Chords for Mark Stepakoff - Settles Like Dust

_ _ _ Thank you.
_ [A] _ [C#] _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ That was kind of a hopeful song, I think.
_ _ _ _ This is kind of a darker song. _ _ _ _ _
Sometimes you've got to write those too.
_ _ It's a song about mortality.
_ _ _ It's called Settle Like Dust.
_ [D#m] _ _ _ _ _
[G#m] _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ [B] _ [F#] _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ Well the Bible says _
It's where we all come from
And it's where we'll return [B] when our time has come
_ You can toil and sweat
All your earthly days
But your life [F#] on earth is a [D#m] passing phase
_ [B] [E] From the Georgia clay
[B] To the dry [F#] Sahara
To the old dirt road [G#m] in your [B] rearview [G#m] mirror
There are truths that you don't [B] want to face
But you [F#] know you must
_ [E] Well this world is [B] rough
Gonna test your [F#] mettle
Yeah but in [G#] the end
[F#] Everything's gonna [G#m] settle like dust _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] You try to make your mark
[E] On the [B] world while you're here
But the world's been around [F#] for a [D#m] billion [B] years
_ All your hopes and _ dreams
All your joy and pain
_ Well they're not much [F#] bigger than [D#m] the tiniest [B] grain
Like [E] a swirling [B] cloud on a Midwest [F#] prairie
That blows away [G#m] everything [B] you can't carry
[E] Hold on to what you [B] can though
It's all gonna [F#] fade or rust
_ _ [E] In your short time [B] here
You might kick up a little
[F#] Yeah but in the [G#m] end
Everything's [F#] gonna settle [G#m] like dust _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C#m] In the ground, in [G#m] the wind, in the atmosphere
You [C#m] can't [F#] always see it but it's always there _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ [B] _ [F#] _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ [E] From the [B] Georgia clay
To the dry [F#] Sahara
To the old dirt road [G#m] in your [B] rearview [E] mirror
There are truths [B] that you don't want to face
But you [F#] know you must _ _
[E] In your short [B] time here
You might kick up a [F#] little
Yeah but in the [G#m] end
Everything's [F#] gonna [G#m] settle like _ _ _
Like dust
_ _ Like dust _
_ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ [D#m] _
_ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _
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