One Foot Before The Other (acoustic) keyboard

One Foot Before The Other (acoustic)

• G

       G  
On the very day I die 
         Cm 
The very last of my desires 
             G 
Is that you take my broken body 
      Cm  
And commit it to the fire 
         G 
And then when the fire is finished 
           Cm 
Scrape the ashes in a tin 
          G                               Cm 
Take them down to Londons drinking reservoirs 
               F 
And throw them in 

          G                      Cm 
And then specks infinitesimal of my mortal remains 
                G                          Cm 
Will slide down 7 million throats and into 7 million veins 
           G                                      Cm 
And I will creep through their capillaries to the marrow of their bones 
              G                                    Cm                  F 
And they will wake to bright new mornings and then wordlessly theyll know  

          G     Dm 
That I remain 
        Cm      F 
I am remembered 
     G      Dm 
I remain 
       Cm       F 
I am remembered 

         G  
So these 7 million innocents 
          Cm 
They will have me in their blood 
              G 
And when they die theyll burn their bodies 
      Cm  
Or be buried in the mud 
           G                                         Cm 
And I will spread through streams and rivers like a virus through a host 
         G                              Cm 
From the hamlets to the cities from the rivers to the coast 
         G                                 Cm 
And from there into the channel across the great Atlantic Ocean 
          G        
And ever onwards to the new world 
            Cm 
Through the waters gentle motions 
      G                             Cm 
Until parts of me are part of every land mass every sea 
       G                                 Cm            F 
In the rain, up on your crops and in the very air you breath 

    G    Dm 
I remain 
       Cm        F 
I am remembered 
   G     Dm 
I remain 
       Cm       F 
I am remembered 
     G 
I remain 

                     Dm            Cm                     F 
And all the things I love will be washed away in the rain 
    G    Dm  Cm  F   G 
I remain 


D    Eb 

           D                        
Im not convinced of the existence of these things that dont exist 
         Eb 
Yeah by Jewish boys with big ideas and scratches on their wrist 
      D  
By a loving or a vengeful God 
  
Or one who condescends 
                 Eb       
Wholl wash his hands down in the mire among the misery of men 
      F 
Or by ever turning circles hanging timeless in the sky 
       G 
Like a dream catcher distracting from the fact youre gonna die 

       D  
But I place one foot before the other 

Confident because 
            Eb 
I know that everything we are right now is everything that was 
          D     
That Watt Tyler, Woody, Guthrie, Dostoevsky and Davy Jones 
           Eb 
Are all dissolved into the ether and have crept into my bones 
            F 
And all the cells in all the lines upon the backs of both my hands 
           D 
Were once carved into the details of two feet upon the sand 

     G    Dm 
We remain 
         Cm       F 
We are remembered 
     G       Dm 
We remain 
         Cm       F 
We are remembered 
     G   
We remain 
                       Dm 
And all the things we love 
         Cm                       F 
Will be washed away in the rain 
     G     Dm    Cm    F 
We remain  

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