Fortress chords by Mat Kearney

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Verse 1:
Bm             G              D          A
Let me be your fortress, I'll let you in
Bm             G             D           A
Hide away your secrets, I'll carry them
Bm                  G      D         A
You're the one I've wanted to defend
       Bm            G         D
If you let me be the hero I've never been


Pre-Chorus:
           Bm     G     D         A
'Cause our hearts can't cover the tracks
        Bm  G        D           A
We both see where we keep comin' back
        Bm   G           D           A
I don't care what you've said in the past
Bm
Out of the forest behind my door is a
N.C.
Fortress

Chorus:
Bm G D A
Bm G D A
Bm G D A

Bm                G
Out of the forest behind my door is a
A
Fortress


Verse 2:
Bm            G    D          A
Let me be the war already won
Bm             G            D           A
You can be the nation where I come from
Bm            G       D           A
We can be the kingdom yet to come
       Bm         G             D    A
If you let me be, let me be the one


Pre-Chorus:
           Bm     G     D         A
'Cause our hearts can't cover the tracks
        Bm  G        D           A
We both see where we keep comin' back
        Bm   G           D           A
I don't care what you've said in the past
Bm
Out of the forest behind my door is a
N.C.
Fortress


Chorus:
Bm G D A
Bm G D A
Bm G D A

Bm                G
Out of the forest behind my door is a
A
Fortress


Bridge:
Bm                     G
Evergreens evergreens, all up ahead of me
D                        A
Blazin' a trail with the enemy textin' me
Bm                       G
You like the best of me, not all the rest of me
D                  A
'Minds of seventy, put 'em on phentermines
Bm            G
Forever don't know what it meant to me
D                 A
Everything anyone ever has said to me
Bm               G       D              A
 But you call my revelry, like you were sent to me
    Bm                      G
Must climb to the mezzanine stay will we're seventy
D                    A
Under the stars it's heavenly yes
Bm
Out of the forest behind my door is a
N.C.
Fortress

Bm G D A
Bm G D A
      Fortress


Chorus:
Bm G D A

Bm                G
Out of the forest behind my door is a
A
Fortress


Outro:
Bm G D A
Bm G D