Misc Musicals – In Strange Woods - A Man Who Cannot Be Saved (Guitar)

      Dm                     Gm           Dm
It's always the smell, the smell hits you first

       C                           Dm
And as far as smells go, death is damn near the worst

     Gm                    A                     Dm
So I followed my nose like curse 'til I found the remains

       Bb                    F
He was slumped in the brush, exposed to the cold

       Bb                       F           C
Had his phone in his hand as if God was on hold

          Bb                   A        Dm
That's the mark of a man who cannot be saved

       Dm                     Gm              Dm
In the days leading in, I'd heard all their calls

           C                        Dm
Saw them flock to the woods bearing no skills at all

     Gm                         A                     Dm
So I wasn't too shocked when I saw how that boy had behaved

       Bb                    F
He had never been taught, never learned to survivе

       Bb                       F           C
Didn't make any plan, left his wounds open widе

          Bb                   A        Dm
That's the mark of a man who cannot be saved

             Ebm                     Abm       Ebm
There's the hunger, the thirst, the choking on wind

  Db                                  Ebm
You lose grip of hope, that's when panic sets in

    Abm                                            Bb              Ebm
You forget who you are, where you've been, the mistakes that you've made

       B                           F#
If you think it's the end, if you think you're alone

     B                               F#        C#
Then it is, and you are, and there's no going home

          B                   A#         D#m
That's the mark of a man who cannot be saved

          Em                      Am           Em
If you're eight or eighteen, or a bleak sixty-five

        D                    Em
There's one job in life, you have to survive

   Am            C                  Em
So why, honestly why, isn't anyone trained?

      C                            G
These kids asked for help, these kids understand

      C                            G            D
They saw how this town left their lives up to chance

        C
They're saving themselves... (We're saving ourselves..)

                     B
Because no one else can (No one else can)

     C                        G
You want to believe that the fight will be fair

       C                        G             D
That someone will come, or that someone will care

            C                            B
That's the mark of a man who cannot be saved

            C            B              E
That's the mark of a man who cannot be saved