How To Survive A Broken Heart chords by Ben Lee

Chords with lyrics

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

Ben Lee - How to Survive a Broken Heart

There's a D>Dsus2 pattern that he plays in the intro and a couple times throughout.

Intro:

D MajorD Dsus2Dsus2 x4

Verse 1:

D MajorD         G+G       D MajorD
I should let this go but I just can't
  D MajorD        G+G       D MajorD
And now it's just a lesson I can't grasp
  D MajorD         G+G         D MajorD
So what's really the best that I could do
  D MajorD        G+G       D MajorD
To hope to see you every year or two

Chorus:

    B minorBm
And the things you said
    A augmentedA
Do they still make sense
     G+G
Could you mean them now
    D MajorD       B minorBm
Did you even mean them then
    A augmentedA        G+G
I could torture myself insane and tense
           D MajorD
But I don't have the strength

Verse 2:

   D MajorD         G+G         D MajorD
I'm crushed in pain you drifted through my life
  D MajorD      G+G        D MajorD
But even looking back I know it's right
 D MajorD         G+G          D MajorD
I gave you my heart scared complete and whole
   D MajorD      G+G        D MajorD
When all you ever asked for was my soul

Chorus:

      B minorBm
And there's nothing left
   A augmentedA
But a song or two
     G+G
That mean not a thing
   D MajorD          B minorBm
If I can't play them for you
      A augmentedA          G+G
If I could hear your voice just one more time
       D MajorD
Maybe I'd be fine

   B minorBm
But I guess I won't
      A augmentedA
Cause it's too late now
   G+G
And I guess you're gone
      D MajorD
Cause it's too late now
    B minorBm
And the pain I feel
    A augmentedA
Is all I can take
      G+G
Maybe this turn of karma
D MajorD
Is too late
   B minorBm
Maybe I was wrong
   A augmentedA         G+G
Maybe I was caught in a net of passion
D MajorD      B minorBm
Maybe I was caught
            A augmentedA
Maybe I should take it all with salt
     G+G           D MajorD
And soon I'll believe that it's not my fault
     B minorBm
And it's not my fault
     A augmentedA
And it's not my fault
     G+G
And it's not my fault
     D MajorD
And it's not my fault
     B minorBm
And it's not my fault
     A augmentedA
And it's not my fault
   G+G
If I say it enough
               D MajorD
I'll believe that it's not my fault