Look Backward On Your Future Look Forward To Your Past chords by Bonnie Prince Billy

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Chords:
A augmentedA   002220
D MajorD   000232
E MajorE   022100
B minorBm  224432
Asus4Asus4 002230
Asus2Asus2 002200

A augmentedA A majorA

Verse:
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Richard was a stout-hearted man
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He'd been through the bulk of his live
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He no longer spoke to most of his folks
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And was abandoned by his wife
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Rolling down the road one night alone
            D MajorD
He came upon a terrible sight
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An older woman laid bleeding in the road
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And her screams bout filled the night

Chorus:
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She said "Look backwards on your future,
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And look forward to your past
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Everything upon which you base your faith
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Is made of wapor and it won't last
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It's only everything in your shared reality
             D MajorD
That keeps our souls held fast
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So look backwards on your future
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And look forward to your past"


Verse:
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Richard woke the next morning and spoke
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He said "There's something i feel i must do!"
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He called up all of his natural-born kids
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And all his money from the bank he withdrew
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He changed his mind about everything
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He'd ever felt about what's bad and good
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He fixed a loudspeaker to the roof of his car
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And he sang to everyone he could

Chorus:
        A augmentedA
He sang "Look backwards on your future
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and look forward to your past
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Get your sense of time from the acient Hawaiians
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Your sense of self from the hydrogen blast
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You'll be what came before, you were what is is to come!"
                D MajorD
He bellowed out to everyone he past
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So "Look backwards on your future
     E MajorE        A augmentedA
and look forward to your past!"

Asus4Asus4 Asus2Asus2 A augmentedA
Asus4Asus4 Asus2Asus2 A augmentedA

Verse:
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Richard got arrested in Loretto
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He was caused in too much mischief for the sisters
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He spent an evening in the clink and they went home and turned to drink
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And gave his all, yes he was a double-fister
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The issue was the kind of past he had behind him
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Most of what he lived was wasted days
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The history he faced was an ocean made of empty
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And a destiny you wouldn't want to save


Chorus:
         A augmentedA
Still I say "Look backwards on your future,
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and look forward to your past
    A augmentedA
If you haven't gone and made a mess of your self
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You just might end up with the last laugh
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Every little dot of pe-pe-presence and thought
                D MajorD
For another will give you life class
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So look backwards on your future,
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and look forward to your past"


Verse:
   A augmentedA
This particular assemblage of molecules and memories
                 D MajorD
Someday soon may just run out of gas
    D MajorD         A augmentedA
So look backwards on your future
     E MajorE        A augmentedA
And look forward to your past

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