In a Big Country

I've never seen you look like (A)this without a (E)reason.

Another promise fallen (A)through, another (F#m)season (E)passes by you.

(E)I never took the smile (A)away from anybody's face,

(E)and that's a desp'rate way to (A)look for someone (F#m)who is (E)still a child.

(C#m7)In a (E)big country dreams (B)stay with you (C#m7)like a (E)lover's voice fires the mountainside.

(A)Stay (F#m9)alive.

(E)I thought that pain and truth were (Amaj7)things that really mattered,

but you (C#m)can't stay here with (F#m)ev'ry single hope you had (E)shattered.

(A)I'm not expecting to grow flowers in a desert,

(E)but I can live and breathe and (A)see the (F#m)sun in (A)(B)wintertime.

(C#m7)In a (E)big country dreams (B)stay with you (C#m7)like a (E)lover's voice fires the mountainside.

(A)Stay (F#m9)alive.

(C#m7)In a (E)big country dreams (B)stay with you (C#m7)like a (E)lover's voice fires the mountainside.

(A)Stay (F#m9)alive.

(E5)So take that look out of here,

it doesn't fit you.

(C#5)Because it's happened doesn't (F#5)mean you've been discarded.

(E5)Pull up your head off the floor.

Come up screaming!

(C#5)Cry out for ev'rything you (F#5)ever might have wanted.

(E5)I thought that pain and truth were (A5)things that really mattered,

but you (C#5)can't stay here with (F#5)ev'ry single hope you had (E)shattered.

(C#m7)In a (E)big country dreams (B)stay with you (C#m7)like a (E)lover's voice fires the mountainside.

(A)Stay (F#m9)alive.

(C#m7)In a (E)big country dreams (B)stay with you (C#m7)like a (E)lover's voice fires the mountainside.

(A)Stay (F#m9)alive.