Shasta Carries Song chords by Vienna Teng

• Difficulty: Beginner

♫ Intro:

C G F (x3)

♫ Chorus 1:
C  G       F
So far, so good
                     C           G          F
You're coming to the bend at the end of the road
          C           G            F
You put a hand to the belly that's foreign more
           C           G        F
With every day like an oversize load

♫ Verse 1:
           C              G          F
And you're thinking about clouds the color of fire
        C           G      F
And the scent of an orange peel
              C          G         F
The way Mount Shasta explodes into windshield view
         C            G      F
And your hands steady on the wheel

♫ Instrumental:
C G F (x2)

♫ Chorus 2:
C  G       F
So far, so good
C            G                    F
Coffee motel coffee diner coffee, go on
C            G               F
Styrofoam is drying like the tears that once did flow
         C              G         F
Starting 10 o'clock and ending at dawn

♫ Verse 2:
        Am                       Em
And you can't go back but you're going back
Dm       C                     G
And you don't know what you'll say
Am
You've got half-formed sentences
Em           Dm                     G
Explanations for a life half-broken away
G
And they just may
G
They'll take you in their arms and then take out their knives
       F
So you drive on thinking

♫ Chorus 3:
C  G       F
So far, so good
        C                G           F
But you can't go on much longer like this you know
           C             G        F
You're all alone in this world no that's not true
         C              G        F
The nice Christian lady told you so

♫ Verse 3:
C                   G                F
She was handing out pamphlets by the clinic door
        C                 G           F
Saying, "Jesus knows what you've been through
         C      G         F
Take the Savior into your heart my child
         C           G       F
There's love waiting for the both of you"

♫ Verse 4:
Am                              Em
Well, you don't believe but you have to believe
Dm         C                           G
It's still crumpled there in your back seat
Am                                     Em
Were you the hero or the worst kind of coward back there
Dm      G
Putting pavement back under your feet
G
Couldn't stand the heat
G
Couldn't stand the thought of ghosts with a negative age
G              F
Turn the page, ok

♫ Chorus 4:
C  G       F
So far, so good
                C            G     F
You try to sing along to the radio-o
C                 G         F
But it's not your language, not your song
C                    G     F
It's from some other time ago

♫ Verse 5:
C                         G           F
And you're thinking about how someone died that day
    C               G         F
The you that was so carefully planned
         C                G              F
But then again maybe this life is like a sleeping mountain
C            G          F
Waking up to shape the land

♫ Verse 6:
C     G     F            C           G       F
Calm, calm, let it come, let it come back to you
C     G     F               C                 G       F
Calm, calm, breathe on out, you know you know what to do
C     G     F            C           G       F
Calm, calm, let it come, let it come back to you
C     G     F               C                 G       F
Calm, calm, breathe on out, you know you know what to do

♫ Outro:
C G F (x4)