Four Walls The Ballad Of Perry Smith Chords

KeyC CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays516

Four Walls The Ballad Of Perry Smith by Bastille is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, Em, D and Bm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
C
Text
16
Speed
  			
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 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante