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Tuning: standard
Am x02210
Am/G 302210
Am/F# 200210
Fmaj7 033210
F 133211
E 022100
Intro
Am Am/G Am/F# Fmaj7
Verse 1:
Am Am/G
Take the forward path. Have a big slice of the city
Am/F# Fmaj7
Get the upper hand while you're still pretty
Am Am/G
But you know what we're like. No, they will never respect you
Am/F#
The way you want them to respect you.
Fmaj7
I think it's very well understood..
Chorus
Am Am/G
That I... I'm gonna hold on to you
Am/F#
I'm gonna hold on to you
Fmaj7
You, you
Repeat chorus instrumental
Verse 2:
Am Am/G
Your cracked up shell. A dead opera house
Am/F# Fmaj7
You give yourself to them now in a game of cat and mouse
Am Am/G
From the storyboard to the bedroom scene
Am/F# Fmaj7
Through eleven World Wars, other people you have been
Chorus x3
Verse 3:
Am Am/G
I can come to terms with slowly going mad
Am/F# Fmaj7
Things we used to fear in the dark and whatever lies beyond us
Am Am/G
But I've come to resemble my own shadow
Am/F# Fmaj7
As it falls into the sidewalk I'm no longer anyone I know
Bridge:
F E
No one here reminds me of you
Am F E
Yet I see no one else
Am Am/G Am/F# Fmaj7
On the crowded sidewalk
Repeat chorus to fade
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