Josh Ritter – The Throne (Guitar)

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[Chorus]
               D
If you're past tired

           A
There is a throne for you

            G
Whether the first, or last, to the fire

           D              A
There is a throne for you
[Verse 1]
          G
Though at night you are deviled, by the angels you're wrestlin'

   D
No strength left to grieve, let alone give confession

A
Here's all I know, what I come here to share

       Em                                A
I have been to the throne, and there was nobody there
[Chorus]
D
If you're laid low

           A              Asus4 A
There is a throne for you

     G
Even though you sold your soul

           D              A
There is a throne for you
[Verse 3]
    G
The weather, the news, the self-isolation

    D
The loss of the muse, the disinformation

      A
We're made to take burdens, never meant to be shouldered

      Em                        A
Ain't no one so strong that the world's just a boulder
[Verse 4]
    G                                          Dsus4
The past ain't the past, you find that so maddening

          D                                         Dsus4
Like it's already happened, look around you it's happening

          A                                                  Asus4 A Asus2
There are those who don't know, what it is they're defending

           Em                             A
They ain't been to the throne, they don't know that it's empty
[Chorus]
       D                   Dsus2 D Dsus4 D
Though you lost your faith

                  A
There is a throne for you

                   G
Though you've been cast by the way

           D              A Asus4 A
There is a throne for you
[Verse 5]
     G
What kind of a God, could the world take after?

     D                                 Dsus4
What father of daffodils, slavery, and laughter?

D  A
We take our first breath, from then on we're drowning

         Em                Asus4 A
Ain't no wonder the heart, beats itself to death pounding
[Verse 6]
   G
No time to forgive, no time to forget

   D
Or time to consider which angels are better

    A                                         Asus4
The war is too big, for any one man to win it

       Em                  Asus4         A
I have been to the throne, and there was nobody in it
[Bridge] A D A G D A D A D A D A D A [Chorus]
              D
So if you are wild

                          A
There is a throne for you

          G
Whether untouchable or defiled

           D              A
There is a throne for you
[Verse 7]
         G                                          D
Come and sit by this fire, they claim that we've stolen

                                             Dsus4    D
Not a thing they could buy, could ever shine quite as golden

         A
Come and sit by this fire, we won it to share

             Em                             A
Though we're sinners and liars, new world's got to start somewhere
[Verse 8]
      G
We're just skin and bones, ain't a one of us magic

       D
I have been to the throne, the throne never had it

      A
We're just skin and bones, in that there is power

       Em                        A
I have been to the throne, if we want it, it's ours

       Em                        A
I have been to the throne, if we want it, it's ours