One Foot In Front Of The Other
(Capo on 3rd Fret)


I saw Bright Eyes the other day in Manchester.  They were amazing.  They finished with this beast of a song…


Chord Chart

   C   G   Am  F
e------3-------1-
B--1-------1---1-
G----------2---2-
D--2-------2---3-
A--3---2---0---3-
E------3-------1-

*remember: the chords are in relation to the capo on the 3rd fret.

   C
If you walk away I’ll walk away

      C		      G	           C
First tell me which you road you will take

  Am          G              C	       Am
I don’t wanna risk our paths crossing some day

   C		   G		   C		
So you walk that way I’ll walk this way

    C            G        C
The future hangs over our heads

       C               G        C
And it moves with each current event

         Am         G
Until it falls all around us

       C           Am
Like a cold steady rain

          C            G            C
Just stay in when it’s looking this way

    C             G          C
The moon’s laying low in the sky

        C          G         C
Forcing everything meadow to shine

        Am            G               C               Am
And the sidewalk hold diamonds like a jewellery store case

            C                 G             C
They argue ‘walk this way, no walk this way’

C        G           C
Laura’s asleep in my bed

       C           G            C
As I’m leaving she wakes up and says

                    Am     G          C          Am         
‘I dreamed you were taken away on the crest of a wave

     C         G          C
Baby don’t go away come here’

            C            G           C
And there’s kids playing guns in the street

          C            G              C
And one’s pointing his tree branch at me

     Am           G             C         Am
So I put my hands up, and say ‘enough is enough,

   C             G          C
If you walk away I’ll walk away’ (and then he shot me dead)

C         G      C
I found a liquid cure

       G         C 
For my land love blues

         F     G           C      Am
And we’d pass away, like a slow parade

     C             G              C
It’s leaving but I don’t know how soon

    C              G      C
The world’s got me dizzy again

                  C  G            C             
You’d think after 22 years I’d be used to the spin

       Am         G            C           Am
And it only feels worse when I stay in one place

              C                G        C
So I’m always pacing around or walking away

  C            G           C
I drinking the ink from my pen

        C         G             C
And I’m balancing history books up on my head

       Am        G           C        Am
And it all boils down to one quotable phrase:

        C              G        C
‘If you love something give it away’

       C          G         C
A good woman will pick you apart

      C         G               C
A box full of suggestions for a possible heart
 
        Am       G              C       Am
And you may be offended and you may be afraid

    C               G             C
But don’t walk away don’t walk away

        C           G           C
We made love on the living room floor

         C            G                   C
With the noise in the background from the televised war

           Am        G                    C             Am
And in the deafening pleasure I thought I heard someone say

   C            G            C
If we walk away they’ll walk away

    C          G          C
But greed is a bottomless pit

        C           G               C
And our freedom’s a joke we’re just taking the piss

        Am               G             C        Am 
And the whole world must watch the sad comic display

          C                G        C
If you’re still free start running away
(cos they’ll come for you!)

           C        G            C
I’ve grown tired of holding this pose

       C           G             C           
I feel more like a stranger each time I come home

       Am       G             C          Am
So I’m making a deal with the devil’s of fame

            C            G       C
Saying ‘let me walk away, please’

           C          G             C
‘you’ll be free child once you have died

         C           G            C
from the shackles of language and measurable tide

         Am           G            C       Am
And then we can trade places, play musical grace

         C         G               C
Tell me ‘walk away walk away walk away’’

C      G     C    C        G     C
So I’m up at dawn, putting on my shoes

       F     G       C      Am
I just wanna make, a clean escape

    C             G                C
I’m leaving but I don’t know where to

    C             G                C
I’m leaving but I don’t know where to



On the bits inbetween the verses, play an entire verse plucked, but with a G on the high E string being played.  Like so:

e--3---3---3---
B--1-------1---
G----------2---
D--2-------2---
A--3---2---0---
E------3-------

that's all I think
Gerner