Pandemic Ptsd chords by Frank Turner

• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Key: A

Main riff
e|--------------------------------------------|
B|--2-----5--7--10------7--5--2-----0--5--2---|
G|--2-----4--6--9-------6--4--2-----1--4--2---|
D|--------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------|

e|--------------------------------------------|
B|--2-----5--7--10------7--5--2-----0---------|
G|--2-----4--6--9-------6--4--2-----1-----2---|
D|----------------------------------------2---|
A|--------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------|

D/A    = x-0-4--2-3--x
E/A    = x-0-6--4-5--x
A*/A   = x-0-11-9-10-x



Intro:
N.C.
Main riff
A
(over main riff)

Verse 1:
A
Panic attacks in the dentist car park
D/A
Losing my temper in a Jersey sports bar
E/A             A*/A   E/A        D/A
Safe to say the 20s    have been  weird

A
Dazed and confused in the morning after
  D/A
A two-year slow-motion human disaster
E/A                A*/A   E/A       D/A
T-shirt slogans to cover  over the  lockdown gut and the fear

Chorus:
         F#m      E            D        A/C#
And it's not just you and it's not just me
      Bm         G
It's    pandemic PTSD


[Turnaround]
A
(over main riff)

Verse 2:
    A
I'm haunted by a kind of mourning
        D/A
For the life that we left in 2019
  E/A            A*/A         E/A         D/A
I know it wasn't perfect, but it's what I knew

A
Physically distanced, told we're in it together
    D/A
But socially removed from our snickering betters
E/A               A*/A     E/A       D/A
Far too smart to abase themselves by following their own rules

Chorus:
         F#m      E            D        A/C#
And it's not just you and it's not just me
         Bm          G
That has    pandemic PTSD (one, two, three, four)

[Turnaround]
A
(over main riff)

Bridge:
B
Post-traumatic stress disorder
   G#m
Is characterized by persistent trauma
C#m                                     D
Caused by severe psychological shock or else physical injury

    B
And maybe I'm just being melodramatic
      G#m
But I didn't used to be this agoraphobic
   C#m                          D
Or paralyzed by decisions, also crushed by inactivity

    E      B    A                            E
And right about now some arsehole's going to say
     E    B   A              E
That it's o - kay not to be okay
          E   B    A                            E
But we're way past that, the conversation isn't done
      E     B    A
And I won't keep calm, I won't carry on

Bm
   Until it's okay to admit
G
   That I don't know how to feel
Bm
   About the shit that we just lived through
E        E       E/F#    E/G#
  It was kind of a  big  deal

Verse 3:
    A
And one day it seemed like everybody decided
          D/A
They were tired of trying and bored of hiding it
E/A                                     D/A
Ready for the next adventure, next news cycle, next catastrophe

       A
And we stood in the wreckage trying not to claim
            D/A
That we had more than our fair share of the pain
           E/A                     A*/A         E/A
But we got punched in the dick for two straight years
   D/A
We can't move on that easily

Chorus:
       F#m          E           D          A/C#
And it might not be you but god knows it's us
             Bm        G     Bm              E
That's still black and blue, bleeding in the dust
        D          A/C#           Bm        A
So I'll level with you, if you'll bear with me
       G
And my   pandemic PTSD