Capo 4
chords with are single strum. In the version on Songs of God and Whiskey Mikel plays around with soft
strumming on some of chords but it sounds okay to just single strum it
Chords used:
F x33210
C/G 332010
G 320033
Am x02210
Intro (something like this)
F (four strums followed by two with the second finger pulled off)
F
C/G (same pattern as with F)
C/G
repeat twice
C/G
Whatever happened to the fall of Rome?
F
What a strange thing to ask when I was taking you home
C/G
as we walked alone in the parking lot
F
I said I don’t have much, you said I like what you’ve got
G F C/G
And I’d be lying if I said I didn’t picture you then in your wedding dress
G F C/G
And the days I hoped we’d someday spend in our Sunday best
F C/G F C/G
We were light as a flame, both batshit insane
Am G C/G
We were lost but we were just the same
C/G
Whatever happened to the fall of Rome?
F
You were a mystery to me but the place felt like home
C/G
There are no rules when you're fallin in love
F
You just take what you get and you hope it’s enough
G F C/G
And I’d be lying if I said I didn’t picture you then in your wedding dress
G F C/G
And the days I hoped we’d someday spend in our Sunday best
F C/G F C/G
We were wrong from the start, with our broken hearts
Am G F C/G
You played your role and I played my part
Repeat intro once
F C/G
And the road was so long
F C/G
I was never as strong
Am G F C/G
As the love that you gave to me
F C/G F C/G
And it all turned as told(?), you become so cold
Am G C/G
That you forget what you were born to be
C/G
C/G
Whatever happened to the fall of Rome?
F (a little bit of strumming)
Those people all turned to ashes and stone
C/G
It’s a trick of the mind, when you think it won’t end
F
It’s contest with time and time always wins
G (little bit of strumming) F C/G
I saw a picture of you the other day in your wedding dress
G F C/G
And I wondered why I walked away like I had with the rest
F C/G F C/G
You were the only thing that was worth saving
Am G C/G
And I swear that I did my best
build on C/G
G F C/G
And sometimes at night I dream of you now in your wedding dress
G F C/G
And I hope it doesn’t seem somehow like I gave you less
F C/G F C/G
I have nothing to show from these years on the road
Am G C/G
But these songs that I wrote for you
