The Man I Was Chords

Capo 2 Key F#m

[Intro]
 
Em D G C x2
 
C D
 
[Verse]
 
    C       D       G
Now I might look familiar
      C        D       G
But inside I'm not the same
       C         D          Em
And if you can't see beneath
              D
You're not to blame
                 C         D        G
'Cause you still fear what I became
         C     D       G  C
And I'll not deny it
     C          D      G  C
That you were flying
        C
Ah, the man I was
D                         Em
He would have dragged you down
    C
The man I was
D                         G
He would have seized your crown
 
[Verse 2]
 
   C         D           G
So all these years have taught me
         C        D      G
There is always a second chance
       C        D          Em
Its forgiveness that I seek
        D
And not romance
        C           D         G
I'm only stretching out these hands
            C      D         G C
'Cause when danger found you
          C       D          G C
With wild wolves around you
       C         D                     Em
Oh the man I was he would have gone to ground
         C       D          G C
You were in your tidal wave
        C         D        G C
With no mast or mainstay
        C
And the man I was
D                     Em
He would have let you down
    C
The man I was
D                         G
He would have watched you drown
 
[Middle 8]
 
     C        D               G
When darkness fell with storms around
    C      D            Em
The main I was just played the clown
     C        D       Em
When drinking in some bar in town
         C
I was no tender stanger
   D
No desert ranger
  C
No sturdy farmer
   G         D     C
No knight in armour
 
[Coda]
 
Em D   G          C      Em D
     I played the clown
  G          C       Em D
I pulled you down
  G           C
I watched you drown
  Em          D
I seized your crown
  C      G
A man no more
 
[Instrumental]
 
Em D G C x2
 
   (Ooooh)
 
[Outro]
 
     C           D               Em
It's over now it breaks my heart because
    C              D             G
The man you see is not the man I was