Zak Alexander - The Shell Of What Once Was Cifras

[Intro]
 
Am
 
 
[Verse 1]
 
Dm                  Am
Walking through the ghost town
E     Am
Of my life - it
Dm            Am
Used to be so lively
E         Am
Now it is dead
    Dm         Am
Imitating our lives
         E
Through masks and
      Am
Hand sanitise
      Dm                            Am
And I know it's not what you were expecting
      E        Am
But please be satisfied
                  Dm                   Am
Because if you're not we'll make more restrictions
            E              Am
And you'll want to commit suicide
 
 
[Chorus]
 
F                   Fm             C             E
It feels like we're living in the shell of what once was
       Am                 F             Fm              C
We're faking 'till we're making so that we can keep on selling our
E                 Am               F                     Fm          C
Happiness to the world and to the government and it will go back to normal
                  E               Am    F                   Fm
But right now it feels like we'll never feel how we used to be
                 Am
How we used to be
 
 
[Verse 2]
 
Dm           Am            E              Am
I sit in my lessons and I don't talk for hours
        Dm        Am                       E                Am
Getting used to identifying people through looking at their shoes
        Dm                    Am              E            Am
And I'm sorry if I look unnaproachable - it's my resting face
  Dm             Am           E              Am
I didn't mean to put you in such a wretched state
 
 
[Chorus]
 
F                   Fm             C             E
It feels like we're living in the shell of what once was
       Am                 F             Fm              C
We're faking 'till we're making so that we can keep on selling our
E                 Am               F                     Fm          C
Happiness to the world and to the government and it will go back to normal
                  E               Am    F                   Fm
But right now it feels like we'll never feel how we used to be
                 Am
How we used to be
 
 
[Bridge]
 
Dm Am E Am
Dm Am E Am
 
 
[Coda]
 
Dm           Am            E               Am
Locked in my home for the second time this year
         Dm      Am                E             Am
Up to my neck in pressure, will normality return soon?
       Dm      Am              E             Am
Fuck I hope so   before this becomes the new normal
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