Hell And High Water chords by Rainer Maria

Rainer Maria
Hell And High Water
A Better Version Of Me
2001
Submitted by: jeremyunderground41@yahoo.com

Key: F#

Tuning: Standard EADGBe

Chords used:
F# -    244322
F#/Bb - x143xx
B -     x24442
G#m -   466444
E -     022100

Intro: B-- x4


Verse 1:
F#
  I've seen the girl
            F#/Bb
who'll pick up where
I leave off she's
 B
already smoothing her
hands for the pictures
F#              F#/Bb
  I've seen her sorting
           B
through my memories
what's sweet? what's
bitter? she wants
what I can't give her


Interlude:
F#--G#m-F#--G#m--F#--B-- x2


Verse 2:
F#
  I've seen the girl
            F#/Bb
who'll chew up what
I bite off she's
  B
devising a better
mouth just to kiss
   F#
you  any minute I'll
F#/Bb
have to surrender
       B
to her wishes what
to take and what to
set free? I wonder
if she'll miss me


Verse 3:
F#
  I've seen the girl
          F#/Bb
who'll be brave when
I run off she's been
B
picking her fights
like she knows how
           F#
to win them  and
              F#/Bb
I've seen her sorting
           B
through my memories
what's sweet? what's
bitter? she wants
what I can't give her


Chorus 1:
F#
Every time I try to
    G#m F#     G#m
get out of her way
    F#     B
the day is full of
     F#
kids giving you the
      G#m F#     G#m
finger      and speeders
      F#
gonna kill you on
     B
your tiny street
             F#
she wants to beat
through all the
         G#m  F#
hell and high water
G#m  F#
threatening what
B
she believes that's
       F#
when I know I should
                    G#m
just drop everything
F#          G#m
and let her sing
F#
she's a better
B
version of me


Verse 4:
F#
  I've seen the girl
         F#/Bb
who'll remember what
               B
I lost she has never
forgotten a name or
           F#
a punchline  she is
             F#/Bb
the one that I have
      B
chosen I'm lost but
she's found a better
way to get around


Verse 5:
F#
  I've seen the girl
            F#/Bb
who'll pick up where
I leave off she's
 B
already smoothing her
hands for the pictures
F#              F#/Bb
  I've seen her sorting
           B
through my memories
what's sweet? what's
bitter? she wants
what I can't give
her I'm lost but
she's found I'm
better way I
get around


Chorus 2:
F#
Every time I try to
    G#m F#     G#m
get out of her way
    F#     B
the day is full of
     F#
kids giving you the
      G#m F#     G#m
finger      and speeders
      F#
gonna kill you on
     B
your tiny street
             F#
she wants to beat
through all the
         G#m  F#
hell and high water
G#m  F#
threatening what
B
she believes that's
       F#
when I know I should
                    G#m
just drop everything
F#          G#m
and let her sing
F#
she's a better
B          B B B
version of me


Outro:
B        B
  I tell myself
         B
I tell myself
             F#
you're not a fool
B        B
  I tell myself
         B
I tell myself
             F#  E B F#(hold)
you're not a fool