Ruins Chords
Ruins by First Aid Kit is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords F, C, Am and Bb. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro
F
Verse
F C
Today, I climbed the highest mountain I have ever climbed
F C
And I turn, to look at ruins I had left behind
F C F
And you, where were you so far removed from any truth
Am Bb
I lost you, didn't I?
F
But first I think I lost myself
F C
Children, then and forever locked in a memory
F C
Olden, that mirror searching for some kind of certainty
F C
That you were just the same as everyone
F
But you were wrong
Am Bb
And it hurt you, didn't it?
F
All you couldn't be
Ruins
Bb
Ohhh
F
Ruins
Bb
Ohhh
Verse
F C
I tried to hold on to some kind of dignity
F C
Too long I waded through a vast and endless sea
F C F
Thinking, I could find the secret there within
Am Bb
But I gave up, didn't I?
F
Seemed the only way
F C
Ruins, all the things we built assured that they would last
F C F
Ending months ticket stubs, and written notes and photographs
C F
Where are you and here somewhere I cannot go
Am Bb
I'm sorry, I am
F
But I don't take it back
Bridge
Bb F
And in the night I hear your voice
Bb F
Sometimes but it quickly passes
Bb F
In dreams I saw what I had thought
Bb C
Could be some kind of answer
Bb
You try and try and try until you cannot try no more
F
Captured in our own
F
Ruins
Bb
Ohhh
F
Ruins
Bb
Ohhh
F
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N.C.
Ohhh
N.C.
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