Falls To Climb (Listen to midi)    (Listen to sample)

 

   G                         D                            C              Em   - D

1.    I'll take the position, assume the missionary part,

G                               D                     C                              Em  

    you work by committee, you had me pegged from the start.

G                         D                      C                    Em         D

    I'll be pounce pony, phony maroney, pony before the cart.

G                         D                      C            Em         G

    I'll be pounce pony, this ceremony only fills my heart.

 

D                        G      C       D                            G            C

    Who cast the final stone?     Who threw the crushing blow?

      D                       G           C    Am               G    ~

    Someone has to take the fall.       Why not me?

 

   G                       D                   C                    Em   - D

2.    A punch toy volunteer, a weakling on its knee,

G                  D                        C                     Em

    is all you want to hear and all you want to see.

           G                         D                     C                      Em    - D

    Romantically, you'd martyr me and miss this story's point,

       G                             D               C                    Em          G

    it is my strength, my destiny, this is the role that I have chosen.

                      Am              G           F-Am-C-G (3x)       Am-G

+ CHORUS +      why not me?

 

       G                                    D                C                    Am       - D

3. Gentlemen mark your opponents, fire into your own ranks,

G                            D                   C                            Em            D

   pick the weakest as strategic move, square off, to meet your enemy.

G                         D                C                       Em        D

    For each and every gathering a scapegoat falls to climb,

G                 D                  C           Em       G                         a              G

   As I step forward, silently, deliberately mine. + CHORUS + why not me?

              a                               G                      a                  G

     Had consequence chose differently, had fate its ugly head,

           a                           G                  a                G

    my actions make me beautiful and dignify the flesh.

    a-G   a            G   a          G-a-G    a-G

   M...e,     I am free,    I am fr.....ee !               

 

    (R.E.M.)