Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)
WAGE WAR – Johnny Cash
CAPO 1
Strumming down down down down down
Intro:
E minorEm
C majorC
D MajorD
Let me tell you the saddest story
E minorEm
C majorC
D MajorD
Love lost, left broken and empty
E minorEm
C majorC
D MajorD
Put my heart in the hands of another
E minorEm
C majorC
D MajorD
E minorEm
Set a fire to the past and watched me burn
Interlude:
E minorEm
Verse 1:
E minorEm
C majorC
D MajorD
Somehow I guess it's better this way
E minorEm
C majorC
D MajorD
Looking back, was it all just a mistake?
E minorEm
C majorC
D MajorD
Thought I could live in the arms of another
E minorEm
C majorC
D MajorD
E minorEm
But I guess I wasn't enough for her
Chorus 1:
E minorEm
C majorC
E minorEm
I wanna feel the love you can't live without
E minorEm
D MajorD
E minorEm
The one that Johnny Cash wrote all his songs about
E minorEm
C majorC
E minorEm
But I gave it all away for no return
E minorEm
D MajorD
E minorEm
Guess it's just another lesson that I'll never learn
Verse 2:
E minorEm
C majorC
D MajorD
I've been putting myself through your Hell
E minorEm
C majorC
D MajorD
Holding on to things that don't even matter now
E minorEm
C majorC
D MajorD
You found your place in the arms of another
E minorEm
C majorC
D MajorD
But now I see it's just the way the Earth will turn
Chorus 2:
E minorEm
C majorC
E minorEm
I wanna feel the love you can't live without
E minorEm
D MajorD
E minorEm
The one that Johnny Cash wrote all his songs about
E minorEm
C majorC
E minorEm
But I gave it all away for no return
E minorEm
D MajorD
E minorEm
Guess it's just another lesson that I'll never learn
E minorEm
C majorC
E minorEm
Can't seem to fill the void that lives in my chest
E minorEm
D MajorD
E minorEm
Thought I was what you need, but I'm just second best
E minorEm
C majorC
E minorEm
I'll never give it all away again I swear
E minorEm
D MajorD
Don't even look for a heart, you'll find there's nothing
E minorEm
there
Interlude C, Em, Am, D:
Bridge:
E minorEm
C majorC
A minorAm
(I can't take it back)
E minorEm
E minorEm
All the years that we spent together have come to an end
E minorEm
C majorC
D MajorD
(Regret is all I had)
E minorEm
E minorEm
Not sure I would if I could do it all over again
E minorEm
C majorC
A minorAm
(I can't take it back)
E minorEm
E minorEm
The memories, the pictures, I love you's will wither
E minorEm
C majorC
D MajorD
(Regret is all I had)
E minorEm
D MajorD
But this is the last song I'll write about you
E minorEm
Forget my name
C majorC
Forget my face
D MajorD
It was all just empty space
A minorAm
E minorEm
Deadweight; no longer part of me