Chords with lyrics (Ver. 3)
"Someone Saved My Life Tonight" (Capo: 4th. fret)
_____Intro:
E/B 
A augmentedA (2 times)
_____Verse: 1
E/B A augmentedA 
E MajorE A augmentedA
When I think of those east end lights, muggy nights
E/G# 
D/F#D/F# A augmentedA
The curtains drawn in the little room downstairs
D MajorD E MajorE
Prima donna, lord you really should have been there
D MajorD E MajorE A augmentedA
Sitting like a princess perched in her electric chair
A minorAm 
F#F#
And it's one more beer and I don't hear you anymore
A augmentedA
We've all gone crazy lately
F#/Bb E/B 
B7B7
My friends out there rollin' round the basement floor. Ooh______
_____Chorus:
A augmentedA E/G# 
F#m7F#m7 E/G#
And someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear (sugar bear___)
A augmentedA E/G# F#m7F#m7
You almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear
E/G# A augmentedA E/G#
You nearly had me roped and tied
A augmentedA F#7/Bb
Altar-bound, hypnotized,
E/B
Sweet freedom whispered in my ear
F#/Bb
You're a butterfly
A augmentedA
And butterflies are free to fly
F#7/Bb E/B 
AbAb A augmentedA
Fly away, high away, bye bye
E/G# F#m7F#m7 E MajorE D MajorD
_____Intro:
E/B A augmentedA (2 times)
_____Verse: 2
E/B A augmentedA E MajorE A augmentedA
I never realized the passing hours of evening showers,
E/G# D/F#D/F# A augmentedA
A augmentedA slip noose hanging in my darkest dreams
D MajorD E MajorE
I'm strangled by your haunted social scene
D MajorD E MajorE A augmentedA
Just a pawn out-played by a dominating queen
A minorAm
It's four o'clock in the morning
F#F#
Damn it! Listen to me good
A augmentedA
I'm sleeping with myself tonight
F#/Bb E/B B7B7
Saved in time, thank God my music's still alive, Oh________
_____Chorus:
A augmentedA E/G# F#m7F#m7 E/G#
And someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear (sugar bear, sugar bear___)
A augmentedA E/G# F#m7F#m7
You almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear
E/G# A augmentedA E/G#
You nearly had me roped and tied
A augmentedA F#7/Bb
Altar-bound, hypnotized,
E/B
Sweet freedom whispered in my ear
F#/Bb
You're a butterfly
A augmentedA
And butterflies are free to fly
F#7/Bb E/B AbAb A augmentedA
Fly away, high away, bye bye
E/G# F#m7F#m7 E MajorE D MajorD
_____Intro:
E/B A augmentedA (2 times)
_____Bridge:
F#7F#7 E/G#
And I would have walked head on into the deep end of the river
C#m/Ab
Clinging to your stocks and bonds
A/EA/E
Paying your H.P. demands forever
F#m7F#m7 E/G#
They're coming in the morning with a truck to take me home
C#m/Ab A/EA/E
Someone saved my life tonight, someone saved my life tonight
C#m/Ab A/EA/E
Someone saved my life tonight, someone saved my life tonight
C#m/Ab
Someone saved my life tonight
A/EA/E F#7F#7
So save your strength and run the field you play alone
_____Chorus:
A augmentedA E/G# F#m7F#m7 E/G#
And someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear (sugar bear, sugar bear___)
A augmentedA E/G# F#m7F#m7
You almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear
E/G# A augmentedA E/G#
You nearly had me roped and tied
A augmentedA F#7/Bb
Altar-bound, hypnotized,
E/B
Sweet freedom whispered in my ear
F#/Bb
You're a butterfly
A augmentedA
And butterflies are free to fly
F#7/Bb E/B AbAb A augmentedA
Fly away, high away, bye bye
E/G# F#m7F#m7 E MajorE D MajorD
_____Intro:
E/B A augmentedA (2 times)
_____Coda:
E/B
Someone saved, someone saved
A augmentedA
Someone saved my life tonight (Someone saved my life tonight) (Repeat coda to fade)
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