Chords for Joe Bachman - A Soldier's Memoir (PTSD Song) [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO]

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_ [N] _ _ My name is Staff Sergeant David Crockett, United States Army.
My name is Tyler Southern.
I was a Corporal in the United States Marine Corps.
Just outside of Samar, Iraq, we were hit with a massive IED. _ _
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_ [C#] _ _ We were given accurate intelligence that were up to six Taliban held up in a compound.
Instantly, _ just a blast of hot air just came over me and intense pressure that you couldn't imagine.
We all split up and took different sides.
I led my team to the far side, which was laced with four IEDs.
At that point, it basically rendered me unconscious for 45 minutes.
I was in and out for about an hour, _ until I basically kind of came to in a field hospital
at Fobb's Biker in Tikrit.
We all missed the first one on the front corner and turkey peaking a doorway.
I stepped on the second.
Ten pounds of homemade explosives, pressure plate IED, _ buried six inches, _ _ detonated immediately. _ _
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_ _ I _ [F#] can still taste the powder [C#] from [G#] the barrel of my gun.
I [F#] can hear my sergeant screaming, [C#] _ _ [G#] run soldier, run.
I [F#] can feel the backpack [C#] on my shoulders.
[G#] God, it weighed a ton.
_ [A#m] And I see death [G#] in every single [F#] fall.
_ _ _ _ They [C#] taught me how [F#] to put that [G#] uniform on.
_ I just can't get it [F#] off. _
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_ _ _ _ _ [C#] Last Saturday, [Fm] they honored us [A#m] in a small parade downtown.
_ _ [F#] When they shot off [C#] those fireworks, _ _ [G#] I nearly hit the ground.
_ _ [C#] And while they smiled and cheered [G#] for [C#] us, [A#m] all I could do was stare.
_ _ [F#] Because part of [C#] me is here at home, [G#] but part of me's back there.
_ I [F#] can still taste the powder from [G#] the barrel of my gun.
And [F#] I can hear my sergeant screaming, _ _ [G#] run soldier, run.
I [F#] can feel the backpack on my shoulders.
[G#] God, it weighed a ton.
_ [A#m] And I see death [G#] in every single [F#] fall.
_ _ They _ _ [C#] taught me how to put that uniform [G#] _ _
on.
I just can't get it [A#m] off.
_ _ _ _ [G#] God, [F#] there's no end [C#] in sight.
[G#] _ [A#m] Because even though [G#] I'm home now, I'm [F#] still sad before my grave. _ _ _ _
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[F#] I can still taste the powder [C#] _ [G#] from the barrel of my gun. _
_ [F#] I can hear my sergeant screaming, _ _ [G#] _ run soldier, run.
_ [F#] I can feel the backpack [C#] on my shoulders.
[G#] God, it weighed a ton.
_ _ [A#m] I see death [G#] in every single [F#] fall. _ _ _ _
_ [C#] They taught me how [F#] to [C#] put that uniform [G#] on.
_ I just can't get [C#] it off. _ _ _ _ _
I've prided [A#m] myself on finding the silver lining in absolutely every [G#] situation.
[F#] _ [D#m] No [A#m] matter how [G#] hard it is to find, there is a bright side to everything.
I [C#] may have been relieved of three of my original issued limbs,
[B] but that gave me the opportunity to find true love, _ family, made him a possibility. _ _
_ _ You might have to widen your gaze, but it's there.
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