Based On A Thousand True Stories Chords by Silje Nergaard

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_ _ I believe [Fm] that starry skies _
[Eb] would always dim our [Cm] carefree days to night, and would guide
[F] us, she said, that we would fear nothing.
But now I [Fm] see the flawless heart, [Ab] _ whose [C] only wish is to be [Fm] right, feels how it's beaten for [Eb] nothing.
She told him everything [Gm] but a pair, _ [Eb] and [Ab] she lost touch with moments [F] later, then,
_ tried to make herself believe she'd never [Gm] care.
[Fm] _ [Eb] But none of this is written there in stone, she said, it's based on a thousand true stories. _ _ _ _
_ I can [C] see that all the signs _ [Ab]
I made myself [C] believe I hadn't seen are [F] what hurt us, she
said, there was no way of [Eb] knowing.
I wrote a [Fm] play to fit the screen, _ _ [Ab] put our loving [C] names up there in the [Fm] lines, but that
gap went on [Eb] growing.
_ He told her everything just [Gm] fell apart, [Eb] so _ [Ab] he had done his best to [Fm] fool his heart, [F] _ _ [Ab] tried
to make himself [Bb] believe he was [F] alive.
_ But none of [C] this has come from me alone, he said, it's based on a [Ab] thousand true [Eb] stories. _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Bb] _ _ [Eb] _ We hoped that life would just stay in our hands, [Ab] that the earth would [C] disappear and we [Fm] would be fine.
_ [Ab] I waited until [Bb] the love that we had left [Fm] behind.
_ _ _ [Ab] But none of this can happen [C] on its own, they [Eb] said, it's based on a thousand true stories.
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