The President(Chords)

	        
Intro: C  Am  G  F  C  (2x) 

     C 
I've run to ground  
     Am            G               F         C 
I've run from everyone that I have ever known  
    C 
I'm aching cold  
    Am              G              F          C 
I'm aching from the bones the very blood of me  

         Am                                   G 
And it's broke before you know it, before you knew what it was for  
        F                                 C 
All you know is you can't fix it, and you wish you'd listened more  
        Am                                G 
To your instincts, to your family, to the wisdom you'd ignored  
        F                        C     G 
Are you finally gonna ask us for help?  

     C 
I've crashed to earth  
        Am            G                F         C 
But I'd fallen for so long that it was just relief  
  C 
I saw your face  
   Am            G               F           C 
In everyone that looked me in my drunken eyes  

         Am                                   G 
And it's broke before you know it, before you knew what it was for  
        F                                 C 
All you know is you can't fix it, and you wish you'd listened more  
        Am                                G 
To your instincts, to your family, to the wisdom you'd ignored  
         F                        C     G 
When you finally gonna ask us for help?  

      Am                                G 
I can see you at the front gate, as you wait on my return  
    F                                   C 
The years have blurred to eons, but the tears have never dried  
            Am                          G 
But I'm not coming to you like this, so battered down and sad  
       F                       C 
I will take the road forgotten again.
	        

Written by Nathan Connolly/Jacknife Lee/Gary Lightbody/Jonny Quinn/Tom Simpson/Paul Wilson