• Song:

    One Foot Before The Other Acoustic

  • Artist:

    Frank Turner

G - 320033
Cm - x35543
F - 133211
Dm - xx0231
D* - xx4232
Eb - xx5343

G (320003@1)On the very day I die
         CmThe (x3101x@1)very last of my desires
             GIs (320003@1)that you take my broken body
      Cm (x3101x@1)And commit it to the fire
         GAnd (320003@1)then when the fire is finished
           CmScrape (x3101x@1)the ashes in a tin
          G (320003@1)                             CmTake (x3101x@1)them down to Londons drinking reservoirs
               FAnd (133211@1)throw them in

G (320003@1)                    CmAnd (x3101x@1)then specks infinitesimal of my mortal remains
                G (320003@1)                        CmWill (x3101x@1)slide down 7 million throats and into 7 million veins
           G (320003@1)                                    CmAnd (x3101x@1)I will creep through their capillaries to the marrow of their bones
              G (320003@1)                                  Cm (x3101x@1)                FAnd (133211@1)they will wake to bright new mornings and then wordlessly theyll know

G (320003@1)   DmThat (xx0231@1)I remain
        Cm (x3101x@1)    FI (133211@1)am remembered
     G (320003@1)    DmI (xx0231@1)remain
       Cm (x3101x@1)     FI (133211@1)am remembered

G (320003@1)So these 7 million innocents
          CmThey (x3101x@1)will have me in their blood
              GAnd (320003@1)when they die theyll burn their bodies
      Cm (x3101x@1)Or be buried in the mud
           G (320003@1)                                       CmAnd (x3101x@1)I will spread through streams and rivers like a virus through a host
         G (320003@1)                            CmFrom (x3101x@1)the hamlets to the cities from the rivers to the coast
         G (320003@1)                               CmAnd (x3101x@1)from there into the channel across the great Atlantic Ocean
          G (320003@1)     
And ever onwards to the new world
            CmThrough (x3101x@1)the waters gentle motions
      G (320003@1)                           CmUntil (x3101x@1)parts of me are part of every land mass every sea
       G (320003@1)                               Cm (x3101x@1)          FIn (133211@1)the rain, up on your crops and in the very air you breath

G (320003@1)  DmI (xx0231@1)remain
       Cm (x3101x@1)      FI (133211@1)am remembered
   G (320003@1)   DmI (xx0231@1)remain
       Cm (x3101x@1)     FI (133211@1)am remembered
     GI (320003@1)remain

Dm (xx0231@1)          Cm (x3101x@1)                   FAnd (133211@1)all the things I love will be washed away in the rain
    G (320003@1)  Dm (xx0231@1)Cm (x3101x@1)F (133211@1) GI (320003@1)remain

D*   Eb

D*                      
Im not convinced of the existence of these things that dont exist
         EbYeah (x43121@3)by Jewish boys with big ideas and scratches on their wrist
      D*
By a loving or a vengeful God
 
Or one who condescends
                 Eb (x43121@3)    
Wholl wash his hands down in the mire among the misery of men
      FOr (133211@1)by ever turning circles hanging timeless in the sky
       GLike (320003@1)a dream catcher distracting from the fact youre gonna die

D*
But I place one foot before the other

Confident because
            EbI (x43121@3)know that everything we are right now is everything that was
          D (xx0232@1)  
That Watt Tyler, Woody, Guthrie, Dostoevsky and Davy Jones
           EbAre (x43121@3)all dissolved into the ether and have crept into my bones
            FAnd (133211@1)all the cells in all the lines upon the backs of both my hands
           DWere (xx0232@1)once carved into the details of two feet upon the sand

G (320003@1)  DmWe (xx0231@1)remain
         Cm (x3101x@1)     FWe (133211@1)are remembered
     G (320003@1)     DmWe (xx0231@1)remain
         Cm (x3101x@1)     FWe (133211@1)are remembered
     G (320003@1)
We remain
                       DmAnd (xx0231@1)all the things we love
         Cm (x3101x@1)                     FWill (133211@1)be washed away in the rain
     G (320003@1)   Dm (xx0231@1)  Cm (x3101x@1)  FWe (133211@1)remain
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