Ruins chords by First Aid Kit

Tuning: EADGBE

No capo

Basic picking pattern:
e|--------------------------|
b|----------------x---------|
G|----------x-----------x---|
D|-------x-----x-----x------|
A|-x------------------------|
E|--------------------------|

Klara plays a C in the verses, but a C7 also sounds nice in my opinion.

Intro:
F

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

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


Chorus:

Ruins
   Bb
Ohhh
   F
Ruins
   Bb
Ohhh


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

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


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

Chorus:
   F
Ruins
   Bb
Ohhh
   F
Ruins
   Bb
Ohhh
   F
Ruins
N.C.
Ohhh
N.C.