Stories We Tell chords by Grant-lee Phillips

• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Key: C

Intro:


Am    D

G     C    G

Am    D

G

Verse 1:

Am          D
  Worry’s a killer
  G        C   G/B
A familiar kind
Am             D              G
  One that you welcome like a friend
Am            D           Bm           Em
  Regret is a martyr that bleeds “what ifs”
       C                    D
And laments what might have been

Chorus:

C            D
  Stories we tell
Bm      Em
  To ourselves
C  D                G
   Stories, nothing else
C                     D
  That we’ll never be loved
Bm       Em
   Never enough
C               D
All those fairy tales

Verse 2:

Am         D
  Over and over
   G            C
My thoughts run wild
Am    D             G
  Overthinking is a curse
Am         D
  How many of us
Bm             Em
  World at our feet
       C            D
And we only see the dirt

Chorus:

C            D
  Stories we tell
Bm       Em
  To ourselves
C  D                G
   Stories, nothing else
C                     D
  That we’ll never be loved
Bm        Em
  Never enough
C               D
All those fairy tales

Bridge:

Am               D
Don’t go walking away
Em       D/F#
Don’t be afraid
G         Bm              E
  None of this is writ in stone

Verse 3:

Am        D       G       C
  So many fables, so much dread
Am                  D          G
  The lines that we memorize
Am         D            Bm       Em
  Works of fiction that fill our heads
    C         D
And cloud our eyes

Chorus:

C            D
  Stories we tell
Bm       Em
  To ourselves
C  D                G
   Stories, nothing else
C                     D
  That we’ll never be loved
Bm        Em
  Never enough
C               D
All those fairy tales

Pre-chorus:

C   D
Bm  Em
C   D
G

Chorus:

C                   D
That we’ll never be loved
Bm    Em
Never enough
C               D
All those fairy tales
C               D
All those fairy tales

Instrumental:

C   D
Bm  Em
C   D
G
C  D
Bm Em

Outro:

C               D
All those fairy tales
C               D
All those fairy tales
C               D
All those fairy tales