🎸 How It Is chords by Rush

• Difficulty: Beginner

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

🎸 Intro:

D G D G
D G Em
D G D G Em

G F G F


🎸 Verse:

G
Here's a little trap
   F     G        F
That sometimes catches everyone
G           F   G F
When today's as far as we can see
G            G
Faith in bright tomorrows
   G      F
Giving way to resignation

🎸 Chorus:

D       G
That's how it is
D    G
How it's going to be
D      G
It's such a cloudy day
Em        A
Seems we'll never see the sun
 D    G       Em   A
I feel the day has possibilities
D       G
Frozen in the moment
  Em    A
The lack of imagination
D       G       Em
Between how it is and how it ought to be
D       G       Em     A
Between how it is and how it ought to be


🎸 Interlude:

G F


🎸 Verse:


G
Here's a little trap
   F     G       F
That sometimes trips up everyone
G        F       G F
When we tire of our own company
G          F       G          F
Sometimes we're the last to see beyond the day's frustrations


🎸 Chorus 2:

D       G
That's how it is
D    G
How it's going to be
D      G
It's such a cloudy day
Em        A
Seems we'll never see the sun
D     G      Em   A
I feel the day is all uncertainty
D       G
Burning in the moment
Em       A
Trapped by the desperation
D       G       Em
Between how it is and how it ought to be
D       G       Em     A
Between how it is and how it ought to be


🎸 Interlude:

D D G D G D G


🎸 Bridge:

D
Foot upon the stair

Shoulder to the wheel

You can't tell yourself not to care
        G        Em
You can't tell yourself how to feel
D       G  E A
That's how it is


🎸 Chorus 3:

D    G
Another cloudy day
Em        A
Seems we'll never see the sun
 D    G       Em   A
I feel the day has possibilities
D       G
Frozen in the moment
  Em    A
The lack of imagination
D       G       Em
Between how it is and how it ought to be
D       G       Em     A
Between how it is and how it ought to be
D G Em D