Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)
Difficulty: Novice
Intro:
G+G B minorBm G+G D MajorD x2
Verse 1:
G+G B minorBm
Well I've gone and lost my faith in photographs
D MajorD G+G D MajorD
Cursed those martyrs that mark my past
G+G B minorBm
And I long for a day when we'll look back and laugh
D MajorD G+G
About all this
G+G B minorBm
But good luck finding your peace of mind
D MajorD A augmentedA G+G D MajorD
Being born into these brutal times
G+G B minorBm D MajorD
And these days I don't pray when I close my eyes
A augmentedA G+G
I just bite my tongue a bit harder
Chorus 1:
D MajorD A augmentedA G+G
Cause you were a lie I chose to believe
D MajorD A augmentedA G+G D MajorD
A augmentedA lie I chose to believe
Verse 2:
G+G B minorBm
Let's float these gutters up past heaven's gate
D MajorD G+G D MajorD
Get me out of these damn desert states
G+G B minorBm
Did you hear the one about the hand of fate?
A augmentedA G+G
Oh man, It'll make your heart stop
G+G B minorBm
Do you ever wish you could just back out?
D MajorD A augmentedA G+G D MajorD
Take your nickels and go cash out?
G+G B minorBm
Forget the faces you've been crying about
D MajorD G+G
And see where forgiveness takes you?
Chorus 2:
D MajorD A augmentedA G+G
a lie I chose to believe
D MajorD A augmentedA G+G D MajorD
You were the lie I chose to believe
Bridge:
A augmentedA
Sweet surrender like the break of dawn
G+G D MajorD
With the map laid out and the arrows drawn
A augmentedA
But I think too much and wait too long
G+G D MajorD
And I never tell but you know
D MajorD B minorBm A augmentedA
How to lift me when I sink too low
Verse 3:
G+G B minorBm
Now I've found me a reason to be a man
D MajorD G+G D MajorD
Out on the shoulder with an outstretched hand
G+G B minorBm
Just a little solid ground to stand
D MajorD A augmentedA G+G
Is all I ever needed
G+G B minorBm
So I'll shout it out from the heavens above
D MajorD G+G D MajorD
Hell ain't nothin' but the devil's drug
G+G B minorBm
Well love isn't the sickness, that I once thought it was
D MajorD A augmentedA G+G
When I was too surrounded to see
Chorus 3:
D MajorD A augmentedA G+G
a lie I chose to believe
D MajorD A augmentedA G+G
a lie I chose to believe
D MajorD A augmentedA G+G
you were the lie I chose to believe