Chords with lyrics
Intro: A minorAm G+G C majorC FF A minorAm G+G C majorC 1,2, now Part 1: A minorAm G+G Those three-plus years, I was so proud of C majorC FF Then I threw them all away for two Styrofoam cups A minorAm G+G The irony, everyone will think that "He lied to me" C majorC Made my sobriety so public, there's no f**king privacy A minorAm G+G If I don't talk about it then I carry a date C majorC FF A augmentedA "08/10/08" that now has been changed A minorAm G+G And everyone that put me in some box as a saint C majorC That I never was, just a false prophet that never came A minorAm G+G And will they think that everything that I've written has all been fake? C majorC FF Or will I just take my slip to the grave? A minorAm G+G What the f**k are my parents gonna say? C majorC The success story that got his life together and changed A minorAm G+G And you know, what pain looks like C majorC FF When you tell your dad you relapsed and look at him directly into his face A minorAm G+G Deceit on your shoulders, deceivingly heavy weight C majorC Haven't seen tears like this on my girl in a while A minorAm G+G The trust that I once built has been betrayed C majorC FF But I'd rather live telling the truth and be judged for my mistakes A minorAm G+G Than falsely held up, given props, loved and praised C majorC I guess, I gotta get this on the page A minorAm G+G Feeling sick and helpless, lost the compass where self is C majorC FF I know what I've gotta do, and I can't help it A minorAm G+G One day at a time is what they tell us C majorC Now I've gotta find a way to tell them A minorAm G+G C majorC FF God help 'em, yeah A minorAm G+G One day at a time is what they tell us C majorC Now I've gotta find a way to tell them Hook: A minorAm G+G We fall, so hard, C majorC FF A minorAm G+G C majorC now we gotta get back what we lost, lost A minorAm G+G I thought you’d gone, C majorC FF A minorAm G+G C majorC but you were with me all along, along Part 2: A minorAm G+G And every kid that came up to me C majorC FF And said I was the music they listened to when they first got clean A minorAm G+G Now look at me, a couple days sober, I'm fighting demons C majorC Back of that meeting on the East Side, shaking, tweaking A minorAm G+G Hope that they don't see it, hope that no one is looking C majorC FF That no one recognizes that failure under that hoodie A minorAm G+G Just posted in the back with my hands crossed, shooken C majorC If they call on me I'm passin', if they talk to me I'm booking A minorAm G+G Out that door, but before, I can make it C majorC Somebody stops me and says "Are you Macklemore? FF A minorAm G+G Maybe this isn't the place or time, I just wanted to say that C majorC If it wasn't for 'Otherside,' I wouldn't have made it" A minorAm G+G I just looked down at the ground and say, "Thank you" C majorC FF She tells me she has nine months, and that she's so grateful A minorAm G+G Tears in her eyes, looking like she's gonna cry, f**k C majorC I barely got forty-eight hours, treated like I'm some wise monk A minorAm G+G I want to tell her I relapsed, but I can't C majorC FF I just shake her hand and tell her, "Congrats" A minorAm G+G Get back to my car, and I think I'm tripping, yeah C majorC Cause God wrote "Otherside," that pen was in my hand A minorAm G+G I'm just a flawed man, man, I f**ked up C majorC FF Like so many others, I just never thought I would A minorAm G+G I never thought I would, didn't pick up the book C majorC Doin' it by myself didn't turn out that good Bridge: A minorAm G+G If I can be an example of getting sober C majorC FF Then I can be an example of starting over A minorAm G+G If I can be an example of getting sober C majorC Then I can be an example of starting over Hook: A minorAm G+G We fall, so hard, C majorC FF A minorAm G+G C majorC now we gotta get back what we lost, lost A minorAm G+G I thought you’d gone, C majorC FF A minorAm G+G C majorC but you were with me all along, along Outro: A minorAm G+G C majorC FF A minorAm G+G C majorC
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