One Foot In Front Of The Other
(Capo on 3rd Fret)
I saw Bright Eyes the other day in Manchester. They were amazing. They finished with this beast of a song?
Chord Chart
C G Am F
e------3-------1-
B--1-------1---1-
G----------2---2-
D--2-------2---3-
A--3---2---0---3-
E------3-------1-
*remember: the chords are in relation to the capo on the 3rd fret.
C
If you walk away I?ll walk away
C G C
First tell me which you road you will take
Am G C Am
I don?t wanna risk our paths crossing some day
C G C
So you walk that way I?ll walk this way
C G C
The future hangs over our heads
C G C
And it moves with each current event
Am G
Until it falls all around us
C Am
Like a cold steady rain
C G C
Just stay in when it?s looking this way
C G C
The moon?s laying low in the sky
C G C
Forcing everything meadow to shine
Am G C Am
And the sidewalk hold diamonds like a jewellery store case
C G C
They argue ?walk this way, no walk this way?
C G C
Laura?s asleep in my bed
C G C
As I?m leaving she wakes up and says
Am G C Am
?I dreamed you were taken away on the crest of a wave
C G C
Baby don?t go away come here?
C G C
And there?s kids playing guns in the street
C G C
And one?s pointing his tree branch at me
Am G C Am
So I put my hands up, and say ?enough is enough,
C G C
If you walk away I?ll walk away? (and then he shot me dead)
C G C
I found a liquid cure
G C
For my land love blues
F G C Am
And we?d pass away, like a slow parade
C G C
It?s leaving but I don?t know how soon
C G C
The world?s got me dizzy again
C G C
You?d think after 22 years I?d be used to the spin
Am G C Am
And it only feels worse when I stay in one place
C G C
So I?m always pacing around or walking away
C G C
I drinking the ink from my pen
C G C
And I?m balancing history books up on my head
Am G C Am
And it all boils down to one quotable phrase:
C G C
?If you love something give it away?
C G C
A good woman will pick you apart
C G C
A box full of suggestions for a possible heart
Am G C Am
And you may be offended and you may be afraid
C G C
But don?t walk away don?t walk away
C G C
We made love on the living room floor
C G C
With the noise in the background from the televised war
Am G C Am
And in the deafening pleasure I thought I heard someone say
C G C
If we walk away they?ll walk away
C G C
But greed is a bottomless pit
C G C
And our freedom?s a joke we?re just taking the piss
Am G C Am
And the whole world must watch the sad comic display
C G C
If you?re still free start running away
(cos they?ll come for you!)
C G C
I?ve grown tired of holding this pose
C G C
I feel more like a stranger each time I come home
Am G C Am
So I?m making a deal with the devil?s of fame
C G C
Saying ?let me walk away, please?
C G C
?you?ll be free child once you have died
C G C
from the shackles of language and measurable tide
Am G C Am
And then we can trade places, play musical grace
C G C
Tell me ?walk away walk away walk away??
C G C C G C
So I?m up at dawn, putting on my shoes
F G C Am
I just wanna make, a clean escape
C G C
I?m leaving but I don?t know where to
C G C
I?m leaving but I don?t know where to
On the bits inbetween the verses, play an entire verse plucked, but with a G on the high E string being played. Like so:
e--3---3---3---
B--1-------1---
G----------2---
D--2-------2---
A--3---2---0---
E------3-------
that's all I think
Gerner
