The Acrobat chords by Tenille Townes

Key: C

Intro:

C  F  C


Verse 1:
             G                   F
Her mother's feet never left the ground
      G                          C
Never dared to leave that little town
                                       F
That's why she ain't afraid of looking down
    G                                C
But I bet it gets lonely up there in clouds

Pre-Chorus:
                   G               C           F
When you're barely hanging on it's easy to let go
    Dm             G                C
And wait for the applause after the show
                                          F
Turns out the fortune teller doesn't even know
    G                                         C
How to land the highs and make it through the lows


Chorus:
           F                 C
She's good at making herself smaller
        G               Am
Good at flying, good at bending
F               C
Been pretending for so long
       G                  F
She forgets that she's pretending
                      C            G               Am
Breaking herself into pieces she's never gonna get back
F                  G  C    F
There goes the acrobat


Verse 2:
C                                      F
The circus ain't all its cracked up to be
          G                                       C
There's a cost to freedom, and God knows it ain't free
                                                    F
She stares in the mirror hanging above the bathroom sink
    C
And wonders what she'd look like if she could breath


Chorus:
           F                 C
She's good at making herself smaller
        G               Am
Good at flying, good at bending
F               C
Been pretending for so long
       G                  F
She forgets that she's pretending
                      C            G               Am
Breaking herself into pieces she's never gonna get back
F               G     C
 There goes the acrobat


Bridge:
Am            G                 F                              Am
Will she ever give up trying to catch the hand that catches her
                 G                  F
And stop bending for the world that never ever bends for her?


Chorus:
           F                 C
She's good at making herself smaller
        G               Am
Good at flying, good at bending
F                      C
Been pretending for so long
            G                 Am
She doesn't know why she's pretending
            F                 C              G                       F
She'd break every bone in her pretty body if love really worked like that
                     D   G  C
Yeah, there goes the acrobat
      F      G
Yeah, I know the acrobat


Outro:
C    F    C   G F C
F    C