John Frusciante – Past Recedes   (Album: Curtains (2005))

Intro & verse: [G,  D,  Am,  Em]

And then the past recedes,     and I won’t be involved
The effort to be free,              Seems pointless from above

You’re looking down at me,        I’d rather stay below
Than have you staring up at me,  It is nowhere I want to go  [B7]

C            B7               G                  D

Ay, this business of, how long we try to stay alive

Why to be here you first got to die,   so I gave it a try

       C                  G                             Am

And what do you know,  Time was so long ago

And things come back you see,  To where they don’t belong
and every drop of sea,  is the whole ocean

C                         B7                       G                  D

I lied to the greatest thieves, about anything & everything
I’m a figure of forgotten speech, I’m out of reach
I can’t play it safe, But I’m might just in case
I’m disguised as a reaching hand, I’m a working man
I don’t understand why clockout,  come so slow everytime
       C                  G             Am

That’s one line I stay right behind

[intro x2]