The Story So Far
Four Years
Under Soil And Dirt
2011 Pure Noise Records
Key: D
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
D - xx0232
A - x02220
Bm - x24432
G - 320033
F#m - 244222
D/F# - 2x023x
Intro:
Bm-A-G--F#m-
Bm-G-D-A-
Verse 1:
Bm A
All my friends have
G
gone away Sailing
vessels leaving the
F#m Bm
bay For the best
A
four years and the
G
promise of pay But
D
they don’t even know
A
what they’re chasing
G
Greater men have
Bm A
tried and failed
Chorus 1:
G
And all this time
D Bm
I thought that I’d
A
stay As a ghost who
Bm
would haunt this
D/F# G
mountain And all
D
this time I thought
Bm A
that I’d stay Alive
in the ground
Bm A D
digging out my coffin
Verse 2:
G
Time was short on
courts and pavement
We knew we had to
D
leave But did I make
the most of every day
And did I give to not
G
receive? Are there any
better words to express
the full extent of my
G D/F#
grief? It hits home
A D
It hits home when
Bm
you’re not home
A G
where you’re not home
D/F#
There’s no space to
A
grow and all this
D Bm A
time not much to show
Chorus 2:
G
And all this time
D Bm
I thought that I’d
A
stay As a ghost who
Bm
would haunt this
D/F# G
mountain Maybe I
D Bm
should hold my tongue
A
And do my best to live
Bm
with the stress that’s
A G
mounting I never thought
D Bm A
I never thought a bond
Bm D/F#
was something we lacked
G D Bm
I gotta find another way
A Bm A G(hold)
to keep myself intact
Interlude: G D/F# A G D/F# D x2
Bridge:
G
I understand we all
D/F#
went away so we could
A G
have the stories to
D/F# D
share when we’re back
G D/F#
Try to pass the same
A G
old shit to get a ahead
and start your paper
D/F# D G
stack I never thought
D/F# A G
I never thought a bond
D/F# D
was something we lacked
G
I guess some of us just
D/F# A G
needed a change to heal
D/F# D
the bones we cracked
Interlude: G D/F# A D Bm A x2
Outro:
G D/F# A
It takes four years
D Bm
away from your friends
A G D/F#
To make you all forget
A D Bm A G(hold)
how much time you spent