TUNING: C# Standard (Down a Step and a Half)
Tab by: Brodie Widdifield
NOTE: Listen for the changing in Em/Esus2, it changes more then once each time. Also,
the verses, the bass plays a D after each Em chord, transcending into the C, but the
doesn?t always.
Intro:
C5 G5 E5
C5 G5 E5 D5 x3
C5 G5 E5
It?s no wonder I?ve felt so tired
C5 G5 E5 D5
I?ve witnessed the careless all running past me
C5 G5 E5
While I?ve been told to ignore my desires
C5 G5 E5 D5
And grow numb with understanding
A5
I walk through theses woods
G5
I carry this deadwood
A5 G5 D5
I am determined to see this through
A5 G5
Driven only by the guilt and the shame of giving up
A5 G5 D5
I must complete what I set out to do - For you
C5 G5 E5
It stayed on a shelf made of my arms
C5 G5 E5 D5
They had grown strong from giving support
C5 G5 E5
I knew that my arms could hold out forever
C5 G5 E5
It was my mind that?d grow tired
A5 G5
It?s been so long since I have questioned
A5 G5 D5
What it is that I really want
A5 G5
Instead I follow your directions
A5 G5
As you lead me on
D5 C5
I can?t use it to build my home
E5 D5 C5 D5
It will not fulfill my desires
E5 D5 C5 D5
Some wood can be used to help build a life
E5 D5 C5 D5 E5
This wood will be used for building a fire
E5 D5 C5 D5 E5
E5 E5
Why carry this deadwood with me?
E5 E5
?when were I?m going there will be living trees
C5 B5 C5 B5 A5 B5
Now close enough to carry it all to the end
C5 D5
But throwing it all to the ground instead
Solo: E5 D5 C5 C5 C5
E5
This bundle of deadwood
D5
The pieces they fall
C5 C5
Corners indent the soil and accumulate on one another
C5
Tumble down and pile up
E5 D5
It awkwardly spills like myself at a time
C5
Like the time it had killed
C5 C5
Like every moment after it was collected and held
B5 D5 A5 E5
I?d give up all that I started
B5 D5 A5 E5
To pursue all that I wanted
B5 D5 A5 E5
I may arrive empty handed
B5 D5 A5 E5
But at least I will arrive
