Chords for It Ain't Easy When You Fall/ Shades Off

[F] _ _ [C] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [C] _ _
[G] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [F] You [C] used to float just [Dm] like a bug upon the [C] tide.
_ [F] You [C] used to run when [Dm] things were dumb.
You used to [C] hide.
_ [F] You [C] talk of ships.
You talk [Dm] of boats.
You [C] talk games.
_ [F] And now [C] you're down.
You [Dm] ain't around.
It's such [C] a shame.
Cause you [G] got [F] _ something to [C] give.
[Bb] Something to [F] hold on to.
[Gm] Why don't you [F] let him?
Can you [C] just forget about [Bb] fixing [F] up?
_ [Bb] Maybe you'd [F] stop and pick yourself [Gm] up.
Now it's too late.
[F] Oh.
[Eb] It ain't easy [Bb] when you fall.
_ [C] _ _ [F] _ [Eb] It ain't easy [Bb] when you fall.
[C] _ _ [F] _ [Eb] It ain't easy when you [Bb] fall.
[C] _ _ _ [F] _ _
[C] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _
[Am] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [F] You [C] didn't know this world ain't [Dm] slow.
You got a [C] mood.
_ [F]
You made [C] no sound.
I watched [Dm] you drown.
I [C] watched you lose.
[F]
Your [C] loneliness.
You [Dm] knew it best.
But [C] it's a drag.
[F] _
[C] Cause in the end.
I lost a [Dm] friend.
I feel so [C] sad.
Cause you [G] had [F] something [C] to give. _
[Bb] Something to [F] hold on [Gm] to.
Why didn't you [F] let him?
You [C] just forgot [Bb] about fixing [F] up.
Maybe [Bb] you'd [F] stop and pick [Gm] yourself up.
Now it's too late.
[F] _ It [Eb] ain't easy when you [Bb] fall.
[C] It [F] _ ain't easy when you fall.
It ain't easy when you fall.
It [Eb] ain't easy when you [Bb] fall.
_ [C] _
[F] _ It [Eb] ain't easy when you [Bb] fall.
_ [C] _
_ [F] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Bb] _ [C] It [F] ain't easy when you fall.
[Eb] _ _ [Bb] _ [C] It [F] ain't easy when you fall.
_ [Eb] _ _ [Bb] _ [C] It ain't easy [F] when you fall.
[Eb] Where [Bb] do you go
when you've [C] somewhere to run?
[F] When the time isn't right.
[Eb] When your story's been done.
[Bb] _ [C] When you're trapped half way up.
[F] You don't want to go back.
[Eb] So you keep going up.
[Bb] Compromising the [C] lack.
[F] When you see the green fields as you [Eb] travel on by.
[Bb] And you look at the things you've [C] forgotten to try.
And [F] you wish you were young.
And you [Eb] wish you were old.
[Bb] But the song's always there.
[C] And the story's been [F] done.
And [Eb] you thought you were different.
[Bb] But what did that mean?
[C] That you tricked [F] yourself trying.
Life's still [Eb] empty.
[Bb] As it is.
As it was.
[C] It always is.
[F] When you find [Eb] out at all what it is to be free.
[Bb] _ [C] See [F] it never was easy to live with a head.
[Eb] So I kept to the back room.
[Bb] And I live there instead.
[C] What [F] comes to the front room is only for friends.
[Eb] I have a bay window.
[Bb] But [C] that's where it ends.
_ [F] And it's here I [Eb] see pictures and my madness is clear.
[Bb] And there's [C] no longer logic.
[F] So therefore no fear.
[Eb] And I'm almost [Bb] dead with uncontrollable light.
[C] _