Back Around Chords
Back Around by Cross Canadian Ragweed is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C with a capo on the 2st fret. It uses the chords C, Em7, D, Cadd9 and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Tab written by Brad Berry
Standard Tuning
(Intro)
C Em7 C Em7 C Em7 D (2 times)
(Verse 1)
C Em7 C Em7
You say you will, but you never do
C Em7 D
Kinda getting tired of looking through you
C Em7 C Em7
Got a lot, on your mind
C Em7 D
But not as much as a had on mine
C Em7 C Em7
When you got everything, you don’t know what its like to lose
C Em7 D
But everything’s nothing, when your necks inside the noose
(Bridge 1)
Cadd9 Em7
It chokes you out and it fades to black
D G
Leaves you wishin, you could take it all back
Cadd9 Em7
It don’t matter, if it’s wrong or right
D G
It don’t matter, if you sleep at night
Cadd9 Em7
It don’t matter, how much you pray
D G
Cause you’ll get yours come Judgment Day
(Chorus Version 1)
C Em7 Cadd9 Em7
Cause everything comes back around
Cadd9 G D
No matter how much, you cover your ground
C Em7 Cadd9 Em7
You spend your whole life runnin from your sins
Cadd9 G D G
Runnin a race, you ain’t never gonna win
Cadd9 G D G
Gonna catch up to you in the end
Cadd9 Em7 Cadd9 Em7 Cadd9 Em7 D (2 times)
(Versus 2)
Cadd9 Em7 Cadd9 Em7
You got wholes in your story, got a monkey on you back
Cadd9 Em7 D
One foot in the grave, and your caught in a trap
Cadd9 Em7 Cadd9 Em7
With a fallin’ down curtain, that you can’t stop
Cadd9 Em7 D
An iron in the fire, that you didn’t mean to drop
(Bridge 2)
Cadd9
When you live in a house, that’s made of glass
D G
Don’t throw stones, cause your walls will fall fast
Cadd9 Em7
As those walls, come crashin down
D G
Look at the pieces, scattered on the ground
Cadd9 Em7
Pick up the ones, that you can find
D G
Try to put em all together, but your runnin out of time
(Chorus Version 2)
Cadd9 G D Em7
Cause everything comes back around
Cadd9 G D
No matter how much, you cover your ground
Cadd9 G D Em7
You spend your whole life runnin from your sins
Cadd9 G D G
Runnin a race, you ain’t never gonna win
Cadd9 G D G
Gonna catch up to you in the end
Cadd9 Em7 Cadd9 Em7 Cadd9 Em7 D
(Bridge 3)
Cadd9 Em7
Broke down and your all alone (Make em dark Willard)
D G
A blade of guilt cuts you to the bone
Cadd9 Em7
Think by now you’d have turn and run
D D
But you can’t cross, a bridge you’ve burned
(Chorus Version 2)
Cadd9 G D Em7
Cause everything comes back around
Cadd9 G D
No matter how much, you cover your ground
Cadd9 G D Em7
You spend your whole life runnin from your sins
Cadd9 G D G
Runnin a race, you ain’t never gonna win
Cadd9 G D G
Gonna catch up to you in the end
Cadd9 G D Em7
You know you can’t run forever my friend (2-3-4)
Cadd9 Em7 Cadd9 Em7 Cadd9 Em7 D
End on G
Use variations of D with D2 between verses.