Lookin' Back in Anger.
(By MrModigh)
Written by Glen Sherley, who also wrote Greystone Chapel.
Johnny Cash performed this song at Osteraker Prison, Sweden,
when he did the live-record "Johnny Cash at Osteraker".
Capo 1st.
Verse 1
C F C G C
A cold bitter mist covers your eyes, the torment’s raging in you.
F C
And you can't change the smallest part of all the wrong you've done.
G C
Lookin' back in anger like you do.
Bridge
F C G C
I’m not preaching, I’m just talking, and I believe in what I say.
F C G C
That look of anger that you keep flashing, won’t accomplish you anything today.
Chorus
F C G C
Reach out your hand, someone will take it, someone took mine then I saw a different view.
F C G C
I saw what it takes, take a lot more lovin’ and a lot less lookin’ back in anger like you do.
Verse 2
F C G C
You’re still a victim of your pornographic past, smudgy face of evil showing through.
F C
But you can’t take away the scars that you put on that face.
G C
Lookin’ back in anger like you do.
Bridge
F C G C
I’m not preaching, I’m just talking, and I believe in what I say.
F C G C
That look of anger that you keep flashing, won’t accomplish you anything today.
Chorus
F C G C
Reach out your hand, someone will take it, someone took mine then I saw a different view.
F C G C
I saw what it takes, take a lot more lovin’ and a lot less lookin’ back in anger like you do.