Should've Been chords by Lee Jackson

• Difficulty: Advanced 🤯

Key: A

Intro:

Dmaj9 C#m7   Dmaj7sus2 X2

Verse 1:
F#m                            E6
   Do you sometimes ask, who's standing next to you?
Dmaj9                                C#m7                Dmaj7sus2
   Yeah you know their name, but now that's all that you know
F#m7                   E6
   What happened then, whatever did we sell?
Dmaj9                        C#m7              Dmaj7sus2
   They don't happen now, so when did it go to hell?

Pre-Chorus:
Bm7              Amaj7     G#m7b5
   If only I had known
     C#7               F#m7
That things would fall apart
Bm7                Asus/C#     Gsus2
   If only you had shown
                    E
The silence in your heart

Chorus:
A  Aaug          D  Dm
   Maybe we were wrong
A     Aaug                     D
   We shouldn't have wrote our song
             D         Bm7
We should've just been friends
                  C#7
And better off as strangers
      F#m7                 F#m7/E              D#m7b5
Cause you'd never move and I'd never choose to say
     Bm7
That we
Esus4            Dmaj9
Should've stayed away

Riff:
Dmaj9 C#m7 Dmaj7sus2

Verse 2:
F#m7                            E6
   Now it's too far gone, do we stay on for the kids?
Dmaj9                         C#m7               Dmaj7sus2
   We don't hurt no more, but how will they understand?

Pre-Chorus 2:
Bm7                        Amaj7     G#m7b5
   We're going through the motions
    C#7                 F#m7
And leave some things unsaid
F#m7                 Asus/C#     Gsus2
   Know that we both shared
                 E
Memories when we cared

Chorus 2:
A  Aaug          D  Dm
   Maybe we were wrong
A     Aaug                     D
   We shouldn't have wrote our song
             D         Bm7
We should've just been friends
                  C#7
And better off as strangers
      F#m                       F#m7/E                    D#m7b5
Cause we were just fools and we both were too stubborn to choose
  Bm7
A life
     Esus4          G#m7b5  C#7       F#m7
That should've been alright
Yeah!

Solo:
 G#m7b5 C#7 | F#m7 :
 G#m7b5 C#7 | F#m  F#m7/E  D#m7b5  -  :
 Bm7 | Esus4 :

Bridge: 6/8
       Bm7                     C#m7
You've gotten so numb you keep all of it shut
  Bm7               C#m7
I see in your eyes, you've given up
Bm7                    Amaj7
Go on and tell me that you wanna leave
Gsus2                     E
Please, baby, just set us free!

Chorus 3:
A  Aaug          D  Dm
   Maybe we were wrong
A     Aaug                     D
   We shouldn't have wrote our song
(sigh)
          D         Bm7
Should've just been friends
                  C#7
And better off as strangers
      F#m                  F#m7/E              D#m7b5
Cause you'd never move and I'd never choose to say
     Bm7
That we
                 A/C#
Should've stayed away
                        Dmaj7sus2
Cause we were fools and we
                         E
Didn't think to choose a life
                    Dmaj9
That should've been alright

Outro:
Dmaj9 C#m7   Dmaj7sus2 x2