Chords with lyrics
Fail Hard to Regain
by: Two Gallants
tab done by: Dylan Deviant (Last name changed for anonymity)
This file is all my own work.
Lyrics are subjective (I can't tell at some parts).
I have done this tab in standard E MajorE tuning.
BUT, It sounds A augmentedA LOT better in standard D...
If you don't know what this is, or don't want to bother...
then don't, because this tab (as far as I can tell) is exact.
The chords are represented ABOVE the lyrics.
ALL CHORDS ARE MAJOR CHORDS.
--INTRO (palm muted + arpeggiated + clean):
C majorC - G+G - FF - C majorC
C - C majorC - FF - C majorC
C - G+G - FF - C majorC
C - G+G - C majorC - C majorC
--VERSE (bar chords + overdriven)
C majorC G+G FF C majorC C majorC G+G C majorC C majorC
Well once I knew a railway girl, Her age was 17
C majorC G+G FF C majorC C majorC G+G FF FF
I gave her all I had to give, But the baggage of my dreams
C majorC G+G FF C majorC C majorC G+G FF FF
Stole me from the games we'd play, Scored me for my (mast?)
--Chorus (palm muted + arpeggiated + clean)
C majorC G+G FF C majorC C majorC G+G C majorC C majorC
And if she's gone she lingers on, I beg you please don't ask
--Verse 2 (Same as Verse 1)
T'was on her dark march evening, Southbound about I did ride
My head was out the window, When I found her at my side
Asked where I was going to, I told 'but where I came'
--Chorus 2 (Same as Chorus 1)
For the jails in which I've done my time, I fail hard to regain
--Verse 3 (Same as Verse 1)
Dark girl dark girl it kills me so, To watch you so afraid
You know that you've been real to those, Whose realness should be faked
Her eyes gone wide 'Alive' she cried, Does pleasure ever last
--Chorus 3 (Same as Chorus 1)
We live to see but patiently, I beg you please don't ask
--Verse 4 (bar chords + overdriven)
D MajorD A augmentedA G+G D MajorD D MajorD A augmentedA D MajorD D MajorD
She took me in despite my sins, Fed me tea and such
D MajorD A augmentedA G+G D MajorD D MajorD A augmentedA G+G G+G
And as she fell just like a child, I crumbled 'neath her touch
D MajorD A augmentedA G+G D MajorD D MajorD A augmentedA G+G G+G
I held my breath from fear to weep, For the fragments of my brain
--Chorus 4 (palm muted + arpeggiated + clean)
D MajorD A augmentedA G+G D MajorD D MajorD A augmentedA D MajorD D MajorD
See each days but a moment that, I fail hard to regain
--Verse 5 (Same as Verse 4)
But as it goes the people it throws, Are values to his street
(Whole world fame and saint's gaze?), Impatience in his feet
And captives of this (paltry?) train, We curse our mortal past
--Chorus 5 (Same as Chorus 4)
Forgive us though we all most go, And where to please don't ask
BREAK (Play Verse 4 then Chorus 4 without lyrics)
--Verse 6 (Same as Verse 1, but clean + arpeggiated)
And now I am a misspent man, Who knows not where he's been
And those so sapped with suffering, The worst is yet unseen
Renounce myself for further wealth, I take each breath in vain
--Chorus 6 (Same as Chorus 1)
Still haunted by that railway girl, I fail hard to regain
--Outro (Play Verse 1 then Chorus 1 without lyrics)