Key: A minor
Intro 1
F#m
G
F#
B
F#
G
C
F#m
Verse 1
F#m
As the sun comes up,
as the moon goes down
D
These heavy notions creep around
F#m
F#
F#m
D
It makes me think, long ago
F#m
F#
I was brought into this life a little lamb
F#m
D
A little lamb
F#m
Courageous, stumbling
F#
F#m
D
Fearless was my middle name
F#m
But somewhere there I
B
lost my way
A
Everyone walks the same
B
Expecting me to step
A
The narrow path they've laid
They claim to
C#m
E
Walk unafraid
C#m
E
I'll be clumsy instead
C#m
E
B
Hold my love me or leave me high
Verse 2
B
F#
Say "keep within the boundaries
D
if you want to play"
F#
F#m
Say "contradiction only
D
makes it harder"
F#m
F#
C#m
How can I be
D
F#m
What I want To be?
F#
D
When all I want to do is strip away
These stilled constraints
B
And crush this charade
A
Shred this sad masquerade
B
I don't need no persuading
A
I'll trip, fall, pick myself up and
C#m
Walk unafraid
E
C#m
E
I'll be clumsy instead
C#m
E
Hold my love me or leave
B
me high
Interlude 1
B
F#
F#m
D
B
F#m
Verse 3
F#m
D
F#m
If I have a bag of rocks to carry as I go
F#
F#m
F#
F#m
D
A
I just want to hold my head up high
F#m
F#
I don't care what I
F#m
D
A
have to step over
F#m
D
I'm prepared to look you in the eye
Look me in the eye
B
And if you see familiarity
A
B
Then celebrate the contradiction
A
Help me when I fall to
C#m
Walk unafraid
E
C#m
E
I'll be clumsy instead
C#m
E
B
Hold my love or leave me high
C#m
Walk unafraid
E
C#m
E
I'll be clumsy instead
C#m
E
B
Hold my love me or leave me high
Outro 1
B
C#m
E
C#m
E
C#m
E
B
G
C
B
G
C
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