Write It On Your Skin Chords
Write It On Your Skin by Newton Faulkner is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C with a capo on the 6st fret. It uses the chords C, G, F and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
C
Take everything you know and write it on your skin
G
And you can carry on and forget everything
F C
Take everything you own and put it in your car
G
You can drive away, drive away so far,
F C
And drive into a lake and take off all your clothes,
G
Set your clothes on fire, now you are alone
F C
But you've got all you know written on your skin,
G
So you can carry on and forget everything
PRE-CHORUS:
C F C
All the things I'd rather be,
F C
All the things I'd rather be
C Am
I can't, I can't, I can't stay around here
F C
I can, only leave
C
Take everything you know and write it on your skin
G
And you can carry on and forget everything
F C
Take everything you own and put it in your car
G
You can drive away, drive away so far,
F C
And drive into a lake and take off all your clothes,
G
Set your clothes on fire, now you are alone
F C
But you've got all you know written on your skin,
G
So you can carry on and forget everything
PRE-CHORUS:
C F C
All the things I'd rather be,
F C
All the things I'd rather be
C Am
I can't, I can't, I can't stay around here
F C
I can, only leave
C Am
I can't, I can't, I can't stay around here
F C
I can, only leave
MID-SECTION:
C G
Life feels like a music box, I'm spinning round slowly and I can't get off
C G
And life feels like a music box, I'm spinning round slowly and I can't get off
C G
(Let's start again)
And life feels like a music box (start again), I'm spinning round slowly and I can't get off
(let's start again)
C G
And life feels like a music box (start again) I'm spinning round slowly and I can't get off
C Am
I can't, I can't, I can't stay around here
F C
I can, only leave
C Am
I can't, I can't, I can't stay around here
F C
I can, only leave
C G C
I can't, I can't, I can't stay around here.