I Was A Photograph chords by Kasey Anderson

Chords with lyrics

INTRO: (with harmonica)
A minorAm  C majorC   FF  x2
(hold the FF an extra measure and walk back with root of G+G)

Verse:
A minorAm         C majorC
Sky the color of a match been struck
A minorAm            C majorC
Sun just hangin' like the noose got stuck
A minorAm                C majorC
And you can try to stare it back down
    FF         G+G (walk base note back to A minorAm and repeat throughout the song)
But you can't cover it up
A minorAm           C majorC
Red dirt rising 'til it fills your lungs
A minorAm               C majorC
Your hand's the bullet and your heart's the gun
A minorAm                       C majorC
And you learned how to turn your back on almost anything
    FF          G+G
But you never learned to run

Instrumental:
 A minorAm C majorC  FF  G+G

Verse:
A minorAm                C majorC
You've seen the ditches where the dead get left
A minorAm             C majorC
And the hungry cats in the hollow chests
A minorAm             C majorC
And you can pin your eyes shut, boy
    FF
But you can't get no rest
A minorAm               C majorC
Hell, its just bones scattered in the dust
A minorAm                C majorC
And it don't mean nothing to the TV trucks
A minorAm           C majorC
'Til it's real American boys
      FF        G+G
Spittin' up real American blood

A minorAm            C majorC
In Charlie company, first thing you're taught
A minorAm             C majorC
Is you ain't worth half of what you thought
A minorAm             C majorC
And just like everything else I learned
FF           G+G
I couldn't shut it off
A minorAm               C majorC
So I felt like nothing when I got back home
A minorAm               C majorC
And my father saw me in my granddad's clothes
A minorAm               C majorC
And said, "you inherit my blood, boy
FF                G+G
But your sins are all your own"

Instrumental:
A minorAm C majorC FF G+G

Verse:
A minorAm          C majorC
I don't sleep like I did before
A minorAm               C majorC
I just wake up trembling on the bedroom floor
A minorAm                C majorC
Always seven steps from the ghosts
      FF         G+G
On the other side of that door
A minorAm                C majorC
Wondering, what did I do to earn another day
A minorAm                C majorC
'Cause I don't confess, sure as hell don't pray
A minorAm             C majorC
I just defend, attack, withdraw
FF     G+G
And delay

A minorAm    C majorC   FF
You know my face, I was a photograph
A minorAm    C majorC    FF
On the front page, 'neath the headline war
A minorAm    C majorC      FF
And I was numb back then, boy
A minorAm    C majorC       FF