Passion Acoustic chords by Wil Wagner

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: G

Difficulty: Novice


G         320033:
Cadd9     x32033:
Dsus4     xx0233:
Gsus2     300033:
Dadd4/F#  200033:
Em7       022033:
Cadd9*    870xxx: (muted)
Em7*      070xxx: (muted)

Verse:
G                                Cadd9
The 🏷Legends of beauty hits to me with your back against the wall,
G                          Cadd9          Dsus4
How can you look this good naked and understand the pain at all
G                      Cadd9
Panic-stricken while I look for a better place to hide,
G                        Cadd9            Dsus4
and how have I still not commandeered the balls


G                                    Cadd9
To lay waits the second best in this exhibit of our excess
          G                          Cadd9   Dsus4
And I can see my past success judging open unimpressed
          G                            Cadd9
And I can feel my every footstep in my chest
             G                             Gsus2  Dadd4/F#
Until my own weak heart beat as you slept


    Em7                       Cadd9                  G
And a little bit of poison it always does the trick
           Em7                             Cadd9     G
There’s an antidote to the edge and living life like this


Chorus:
G                                        Cadd9
And is this passion, something I'll look back on and regret
Em7
Well, you tell me I’m better off dead
Cadd9                      Dsus4
I’ll take being all heart, no head
G                                        Cadd9
And is this passion, something I'll look back on and regret
Em7
Well, you tell me I’m better off dead
Cadd9                     Dsus4
I’ll take being all heart and no head


Verse:
G                                                  Cadd9
With a heart so physical it was beautiful, through trembling lips I spoke
         G                          Cadd9
Of how I wasn’t happy either with a life of hope and smoke
Dsus4 G                                                   Cadd9
And I turned to you and half-whispered, half-croaked some shitty little joke
               G                               Cadd9
Watched as the frown fold lines on your pretty face broken
Dsus4  G                                Cadd9
In our little nest above the street and apalled of the rain
           G                          Cadd9
I tried to verbalize fading light and explain away the pain
       G                                      Cadd9
Of how sometimes I wish I could stay sick and have unending excuse to be away


Em7                  Cadd9              G                    Dadd4/F#
From what I’m taught and what I’m told, and what I found out when it was too late,
Em7                  Cadd9              G                    Dadd4/F#
From what I’m taught and what I’m told, and what I found out when it was too late


Bridge:
            G                        Cadd9*
And is this passion, or is this just fashionable
                Em7*
Maybe I’m too impressionable
                   Cadd9*
Maybe I’ve learned sweet fuck-all
              G
But I’ll take this life
                             Cadd9
Over jeans without holes and never saying goodbyes
                                   Em7
And I’ll feel the cold and I’ll go broke before I die


Verse:
Em7                       Cadd9                          Dsus4
But there’s a child in me who still believes that he can fly
                   G                                      Cadd9
And I grew up in a good house, maybe too good as it seems now
                                    G                      Cadd9
Never knew how hard I’d have to try to make magic and make money,
                    Dsus4              G
and there’s nothing tragic romantic or funny about
                  Cadd9
stealing food and running from every decision I’ve ever made,
G                      Cadd9
watch my undying youth be extinguished by my own flame


Em7             Cadd9              G                    Dadd4/F#
What I’m taught and what I’m told, and what I found out when it was too late,
Em7             Cadd9              G                    Dadd4/F#
what I’m taught and what I’m told…


Chorus:
G                                        Cadd9
And is this passion, something I'll look back on and regret
Em7
Well, you tell me I’m better off dead
Cadd9                      Dsus4
I’ll take being all heart, no head
G                              Cadd9
And is this passion, no I will not look back or regret
Em7
Well, you tell me I’m better off dead
Cadd9                         Dsus4
And I’ll take being all heart and no head