Hurt This Way chords by Lifehouse

Chords with lyrics

To play it like the record, plug in your reverb/chorus pedal and play around with arpeggiating your chords e.g.

      G+G x4        D MajorD x4        C majorC x4         E minorEm x4
Eb MajorEb ----3------------------------2------------------0---------------------------------
Bb majorBb ----------3----------------------------------------------------------0------------
GbGb -------0-----0------------3-----3-----------0-------0-----------------------------
DbDb ----------------------0-------------------------------------------2-----2---------
AbAb ----------------------------------------3-----------------------------------------
Eb MajorEb ----3---------------------------------------------------------0-------------------

The bass notes are always the same but sometimes Jason plucks the high E MajorE string, sometimes the BB string.
After the intro there are little twiddles like D-D-Dsus4-D so you'd go 0-3-2-3 0-3-2-3 0-3-3-3 0-3-2-3
Regardless of whatever you feel like doing, it'll sound good. It's a fun song to play, play it how you like!


G+G D MajorD C majorC E minorEm

G+G
I look for my keys somewhere buried in the grass
   D MajorD
She's riding her tail lights over the broken glass
C majorC                          E minorEm
On a highway from nowhere, hell-bent on going back

G+G
Where did she come from, where do I go?
   D MajorD
Each time that I fall, you know it's just another show
C majorC                              E minorEm
Well, the credits keep on rolling and I'm the last to know

      G+G            D MajorD
And it's a long, cold road tonight
    C majorC          E minorEm
And I'm wandering, without a fight

      G+G
So tell me why you want to hurt this way
C majorC
Why you want to hurt this way
G+G               C majorC
Why you want to hurt this way
G+G
Shine it all, don't be ashamed
C majorC
Nothing ever stays the same
G+G               C majorC
Why you want to hurt this way

E minorEm

G+G
Open the screen door, the transistor plays
    D MajorD
An old Springsteen song, from my father's glory days
C majorC                          E minorEm
Mum's in the kitchen, tryin'a hide her swollen face

G+G
The old man's tying one on tight, he looks the other way
    D MajorD
I hold in every word, there's just too much to say
C majorC                            E minorEm
I've got to rise above this madness, before I go insane

      G+G
So tell me why you want to hurt this way
C majorC
Why you want to hurt this way
G+G               C majorC
Why you want to hurt this way
G+G
Shine it all, don't be ashamed
C majorC
Nothing ever stays the same
G+G               C majorC
Why you want to hurt this way

E minorEm G+G E minorEm

      G+G
So tell me why you want to hurt this way
C majorC
Why you want to hurt this way
G+G               C majorC
Why you want to hurt this way (Yeah...)
G+G
Shine it all, don't be ashamed
C majorC
Nothing ever stays the same
G+G               C majorC
Why you want to hurt this way