Carry On Acoustic chords by Kflay

Chords with lyrics

k.flay - carry on (acoustic)


E minorEm - 022000
A minorAm - x02210
Cmaj7Cmaj7 - 032000 (usually the low e string is muted but she plays it differently}

no capo

intro:
E minorEm A minorAm Cmaj7Cmaj7 x2

verse 1:
     E minorEm        A minorAm
with each stroke of my pen i connect
   Cmaj7Cmaj7
reflect on what was learned, what was gained, what was left
    E minorEm
of the shards of a lifetime
 A minorAm      Cmaj7Cmaj7
capsized i was broken into fragments, scoured the cabinets
     E minorEm                    A minorAm         Cmaj7Cmaj7
for the bottles that were hidden, were there messages you'd given me?
i'm your one and only legacy
     E minorEm           A minorAm
it's been six years since we last met
      Cmaj7Cmaj7
i no longer dream of you, the visions gone from my head
   E minorEm               A minorAm
once found in those brutally surreal scenes
            Cmaj7Cmaj7
where your spirit lingers, i'm incapable of seeing
            E minorEm                   A minorAm
furthermore i'm fairly doubtful that you are little more than dust
        Cmaj7Cmaj7
atoms now recycled in god i cannot trust, yet i must
       E minorEm
where is your faith when you need it?
     A minorAm            Cmaj7Cmaj7
tell me, where is christ when you do not believe in angels or in demons?
 E minorEm            A minorAm        Cmaj7Cmaj7
emaciated figure, my father his body ravaged but still we managed
                  E minorEm
to make it many years before the liquor pulled the trigger
     A minorAm        Cmaj7Cmaj7
i'm stranded i haven't forgotten how i thought that i would cope once i was bigger
  E minorEm                A minorAm
my feet's my only carriage but i stumble as i tread
    Cmaj7Cmaj7                      E minorEm
pages written in a book that you and i once read, they said

chorus:
       A minorAm       Cmaj7Cmaj7
not yet but soon i will be gone
         E minorEm
carry on carry on
       A minorAm       Cmaj7Cmaj7
not yet but soon i will be gone
         E minorEm
carry on carry on
       A minorAm       Cmaj7Cmaj7
not yet but soon i will be gone
         E minorEm
carry on carry on
       A minorAm       Cmaj7Cmaj7
not yet but soon i will be gone
         E minorEm
carry on carry on
       A minorAm       Cmaj7Cmaj7
not yet but soon i will be gone

carry on carry on

verse 2:
E minorEm            A minorAm
 it's difficult to say exactly what i feel
 Cmaj7Cmaj7
lost in some translation and there's scratches on the reel
    E minorEm                  A minorAm            Cmaj7Cmaj7
of a black and white, a silent movie usually i'm the one to say the soundtracks flawed

but in this case the melancholy draws me to the
 E minorEm
background of the photograph
      A minorAm                 Cmaj7Cmaj7
i hope it lasts this feeling that you're watching from above
                  E minorEm
that you know i dedicate the music to your love
    A minorAm         Cmaj7Cmaj7
guitar resonates with your doomed fate while i strum i contemplate
       E minorEm
i was brought up amidst the vodka
    A minorAm             Cmaj7Cmaj7                        E minorEm
it poisoned you and i was forced to watch my father slowly die over a toilet filled with puke
               A minorAm
always afraid i'd wake up to your corpse
     Cmaj7Cmaj7
as a scared kid tried to keep my eyes from the floor
      E minorEm             A minorAm
don't look down, in fact shut your eyelids entirely
     Cmaj7Cmaj7
the knowledge that you'll never get to know me's got me crying
E minorEm              A minorAm
 death signifies the loss of a fragile life
   Cmaj7Cmaj7                           E minorEm
for every moment that you miss, i send to what i hope is heaven your daughters kiss
         A minorAm         Cmaj7Cmaj7
we cant speak, pray to no one in particular my wish will one day meet your cheek
    E minorEm              A minorAm
hold my head up high but i stumble as i tread
        Cmaj7Cmaj7                  E minorEm
Pages written in a book that you and i once read, they said

chorus:
       A minorAm        Cmaj7Cmaj7
not yet but soon you will be gone
         E minorEm
carry on carry on
       A minorAm        Cmaj7Cmaj7
not yet but soon you will be gone
         E minorEm
carry on carry on
       A minorAm        Cmaj7Cmaj7
not yet but soon you will be gone
         E minorEm
carry on carry on
       A minorAm        Cmaj7Cmaj7
not yet but soon you will be gone

carry on carry on

verse 3:
    E minorEm               A minorAm             Cmaj7Cmaj7
channeling the memories that i wrote down in a notebook that i kept after your death
                E minorEm             A minorAm           Cmaj7Cmaj7
bereft, frightened that in a short time i would lose sight of the subtleties of our relationship

all the reminders
        E minorEm               A minorAm
the way your leather jacket smelled of cigarettes and booze
     Cmaj7Cmaj7
inhale the fragrance of an addict i was bound to lose
        E minorEm  A minorAm
i'm still your child
        Cmaj7Cmaj7
i'm still your child

you are my teacher
     E minorEm                A minorAm             Cmaj7Cmaj7
i learned how to be the person that you couldn't even though i care for you
                          E minorEm
i'm wary i will replicate the mistakes you made in youth
                A minorAm
that carried on, imprinted in my mind
      Cmaj7Cmaj7                        E minorEm
i am playing your guitar, do the chords transcend time and space?
         A minorAm            Cmaj7Cmaj7
wasted potential i know it wasn't meant to end like this, with you lifeless
    E minorEm             A minorAm     Cmaj7Cmaj7
in an urn full of ashes, gashes that are reopened every time a word is spoken
            E minorEm        A minorAm     Cmaj7Cmaj7
for you live and breathe within the parts of me deep down that are forever broken
 E minorEm                   A minorAm
father, rest in peace but i stumble as i tread
     Cmaj7Cmaj7                     E minorEm
pages written in a book that you and i once read, they said

chorus:
       A minorAm        Cmaj7Cmaj7
not yet but soon we'll all be gone
         E minorEm
carry on carry on
       A minorAm        Cmaj7Cmaj7
not yet but soon we'll all be gone
         E minorEm
carry on carry on
       A minorAm        Cmaj7Cmaj7
not yet but soon we'll all be gone
         E minorEm
carry on carry on
       A minorAm        Cmaj7Cmaj7
not yet but soon we'll all be gone
         E minorEm
carry on carry on


outro:
        A minorAm     Cmaj7Cmaj7
go forth and so on and so forth
              E minorEm
go forth and so on and so forth
        A minorAm     Cmaj7Cmaj7
go forth and so on and so forth

still i miss you
        A minorAm     Cmaj7Cmaj7
go forth and so on and so forth
              E minorEm
go forth and so on and so forth
        A minorAm     Cmaj7Cmaj7
go forth and so on and so forth