If I Were You chords by Switchfoot

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

🎸 Verse 1:
   E MajorE   BB
2020 enemies
       C majorC    A minorAm
What a dismal odyssey
        E MajorE   BB
Hell bound the apathy
       C majorC    A minorAm
Is there any remedy?
           E MajorE     BB
'Cause we bicker over Listerine
          C majorC    A minorAm
With Twitter as our liturgy
       E MajorE   BB
What a crummy legacy
   C majorC    A minorAm
2020 enemies

🎸 Chorus:
     E MajorE  BB
If I were you
     C majorC   G+G
And you were me
         A augmentedA   G#G#
Would we still be doomed
     G+G  FF
To disagree?
        E MajorE  BB
'Cause you'd be me
     C majorC  G+G
If I were you
       A augmentedA  G#G#
And you never see
      G+G  FF
My point of view
     E MajorE G# minorG#m A augmentedA BB
If I were you
      E MajorE G# minorG#m A augmentedA BB
If I were you, mm-mm


🎸 Verse 2:
        E MajorE   BB
Hey Romeo, it's Juliet
          C majorC    A minorAm
Are you Montague or Capulet?
          E MajorE    BB        C majorC N.C.
Or some denigrating apathetic insult that we both forget?
           E MajorE    BB
'Cause fake is on the internet
          C majorC   A minorAm
And fear is on the TV set
       E MajorE    BB
Our rage is a habitat
       C majorC     A minorAm
For our 2020 novelettes

🎸 Chorus:
     E MajorE       BB
If I were you (If I were you)
       C majorC        G+G
And you were me (And you were me)
         A augmentedA             G#G#
Would we still be doomed (Would we still be doomed)
    G+G       FF
To disagree? (To disagree?)
        E MajorE          BB
'Cause you'd be me ('Cause you'd be me)
     C majorC       G+G
If I were you (If I were you)
       A augmentedA         G#G#
And you never see (And you never see)
      G+G         FF
My point of view (My point of view)
     E MajorE G# minorG#m A augmentedA BB
If I were you


🎸 Bridge:
E MajorE          C majorC     G+G E MajorE
Hey babe, we're the dinosaurs (Oh-oh)
E MajorE              C majorC      G+G E MajorE
I get the feeling we've been here before (Oh-oh)
E MajorE             C majorC      G+G E MajorE
Ain't it clear what we're aiming for? (Oh-oh)
E MajorE          C majorC
Hey babe, we're the dinosaurs
BB            E MajorE
Yeah, but what if me and you
N.C.
Were in each other shoes
N.C.
Could we break through?
N.C.
To somewhere different, somewhere new
          Bass:  E MajorE D#D#
'Cause if you're stuck with me
            C#C# BB
I guess I'm stuck with you
     A augmentedA       G#G#         F#F#       BB
Could we rise above the scars that we both put each other through


🎸 Chorus:
     E MajorE             BB
If I were you (I think I'm ready to try us)
       C# minorC#m           E MajorE
And you were me (I think I'm ready to try)
         A augmentedA            E MajorE
Would we still be doomed (To put the past behind us)
    A augmentedA              BB
To disagree? (Yeah, to put the past behind)
        E MajorE            BB
'Cause you'd be me ('Cause it's already behind us)
     C# minorC#m              E MajorE
If I were you (Yeah, I'm sick of falling behind)
     A augmentedA             E MajorE
And all I see (I think I'm ready to try us)
          A augmentedA               BB
Is what you put me through (Maybe I'd be ready to try)

🎸 Outro:
       E MajorE        BB     C majorC
If I were you if you were me, I would be you
  G+G         A augmentedA
And then we'd both be true
 G#G#        G+G   FF
I wonder what we'd do
E MajorE       BB     C majorC
If you were me, I would be you
   G+G        A augmentedA
Would one plus one be two?
 G#G#        G+G   FF
I wonder what we'd do
     E MajorE
If I were you


*you can also play the bass line (E MajorE D#D# C#C# BB A augmentedA G#G# F#F# BB) during the N.C. part in the bridge.