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Four Walls The Ballad Of Perry Smith

Bastille

RockMedium for beginners4 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

C×
Em
D××
Bm×

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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Intro: C Em D Bm
 
Verse 
 
C       Em          D 
These four walls to keep you 
    Bm 
one floor to sleep upon 
          C      Em          D 
and only these four walls to keep you 
 
C       Em           D 
These four walls contain you 
   Bm 
Supposed to save you from yourself 
    C      Em           D 
and these four walls in Holcolm 
   Bm 
to keep you from the sun 
 
 
Pre-Chorus 
 
                         C 
And now we're faced with two wrongs 
                     Em 
now we're faced with two wrongs 
             D               Bm 
I don't know, oh I don't know 
 
                         C 
And now we're faced with two wrongs 
                     Em 
now we're faced with two wrongs 
             D               Bm 
I don't know, oh I don't know 
 
   C                 Em          D         Bm 
We could be born to anything and now what, now what? 
     C                Em           D        Bm 
What you have done is terrible and now you, now you, 
C       Em                     D 
now you carry it with you, you carry it with you 
    Bm 
you carry it with you 
 
Verse 
 
C       Em            D 
These four walls will keep you 
   Bm 
until you face the rope you've only 
C       Em          D 
these four walls before they 
   Bm 
in cold blood hang you up 
 
 
Pre-Chorus 
 
                         C 
And now we're faced with two wrongs 
                     Em 
now we're faced with two wrongs 
             D               Bm 
I don't know, oh I don't know 
 
                         C 
And now we're faced with two wrongs 
                     Em 
now we're faced with two wrongs 
             D               Bm 
I don't know, oh I don't know 
 
 
   C                 Em          D         Bm 
We could be born to anything and now what, now what? 
     C                Em           D        Bm 
What you have done is terrible and now you, now you, 
C       Em                     D 
now you carry it with you, you carry it with you 
    Bm 
you carry it with you 
 
C       Em                     D 
now you carry it with you, you carry it with you 
    Bm 
you carry it with you 
 
Bridge 
 
C                    Em                 D                  Bm 
There's no view from here, no view from here, no view from here 
C                 Em                 D                  Bm 
all you see's the sky clouds passing by, clouds passing by 
 
 
   C                 Em          D         Bm 
We could be born to anything and now what, now what? 
     C                Em           D        Bm 
What you have done is terrible and now you, now you, 
C       Em                     D 
now you carry it with you, you carry it with you 
    Bm 
you carry it with you 
          
 

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Chord set

C · Em · D · Bm

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.