Em - 022000
Am - x02210
Cmaj7 - 032000 (usually the low e string is muted but she plays it differently}
Em Am Cmaj7 x2
[verse 1] Em Am
with each stroke of my pen i connect
Cmaj7
reflect on what was learned, what was gained, what was left
Em
of the shards of a lifetime
Am Cmaj7
capsized i was broken into fragments, scoured the cabinets
Em Am Cmaj7
for the bottles that were hidden, were there messages you'd given me?
i'm your one and only legacy Em Am
it's been six years since we last met
Cmaj7
i no longer dream of you, the visions gone from my head
Em Am
once found in those brutally surreal scenes
Cmaj7
where your spirit lingers, i'm incapable of seeing
Em Am
furthermore i'm fairly doubtful that you are little more than dust
Cmaj7
atoms now recycled in god i cannot trust, yet i must
Em
where is your faith when you need it?
Am Cmaj7
tell me, where is christ when you do not believe in angels or in demons?
Em Am Cmaj7
emaciated figure, my father his body ravaged but still we managed
Em
to make it many years before the liquor pulled the trigger
Am Cmaj7
i'm stranded i haven't forgotten how i thought that i would cope once i was bigger
Em Am
my feet's my only carriage but i stumble as i tread
Cmaj7 Em
pages written in a book that you and i once read, they said
[chorus] Am Cmaj7
not yet but soon i will be gone
Em
carry on carry on
Am Cmaj7
not yet but soon i will be gone
Em
carry on carry on
Am Cmaj7
not yet but soon i will be gone
Em
carry on carry on
Am Cmaj7
not yet but soon i will be gone
Em
carry on carry on
Am Cmaj7
not yet but soon i will be gone
[verse 2]Em Am
it's difficult to say exactly what i feel
Cmaj7
lost in some translation and there's scratches on the reel
Em Am Cmaj7
of a black and white, a silent movie usually i'm the one to say the soundtracks flawed
but in this case the melancholy draws me to the Em
background of the photograph
Am Cmaj7
i hope it lasts this feeling that you're watching from above
Em
that you know i dedicate the music to your love
Am Cmaj7
guitar resonates with your doomed fate while i strum i contemplate
Em
i was brought up amidst the vodka
Am Cmaj7 Em
it poisoned you and i was forced to watch my father slowly die over a toilet filled with puke
Am
always afraid i'd wake up to your corpse
Cmaj7
as a scared kid tried to keep my eyes from the floor
Em Am
don't look down, in fact shut your eyelids entirely
Cmaj7
the knowledge that you'll never get to know me's got me crying
Em Am
death signifies the loss of a fragile life
Cmaj7 Em
for every moment that you miss, i send to what i hope is heaven your daughters kiss
Am Cmaj7
we cant speak, pray to no one in particular my wish will one day meet your cheek
Em Am
hold my head up high but i stumble as i tread
Cmaj7 Em
Pages written in a book that you and i once read, they said
[chorus] Am Cmaj7
not yet but soon you will be gone
Em
carry on carry on
Am Cmaj7
not yet but soon you will be gone
Em
carry on carry on
Am Cmaj7
not yet but soon you will be gone
Em
carry on carry on
Am Cmaj7
not yet but soon you will be gone
[verse 3] Em Am Cmaj7
channeling the memories that i wrote down in a notebook that i kept after your death
Em Am Cmaj7
bereft, frightened that in a short time i would lose sight of the subtleties of our relationship
all the reminders Em Am
the way your leather jacket smelled of cigarettes and booze
Cmaj7
inhale the fragrance of an addict i was bound to lose
Em Am
i'm still your child
Cmaj7
i'm still your child
you are my teacher Em Am Cmaj7
i learned how to be the person that you couldn't even though i care for you
Em
i'm wary i will replicate the mistakes you made in youth
Am
that carried on, imprinted in my mind
Cmaj7 Em
i am playing your guitar, do the chords transcend time and space?
Am Cmaj7
wasted potential i know it wasn't meant to end like this, with you lifeless
Em Am Cmaj7
in an urn full of ashes, gashes that are reopened every time a word is spoken
Em Am Cmaj7
for you live and breathe within the parts of me deep down that are forever broken
Em Am
father, rest in peace but i stumble as i tread
Cmaj7 Em
pages written in a book that you and i once read, they said
[chorus] Am Cmaj7
not yet but soon we'll all be gone
Em
carry on carry on
Am Cmaj7
not yet but soon we'll all be gone
Em
carry on carry on
Am Cmaj7
not yet but soon we'll all be gone
Em
carry on carry on
Am Cmaj7
not yet but soon we'll all be gone
Em
carry on carry on
[outro] Am Cmaj7
go forth and so on and so forth
Em
go forth and so on and so forth
Am Cmaj7
go forth and so on and so forth
still i miss you Am Cmaj7
go forth and so on and so forth
Em
go forth and so on and so forth
Am Cmaj7
go forth and so on and so forth
Em
