Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)
🎸 Verse 1:
AbAb
You've laid down the weapons
C minorCm
You still spread the disease
AbAb
And now you make commitments
Bb majorBb
You couldn't possibly keep
AbAb
You love playing the victim
C minorCm
You love the sympathy
AbAb
And in your place of solace
Bb majorBb
There's never honesty
AbAb
Something I need to tell them
C minorCm
Not that it would change their minds
F minorFm
You polished your reputation
Bb majorBb
They've never seen the other side
🎸 Chorus:
C minorCm
Take off your mask, your faded design
AbAb
Break off the chains, your cross to bear
C minorCm AbAb
Shake off the demons left in your mind
G+G
You take them everywhere
🎸 Verse 2:
AbAb
You've got a cross on your forehead
C minorCm
You crave the people to see
AbAb Bb majorBb
How you can open up their vaults
With your skeleton key
AbAb
Nothing that you could tell me
C minorCm
The past could never change my mind
F minorFm
You built up my expectations
Bb majorBb
And let me down every time
🎸 Chorus 2:
C minorCm
Take off your mask, your faded design
AbAb
Break off the chains, your cross to bear
C minorCm AbAb
Shake off the demons left in your mind
G+G
You take them everywhere
🎸 Chorus 3:
C minorCm
Take off your mask, your faded design
AbAb
Break off the chains, your cross to bear
C minorCm AbAb
Shake off the demons left in your mind
G+G
You take them everywhere
🎸 Bridge:
C minorCm
Last year you stole it
Was broken no reflections
These words I'm reading
Paint a thousand pictures
🎸 Chorus 4:
C minorCm
Take off your mask, your faded design
AbAb
Break off the chains, your cross to bear
C minorCm AbAb
Shake off the demons left in your mind
G+G
You take them everywhere
🎸 Chorus 5:
C minorCm
Take off your mask, your faded design
AbAb
Break off the chains, your cross to bear
C minorCm AbAb
Shake off the demons left in your mind
G+G
You take them everywhere
C minorCm
Stop hiding
AbAb
With your cross to bear
C minorCm
Shake off the demons left in your mind
AbAb G+G C minorCm
You take them everywhere