Carnival chords by Livingston

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

5th Capo

Verse:
G
I wish I was a couple years older
D
Couple years wiser
             Am
Just so I could know your  heart

        C
But I know that it would still confuse me anyway

G

I felt just a few degrees colder
D
Ever since the day you left
       Am
Spare my soul
            C
Now I can still feel the  pieces of my youth just stripped away

G
What is life but a merry go round
D
Just circling doubts living up in my head
Am               C
I know that they want me dead

G
Keep me up when I try to stay down
D
I try to forget all the things that they said
Am            C
But they won’t let me go

G
I try to fall asleep
D
But they won’t let me dream
Am        C
I just hope some day we’ll come to terms

G
I’m falling underneath
D
And I try so hard to breathe
Am       C
As this rollercoaster kills me

G
So this goes out to the mind games in my head
D
You raise hell every night inside of my bed
Am
I don’t know where you came from
  C
But I won’t play your carnival no more

Interlude:
G D Am C

Verse:
G
I wish I was just a little stronger
D
So they couldn’t beat me up
     Am
But they did
           C
I can still feel the mulch that they kicked at me pierce my hope

G
So I dusted off my shoulders and then
D                  Am
Told myself that I could prove it to them
        C
Just trying to justify the first taste of feeling low

G
I try to fall asleep
D
But they won’t let me dream
Am        C
I just hope some day we’ll come to terms

G
I’m falling underneath
D
And I try so hard to breathe
Am      C
As this rollercoaster kills me

G
So this goes out to the mind games in my head
D
You raise hell every night inside of my bed
Am
I don’t know where you came from
  C
But I won’t play your carnival no more