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

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Chords:
A     002220
D     000232
E     022100
Bm    224432
Asus4 002230
Asus2 002200

A A

Verse:
A
Richard was a stout-hearted man
      D                             A
He'd been through the bulk of his live
   A
He no longer spoke to most of his folks
          D                A
And was abandoned by his wife
A

Rolling down the road one night alone
                        D
He came upon a terrible sight
                     A
An older woman laid bleeding in the road
        E                        A
And her screams bout filled the night


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


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


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

Asus4 Asus2 A
Asus4 Asus2 A

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


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


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

Asus4 Asus2 A
Asus4 Asus2 A
Asus4 Asus2 A