Chords for Live Forever - In the Studio with the Highwaymen Part 1

_ _ _ What [F#] a shock.
Tommy [Em] Marker.
_ _ _ Tommy Marker.
_ [E] _ _ _ _ [G] _
Me first?
Very first song.
[E] Boy, the pressure's on now, all of a sudden.
Somebody got a message, Tim?
Everybody was fine up until now.
_ And I have a feeling it's coming this way, _ [F] so_
[E] And I have a feeling it's coming this way, so_
I can't take it back [G] one step further
I can't take it back one step further
to going [D] for me. _ _ _ _
Try to speak, Wiley.
_ _ _ [F#] _
_ Maybe I should start that [A] sucker out.
Maybe I should start that sucker out.
Maybe I should start that sucker _ _ out.
I'm singing this song for [D] my sister [A] Sinead
I'm singing this song for my sister Sinead _ _ _ _
concerning the god [E]-awful mess that she made
concerning the god-awful mess that she made
when [A] she told them her truth
[D] just as hard as she [A] could
and _ her message profoundly
[Am] _
[E] was misunderstood.
[A] _ _ [D] Maybe she's [A] crazy
and maybe she ain't
[D] So was Picasso [A] and so [E] were the Saints.
[A] She's never been partial [D] to [A] shackles or chains. _ _ _ _ _
She's too old for breaking [E] and too young [A] to change. _ _ _ _ _
And if you don't like the tune, one of you guys can write the tune [E] and I'll co-write it with you.
_ [B] That's one.
[F#] _ _ It's all uphill from here, boys.
[G#] _
_ _ _ [C#] _ _ _ Who wants to follow [A] that monster?
_ You better grin, Chris, or I'll hit you. _ _ _ _ _
_ Living legends are a dying breed and there ain't that many left.
To [D] tell the truth, I ain't been feeling real hot lately, my damn self.
[E] I ain't old and I ain't bitter and I ain't mad at anyone. _ _
So don't go taking seriously what's poked at you and pulled.
But if [A] you've ever been to Nashville, then I think you might agree.
_ [D] We've seen a lot of changes, things we never thought we'd see.
_ [E] _ A rock and roller with a banjo, now that I might recall, but a _ _ country singer with a briefcase, it's all [A] I ever saw.
_ _ I mean, when you [D#] ask us to swallow a line like, I ain't mad at anyone. _ _ _ _ _ _
I like the _ _ images of _ driving across America [D] for _ us, for the album. _ _ _
It's like that image looking at everything through the _ windshield could be _ the [E] _ _ album and the title of the_
I like everything.
I like the driving image.
The thing that bothers me is like the middle verse with the black guy and the white guy.
I think they're very shallow images.
To me, those were nice sort of vague [D] images.
When [F] he said a [F#] black man with his hands held [A] high.
_ I see a father with a son.
You [G] can take those [D#] hands held high to mean so many things.
Yeah, I just assumed he was getting frisked by the cop. _
_ That's it too, you know, or that's it, you know, reaching.
I _ see where it is.
It never comes out of it.
It never comes out of it.
_ Story-wise, it doesn't give us an out.
Well, you mean it doesn't give _ any answers.
Well, that's what they said about Bob Dylan, damn it. _
[A] 30 years ago.
_ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ I'm going to live forever.
[Bm] _ I'm going to cross that river.
[G] _
I'm [A] going to catch tomorrow [D] now. _ _
_ _ _ You're gonna want to [Bm] hold me.
Just like I always [G] told you.
You're [A] gonna miss me [D] when I'm gone. _
_ _ _ [G] _ Nobody here will ever [D] find me.
_ _ _ _ [A] _
But I will always [D] be around. _
_ _ _ [G] _ Just like the songs [D] that leave behind me. _ _ _ _
_ [A] I'm going to live forever now. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F#m] _ I guess I can't find anymore.
_ _ [E] _ I guess I've got nothing.
I've got no more to say.
_ [A]
Or else I'd be putting it down. _ _
_ _ Instead of just throwing it [D] away.
_ _ _ _ [F#m] I worked like a slave _ for the future.
And gave [E] everything [B] that I [E] loved to the past. _ _
There's a string of Septembers that I can't remember.
And I hope my amnesia [D] will last.
_ [A#] Why should [F#m] I remember _ what's in it for me?
_ [E] Will I live longer?
_ Will I be stronger?
[A] Why must I return to the past? _ _
Lord, I hope my amnesia will [D]
last.
You played Disneyland Paris?
_ Oh, oh, oh.
_ Yes.
_ [G] What do they call that?
_ You love France.
_ [D#] You what?
You love [F#] France.
Piss off.
_ [N] _ _
_ _ I hate France.
I hate France.
And some of the bitches we play them out with,
we've had by far too many times,
and they hate us.
_ _ You know? _ _
Well, I didn't know that one.
I didn't know that one.
France?
How in the name of God can anyone hate France?
They've got beautiful women,
and they've got wine,
and 400 different kinds of cheese.
Yeah, so is Fort Worth. _ _
So does Fort Worth. _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ Of _ _ _ _ _ [Cm] course, I guess John and I [G#] and Waylon and Chris
have always [Cm] been so much of individuals.
[G#m] We didn't, I guess, I guess Waylon [E] and [B] _ John
hung out a little bit together,
but _ the [F] four of us have really never
really hung out [C] together, you know,
because we were sort of kind of [B] loners.
You knew these guys _ _ and myself.
_ _ Like, I know them.
You know how amazing it is to get to know them.
You know, you had everybody in harmony that long.
That often I can remember when you couldn't get John
two days in a row by himself.
_ _ _ _ By himself.
And Waylon was the same way.
_ _ _ _ Well, God knows we may not get him tomorrow.
_ [N] Fifteen years ago, you think we could have gotten
you [G] four guys in a room _ together
to make a record like this?
No.
_ Why? _
_ Well, you couldn't have found us. _ _ _
_ We were all four different parts of the planet
at _ [F#] different altitudes, probably.
_ [E] John and I were doing [A] a couple of specials a year [D] for CBS
and we were always doing a Christmas [A] special
and we decided _ [Bm]
snow, that sounds like [F#m] Christmas.
Wonder where we could go with our [G] friends
to get some snow.
So [A] _ _ we talked CBS into letting [E] us go to Montreux, Switzerland
because that's one of our favorite places in the world
[D] and we just thought if we prayed hard [Bm] enough
for [A] snow, several of us girls were pretty spiritual,
so we [D] started praying for snow
and we got Chris and Willie and Waylon to come with us
just because we were all good friends
and we were looking [A] for a good excuse
to spend the holidays [D] together.
So we went on to [B] Montreux and we had a great time.
[A] _