Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)
Intro:
A minorAm
Esus4Esus4 E minorEm
A minorAm G+G E minorEm FF
A minorAm G+G E minorEm FF
Verse 1:
A minorAm G+G E minorEm FF
I don't usually write these songs for you
A minorAm G+G
The ones who always hear my words
E minorEm FF A minorAm
But never really seems to understand their truth
G+G
And I've tried time and time again
E minorEm FF A minorAm
To find the sounds that might get through to you
G+G
But maybe it's impossible
E minorEm FF
Have I done as much as words can do?
Pre-Chorus 1:
C majorC G+G A minorAm
Is it just illogical? Unconveyable?
FF C majorC
Does it just not conform to prose?
E minorEm A minorAm
'Cause if you have to ask me what I mean
G+G
You might never know
Chorus 1:
FF C majorC
If you can't see what's in my eyes
G+G A minorAm
If you can't feel what's in my soul
FF C majorC
If you can't hear these words I sing
G+G (Gsus4Gsus4 G+G)
Ringin' in your bones
FF C majorC
If you're not screamin' in your silence
G+G A minorAm
If nothing's burnin' down below
FF C majorC
If you have to ask me what I mean
G+G
You might never know
Verse 2:
A minorAm G+G
If you don't see the things I see
E minorEm FF
When you're starin' at the stars
A minorAm G+G
If you've never felt lonely
E minorEm FF
And gone and picked up your guitar
A minorAm G+G
If you've never felt unknown
E minorEm FF
Sittin' right there in your home
A minorAm G+G
Then it might not make a difference
E minorEm FF
How many times I bare my soul
Pre-Chorus 2:
C majorC G+G
Well don't you seem all set?
A minorAm
Tellin' me you get it?
FF C majorC
Yet the more you talk the more it shows
E minorEm
I think you mighta stopped listening
A minorAm G+G
In the way that matters most
Chorus 2:
FF C majorC
'Cause if you can't see what's in my eyes
G+G A minorAm
If you can't feel what's in my soul
FF C majorC
If you can't hear these words I sing
G+G (Gsus4Gsus4 G+G)
Ringin' in your bones
FF C majorC
If you're not screamin' in your silence
G+G A minorAm
If nothing's burnin' down below
FF C majorC
Well If you have to ask me what I mean
G+G
You might never know
Bridge:
FF C majorC
And maybe you don't know what it is
G+G A minorAm
Or maybe you know it all too well
FF C majorC
And maybe you try your best to hide it
A minorAm G+G
Or maybe you just face the world and yell
FF C majorC
But either way you know you feel it
G+G A minorAm
When you're singin' on your own
FF C majorC
But if you have no clue what I'm sayin'
A minorAm G+G
Could you just leave me alone!?
Instrumental:
FF C majorC G+G A minorAm
FF C majorC G+G
FF C majorC G+G Am/GAm/G
FF C/GC/G G+G
(Oh...)
Chorus 3:
FF C majorC
If you can't see what's in my eyes
G+G A minorAm
If you can't feel what's in my soul
FF C majorC
If you can't hear these words I sing
G+G (Gsus4Gsus4 G+G)
Ringin' in your bones (Ringin' in your bones)
FF C majorC
If you're not screamin' in your silence
G+G A minorAm
If nothing's burnin' down below
FF C majorC
Well if you have to ask me what I mean
G+G
You might never know, oh
Chorus 4:
FF C majorC
If you're not fightin' for tomorrow
G+G A minorAm
But always dreamin' of yesterdays
FF C majorC
If you're not standin' on the ledge
A minorAm G+G
Starin' the future in the face
FF C majorC
If the endin' of your story
G+G A minorAm
Is leavin' well enough alone
FF C majorC
Then maybe you should quit it with the questions
A minorAm G+G
'Cause my words just fall on stone!
Outro:
FF C majorC
So maybe you've heard these words I sing
G+G A minorAm
Or maybe you've just enjoyed the tones
FF C majorC
But if you have to ask me what it means
G+G
You might never know