Ruins chords by First Aid Kit

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: EADGBE

No capo

Basic picking pattern:
e|--------------------------|
b|----------------x---------|
G+G|----------x-----------x---|
D MajorD|-------x-----x-----x------|
A augmentedA|-x------------------------|
E MajorE|--------------------------|

Klara plays a C majorC in the verses, but a C7C7 also sounds nice in my opinion.

Intro:
FF

Verse:
  FF                     C majorC
Today, I climbed the highest mountain I have ever climbed
   FF               C majorC
And I turn, to look at ruins I had left behind
  FF           C majorC          FF
And you, where were you so far removed from any truth
 A minorAm        Bb majorBb
I lost you, didn't I?
              FF
But first I think I lost myself

   FF                C majorC
Children, then and forever locked in a memory
  FF                     C majorC
Olden, that mirror searching for some kind of certainty
   FF             C majorC
That you were just the same as everyone
        FF
But you were wrong
    A minorAm       Bb majorBb
And it hurt you, didn't it?
         FF
All you couldn't be


Chorus:

Ruins
  Bb majorBb
Ohhh
  FF
Ruins
  Bb majorBb
Ohhh

Verse:
  FF                C majorC
I tried to hold on to some kind of dignity
   FF                C majorC
Too long I waded through a vast and endless sea
   FF            C majorC       FF
Thinking, I could find the secret there within
    A minorAm       Bb majorBb
But I gave up, didn't I?
        FF
Seemed the only way

  FF                    C majorC
Ruins, all the things we built assured that they would last
  FF              C majorC            FF
Ending months ticket stubs, and written notes and photographs
         C majorC            FF
Where are you and here somewhere I cannot go
  A minorAm    Bb majorBb
I'm sorry, I am
          FF
But I don't take it back


Bridge:
   Bb majorBb       FF
And in the night I hear your voice
   Bb majorBb          FF
Sometimes but it quickly passes
   Bb majorBb       FF
In dreams I saw what I had thought
   Bb majorBb       C majorC
Could be some kind of answer
   Bb majorBb
You try and try and try until you cannot try no more
FF
Captured in our own

Chorus:
  FF
Ruins
  Bb majorBb
Ohhh
  FF
Ruins
  Bb majorBb
Ohhh
  FF
Ruins
N.C.
Ohhh
N.C.