Transcription by: Ron Greitzer
Note: The C and F chords in the song are mostly played with a fretted high G (1st string/3rd fret):
C: x32013
F: xx3213
Gsus4: x20013
Another note: The F-*-Dm progression is a walkdown on the 4th string: 3rd fret/2nd fret/open.
Intro: The intro is basically just a picked C/addG chord (x32013) alternating between a C note (5th string/third fret) and a D note (open 4th string) as your two bass anchors.
(C)Go ahead, push your luck
Find out how much love the (F)world can hold
Once upon a (*)time I (Dm)had control
And (F)reigned my (G)soul in (C)tight (Gsus4)
Well the (C)whole truth
Is like the story of a (F)wave unfurled
But I held the (*)evil (Dm)of the world
So (F)I stopped the tide
Froze it (G)up from inside
And it (C)felt like a winter machine
That you go (F)through and then
You catch your breath and (*)winter (Dm)starts again
And (F)everyone (G)else is (C)spring bound (Gsus4)
And when (C)I chose to live
There was no joy - it's just a (F)line I crossed
It wasn't worth the (*)pain my (Dm)death would cost
So (F)I was not (G)lost or (C)found (Gsus4)
And if (C)I was to sleep
I knew my family had more (F)truth to tell
And so I traveled (*)down a (Dm)whispering well
To (F)know my(G)self through (C)them (Gsus4)
Growing (C)up, my Mom had a room full of books
And hid a(F)way in there
Her father raging (*)down a (Dm)spiral stair
'Til he (F)found someone
Most (G)days his son
And (C)sometimes I think
My father, too, was a (F)refugee
I know they tried to (*)keep their (Dm)pain from me
They (F)could not (G)see what it was (C)for (Gsus4)
But now (C)I'm sleeping fine
Sometimes the truth is like a (F)second chance
I am the daughter (*)of a (Dm)great romance
And (F)they are the (G)children of the (C)war (Gsus4)
Well the (C)sun rose with so many colors
It nearly (F)broke my heart
And worked me over (*)like a (Dm)work of art
And (F)I was a (G)part of all (C)that (Gsus4)
So go (C)ahead, push your luck
Say what it is you've got to (F)say to me
We will push on in(*)to that (Dm)mystery
And it'll (F)push right back
And there are (G)worse things than that
'Cause for (C)every price
And every penance that I (F)could think of
It's better to have (*)fallen (Dm)in love
Than (F)never to have (G)fallen at (C)all (Gsus4)
'Cause when you (C)live in a world
Well it gets in to who you (F)thought you'd be
And now I laugh at (*)how the (Dm)world changed me
I (F)think life (G)chose me after (C)all (C/B)(Am)(Em)(F)(G)(C)
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