The Story So Far – Four Years (Guitar)

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Under Soil And Dirt 2011 Pure Noise Records Chords used: D - xx0232 A - x02220 Bm - x24432 G - 320033 F#m - 244222 D/F# - 2x023x Intro: Bm-A-G--F#m- Bm-G-D-A- Verse 1:
Bm             A
All my friends have

G
gone away Sailing
vessels leaving the
F#m         Bm
bay For the best

           A
four years and the

G
promise of pay But

     D
they don’t even know

             A
what they’re chasing

G
Greater men have

Bm        A
tried and failed
Chorus 1:
    G
And all this time

  D            Bm
I thought that I’d

     A
stay As a ghost who

      Bm
would haunt this

    D/F#     G
mountain And all

            D
this time I thought

          Bm   A
that I’d stay Alive
in the ground
        Bm     A     D
digging out my coffin
Verse 2:
G
Time was short on
courts and pavement We knew we had to
                D
leave But did I make
the most of every day And did I give to not
                   G
receive? Are there any
better words to express the full extent of my
      G        D/F#
grief? It hits home

A         D
  It hits home when

           Bm
you’re not home

A                G
where you’re not home

            D/F#
There’s no space to

         A
grow and all this

         D       Bm  A
time not much to show
Chorus 2:
    G
And all this time

  D            Bm
I thought that I’d

     A
stay As a ghost who

      Bm
would haunt this

    D/F# G
mountain Maybe I

       D       Bm
should hold my tongue

          A
And do my best to live

          Bm
with the stress that’s

A       G
mounting I never thought

  D            Bm  A
I never thought  a bond

                 Bm    D/F#
was something we lacked

G               D         Bm
  I gotta find another way

   A             Bm  A G(hold)
to keep myself intact
Interlude: G D/F# A G D/F# D x2 Bridge:
  G
I understand we all

      D/F#
went away so we could

A         G
have the stories to

                 D/F# D
share when we’re back

G                 D/F#
  Try to pass the same

    A              G
old shit to get a ahead
and start your paper
 D/F# D G
stack    I never thought

  D/F# A          G
I never thought a bond

                 D/F#  D
was something we lacked

G
  I guess some of us just

D/F#     A         G
needed a change to heal

             D/F#   D
the bones we cracked
Interlude: G D/F# A D Bm A x2 Outro:
         G         D/F# A
It takes four years

 D             Bm
away from your friends

   A        G      D/F#
To make you all forget

    A    D         Bm  A G(hold)
how much time you spent