Because We Had To chords by The 502s

Chords with lyrics

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

9. Because We Had To

Verse 1:
G+G       B minorBm       C majorC
Well you were wrong about the way
  D MajorD          G+G
You said my memory would change
      B minorBm    C majorC
Day after day, you claimed
  D MajorD            G+G
I’d find it inside of me to grow
       BB
Away from the pain
           A minorAm
And the shame and the guilt
  C majorC
And the questions
D MajorD         G+G
Wondering what did I do wrong
   B minorBm    C majorC           D MajorD
To you, to decide it was time to go

Chorus:
  G+G   C majorC   D MajorD
Because we had to
    G+G           E minorEm
Because I tried the best that I could
 D MajorD      C majorC    D MajorD
To have and to hold you
    G+G  D MajorD      E minorEm
In the way I knew that I should
  D MajorD       C majorC         D MajorD
And we’d still be breathing darling
   G+G    D MajorD     E minorEm    D MajorD
If I did the little you asked of me
  C majorC     D MajorD             G+G G+G
But I couldn’t, so now we’re nothing at all


Verse 2:
         B minorBm
The way that the night came down
  C majorC         D MajorD
You were alone in your room
       G+G
With somebody else
         B minorBm         C majorC
But you were too big, and bold in my eyes
       D MajorD
And I was to cowardly to call all your lies
G+G        B minorBm          C majorC
 Well I didn’t know not telling the truth
         D MajorD          G+G
Would cost me my soul, and most of my youth
       B minorBm         C majorC
So with you I stayed in spite of myself
         D MajorD
And I don’t know why

Chorus:
  G+G   C majorC   D MajorD
Because we had to
    G+G           E minorEm
Because I tried the best that I could
 D MajorD      C majorC    D MajorD
To have and to hold you
    G+G  D MajorD      E minorEm
In the way I knew that I should
  D MajorD       C majorC         D MajorD
And we’d still be breathing darling
   G+G    D MajorD     E minorEm    D MajorD
If I did the little you asked of me
  C majorC     D MajorD             G+G G+G
But I couldn’t, so now we’re nothing at all


Instrumental:
E minorEm D MajorD B minorBm C majorC (x2)


Bridge:
E minorEm      D MajorD
Why would you roam when you knew
     B minorBm             C majorC
That I’d always be coming back home, alone, to you?
E minorEm          D MajorD       B minorBm
You knew that I never, ever, ever, ever
      D MajorD
Would have done that to you

Still you did


Chorus:
  G+G   C majorC   D MajorD
Because we had to
    G+G           E minorEm
Because I tried the best that I could
 D MajorD      C majorC    D MajorD
To have and to hold you
    G+G  D MajorD      E minorEm
In the way I knew that I should
  D MajorD       C majorC          D MajorD
And we’d still be breathing darling
   G+G    D MajorD     E minorEm    D MajorD
If I did the little you asked of me
  C majorC     D MajorD             G+G G+G
But I couldn’t, so now we’re nothing at all


Verse 3:
         C majorC    D MajorD
And when we were younger
    G+G    F# minorF#m     E minorEm  D MajorD
And our hearts outpaced our wits
    C majorC    D MajorD
It was better
  G+G       D MajorD       E minorEm   D MajorD
and I preferred to live in the ignorance
      C majorC D MajorD
In the bubble
     G+G      E minorEm    E MajorE
that you built with a fake façade
    D MajorD      C majorC
In the guise of another
        D MajorD           G+G
Well you sold lies and I bought them all