Phoenix chords by Big Red Machine

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

🎸 Intro:

F C Bb F
F C Bb



🎸 Verse 1:
F      C
 Out in the loading bay light
Bb      F
 Watching the fog recede
F      C        Bb
 Divided the flame you slowly gave to me
Gm     Dm
 Sign of relief in my mind
F      C
 But I only caught you the one time
Gm     Dm            F      C
 Later I'd watch you and wonder what it was like

🎸 Pre-Chorus:
F      C        Bb
 How do you bear the full weight?
       F
 How does the long way feel?
F       C         Bb
 Kneading your hand too tight against the wheel?
Gm      Dm
 How do you stay in that tower?
F      C
 How do you reckon your own power?
Gm      Dm       F    C
 How does the wheel not turn hour on hour on hour?

🎸 Chorus:
C   F
 I was trying to find my way
Bb   F
 I was thinking my mind was made
C       F           Bb
 But you were making my heart change shape
   Bb
It's all that I could take
C   F
 I was trying to find my way
Bb   F
 I was thinking my mind was made
C       F           Bb
 But you were making my heart change shape
   Bb
It's all that I could take

🎸 Interlude:
Gm Dm F C (4x)

🎸 Pre-Chorus:
F      C        Bb
 How do you bear the full weight?
       F
 How does the long way feel?
F       C         Bb
 Kneading your hand too tight against the wheel?
Gm      Dm
 How do you stay in that tower?
F      C
 How do you reckon your own power?
Gm      Dm       F    C
 How does the wheel not turn hour on hour on hour?

🎸 Chorus:
C   F
 I was trying to find my way
Bb   F
 I was thinking my mind was made
C       F           Bb
 But you were making my heart change shape
   Bb
It's all that I could take
C   F
 I was trying to find my way
Bb   F
 I was thinking my mind was made
C       F           Bb
 But you were making my heart change shape
   Bb
It's all that I could take, now
C   F
 I was trying to find my way
Bb   F
 I was thinking my mind was made
C       F           Bb
 But you were making my heart change shape
   Bb
It's all that I could take, now
C   F
 I was trying to find my way
Bb   F
 I was thinking my mind was made
C       F           Bb
 But you were making my heart change shape
   Bb
It's all that I could take, now

🎸 Outro:
C      F
 How do you stay in that tower?
Bb      F
 How does the long way feel?
C       F       Bb
 How does the wheel not turn hour on hour on hour?

C F Bb F
C F Bb C