Note: In the Acoustic version on the True Defiance Deluxe DVD they only play
the first verse and the bridge. This chord sheet includes both verses.
Cmaj9#11 (no 3rd)
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Okay this is a pretty complicated name for an easy chord.
e --- | --- | -x- | --- | --- |
B --- | --- | -x- | --- | --- |
G --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
D --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
A --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
E --- | -x- | --- | --- | --- |
Verse 1:
Em C G Cmaj9#11
It's hard to say that I'm back on a straight line
Em C G Cmaj9#11
You'll see my path is in fact just a fault line
Em C G Cmaj9#11
It's in my blood, it's in my lungs, and it won't die
Em C G Cmaj9#11
I fight these words, I bite my tongue, so I don't lie
Prechorus:
C Em D
Though it's me to blame, there is no more shame in me, in me
C
I just feel the same, immune to all this pain
Em D C
And the scars don't write a song for me at all
Em D C
No, your tears don't line a path for me to crawl
Chorus (2x):
Em C
I am a stone, unaffected
G Cmaj9#11
Rain Hell down onto me
Em C
Flesh and bone, unaffected
G D
Your fool I will not be
Verse 2:
Em C G Cmaj9#11
I tried to see and believe in the short-sight
Em C G Cmaj9#11
Accept the burn of a vain and a half life
Em C G Cmaj9#11
And how you rest your faith in these for a lifetime
Em C G Cmaj9#11
The hollow lie against my hope that I won't buy
Prechorus:
C Em D
Though it's me to blame, there is no more shame in me, in me
C
I just feel the same, immune to all this pain
Em D C
And the scars don't write a song for me at all
Em D C
No, your tears don't line a path for me to crawl
Chorus (2x):
Em C
I am a stone, unaffected
G Cmaj9#11
Rain Hell down onto me
Em C
Flesh and bone, unaffected
G D ***
Your fool I will not be
Bridge:
D C
The waters rise above my eyes
D C
I will breathe it in and go out with the tide
D C
And when you think this is the end
D C
You will find me there where I have always been
Chorus (3x):
Em C
I am a stone, unaffected
G Cmaj9#11
Rain Hell down onto me
Em C
Flesh and bone, unaffected
G D
Your fool I will not be
Em C G Cmaj9#11
I am a stone
Em C G D Em
I am a stone
