Horses
By Jesse Welles
Verse 1
All my
Em
flannels made in Bangla
C
desh
All my
Em
T-shirts in Viet
C
nam
There are
Em
places that we quietly
C
ignore
There are
G
places that we go and
D
bomb
You know I
Em
thought an awful lot about
C
Jesus
Even
Em
more about Lao
C
Tzu
They say that the
Em
way of the Tao is to
C
do nothing
Then what the
G
hell am I supposed to
D
do?
Verse 2
There's a book I read I don't remember
There's a place I've been I'd never seen
There's a note that I wrote that went up in smoke
There's some songs I don't ever sing
All the stars in the sky are burning
Mostly burning unbeknownst to me
I wish I would've paid more attention
To the bigger things I didn't see
Chorus
You know the
Am
harder you think, the deeper you sink
The
C
tighter you grip, the more that you slip
So I'm
G
singing this song about loving
All the
C
people that you've come to
G
hate
It's
D
true what they say, I'm gonna
G
die someday
Why am I
Em
holding on to all this
Am
weight?
You know, I
G
really thought that there'd be power
In thinking
C
half of y'all was just born
G
fools
Thought I was
C
gathering oats for my
G
horses
I was
Em
getting by
Am
whipping my
Em
mules
C
Em
C
Chorus *
You know the
Am
harder you think, the deeper you sink
The
C
tighter you grip, the more that you slip
So I'm
G
singing this song about loving
All the
C
people that you've come to
G
hate
It's
D
true what they say, I'm gonna
G
die someday
Why am I
Em
holding on to all this
Am
weight?
You know, I
G
really thought that there'd be power
In thinking
C
half of y'all was just born
G
fools
Thought I was
C
gathering oats for my
G
horses
I was
Em
getting by
Am
whipping my
Em
mules
C
Em
C
Bridge
I got some bricks so thick that they don't make sense
In the walls up in my mind
But life is pretty short and the road's got forks
So I take them down while I got time
Chorus *
You know the
Am
harder you think, the deeper you sink
The
C
tighter you grip, the more that you slip
So I'm
G
singing this song about loving
All the
C
people that you've come to
G
hate
It's
D
true what they say, I'm gonna
G
die someday
Why am I
Em
holding on to all this
Am
weight?
You know, I
G
really thought that there'd be power
In thinking
C
half of y'all was just born
G
fools
Thought I was
C
gathering oats for my
G
horses
I was
Em
getting by
Am
whipping my
Em
mules
C
Em
C