Starting Over chords by Macklemore

Intro:
Am G C F
Am G C
    1,2, now

Part 1:
   Am           G
Those three-plus years, I was so proud of
    C              F
Then I threw them all away for two Styrofoam cups
  Am          G
The irony, everyone will think that "He lied to me"
      C
Made my sobriety so public, there's no f**king privacy
  Am              G
If I don't talk about it then I carry a date
  C       F
A "08/10/08" that now has been changed
     Am           G
And everyone that put me in some box as a saint
       C
That I never was, just a false prophet that never came
       Am               G
And will they think that everything that I've written has all been fake?
     C            F
Or will I just take my slip to the grave?
Am           G
What the f**k are my parents gonna say?
    C
The success story that got his life together and changed
    Am          G
And you know, what pain looks like
              C             F
When you tell your dad you relapsed and look at him directly into his face
Am             G
Deceit on your shoulders, deceivingly heavy weight
    C
Haven't seen tears like this on my girl in a while
  Am                 G
The trust that I once built has been betrayed
        C               F
But I'd rather live telling the truth and be judged for my mistakes
   Am           G
Than falsely held up, given props, loved and praised
    C
I guess, I gotta get this on the page
   Am         G
Feeling sick and helpless, lost the compass where self is
C             F
I know what I've gotta do, and I can't help it
Am       G
One day at a time is what they tell us
C

Now I've gotta find a way to tell them
Am G C       F
   God help 'em, yeah
Am       G
One day at a time is what they tell us
C
Now I've gotta find a way to tell them

Hook:
Am   G
We fall, so hard,
C      F        Am G C
now we gotta get back what we lost, lost
Am    G
I thought you’d gone,
C      F      Am G C
but you were with me all along, along

Part 2:
Am         G
And every kid that came up to me
     C                F
And said I was the music they listened to when they first got clean
      Am        G
Now look at me, a couple days sober, I'm fighting demons
C
Back of that meeting on the East Side, shaking, tweaking
Am               G
Hope that they don't see it, hope that no one is looking
   C             F
That no one recognizes that failure under that hoodie
   Am             G
Just posted in the back with my hands crossed, shooken
    C
If they call on me I'm passin', if they talk to me I'm booking
     Am           G
Out that door, but before, I can make it
         C
Somebody stops me and says "Are you Macklemore?
F               Am           G
Maybe this isn't the place or time, I just wanted to say that
         C
If it wasn't for 'Otherside,' I wouldn't have made it"
       Am              G
I just looked down at the ground and say, "Thank you"
           C               F
She tells me she has nine months, and that she's so grateful
       Am               G
Tears in her eyes, looking like she's gonna cry, f**k
       C
I barely got forty-eight hours, treated like I'm some wise monk
Am           G
I want to tell her I relapsed, but I can't
    C                F
I just shake her hand and tell her, "Congrats"
        Am               G
Get back to my car, and I think I'm tripping, yeah
         C
Cause God wrote "Otherside," that pen was in my hand
         Am         G
I'm just a flawed man, man, I f**ked up
       C               F
Like so many others, I just never thought I would
         Am            G
I never thought I would, didn't pick up the book
       C
Doin' it by myself didn't turn out that good

Bridge:
  Am           G
If I can be an example of getting sober
      C             F
Then I can be an example of starting over
  Am           G
If I can be an example of getting sober
      C
Then I can be an example of starting over

Hook:
Am   G
We fall, so hard,
C      F        Am G C
now we gotta get back what we lost, lost
Am    G
I thought you’d gone,
C      F      Am G C
but you were with me all along, along

Outro:
Am G C F
Am G C