Key: F#
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
Ebm - x68876
C# - x46664
B - x24442
F# - 244322
C#/F - 143xxx
Intro:
Ebm C# B Ebm C#
It was on our wedding day
B Ebm
When my heart began to stray
C# B
Never thought I'd make
Ebm
such a big mistake
C# B
Throw my life away
Verse 1: beat swtiched from standard 4/4 to 3/4
Ebm B C#
I've gone days without food
I've went weeks without
Ebm B C# F# C#/F
sleep Keeping this in
Ebm B C#
I've got cuts I can't close
I've got wounds that won't
Ebm B C#-- B--
heal It's all your fault
Ebm B C#
I've been shattered and wrecked
Ebm
My hands covered in blood
B C#
Scars on my skin
Ebm B C#
I forgot how to feel
Ebm
Now I'm weak with deceit
B C#
My skin is paper thin
Chorus:
Ebm F# C# F#
We get through this
B F#
Feeling it keeping
B C#
it holding it in
Ebm F# C# F#
We go through this
B F# C#
Over and over again
Verse 2:
Sing:
Ebm B C#
I'd go years without tears
Ebm
In a life with no fear
B C#
https://www.coveralia.com/acordes/american-dream-silverstein.php
A life without you
Ebm B C#
Now I'm breaking my back
Ebm
as I cover my tracks
B C#
My skin is paper thin
Growl:
once again
(Repeat Chorus)
Verse 3:
Ebm B C#
I've gone days without food
I've went weeks without
Ebm B C# F# C#/F
sleep Keeping this in
Ebm B C#
I've got cuts I can't close
I've got wounds that won't
Ebm B C#
heal It's all your fault
Bridge:
Sing:
B Ebm C#
My American dream
B
Wasn't ever to
Growl:
Ebm C#
lie and steal and cheat
Sing:
B Ebm
He won't leave
C# B
her for this
C#
What's the point?
Growl:
(I wish they would die)
(Repeat Chorus twice)
Outro:
Growl:
Ebm
This was not a test
B C#
This was all for real
(Repeat x3)
Ebm
This was not a test
B Ebm(hold)
This was all for real
