Chords for Justin Furstenfeld of Blue October - Bleed Out (a capella)

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_ _ _ Last [Ab] time you were here you were doing kind of like a [Eb] storyteller's kind of tour was it called the open book
Oh, is that when the last you ever go to her?
I think so
Yeah, I remember that you were putting the book out and I know that you were doing the acoustic tour
Yeah, so that was I mean that was like three years ago now.
Yeah.
No, that was like a year and a half two years
Ago, [E] okay.
Okay.
Yeah, so yeah
So is that something that you would do again?
I mean that performance was amazing is that
What you like to [Gb] do is really strip it down and kind of show people
Kind of the [Eb] other side of that rock star on stage.
[A] Oh
[F] My god, my wife would [C] look at you and go.
Oh, yeah
_ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _
Yeah, it's it's that's the last thing I perceive [G] myself as is [Bb] when I do the open book tour
You know, I had to [G] write this this book that
_ [A] because you know, I did a lot of [G] nasty things for a lot of [F] people, you know, and [Abm] um,
And when you when you get [Gb] cleaned up, you know
you you have to make amends to people that you you messed up and uh, and that book was mainly [A] just
Just a really [Ab] an honest [G] approach of me going.
Look I [F] messed up. _
I
[Gb] Not I'm sorry because that was [Eb] the king of I'm sorry.
[E] It was [D] more like hey, what can I [Ebm] do to make this up to [F] you?
um, so [Ab] it it
Goes through every album [Gb] including the stop where I go, you know
I have to change myself [Eb] and
And pass that and I love doing the open book tour because [Ab] I found out something when I when I got cleaned [C] up was that
I'm actually kind [B] of funny
[Ab] No, and I'm not this like
[Gb] _ dark
suicidal [Ab] killer, you [B] know that some people for [Ab] some reason think I am and
[F] What are you laughing [Bb] at? _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ [B] No, but um
But it's cool because I can [Ab] tell the stories behind each song and some people they don't really
They would never [G] have known that it was kind of [Ab] about that
So I [G] love doing that kind of that's [N] something that you would consider doing again
I'm gonna be doing it this summer again, and I'm gonna be passing through [Abm] here.
I just [G] love working
I love being [Gb] on the road and my wife goes with me on the road too.
And so that's good my kids
So it's really cool.
[Abm] Is that do you think I mean a lot of people out [C] there have struggled [F]
with addiction and depression
So, what do you think?
[Dm] I don't want to say like a message [B] to those that might be suffering with that
[N] But I guess like what it what is helped with with you finding yourself in such a positive, you know
Good energy kind of place
[Db] um
Can we say the [B] B word on the air?
Yeah [Eb] like bitch.
Yeah.
Okay.
[Ab] Yeah _ _
[Gm] _ _ [N] _ _ You know some people need the caressing and the whole hey it's gonna be okay, but that's just enabling to me
You know, [Abm] it took my wife looking at me and [Gb] going you're just a little bitch, you know
You're being a little bitch and you've never been anybody's bitch before until you met that drug and then that's all you are
When you're on that, you know, so it took that hard love, you know that that you lazy little bitch get off your [Gbm] ass
You [B] know take your medication if you're depressed, you know go jogging get outside do some stuff your dad now man up
Mm-hmm.
[C] That's what it took for me [Abm] and it worked and it worked because
[G] Because I have [N] to look at myself every day and go man.
You're not no victim you poor little thing.
Yeah, you know
There's only so long you want to watch someone circle a drain before you say will you get up?
Mm-hmm, like seriously, especially if you're a dad you [Abm] need a man up and say, you know
You don't want your kids [Ab] seeing you cry, you know, what the [Eb] hell is that all about?
You [Ab] want your kids to see you in [Bb] control?
Yeah.
Yeah, so that's what it took for me
Some [C] people need the whole [N] old pookie.
It's gonna be okay.
Ah
Not you.
I
That's what makes me go.
Yeah, okay now I can manipulate the hell out of them
Mmm, you know, I can lie to those people and then give me whatever I want, you know
It took them going now I see you I don't need you when she said that to me.
I was like what?
You don't need me _
Don't you know who I think I am?
_ No, man, guess what life goes on when you die Jess, you know
Well, we're so glad to see you doing so well, and I love this humorous side of you.
It's so great to see
_ [F] _ _ [D] _
You can see a little blue October tonight at [Gb] Austin's fuel room I would love for you to do [F] one more for us
Is that okay?
Yeah.
Um, [E] do you want me to do an old one or a new one?
What do you want to do?
What do you guys [F] want to hear something old [B] something new?
_ Something [N] blue
The new one.
Okay.
All right, then I do this version of the song bleed out if [F] that's okay with y'all.
All right
_ [G] _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _
_ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Close my eyes
feel your sigh a
_ Desperate aching wonder will you ever?
_ Ever let me off my knees
_ _ I'm wide awake like a dream
_ As simple as a secret being told
Told everyone but me
_ well, I
_ _ _ _ _ Gave it all but you can't stop taking from me and wait down.
I know
You know where to cut me with your eyes closed
So I bleed out
_ It won't be long till this heart stops beating.
So don't let me bleed out here _ _ _ _ _ _
Sudden rain
Coming down _
It all comes back to me.
I'm waking up falling down
_ _ _ another day
Come on, Don.
I keep trying to heal your pain
But in return you cut me over and over but one more time and I will _ bleed
I _ gave it all but you can't stop taking from me and wait down.
I know
Cut me with your eyes closed
So I bleed out
It won't be long till this heart stops beating.
So don't let me bleed out here all alone
_ _ _ _ I finally feel like I'm supposed to be here
So don't you take this moment away from me? _
But before you kill me, won't you?
Won't you look back in my _ eyes?
And watch me _ bleed out
I gave it all but you can't stop taking from me and wait down.
I know
You know when to cut me with your eyes closed so I bleed out _
_ It won't be long till this heart stops beating.
So don't let me bleed out here all alone
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Thank you _ _ _ _ _ _