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