American Authors – In A Big Country chords

[Intro]
             E(Shot! Shot!)

[Verse 1]
E                             AI've never seen you look like this without a reason
E                       AAnother promise fallen through
        F#m    A      BAnother season passes by you

[Hook]
B A       F#m   (Shot!)

[Verse 2]
E                       AI never took the smile away from anybody's face
E                             AAnd that's a desperate way to look
            F#m     A      BFor someone who is still a child

[Chorus]
C#m      E           A       BAnd in a big country dreams stay with you
C#m    E                                   ALike a lover's voice fires the mountainside
      F#m E F#mStay alive

[Verse 3]
E                                   AI thought that pain and truth were things that really mattered
                   C#m       F#m                       EBut you can't stay here with every single hope you had shattered

[Solo]
E A E

[Verse 4]
E                         AI'm not expecting to grow flowers in a desert
EBut I can live and breathe
    A       F#m    A     BAnd see the sun in wintertime

[Chorus]
C#m      E           A       BAnd in a big country dreams stay with you
C#m    E             C#m       E           ALike a lover's voice fires the mountainside
      F#mStay alive
C#m  E           A       BIn a big country dreams stay with you
C#m    E                                   ALike a lover's voice fires the mountainside
      F#Stay alive

[Instrumental]
E A C#m F#m

[Bridge]
E                             ASo take that look out of here it doesn't fit you
C#m                           F#mBecause it's happened doesn't mean you've been discarded
E                                APull up your head off the floor, come up screaming
C#m                        F#mCry out for everything you ever might have wanted
E                                   AI thought that pain and truth were things that really mattered
        C#m                  F#m                       EBut you can't stay here with every single hope you had shattered

[Hook]
E A       E   (Shot!)

[Final Verse]
E                         AI'm not expecting to grow flowers in a desert
EBut I can live and breathe
    A       F#m    F#    BAnd see the sun in wintertime

[Chorus]
C#m      E           A       BAnd in a big country dreams stay with you
C#m    E             C#m       E           ALike a lover's voice fires the mountainside
      F#mStay alive
C#m  E           A       BIn a big country dreams stay with you
C#m    E                                   ALike a lover's voice fires the mountainside
      F#mStay alive