Chords for Benjamin Tod, "Dark Before the Dawn," // GemsOnVHS™

My name is Benjamin Todd.
We are here on my new land in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.
The song is called Dark Before the Dawn.
Did I already say that? _ _
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_ It's kind of about that solitude that we all feel, or hopefully some of us feel,
_ especially at the end of a long day where you think about all your hopes and dreams and [C] your failures and misfortunes.
It kind of _ _ encapsulates my purgatory. _ _ _
_ I've been trapped inside this song for a couple of weeks now.
_ I'm thinking tonight of my entire life [Am] as a whole _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] Oh, [F] and what it might mean if I ever get back [G] in [C]
control _ _ _ _ _
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Alone and forsaken by everyone _ I've [Am] ever known _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Em] Hell, [F] I even _ abandoned myself some _ [G] [C] years ago
And _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Am]
I'm _ _ _ [G] hardly _ _ _ _ [C] holding on _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] [Am] In the _ _ _ dark [G]
before _ _ _ [C] the dawn
_ Oh, _ _
_ _ _ [Am] _ [G] _ [C]
I'm living clean Oh, I'm getting _ redeemed on [Am] this land
But _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] it ain't what you think It's the toil of a [C] much braver man _ _ _ _ _
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Lately I weep at the strangest [D] things we _ [Am] _
understand _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] Oh, [F]
like every new line that's defined [Am] on the back of [C] my hand _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Am] And I'm _ _ _ [G] hardly _ _ _ holding [C] _
on _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] In [Am] the _ _ _ dark [G]
before _ _ _ the [C] dawn _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Don't call it religion when I seek _ salvation [Am] _
inside _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Dm] [F] Oh, it's just _ surrendering all of yourself [D] to [C] this life _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ And man, it gets lonely _ seeing the spite [D] in [Am] their eyes _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] Before they walk away being _ blinded by [C] any old light _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Gm] And [Am] I'm _ _ _ [G] hardly _ _ _ _ _ [C] holding on _ _ _ _
_ _ _ In [Am] the _ _ _ [D] dark [G] before _ _ [Bm] _ _ [G] [C] the dawn _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ I'm thinking _ tonight of my _ entire life [Am] as a whole _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Gm] Oh, [F] and what it might mean if I ever get back in [C]
control
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