If Only For Memories chords by Streetlight Manifesto

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard

Difficulty: Novice

- indicates a half bar

Sounds best (like alot of ska(ok, ish, strictly) played up around the 8th fret using bar chords.

{
[Pattern I]
C majorC                G+G
When you were born you were not alone
              FF
Nothing was carved into the stone

Quiet [?] but don't forget
   C majorC           G+G         C majorC
You heard someone say it won't get better than this

That was the sound of your father
 G+G
As he held you up to your mother
FF
No one will ever know
C majorC              G+G           C majorC
The love as pure as the one that you felt right then

C majorC       G+G        DmDm
They held you up, they held you up
   C majorC         G+G
And everybody else they fell to the wayside
C majorC
This is the stuff of beginning
G+G
The prologue to the yarn that you're spinning
FF             C majorC             G+G
A augmentedA million synonyms will never come close to describe the feeling


FFF          CCC     G+G
   Dont ever leave cause if you do dear
    C majorC        FF
I guarantee that you'll regret

The day you did
        C majorC
And youll miss all the simple things
        FF
And youll see everything you ever loved
    G+G         FF
Start fading till there's nothing left but dust
}

[Chorus]
{

C majorC    G+G     FF       G+G        C majorC
And I believe that every broken bone is meant to be
       FF        G+G
And when it heals it will be stronger than it was before
 C majorC      G+G        FF    G+G     C majorC
And I see the things that I pretend that I don't see
 FF          G+G
And I store them in my head, love
G+G
If only for memories
}

[Same as I]
{
So now youre young and you feel alone
       FF
Despite friends, family, and all the good things now surrounding you
You cant help thinking
Oh there's gotta be some more to do
When all the things that you cherish
Turn into burdens and there is
No other fantasy
You know what you gotta do but you don't know how

They hold you back
They hold you down
And youre gonna feel bad but you know that you gotta get out
This is your pain your dilemma
Will you stay in the town that they raised you
Or will you sail away
Pull the anchor and go in for the [?] one day

You have to leave
Cause if you don't dear
Youll never see the things you read about in books
You saw the films and you were hooked
But everything you want won't come to you
And you realize now that you gotta go see this through
}

[Chorus x2]

Key:

These repeated chords indicate a triple downward strum:
"FFF"

A augmentedA great album!