Rise Against – People Live Here (Guitar Acoustic)

Half-Step Down (Eb-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb)
Key
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Versions (3)

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Chords

These chord names are shapes relative to standrd tuning! The actual pitches can be found by transposing -1.
F = 13321x
   (thumb over back of neck to play low E)
ORDER: I V1 R1 V2 R2 PC1 C1 INT1 V3 R3 PC2 C2 INT2 B FC [INTRO] Am F | C | Am F | C | [VERSE 1]
  Am        F                C
  My God is better than yours

          Am          F            C            G
  And the walls of my house are so thick I hear nothing at all
[REFRAIN 1]
F   C               G            Am
  I followed you out in the storm

F        C              G
  But it carried you off

                         d#|-------------|
                         A#|-3/5-3---1---|
                         F#|-0---0---0---|
                         C#|-0---0---0---|
                         G#|-------------|
                         D#|-------------|
                             1 + 2 + 3 +

F       C                G              Am
  And I burned every pic - ture of yours

F                        G | | | |
  Was that not enough?
[VERSE 2]
Am        F                C
My gun is bigger than yours

   Am                F         C                G          F
So let's arm the mas - ses and see what the bas - tards do then
[REFRAIN 2]
( F )       C         G           Am
    Walking tall once set us apart

  F           C                   G
    Now we're down on all fours

                                    d#|-------------|
                                    A#|-3/5-3---1---|
                                    F#|-0---0---0---|
                                    C#|-0---0---0---|
                                    G#|-------------|
                                    D#|-------------|
                                        1 + 2 + 3 +

  F        C          G           Am
    Do you cry my name in the dark

  F           G     | | | |
    like I do yours?
[PRE-CHORUS 1]
      Dm                 Am
These storms are getting stronger now

    C                    G
The trusses all bend and sway

Dm                  Am                        G
Lightning hits, the power goes out in the fray
[CHORUS 1]
            F G         Am
As the waves  crash high

              C                G
And the shore - line disappears

         F
And I'll scream to the sky

      G  n.c.
"Hey, people live here."
[INTERLUDE 1] Am | F | C | | Am | F | C | | [VERSE 3]
  Am               F       C
  My dreams are not unlike yours

       Am                F             C            G
  They long for the safe - ty and break like a glass chandelier
[REFRAIN 3]
F             C               G             Am
  But there's laughter and oh, there is love

  F                 C            G
  Just past the edge of our fears

F             C          G                  Am
  And there's chaos when push comes to shove

           F               G | | |
  But it's music to my ears
[PRE-CHORUS 2]
    Dm            Am                   C                  G
And may you be in Heaven before the De - vil knows you're dead

    Dm                   Am                  G
And may these winds be al - ways at your back
[CHORUS 2]
                  F G          Am
And when we're all  just ghosts

        C                G
And the madness overtakes us

           F
I will look at the ashes

          G  n.c.             G | |
And say, "People lived here."
[INTERLUDE 2] x07550 x3003x 1x3010 (hammer-on occasionally to 1x3210) Am | Csus2 | Fmaj7sus2 | | Am | Csus2 | Fmaj7sus2 | [BRIDGE] (continue same hammer-on as above, no ringing high E string)
         Am       Csus2       Fsus2
From the penthouse     to the ho - ly martyr

     Am    Csus2       Fsus2
From sea to     shining     sea

         Am     Csus2        Fsus2
From the coffins     full of kindergartners

   Am        Csus2     Fsus2
Is this what you  call free?
x02210
         Am        G             Fsus2
From the hate that drips from all     of your crosses

Am            G         Fsus2 | Fmaj7sus2
Are your hands so clean?

              Am       G         Fsus2
And there's a wildfire, and it's spreading far

     Am    G        F  | | G | | G (ring) |
From sea to shining sea
[FINAL CHORUS] xx321x xx543x xx755x
              F G          Am
When we're all  just ghosts
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        C                G
And the madness overtakes us

       F
I will scream to the sky,

          G
yeah I'll scream to the sky

             F
I will scream to the sky
x02010 hammer-on x02210
      G n.c.            Am
"Hey, people live here."