Chords for K.Flay - Carry On

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[C] _ _ _ [Em] With each stroke of my pen [C] I connect, reflect on what was gained, what was learned, [Em] what was left of the shards of a [Am] lifetime
Capsized, [C] I was broken into fragments, [Em] scoured the cabinets where the bottles that were hidden were their messages you've given me
I'm your one and only legacy
It's been six years [Am] since we [C] last met, I no longer dream of who the vision's gone [Em] from, I had once found in those brutally
Surreal scenes where your spirit lingers, I'm incapable of seeing furthermore
I'm fairly doubtful that you are [Am] little more than [C] dust, atoms now recycled, in God I cannot trust, [Em] yet I'm lost
Where is your faith when you need it?
[Am] Tell me, where is Christ [C] when you do not believe in angels or in [Em] demons?
Emaciated figure, [Am] my father, [C] his body ravaged, but we still managed to make it [Em] many years before the liquor pulled the trigger
I'm stranded, I haven't forgotten how I thought that I would cope once I was bigger
My feet's my only carriage, [Am] but I stumble [C] as I tread, pages written in a book that you [Em] and I once read
They say, not yet, but soon [C] I will be gone
Carry on, [Em] carry on, uh, not yet, [Am] but soon [C] I will be gone
Carry on, [Em] carry on, uh, not yet, but soon I will be gone
Carry on, carry on, uh, not yet, [Am] but soon I will [C] be gone
Carry on, [D] carry [E] on
It's difficult to say [C] exactly what I feel, lost in some translation and the scratches [Em] on the reel of a black and white asylum [A] movie
Usually [C] I'm the one to say the sound has fallen, but in this case the [E] melancholy draws me [Em] to the background of the photograph
I hope [C] it lasts, this feeling that you're watching from above, that you know [Em] I dedicate the music to your love
[Am] Guitar [C] resonates with your doom fate, while I strum [Em] I contemplate, I was brought up amidst a vodka
[C] It poisoned you when I was forced to watch my father slowly die [Em] over a toilet filled with puke, always afraid
[Am] I wake [C] up to your corpse as a scared kid, try to keep my eyes [Em] from the floor, don't look down
In fact, shut your [C] eyelids entirely, the knowledge that you'll never get to know [Em] me's got me crying
Death [Am] signifies a [C] loss of a fragile life for every moment that you miss, a scent [Em] of what I hope is heaven
Your daughter's [C] kiss, we can't speak, pray to no one in particular, my wish will one day [E] meet your cheek
Hold my head up high, [Am] but I stumble [C] as I tread, pages written in a book that you [Em] and I once read
They said, not dead, but [C] soon you will be gone
Carry on, carry [Em] on, not [Am] yet, but [C] soon you will be gone
Carry [Em] on, carry on, not yet, but soon you will be gone
Carry on, carry on, not yet, [Am] but soon you [C] will be gone
Carry on, [A] carry [Em] on, channeling the memories that I wrote [C] down in a notebook that I kept after your death
Be rath [Em] frightened that in a short time I [Am] would lose sight [Em] of the subtleties of our relationship, all the reminders
The way your leather jacket smelled of cigarettes and booze, inhaled the fragrance of an addict I was bound to lose
I'm still your child, [Am] _
[C] I'm still your child
[Em] You are my teacher, I learned how to be the person [A] that you couldn't, even though [C] I care for you
I'm wary I will replicate [Em] the mistakes you made and you say, carried [Am] on, [Em] imprinted in my mind
I am playing your guitar, do the chorus transcend time and space, wasted [C] potential
I know it wasn't meant to end like this, with you [Em] lifeless and inert, full of [Am] ashes, [C] gashes that I'll reopen
Every time a [G] word is spoken [B] for you live and breathe within the [C] parts of me deep down that are forever [Em] broken
Father rest in [Am] peace, but I stumble as I [Em] tread, pages written in a book that you and I once read
They said, not yet, [C] but soon we'll all be gone
Carried [Em] on, carried on, not yet, but soon we'll [C] all be gone
Carried [Em] on, carried on, not yet, but soon we'll all be gone
Carried on, carried on, not [Am] yet, but soon we'll [C] all be gone
Carried [Em] on, carried on, go forth and so on and [C] so forth
Go forth and [Em] so on and so forth
Go [A] forth and so on and [C] so forth
But [Em] still I miss you, go [Am] forth and so on and [C] so forth
Go forth and [Em] so on and so forth
Go [Am] forth and [C] so on and so forth _ _ _ _ _
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