NF – Who I Was (Guitar)

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Chords

[Chorus]
Am       C
Ash and dust

      G                      F
Everything I care about enough

Am       C
Burning up (Yeah)

        G                          Fmaj7
Nothing left of who I thought I was
(And then just let it run) I was [Verse 1]
   Am                                           C
I'm stuck in traffic, tryna find my way to a home that I've never known
On a GPS with no address
        G
So, I'll follow my heart, but my heart is scattered

                  F
Like my father's ashes in the back of the rental after I dropped his urn

Am
  Probably a metaphor for everything I've learned

C
  Like how the only love I'll have is gonna crash and burn

G
  Or how the poorest I've felt was after the most I've earned

F
 The biggest lie told is that no one should be concerned

Am
  There's gotta be another highway that don't lead to Hell

C
  A star to lead me through the darkest night like Christian Bale

G
  I hid from God for more than two decades of life

           F
And when I came back to the light, He didn't ask me if I'm Christian still

Am
  Just opened up His arms and embraced me like I'm His Son

 C
Erasin' all the archetypes of what people like me become

G
Since I was young, my personality split like serpent's tongue

F
  But all the poison in my body still ain't make me numb

Am
  I lost a best friend and felt all that

C
Cryin' on his open casket while I knelt on that

        G
I had a best man picked out for my wedding

                       F
But instead of getting married, I carried guilt and left all that

      Am
A vagabond that broke a bond for Boca Raton

         C
Who all along regretted he never kept all that

            G
I left everything behind but this engagement ring and a frozen heart

F
  I'm standin' in the fire to melt all that, yeah
[Chorus]
Am       C
Ash and dust

      G                      F
Everything I care about enough

Am       C
Burning up

        G                          F
Nothing left of who I thought I was
N.C. I was [Interlude]
Am C G F
        I, I, I was
[Verse 2]
Am
  Lash out

               C
Need to take a breath and calm down

            G
Try to regulate, don't know how

              F
Wasn't taught that in my house

           Am
Kids of my own, I step back

              C
Look at those smiles and feel sad

                G
Hope they don't wind up like dad

              F
Stuck in this loop like I am
I've—
Am
  Called you, never heard back

      C
After everything we've been through, the good and the bad

N.C.                    G
You're 'bout to throw it all away and overreact

         F
Because I overreacted, karma I guess

         C
My temper gets the best of me
A part of me that I wish I knew how to get rid of
                             G/B
It's the issue I have, my M.O
N.C. Say I need you and I love you to death
                     Am
Then turn around and go and treat you like you nothin' but trash

C
I know—
N.C. I know I messed that part up, but [Outro: NF]
  C                                G
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know

        F
Yeah, I know

             Am
Sometimes, I
Lash out
               C
Need to take a breath and calm down

           G
Try to regulate, don't know how

              F
Wasn't taught that in my house

           Am
Kids of my own, I step back

              C
Look at those smiles and feel sad

                G
Hope they don't wind up like Dad

              F
Stuck in this loop like I am, I