Overseas chords by Jason Isbell

Chords with lyrics

Intro:

E minorEm D MajorD

Verse 1:


E minorEm             G+G    D MajorD
Used to be a ghost town but even the ghosts got out.

           C majorC
And the sound of the highway died.

           D MajorD          E minorEm
There's ashes in the swimming pool.

Verse 2:


E minorEm                  G+G          D MajorD
I saw you on your wedding night and I watched you sleeping in my arms.

           C majorC
You didn't wash your makeup off.

        D MajorD
Woke up looking scared as hell.


Chorus:


  E minorEm                   G+G D MajorD
My love won't change. My love won't change. My love won't change a thing.

          C majorC
You're never coming back to me.

          D MajorD
You're never coming back at all.

  C majorC                  B7B7
The waiter made a young girl cry at the table next to mine last night.

   E minorEm         D MajorD         A minorAm
And I know you would have brought him to his knees.

      C majorC
But you're overseas.

Break:

E minorEm D MajorD

Verse 3:

E minorEm               G+G           D MajorD
It doesn't seem so long ago we thought that we could change their minds.

       C majorC
Stay here and fight it out.

           D MajorD
A augmentedA love that we could weaponize.

E minorEm                  G+G         D MajorD
But I saw you losing faith and I was watching when the light went out.

     C majorC
Know what revolution means.

           D MajorD
And know it's not an option now.


Chorus:


  E minorEm                   G+G D MajorD
My love won't change. My love won't change. Our love won't change a thing.

          C majorC               D MajorD
I couldn't leave my father here, to finish up his life alone.

 C majorC                  B7B7
I saw you in our daughter's eyes last night when she caught me in a lie.

   E minorEm          D MajorD     A minorAm
And I need you here to make both of us believe.

      C majorC
But you're overseas.


Break:

E minorEm D MajorD


C majorC                  B7B7
Does your heart rest easy where you are?

               E minorEm
And do they treat you like a star?

      D MajorD      A minorAm
And do they call you refugee?

   C majorC
From overseas.

Outro:

E minorEm D MajorD