Tear By Tear
Sister Hazel
Transcribed by: Justin Hergett 7/15/07
Capo: 2nd
I couldn't find these chords for this song anywhere so I finally decided just to sit 
and figure them out.  I hope you enjoy, this is really a magnificent song, very powerful 
 Let me know how I did, and if you caught anything I didn't.  Thanks
Note: The F in the into is a grip chord, but the rest of the time it's a barre chord.  
the intro the F and C's get a little hammer-on/off to add styling.

Intro: F, C, G, G, F, C, 
G

F       C    G     G  F      C     
   G      G
 We all know sadness,  and I feel your pain
F               C              G          Am   F
 Well everybody knows a little loneliness sometimes
C                    G    G
'Cause we're all the same


F   C        G  G   F   C        G    G
 We all have sorrow, we all have shame
F          C              G         Am   F
 Everybody feels a bit of emptiness sometimes
             C              G     G  G
Now what you gonna do about that


          F           C       G       Am
There's a way to keep going , step by step
       F               C       G        Am
Try to fix what's been broken, brick by brick
           F              C       G          Am
While your life will keep coming, year after year
F          C     G       Am
 Drain the pain, tear by tear
F      C        G                  F C G
 Drain away the pain, tear by tear


F       C     G        G
 Take a look around you
F      C             G  G
 Every face that you see
F               C             G         Am   
        C
 Well everybody gets a little paralyzed sometimes, the epidemic of our
G        G G
insanity

          F           C       G       Am
There's a way to keep going , step by step
       F               C       G        Am
Try to fix what's been broken, brick by brick
           F              C       G          Am
While your life will keep coming, year after year
F          C     G       Am
 Drain the pain, tear by tear
F      C        G                  F C G
 Drain away the pain, tear by tear


        Am         C                 G          G
And the mother she waits, 'Cause her teenager's late
         Am           C             G             G
Till the knock on the door, he says ma'am I am so sorry
    Am            C             G                G
And soldiers come home, one leg less than they'd gone with
   Am        C                  G            G
We all walk around like there's just nothing wrong with it


    F         C                G            Am
The doctor he cries 'cause his last patient died
    F           C             G         G
Did I mention before he was a father of five
        F           C              G             Am
And the waitress is home, well she can't pay her loan
           F            C                   G           G
She's lost everything ? everything, she has no where to go
        F          C               G       Am
And the fat kid at school couldn't take anymore
        F              C              G      G
All the taunts and the names and the ugliest words
       F               C                 G             Am
No one even stopped to notice, they went on with their day
        F            C       G            G~
Till he pulled out a gun and blew himself away


          F           C       G       Am
There's a way to keep going , step by step
       F               C       G        Am~
Try to fix what's been broken, brick by brick

F C G G F C G G 
C G G F C G G

        F             C G  G
You can drain all the pain~
        F C G  G
Tear by tear~,
        F C G  G
Tear by tear~,

F, C, G, G, F, C, G~