Potential Suicide
Allister
Before The Blackout
2005
Key: C
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
C - x32010
G - 320003
Bb - x13331
F-133211
F-244322
G# - 466544
Am - x02210
Intro: C-G-F-G- x2
Verse 1:
C G Bb
She sits at home and tries
F C
to remember all the days
G Bb
when everybody said nothing
F
could bring her down
C G
Now she's found that
Bb
she can't stand the
F C
site of her reflection
G
in the windows of
Bb F F#
this beat up old town
G
She's packing all her
CG
problems Into a carry on bag
CG
She's packing all of her
F
sorrow into one less silver
G
box labeled memories
Chorus 1:
C G
And every night
F
that she's alive
G C
Is a potential suicide
G
And all the teardrops
F
that she cries
G
wont help her
Post Chorus: C-G-F-G-
Verse 2:
C G Bb
she goes to bed at night just
F C
to wake up to a nightmare
G
and a headache that
Bb F
will never go away
C G Bb
She's doing time and hating
F C
every minute of it blaming
G Bb
everything on something
F
she can't escape
C G
She cries and she cries
Bb F
But no one ever listens and
C G
She doesn't understand
Bb F G#
why she can't slow down
G
She's packing all her
CG
problems Into a carry on bag
CG
She's packing all of her
F
sorrow into one less silver
G
box labeled memories
Chorus 2:
C G
And every night
F
that she's alive
G C
Is a potential suicide
G
And all the teardrops
F
that she cries
G
wont help her
C G
And all the pain
F
she's kept inside
G
Doesn't help to
C
cleanse her mind
G
F G
and the frustration
Bridge:
Am G
tonight And now it feels like
F F#-G-G#-
she's been dealt a sh*tty hand
Am G
She said "it is mine" but
F G/B G
she doesn't understand
Chorus 3:
C G
And every night
F
that she's alive
G C
Is a potential suicide
G
And all the teardrops
F
that she cries
G
wont help her
C G
And all the pain
F
she's kept inside
G
Doesn't help to
C
cleanse her mind
G
And all the teardrops
F-- G--
that she cries
Chorus 4:
C G
And every night
F
that she's alive
G C
Is a potential suicide
G
And all the teardrops
F
that she cries
G
wont help her
C G
And all the pain
F
she's kept inside
G
Doesn't help to
C
cleanse her mind
G
F G C-G-F(Hold)
and the frustration tonight