Billy Talent – Running Across The Tracks (Guitar)

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Dead Silence 2012 Submitted by: [email protected] Chords used: G - 320003 Am - x02210 Em - 022000 F - 133211 Dm - xx0231 C - x32010 Intro: G Am G Am Em F Em F

           G   Am G Am Em F Dm (hold)
It's up to you!

Verse 1:

G Am
  This ain't no TV show

G Am
  You watch my head explode

Em F
   Ten thousand 

            Em F
hours every day

G Am
  No time to be afraid

G Am
  Chase out the rattlesnakes

Em F
   Don't let your fear 

             Em  F
control your fate

Refrain 1:

    Dm                C
The ghost of self denial

   Dm                C
It whispers from the grave

    Dm               C
The road you can't rely on's

  Em                 F
A risk that you must take

Chorus:

             Am
I'm running across the tracks

(And I'll never go back) Oh, I'm running across the tracks (And I'll never go back)

                C
I'm pulling the blindfolds back

              F
On a dead end life

             Am
I'm running across the tracks

(And I'll never go back) Oh, I'm running across the tracks (And I'll never go back)

              C
We're gonna escape this trap

                F
Gotta get out alive

Verse 2:

G  Am
  Stuck in this prison cell

G Am
  Just like a criminal

Em F
   I count the years 

             Em   F
that went to waste

G Am
  If this road goes to hell

G Am
  I'll fight back when I fail

Em F                        Em   F
   Made a career from my mistakes

Refrain 2:

    Dm                C
The ghost of self denial

   Dm                C
It whispers from the grave

    Dm               C
The road you can't rely on

Could be your saving grace (Repeat Chorus) Bridge:

           Am
And every step that I aim to take

(I fall behind, I fall behind)

          C
And every neck that I had to break

        F
(These scars are mine, these scars are mine)

          Am
And every day that I pray for you

(I close my eyes, I close my eyes)

               C
At least I can say that we made it through

            Dm
(The stars aligned, the stars aligned)

The stars aligned F ---- --- Guitar Solo The stars aligned

           Am    F Am
The stars aligned

Verse 3:

    F
And words just can't explain

the struggle of a

Am
dead men's fight

A dead mens fight

    F
And silver spoons can't

buy the wisdom of a

Am
hard earned life

A hard earned life Verse 4:

       F
Every step that I aim to take

(I fall behind, I fall behind)

          Am
And every neck that I had to break

(These scars are mine, these scars are mine)

          Dm
And every day that I pray for you

            F
(I close my eyes, I close my eyes)

      Am
And I hope that you make it through

Yeah, I hope that

    G/B  C
you make through

           Am    Am (hold)
It's up to you!

(Repeat Chorus) Outro:

           Am
And every step that I aim to take

(I fall behind, I fall behind)

          C
And every neck that I had to break

        F
(These scars are mine, these scars are mine)

          Am
And every day that I'd pray for you

(I close my eyes, I close my eyes)

               C
At least I can say that we made it through

            F
(The stars aligned, the stars aligned)

           Am
The stars aligned