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Dashboard Confessional

Bend And Not Break

by Dashboard Confessional
Dashboard Confessional

Biography:

Dashboard Confessional is an acoustic rock group started in 2000, by Chris Carrabba in Boca Raton, Florida, as a side project from his band Further Seems Forever.

Chris recorded his first album, The Swiss Army Romance, in 2000. The following year, he recorded Further Seems Forever's debut album The Moon Is Down. However, he left the band soon after the album's release, instead recording and releasing his sophomore album The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most, as well as a follow-up EP titled So Impossible.

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Dashboard Confessional
Bend And Not Break
Submitted by: [email protected]

Key: F

Tuning: Standard EADGBe

Chords used:
F - 133211
C - x32010
Dm - xx0231
Bb - x13331
C/E - 032xxx
Bbm - x13321
C# - x46664
Gm - 355333
Eb - x68886


Intro: F-- x16
F--Dm-Bb- x6


Verse 1:
F Dm Bb
I catalog these steps now
F Dm Bb
decisive and intentioned
F
precise and patterned
Dm Bb F Dm Bb
specifically to yours
F Bm Bb
I'm talented at breathing
F Dm Bb
especially exhaling
F
so that my chest will
Dm Bb F Dm Bb
rise and fall with yours


F--Dm-Bb- x4


Verse 2:
F Dm Bb
I'm careful not to wake you
F Dm Bb
fearing conversation
F Dm Bb
It's better just to hold you
F Dm Bb
and keep you pacified
F Dm Bb
I'm talented with reason
F Dm Bb
I cover all the angles
F Dm Bb F Dm Bb
I can fail before I EVER try


Chorus 1:
F C/E
Try to understand theres an
Bb Bbm
old mistake that fools will make
F Dm
And i'm the king of them
Bb C#
pushing everything that's good away
F Dm Bb
So won't you hold me now?
Gm
(I will not bend I will not break)
F Dm Bb
Won't you hold me now?
Gm
(I will not bend I will not break)


Post chorus: F--Dm-Bb- x2


Verse 3:
F Dm Bb
I am fairly agile
F Dm Bb
I can bend and not break
F
Or I can break and
Dm Bb F Dm Bb
take it with a smile
F Dm Bb
I am so resilient
F Dm Bb
I recover quickly
F
I'll convince you
Dm Bb F Dm Bb
soon that i am fine


Chorus 2:
F C/E
Try to understand theres an
Bb Bbm
old mistake that fools will make
F Dm
And i'm the king of them
Bb C#
pushing everything that's good away
F Dm Bb
So won't you hold me now?
Gm
(I will not bend I will not break)
F Dm Bb
Won't you hold me now?
Gm
(For you I rise for you I fall)


Interlude: F--Dm--Eb--F-- x2


Bridge:
F Dm Eb F
Just hold me close to you
(Repeat x4)


Interlude: F--Dm--Gm--C#-- x2


Chorus 3:
F Dm
Try to understand theres an
Bb Bb
old mistake that fools will make
F Dm
And i'm the king of them
Bb Eb
pushing everything that's good away
F Dm Bb C#
So won't you hold me now?
F Dm Bb C#
Won't you hold me now?


Outro: F--Dm-Bb- x4, F(hold)




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