The Fortress chords by Richard Thompson
Verse 1
D
One day the ceiling falls in on you
A
G
Your more than perfect world
B
Has suddenly come unglued
F#m
F#
B
There you are
D
One day your fortress is so much dust
A
The friends you thought you knew
G
F#m
Have all betrayed your trust
B
There you are
Em
Head over heels, nothing to cling to
F#m
Stuck, dumb, dumb, no muses to sing to
Em
Four winds blow you, lift you,
F#
fling you to the sky
G
You know you're a winger,
you know you're gonna sing
A
You thought you had the whole world
wrapped around your finger
G
You always said it was the song
F#
you're not gonna sing after all
G
You said you're on your neck,
you thought that that was clever
A
You said you're a bad son living forever,
G
forever, forever, forever, forever
F#
F#m
But after all, you were born to fall
Em
G
Em
Bm
G
Bm
G
Bm
G
D
A
One day trouble will seek you out
You can run and you can hide
G
B
But your life is up the spout,
F#
B
and there you are
D
A
One day, nothing makes sense at all
Your career's slow suicide
G
B
Your brain has hit the wall,
F#m
F#
B
and there you are
Em
Spinnin' around on a
carousel of voices
F#
F#m
Talkin' in tongues, a hundred
James
Joyce's
Em
Screamin' in your head,
F#
as if you need choices after all
You know
G
John
Wayne, you know the gunslinger
A
You thought you had the whole world
wrapped around your finger
G
You al ways said it was the
F#
song of the sinner after all
G
You said you're a man,
Gm
G
you thought that that was clever
A
You had your bets on living forever
G
Forever, forever, forever, forever
F#
Em
But after all, you were bound to fall
G
Bm
G
Bm
You were bound to fall
G
Bm
G
Bm
You were bound to fall
You were bound to fall
B
Bm
The Fortress
Richard Thompson
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