Look Backward On Your Future Look Forward To Your Past Chords

by Bonnie "Prince" Billy
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Difficulty: beginner
Tuning: E A D G B E
Capo: no capo
Author marcussrosen1 [a] 23. Last edit on Aug 28, 2020

Chords

E
A
B
F#m
Asus4
D

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[Chords]
E      022100
A      002220
B      x24442
F#m    244222
Asus4  x00235
D      xx0232
 
[Verse 1]
E                                     A                            E
Richard was a stout-hearted man, he’d been through the bulk of his life
E                                             A               E
He no longer spoke to most of his folks and was abandoned by his wife
E                                                              A
Rolling down the road one night alone, he came upon a terrible sight
A                  E                            B                        E
An older woman lay bleeding in the road and her screams about filled the night
 
 
[Chorus]
          E                                      A               E
She said: Look backwards on your future and look forward to your past
E                                                    F#m                 B
Everything upon which you base your faith is made of vapour and it won’t last
E                                                                    A
It’s only everything in our shared reality that keeps our souls held fast
         A                 E               B               E
So, look backwards on your future and look forward to your past
 
 
[Verse 2]
E                                                 A                               E
Richard woke the next morning and spoke, he said, there’s something I feel I must do
E                                                     A                      E
He called up all of his natural born kids and all his money from the bank he withdrew
E                                                                        A
He changed his mind about everything he’d ever felt about what’s bad and good
A                              E                      B                   E
He fixed a loud-speaker to the roof of his car and he sang to everyone he could
 
 
[Chorus]
         E                                      A               E
He sang: Look backwards on your future and look forward to your past
E                                                                F#m                    B
Get your sense of time from the ancient Hawaiians, your sense of self from the hydrogen blast
E                                                                                    A
You’ll be what came before, you were what is to come, he bellowed out to everyone he passed
A                          E               B               E
So, look backwards on your future and look forward to your past
 
[Bridge]
Asus4 D E
Asus4 D E
Asus4 D E
 
[Verse 3]
E                                              A                         E
Richard got arrested in Laredo, he was causing too much mischief for the sisters
E
He spent an evening in the clink and then went home and turned to drinking – 
A                           E
gave his all, yes, he was a double-fister
E                                                                                     A
The issue was the kind of past he had behind him, most of what he’d spent were wasted days
A                           E                         B                            E
The history he faced was an ocean made of empty and a destiny you wouldn’t want to save
 
 
[Chorus]
              E                                      A               E
Still, I say: Look backwards on your future and look forward to your past
E                                                   F#m                             B
If you haven’t gone and made a mess of yourself you just might end up with the last laugh
E                                                                            A
Every little dot of p-p-presence and thought for another will give your life class
A                          E               B               E
So, look backwards on your future and look forward to your past
 
 
[Coda]
E                                                                                           A
This particular assemblage of molecules and memories some day soon may just soon run out of gas
A                          E               B               E
So, look backwards on your future and look forward to your past
 
Asus4 D E
Asus4 D E
Asus4 D E
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Look Backward On Your Future Look Forward To Your Past – Bonnie "Prince" Billy
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