Biography:
John Mark Nelson (born November 23, 1993) is an American songwriter and producer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
When Nelson released his first CD, "Still Here", he was half way through his senior year in high school. "Still Here" is a collection of songs about a sixteen month period of his life. A time in which "everything seemed surreal and hazy". According to Nelson, he "became a very unpleasant person to be around, and yet (he) was the happiest (he) had ever been".
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Other songs:
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Standard Tuning-Capo 4
Verse one
C Em F C
So complete and so breathe deeply for the life in which you wake
C Em F C
Grateful heart and helpless mind that reels with every chance you take
Pre-chorus one
E F C F C
Dreams never take me far away, hide me from your love
F G
Wake to call your name
G
And when you slow down you’ll surely say
Chorus
C F C G
I know blowing in the wind there’s a voice that calls my name
G F G C
“Don’t fear your life boy, grow and change”
C F
It came running through the earth where
C G
The pine and tall grass grew
G F G C
Leading me always, close to you
Verse two
C Em F C
In the clearness of the spring, heard you calling heard you sing
C Em F C
“This marks the end of all that’s through, I have a better plan for you”
Pre chorus two
E F C F C
Still, I’m afraid of what I am, save me from my soul
F G
You can’t make me whole
G
Still I find my voice and say
REPEAT CHORUS
Bridge (pluck strings 5-4-3-2 at a speedy tempo)
C Em E
For a hundred years we wait, and with every breath we take
E C Csus2
Learn to bury our mistake
C Em
Do I lead myself towards pain?
E C Csus2
Every song we raise in vain, every fire only flame
C Em E
Raise the children now to keep, every virtue that you seek
E C Csus2
Hoping one day they’ll receive
C Em E
“We are nothing but the dust that gathers down below the plain
E
We’ll be gone and you’ll remain”
Pre chorus three
E F C F C
Now what was far away draws near, teach me to belong
F G
I no longer fear
*(add second string, third fret and the first string open as a fill) or C C2 C C finger picking the
four middle strings works-listen to the song and see what you think is accurate.
Verse one
C Em F C
So complete and so breathe deeply for the life in which you wake
C Em F C
Grateful heart and helpless mind that reels with every chance you take
Pre-chorus one
E F C F C
Dreams never take me far away, hide me from your love
F G
Wake to call your name
G
And when you slow down you’ll surely say
Chorus
C F C G
I know blowing in the wind there’s a voice that calls my name
G F G C
“Don’t fear your life boy, grow and change”
C F
It came running through the earth where
C G
The pine and tall grass grew
G F G C
Leading me always, close to you
Verse two
C Em F C
In the clearness of the spring, heard you calling heard you sing
C Em F C
“This marks the end of all that’s through, I have a better plan for you”
Pre chorus two
E F C F C
Still, I’m afraid of what I am, save me from my soul
F G
You can’t make me whole
G
Still I find my voice and say
REPEAT CHORUS
Bridge (pluck strings 5-4-3-2 at a speedy tempo)
C Em E
For a hundred years we wait, and with every breath we take
E C Csus2
Learn to bury our mistake
C Em
Do I lead myself towards pain?
E C Csus2
Every song we raise in vain, every fire only flame
C Em E
Raise the children now to keep, every virtue that you seek
E C Csus2
Hoping one day they’ll receive
C Em E
“We are nothing but the dust that gathers down below the plain
E
We’ll be gone and you’ll remain”
Pre chorus three
E F C F C
Now what was far away draws near, teach me to belong
F G
I no longer fear
*(add second string, third fret and the first string open as a fill) or C C2 C C finger picking the
four middle strings works-listen to the song and see what you think is accurate.
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