Hot On The Trail Chords
Hot On The Trail by Steam Powered Giraffe is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords Am, F, C, G, E, E7, A5 and F5. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Verso 1:
Am
Well you don't like that way that I am (is not the way)
F
Way that you want and the way you understand (but I can't)
C
Can't help being the way that I am (it's just the way)
G
Way that it is and what I know so sorry about
Am
All of these things that I be and I know (it's all me)
F
And not you but this ain't how I wish (it to be)
C
For you and your way and I know (it's all me)
G
Just know that I know, I know it's all on me
Pré-Refrão
F G Am
All the little pieces make up so much sense in the distance, a-whoa-ho-ho-ho
F G Am
Fragmented to the point of is it possible?
F G Am F
Hot on the trail of a real fine life
F G Am F
This could be what it means to be alive
F G Am F
Can't be too sure but it feels the right way
F G Am
Love is infinite like sun rays
Verso 2:
F G C
I know what I need to be me
F G C
And I know being me makes it hard to see
F G C
Standing on a precipice isn't new
F G C
Those demons sometimes get me seeing blue
Ponte:
F G
All this, call this, what you want but it
C F
Makes me feel alive
F G
Stowed it , showed it, now I know it
C F
Can't be in my mind
F G
It was foreign, pouring, I've been storing
C F
This for a long while
F G
I consumed, felt doomed, sung a new tune
C F
Eventually in time
Verso 3:
Am
But you don't like that way that I feel (is the way)
F
Way that makes you feel worse all of the time (and I know)
C
Know that it's not okay for you (and it's not)
G
Not for me and is for you so sorry about
Am
All of these things that you didn't sign up for (and I don't)
F
Don't wish the pain on you it's so sore (but I've been)
C
Honest to fault (but it doesn't help)
G
I know that hurts and it hurts and it keeps on hurting
Am
Every single time we try and try to
F
make things right for you and I
C
We just kept digging, digging it deep
E
Below our feet 'till we started to sink
Am
And I didn't know what what to do
F
I told myself the truth the truth
C
And I could understand and you could understand
E7
But how could we stand, when there was nowhere to stand?
Am
And all the little things that get under our skin
F
Didn't make us better in that heavy weather
C
I hope that it's better but never upsetter
E7
We took ours hands, made some vague plan
Pré-Refrão
F G Am
All the little pieces make up so much sense in the distance, a-whoa-ho-ho-ho
F G Am
Fragmented to the point of is it possible?
F G C F
Hot on the trail of a real fine life
F G C F
This could be what it means to be alive
F G C F
Can't be too sure but it feels the right way
F G C
Love is infinite like sun rays
Verso 4:
F G C
I know what I need to be me
F G C
And I know being me makes it hard to see
F G C
The distance hasn't always been clear
F G C E
But finally with our love it could appear
F
And you don't like what it is
G
And you don't know what it is
F
And I can't sum it up easily
G
But I know what it is that I plainly see
Am
Yeah who could have liked what it was?
F
It caused such a fuss
C
My heart placed in your hand
G
Then we gave love a chance and
Final A5 F5 C E
Am F C E
Am F G C E
F G Am
F G Am
F G C F
F G C F
F G C