Back_of_My_Mind_-_John_Hiatt

BPM Metronome

        [Intro]
        C F C G C F C G C
         
        [Verse 1]
        C                              F
        Well my daddy he stood at the foot of the stairs
                  C                  G
        He was calling to me at the time
         C                               F
        And I knew even then, I could die for the thoughts
            C                G         C
        That I kept in the back of my mind
         
        [Verse 2]
        C
        But I dared not to speak
                F
        How I felt for my dad
                      C                  G
        Cause there were no words to define
              C                      F
        The ball of confusion, of feelings and junk
                C            G           C
        That I kept in the back of my mind
         
        [Interlude]
        C F C G C F C G C
         
        [Verse 3]
                C
        So I took to the highway
               F
        And I kept to myself
                 C                      G
        Just a lookin' and hopin' to find
                  C                        F
        Some solutions, some answers, someway to exist
                C                 G        C
        With this stuff in the back of my mind
         
        [Verse 4]
               C
        So I took me a job
                 F
        And I took me a wife
               C                   G
        And I took me a bottle of wine
                 C                           F
        And it did not take long, 'til all I had left
                    C           G          C
        Was this stuff in the back of my mind
         
        [Chorus]
        C   C/E   F  F/E  Dm  Dm/F   G   G/F
        Drivin' like rain, or a runaway train
        E E/G# Am   F              C         G           C
        Flying blind, shot from the dark in the back of my mind
         
        [Interlude]
        C F C G C F C G C
         
        [Verse 5]
        C
        Well the end of the tunnel
                 F
        Just never came up
                  C                     G
        'til I came to the end of the line
                 C                         F
        And I saw that the light I'd been hoping to see
              C                  G            C
        Was just a spark in the back of my mind
         
        [Verse 6]
                  C
        And the cold wind that blew
                       F
        Through the hole in my heart
                 C                      G
        Made a fire for the very first time
                       C
        From some branches of trust
                  F
        And a kindling of faith
                     C           G         C
        And that spark in the back of my mind
         
        [Chorus X2]
        [Outro]
        F              C         G           C
        shot from the dark in the back of my mind
        F              C         G           C
        shot from the dark in the back of my mind
        
        C F C G C F C G C