The Grand Optimist chords by City And Colour

Chords with lyrics

City And Colour - The Grand Optimist

Tuning: Standard (Capo 3)

CHORDS:

   C majorC  E minorEm  A minorAm  G+G

e|----0----0----0----0----|
BB|----1----3----1----3----|
G+G|----0----0----2----0----|
D MajorD|----2----2----2----0----|
A augmentedA|----3----2----0----2----|
E MajorE|----0----0----0----3----|

Intro: C majorC E minorEm A minorAm C majorC E minorEm A minorAm

Verse:

C majorC     E minorEm       A minorAm
I fear I'm dying of complications

   C majorC       E minorEm          A minorAm
Complications due to things that I've left undone

      C majorC         E minorEm
That all my debts will be left unpaid

      A minorAm
Feel like a cripple without a cane

      C majorC        E minorEm
I'm like a jack of all trades

         A minorAm
Who's a master of none

Verse 2:

C majorC        E minorEm
Then there's my father

A minorAm
He's always looking on the bright side

    C majorC      E minorEm            A minorAm
Saying things like "son life just ain't that hard"

     C majorC      E minorEm
He is the grand optimist

     A minorAm
I am the world's poor pessimist

       C majorC        E minorEm
You give him buttons sometimes

          A minorAm
And he will escape unscarred

Pre-Chorus/Chorus:

G+G            A minorAm
I guess I take after my mother  x2

I used to be quite resilient
Gain no strength from counting the beads on a rosary
Now the wound has begun to turn
Another lesson that has gone unlearned
But this is not a cry for pitty or for sympathy

I guess I take after my mother  x2