Am                          Dm
Well, it's strange my head is rememberin'
    G                     A
How the airplane flying overhead
    Am                     Dm
Looks so effortless, but I cannot guess
   G                       Am
Why it lingers in my mind
   Am                      Dm
Evening after this, I'm a crying mess
   G                        Am
And to be stronger now, my only wish
   Am                       Dm
So I can finally have the bravery
    G                       Am
So I can reach on up to the sky


[PreChorus 1]
Dm
This cruel fate engraving
Am
It's carved into the stone
      F                                   G
Hoping it reveals itself all to me and then I will

Know just where to go
Dm
This moment, this moment
Am
I know that I can breathe
Dm                      Em
Hanging on a feeling... believe in
F          G
My only meaning!

[Chorus]
 F                     G
I hear a voice a' calling, telling me to risk it
Am                     C
Asking if I have been going the distance
F                 E                   Am   C
Singing with a passion that I cannot deny
F                 G
My eyes are swollen with the tears that I've been crying
Am                 C
But, to the rest of the world, ever smiling
F                 E
Singing for the courage that I'm dying to show!
F                         Am
With my peace sign up when I say goodbye
G#          A#         C
Write a story of a hero!

[Verse 2]
Dm
I didn't want to say
Am
I protected you
      F                                   G
and you were never weak i'm number two
Dm
you were stronger than i've ever been
Am
and you mean more to me than you know
Dm
i've changed myself since the day i yelled
Em
about how you go on by yourself
F
so if you have to laught i should thell you that!
  G
i'm afraid that i'm  all alone
[PreChorus 2]

Dm
I'm kicking
Am
I'm biting
      F
Impossible to breath
Dm
going down below the depths
Am
of my troubled head
Dm
and i can feel my stomach heave
Em            F
i see it, i need it, it calms the blood that beats
    Am
if only i could touch it
  Dm                      G
i know that its mine for keeping

[Chorus]
 F                     G
I hear a voice a' calling, telling me to risk it
Am                     C
Asking if I have been going the distance
F                 E                   Am   C
Singing with a passion that I cannot deny
F                 G
My eyes are swollen with the tears that I've been crying
Am                 C
But, to the rest of the world, ever smiling
F                 E
Singing for the courage that I'm dying to show!
F                         Am
With my peace sign up when I say goodbye
G#          A#         C
Write a story of a hero!

[Bridge]
Dm
Those days gettin' rowdy, gettin' bloody, I was
Am
All scraped, gettin' worn and gettin' dirty, now I
      F                             G
Hear you talkin' and it all is coming back
              Dm                    Am
I see it in my mind - my memories revived
                  Dm
I could apologize for sleeping in a chrysalis and
                        Em
WIth every passing night, I wish that I was leaving it and
     F                       G
I swear that I'll be back again!



Oh, woah, ohh
Oh, woah, ohh
Oh, woah, ohh ohh
Oh, woah, ohh
Oh, woah, ohh
Oh, woah, ohh

[Chorus]
 F                     G
I hear a voice a' calling, telling me to risk it
Am                     C
Asking if I have been going the distance
F                 E                   Am   C
Singing with a passion that I cannot deny
F                 G
My eyes are swollen with the tears that I've been crying
Am                 C
But, to the rest of the world, ever smiling
F                 E
Singing for the courage that I'm dying to show!
F                         Am
With my peace sign up when I say goodbye
G#          A#         C
Write a story of a hero!