Sleeping at Last – Heirloom (Guitar)

Capo 2
Key
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Versions (2)

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Chords

[Intro] C [Verse 1]
G/B          Am         F               C
You try your hardest to leave the past alone.

G/B          Am         F               C
This crooked posture is all you've ever known.

G/B       Am             F         C
It is the consequence of living in between

G/B           Am             F            C
The weight of family and the pull of gravity.
[Chorus]
Am              G                       F
You are so much more than your father's son.

Am              G                   F
You are so much more than what I've become.
C [Verse 2]
G/B    Am            F              C
Long before you were born there was light

G/B    Am                   F          C
Hidden deep in these young, unfamiliar eyes.

G/B       Am              F               C
A million choices, though little on their own,

G/B        Am              F                C
Become the heirloom of the heaviness you've known.
[Chorus]
Am              G                       F
You are so much more than your father's son.

Am              G                    F
You are so much more than what I've become,

Am   G     F
What I've become,

Am   G     F
What I've become.
[Bridge] Am
Am            G/B
You pressed rewind

                   C
For the thousandth time

                   F
When the tapes wore through.

Am          G/B
So you memorized

                 C
Those unscripted lines,

                          F
Desperate for some kind of clue:

Am             G/B
When the scale tipped,

               C
When you inherited

                             F
A fight that you were born to lose.

Am            G/B
It's not your fault,

                  C
No, it's not your fault,

                         F
I put this heavy heart in you.

C/E                      F
I put this heavy heart in you.
C [Verse 3]
G/B    Am        F                C
You remind me of who I could have been,

G/B        Am           F               C
Had I been stronger and braver way back then.

G/B       Am              F               C
A million choices, though little on their own,

G/B       Am              F                C 
Became the heirloom of the heaviness we've known.
[Chorus]
Am              G                       F
You are so much more than your father's son.

Am              G                        F
You are so much more than the wars you've won.

Am              G                      F
You are so much more than your father's son.

Am              G                    F
You are so much more than what I've become.
(Repeat the run)
Am   G     F
What I've become

Am   G     F
What I've become

C
(Fade out)