
In A Big Country
American Authors
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Tom : E
E
(Shot! Shot!)
[Verse 1]
E A
I've never seen you look like this without a reason
E A
Another promise fallen through
F#m A B
Another season passes by you
[Hook]
B A F#m
(Shot!)
[Verse 2]
E A
I never took the smile away from anybody's face
E A
And that's a desperate way to look
F#m A B
For someone who is still a child
[Chorus]
C#m E A B
And in a big country dreams stay with you
C#m E A
Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside
F#m E F#m
Stay alive
[Verse 3]
E A
I thought that pain and truth were things that really mattered
C#m F#m E
But you can't stay here with every single hope you had shattered
[Solo]
E A E
[Verse 4]
E A
I'm not expecting to grow flowers in a desert
E
But I can live and breathe
[Refrão]
A F#m A B
And see the sun in wintertime
[Chorus]
C#m E A B
And in a big country dreams stay with you
C#m E C#m E A
Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside
F#m
Stay alive
C#m E A B
In a big country dreams stay with you
C#m E A
Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside
[Próxima Parte]
F#
Stay alive
[Instrumental]
E A C#m F#m
[Bridge]
E A
So take that look out of here it doesn't fit you
C#m F#m
Because it's happened doesn't mean you've been discarded
E A
Pull up your head off the floor, come up screaming
C#m F#m
Cry out for everything you ever might have wanted
E A
I thought that pain and truth were things that really mattered
C#m F#m E
But you can't stay here with every single hope you had shattered
[Hook]
E A E
(Shot!)
[Final Verse]
E A
I'm not expecting to grow flowers in a desert
E
But I can live and breathe
[Refrão] (repetir)
[Próxima Parte]
F#m
Stay alive
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