Misc Originals – Benamackay16 - Hell Scape (Guitar)

Em                                 G
The world keeps on turning as we fight another day.

D                                          C
I've been here four four years but when I doubt them all they say,

     Em                                G
is “Life is hard and all them flying bullets can leave you rattled.

      D                            C
but remember you're just a part of the greater battle”

             C               G
We’re all: Caught in this Hellscape.

D                                       Em
You can either cry and die or live and learn.

C               G
We're caught in this hellscape,

D                            C    D            Em
trying to escape the fire of war and not get burned.

Em                                        G
Well I escaped that Armageddon, but I got no clue where I'm heading.

D                                           C
On Irrelevancy’s beach I’m just a grain of sand.

Em                                        G
Scared to go back where I’m from, but I know I've gotta run.

     D                                    C
or else I’ll only be remembered here in this forgotten land.

  C               G
Caught in this Hellscape.

D                                       Em
You can either cry and die or live and learn.

C               G
Caught in this hellscape,

D                            C    D            Em
trying to escape the fire of Life and not get burned.

Em                     G
Back home again but no help to be found.

      D                       C
While I went overseas all my friends went in the ground.

           Em                     G
And the government won’t help me chase away these silhouettes,

      D
that haunt me so I can never forget being…

  C               G
Caught in this Hellscape.

D                                       Em
You can either cry and die or live and learn.

C                     G
I’m caught in this hellscape,

D                                      C    D            Em
trying to make it through the fire of life and not get burned.

            C                          G
They say Society grows great when old men plant trees

      D                                     Em
the shade of Which they know they’ll never sit in.

         C                              G
Well if only I’d have known when they sent me with the seeds

     D                                     Em               D
the real mistake I’d made was to come back still living.

        C               G
Still Caught in this Hellscape.

D               Em   D
Nowhere Left to Turn.

C                     G
I’m caught in this hellscape,

D                                      C    D            C
trying to make it through the fire of life and not get burned.

C               G
Caught in this Hellscape.

D                                   Em   D
Begging them to give me what I’ve earned.

C                     G
I’m caught in this hellscape,

D                                  C
trying to get through the fire of life,

D                     C
this raging fire of life,

D                       C
so sick of the fire of life -

D                  Em
I keep on getting burned.