Carry On Acoustic chords by Kflay

k.flay - carry on (acoustic)


Em - 022000
Am - x02210
Cmaj7 - 032000 (usually the low e string is muted but she plays it differently}

no capo

intro:
Em Am Cmaj7 x2

verse 1:
     Em        Am
with each stroke of my pen i connect
   Cmaj7
reflect on what was learned, what was gained, what was left
    Em
of the shards of a lifetime
 Am      Cmaj7
capsized i was broken into fragments, scoured the cabinets
     Em                    Am         Cmaj7
for the bottles that were hidden, were there messages you'd given me?
i'm your one and only legacy
     Em           Am
it's been six years since we last met
      Cmaj7
i no longer dream of you, the visions gone from my head
   Em               Am
once found in those brutally surreal scenes
            Cmaj7
where your spirit lingers, i'm incapable of seeing
            Em                   Am
furthermore i'm fairly doubtful that you are little more than dust
        Cmaj7
atoms now recycled in god i cannot trust, yet i must
       Em
where is your faith when you need it?
     Am            Cmaj7
tell me, where is christ when you do not believe in angels or in demons?
 Em            Am        Cmaj7
emaciated figure, my father his body ravaged but still we managed
                  Em
to make it many years before the liquor pulled the trigger
     Am        Cmaj7
i'm stranded i haven't forgotten how i thought that i would cope once i was bigger
  Em                Am
my feet's my only carriage but i stumble as i tread
    Cmaj7                      Em
pages written in a book that you and i once read, they said

chorus:
       Am       Cmaj7
not yet but soon i will be gone
         Em
carry on carry on
       Am       Cmaj7
not yet but soon i will be gone
         Em
carry on carry on
       Am       Cmaj7
not yet but soon i will be gone
         Em
carry on carry on
       Am       Cmaj7
not yet but soon i will be gone
         Em
carry on carry on
       Am       Cmaj7
not yet but soon i will be gone

carry on carry on

verse 2:
Em            Am
 it's difficult to say exactly what i feel
 Cmaj7
lost in some translation and there's scratches on the reel
    Em                  Am            Cmaj7
of a black and white, a silent movie usually i'm the one to say the soundtracks flawed

but in this case the melancholy draws me to the
 Em
background of the photograph
      Am                 Cmaj7
i hope it lasts this feeling that you're watching from above
                  Em
that you know i dedicate the music to your love
    Am         Cmaj7
guitar resonates with your doomed fate while i strum i contemplate
       Em
i was brought up amidst the vodka
    Am             Cmaj7                        Em
it poisoned you and i was forced to watch my father slowly die over a toilet filled with puke
               Am
always afraid i'd wake up to your corpse
     Cmaj7
as a scared kid tried to keep my eyes from the floor
      Em             Am
don't look down, in fact shut your eyelids entirely
     Cmaj7
the knowledge that you'll never get to know me's got me crying
Em              Am
 death signifies the loss of a fragile life
   Cmaj7                           Em
for every moment that you miss, i send to what i hope is heaven your daughters kiss
         Am         Cmaj7
we cant speak, pray to no one in particular my wish will one day meet your cheek
    Em              Am
hold my head up high but i stumble as i tread
        Cmaj7                  Em
Pages written in a book that you and i once read, they said

chorus:
       Am        Cmaj7
not yet but soon you will be gone
         Em
carry on carry on
       Am        Cmaj7
not yet but soon you will be gone
         Em
carry on carry on
       Am        Cmaj7
not yet but soon you will be gone
         Em
carry on carry on
       Am        Cmaj7
not yet but soon you will be gone

carry on carry on

verse 3:
    Em               Am             Cmaj7
channeling the memories that i wrote down in a notebook that i kept after your death
                Em             Am           Cmaj7
bereft, frightened that in a short time i would lose sight of the subtleties of our relationship

all the reminders
        Em               Am
the way your leather jacket smelled of cigarettes and booze
     Cmaj7
inhale the fragrance of an addict i was bound to lose
        Em  Am
i'm still your child
        Cmaj7
i'm still your child

you are my teacher
     Em                Am             Cmaj7
i learned how to be the person that you couldn't even though i care for you
                          Em
i'm wary i will replicate the mistakes you made in youth
                Am
that carried on, imprinted in my mind
      Cmaj7                        Em
i am playing your guitar, do the chords transcend time and space?
         Am            Cmaj7
wasted potential i know it wasn't meant to end like this, with you lifeless
    Em             Am     Cmaj7
in an urn full of ashes, gashes that are reopened every time a word is spoken
            Em        Am     Cmaj7
for you live and breathe within the parts of me deep down that are forever broken
 Em                   Am
father, rest in peace but i stumble as i tread
     Cmaj7                     Em
pages written in a book that you and i once read, they said

chorus:
       Am        Cmaj7
not yet but soon we'll all be gone
         Em
carry on carry on
       Am        Cmaj7
not yet but soon we'll all be gone
         Em
carry on carry on
       Am        Cmaj7
not yet but soon we'll all be gone
         Em
carry on carry on
       Am        Cmaj7
not yet but soon we'll all be gone
         Em
carry on carry on


outro:
        Am     Cmaj7
go forth and so on and so forth
              Em
go forth and so on and so forth
        Am     Cmaj7
go forth and so on and so forth

still i miss you
        Am     Cmaj7
go forth and so on and so forth
              Em
go forth and so on and so forth
        Am     Cmaj7
go forth and so on and so forth