Storiesdown To The Bottom by TobyMac
Key: DmDm | Capo: 0fr |  Left-Handed 

Intro:
Dm7    Am7   Gm7   Am7   Dm7   Am7   Gm7

(spoken): Stories.   We all got'em.

Chorus:
Dm7        Am7
We've been down to the bottom.
Gm7                        Am7
Stories, we got'em when we hit rock bottom.
Dm7                         Am7
If you been there, put your hands in the air,
Gm7                       Am7
to let the lost know that someone cares.
Dm7               Am7
'Cause we've been down to the bottom.
Gm7                        Am7
Stories, we got'em when we hit rock bottom.

If you been there, put your hands in the air,

and let somebody know that the Most High cares.

Verse 1:
Dm7                                              Gm7  
        I never knew that it would feel like this
                 Dm7                     Gm7
        when the two that raised you and call it quits.
                Dm7                              Gm7
        Nobody told me 'bout the emptiness
                                            C
        when the place you call home is closed for business.
                    Dm7                    Gm7
        I push the pain down I gotta get by,
                 Dm7                        Gm7
        always knowin' in my heart that it aint gonna fly.
              Dm7                      Gm7
        Rock bottom's never felt so near before,
                                             C
        and if pain is God's megaphone it's loud and clear.
           Dm7                        Gm7
        So hold me now, Father, human love aint enough.
             Dm7                            Gm7
        I've failed and been failed by the people I love.
                 Dm7                      Gm7
        But Your faithful arms, they surround me
                                       C                   Gm7
        and any other soul who has to sail those seas of a broken family
          C      Am7

Chorus:
      Dm7        Am7
See, we've been down to the bottom.
Gm7                        Am7
Stories, we got'em when we hit rock bottom.
Dm7                         Am7
If you been there, put your hands in the air,

to let the lost know that someone cares.

'Cause we've been down to the bottom.

Stories, we got'em when we hit rock bottom.

If you been there, put your hands in the air,

and let somebody know that the Most High cares.

Verse:
         Dm7                            Gm7                        
         Been so many times that I been close to rock bottom,
         Dm7                            Gm7
         tryin' to look for answers but nobody's got'em.
         Dm7                               Gm7
         Like the time my mother looked me in the eye,
                                                   C
         tryin' not to cry, tellin' me the cancer might cause her to die.
         Dm7                            Gm7    
         How can this be? I thought the God love me.
         Dm7                            Gm7
         So why would He try to take my mother from me?
                  Dm7     
         And as I cry myself to sleep at night,
         Gm7
         holding on my pillow tight,
                                            C                   
         he spoke to me and said the everything gonna be all right.
      Dm7                    Gm7      
         So I tried to fight all the pain that it caused.
           Dm7                   Gm7
         I try to move on and I try to stay strong.
                      Dm7                  Gm7
         So put your hands up if y'all are feelin' me.
                                        C
         And put your hands up for ev'ryone to see.
                     Gm7 
         So put your hands up. We all a family.
                      C           Am7
         So put your hands up in unity, in unity.

Bridge:
        Dm7 
        We've been down to the bottom!

        Stories we got'em!
                                     Gm7
        If you been there, put your hands in the hair,
                 Am7
        put your hands in the air.

Verse 3:
        Dm7          Gm7
        I've been there too,
                    Dm7
        when ev'rything falls apart,
                Gm7                  Dm7          Gm7
        and the best you can do is get through each day,

        wonderin' will this never end?
               C                   Dm7
        Is is always gonna be this way?
                          Gm7                    Dm7
        And the greastest lie you ever been told
                                  Gm7
        is you're the only one to walk this road.       
                        Dm7                        Gm7
        And now you'll never see the light of dawn,
                                      C                   Dm7
        so we came together to say( together to say) hold on.
                            Gm7                    Dm7  
        'Cause we've been there and found our way home.
                     Gm7                       Dm7
        We promise you that you're not on your own.
                          Gm7            C       
        One day this will pass, God will see us all through.
Gm7                                C                 A7
        God will see us all           pass through.

Closing:
Dm7                              Gm7
If you been there, put you your hands in the air,
          A7
put your hands in the air, put your hands in the air.