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Starting Over - Macklemore

Starting Over

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Intro

Am G C F

Am G C

1,2, now

Part 1

Am G

Those three-plus years, I was so proud of

C F

Then I threw them all away for two Styrofoam cups

Am G

The irony, everyone will think that "He lied to me"

C

Made my sobriety so public, there's no fucking privacy

Am G

If I don't talk about it then I carry a date

C F

A "08/10/08" that now has been changed

Am G

And everyone that put me in some box as a saint

C

That I never was, just a false prophet that never came

Am G

And will they think that everything that I've written has all been fake?

C F

Or will I just take my slip to the grave?

Am G

What the fuck are my parents gonna say?

C

The success story that got his life together and changed

Am G

And you know, what pain looks like

C F

When you tell your dad you relapsed and look at him directly into his face

Am G

Deceit on your shoulders, deceivingly heavy weight

C

Haven't seen tears like this on my girl in a while

Am G

The trust that I once built has been betrayed

C F

But I'd rather live telling the truth and be judged for my mistakes

Am G

Than falsely held up, given props, loved and praised

C

I guess, I gotta get this on the page

Am G

Feeling sick and helpless, lost the compass where self is

C F

I know what I've gotta do, and I can't help it

Am G

One day at a time is what they tell us

C

Now I've gotta find a way to tell them

Am G C F

God help 'em, yeah

Am G

One day at a time is what they tell us

C

Now I've gotta find a way to tell them

[Refrão]

Am G

We fall, so hard,

C F Am G C

now we gotta get back what we lost, lost

Am G

I thought you’d gone,

C F Am G C

but you were with me all along, along

Part 2

Am G

And every kid that came up to me

C F

And said I was the music they listened to when they first got clean

Am G

Now look at me, a couple days sober, I'm fighting demons

C

Back of that meeting on the East Side, shaking, tweaking

Am G

Hope that they don't see it, hope that no one is looking

C F

That no one recognizes that failure under that hoodie

Am G

Just posted in the back with my hands crossed, shooken

C

If they call on me I'm passin', if they talk to me I'm booking

Am G

Out that door, but before, I can make it

C

Somebody stops me and says "Are you Macklemore?

F Am G

Maybe this isn't the place or time, I just wanted to say that

C

If it wasn't for 'Otherside,' I wouldn't have made it"

Am G

I just looked down at the ground and say, "Thank you"

C F

She tells me she has nine months, and that she's so grateful

Am G

Tears in her eyes, looking like she's gonna cry, fuck

C

I barely got forty-eight hours, treated like I'm some wise monk

Am G

I want to tell her I relapsed, but I can't

C F

I just shake her hand and tell her, "Congrats"

Am G

Get back to my car, and I think I'm tripping, yeah

C

Cause God wrote "Otherside," that pen was in my hand

Am G

I'm just a flawed man, man, I fucked up

C F

Like so many others, I just never thought I would

Am G

I never thought I would, didn't pick up the book

C

Doin' it by myself didn't turn out that good

Bridge

Am G

If I can be an example of getting sober

C F

Then I can be an example of starting over

Am G

If I can be an example of getting sober

C

Then I can be an example of starting over

[Refrão]

Am G

We fall, so hard,

C F Am G C

now we gotta get back what we lost, lost

Am G

I thought you’d gone,

C F Am G C

but you were with me all along, along

Outro

Am G C F

Am G C

How to play Starting Over

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What is the starting chord?

The first identified chord is Am. You can transpose without leaving the page.

Can I play it on guitar or keyboard?

Yes. The chord progression works on acoustic guitar, electric guitar and keyboard. Adapt the voicings to your instrument and level.

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