bm
So let me slip away
Asus4
So let me slip away
G
So let me slip away
[Chorus]
Outro (strum lightly and let ring)
D
Slight hope
Bm
It dangles on a string
G
Like slow spinning redemption…
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