It's A Shame chords by First Aid Kit

• Capo on 4th

Intro: C

verse 1
C                 F                  C
Lately, I?ve been thinking about the past
          F             C
How there is no holding back
   F        C       G
No point in wasting sorrow
   F                         C
On things that won?t be here tomorrow

verse 2
C                   F                C
But you and I, well we don?t need to speak
        F             C
It?s a secret that we keep
       F       C    G
How do you and I decide?
F                             C
Just say when and we?ll say goodnight

F            C   G   F
Tell me it?s oka-----y
                  C   G   F
To live life this wa-----y
            C           G
Sometimes I want you to stay
              F      C
I know it?s a shame
F     C
Shame
F     C     G
Shame

C

Verse  3
C           F             C
Now I spend so much of my time
      F         C
Going out of my mind
       F       C     G
Try so hard to be amused
F                            C
But what you cannot gain you lose

verse 4
C          F                C
In LA, the sun?s almost too bright
  F             C
I cannot get it right
    F     C     G
The emptiness I feel
F                        C
And now none of it seems real

F          C    G    F
Maybe it?s alri----ght
                    C   G   F
If I just spend the ni----ght
                 C                  G
Sometimes I just can?t bear to walk away
              F      C
I know it?s a shame
F     C
Shame
F     C    G
Shame

C

Bridge
F   C         G
Who have I become?
F   C      G   D7
Who will I beeeeecome tomorrow?

F             C   G   F
Tell me it?s oka-----y
                C   G   F
If I ask you to sta-----y
              C                            G
Sometimes the night cuts through me like a knife
              F      C
I know it?s a shame
C             F      C
I know it’s a shame
C             F      C     G
I know it’s a shame

Outro
F   C
Sha--me
F   C     G
Sha--me

C (strum once)