Freight Train Metaphor chords by Del Paxton
Guitar chords with lyrics
- Difficulty: Intermediate 💪
Key: F#
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
♫ Verse 1:
B
There's a freight train headed this way
get up off the ground get out of the way
B
draw it up and push it away, up out of
the ground back into its place
♫ Chorus 1:
B
Right back into its place.
B
Right back into its place.
♫ Verse 2:
B
Put it right back into its place
left underground, don't give it a name
B
when you woke up still in a
daze was holding your
hand and you slipped
♫ Chorus 2:
B
Right back into its place.
B
Right back into its place.
♫ Chorus 3:
C# D#m F#
Time to make corrections
C# D#m F#
left some on the page
C# D#m F#
the rest distorts the image
C# B
there was something in the way.
B
short me out.
♫ Verse 3:
B
Freight train headed this way get
up off the ground get out the way
B
draw it out and push it away up out
of the ground back into its place
♫ Chorus 4:
B
Right back into its place.
B
Right back into its place.
♫ Chorus 5:
C# D#m F#
See you on the outside when
C# D#m F#
you don't have the shakes
C# D#m F#
meet you in your hometown
C#
when the sky is
B
turning grey
♫ Chorus 6:
C# D#m F#
Rising in the distance
C# D#m F#
collapsing into space
C# D#m
a compromised
F#
resistance there was
C# B
something in the way
B
don't short me out
B
don't short me out
B
don't short me out
B B
don't short me out
♫ Bridge:
B
Divided up and split
F# B
the difference past
F#
expiration forced into
B
this position and I
F#
will offer no resistance
B
a shorted circuit well
F#
into decomposition
F# E
when the ground begins
B F#
to shake take til
E
there's nothing left
B F# E F# E F# E F# E
to take
♫ Outro:
F# E
The ground
begins to shake.
F# E
The ground
begins to shake.
F# E
The ground
begins to shake.
F# E
The ground
F#
begins to shake.
Chords Instructions:
F# - 244322
C# - x46664
D#m - x68876
B - x24442
E - 022100 Published:
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