Rush – Second Nature (Guitar)

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From the Album: Hold your fire (1987) Lyrics by Neil Peart, Music by Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee Pretty simple song overall, all the chords in the verses are shortly before the lyrics kick in. A regular B chord after the E also suffices, but it sounds better for me when inverted to B/F# Enjoy! [Intro] B F# B F# E B/F# E B/F# C# [Verse 1]
B F#
     A memo to a higher office

B F#
     Open letter to the powers that be

B F#
     To a god, a king, a head of state

B F#
     A captain of industry

B F#
      To the movers and the shakers

B F# C#
      Can't everybody see

E B/F#
      It ought to be a second nature

E B/F#
      I mean the places where we live

E B/F#
      Let's talk about this sensibly

E B/F#
      We're not insensitive

B F#
     I know progress has no patience

B F# C#                          C# C#
       But something's got to give
[Chorus]
A              G                           A
I know you're different, You know I'm the same

                G                     D
We're both too busy to be taking the blame

                E                             F#m
I'd like some changes, but you don't have the time

                E                          A
We can't go on thinking it's a victimless crime

           G         A                       G
No one is blameless, But we're all without shame

D              E    F#m                      E
 We fight the fire while we're feeding the flames
[Verse 2]
B F#
       Folks have got to make choices

B F#
       And choices got to have voices

E B/F#
       Folks are basically decent

E B/F#
       Conventional wisdom would say

B F#
       Well we read about the exceptions

B F# C#
       In the papers every day

E B/F#
       It ought to be second nature

E B/F#
       At least, that's what I feel

E B/F#
       Now I lay me down in Dreamland

E B/F#
      I know perfect's not for real

B F#
      I thought we might get closer

B F# C#
      But I'm ready to make a deal
[Chorus]
A          G                          A
Today is different, and tomorrow the same

              G                              D
It's hard to take the world the way that it came

          E                       F#m
Too many rapids keep us sweeping along

          E                             A
Too many captains keep on steering us wrong

             G             A                 G
It's hard to take the heat, it's hard to lay blame

D            E    F#m                     A
To fight the fire while we're feeding the flames
[Verse 2 again]
E B/F#
       It ought to be second nature

E B/F#
       At least, that's what I feel

E B/F#
       Now I lay me down in Dreamland

E B/F#
      I know perfect's not for real

B F#
      I thought we might get closer...
[Same chords for the long instrumental outro] ************************************