When I Go Down chords by Relient K

Chords with lyrics

Capo on 2:

Verse 1:

D MajorD           G+G
I'll tell you flat out
                 B minorBm
It hurts so much to think of this
      Asus4Asus4
So from my thoughts I will exclude
The very thing that
I hate more than everything is
The way I'm powerless
To dictate my own moods

Verse 2:

C majorC      FF
I've thrown away
  C majorC        FF
So many things that could've been much more
C majorC     FF
And I just pray
  C majorC      FF        D MajorD
My problems go away if they're ignored
             FF
But that's not the way it works
     G+G        C majorC
No that's not the way it works

Chorus:

C majorC
When I go down
FF
I go down hard
A minorAm
And I take everything I've learned
G+G
And teach myself some disregard
When I go down
It hurts to hit the bottom
And of the things that got me there
I think, if only I had fought them

Verse 3:
If and when I can
Clear myself of this clouded mind
I'll watch myself settle down
Into a place where
Peace can search me out and find
That I'm so ready to be found
Verse 4:
I've thrown away
The hope I had in friendships
I've thrown away
So many things that could have been much more
I've thrown away
The secret to find an end to this
And I just pray
My problems go away if they're ignored
But that's not the way it works
No that's not the way it works

Bridge:

C majorC   G+G        FF                C majorC
Any control I thought I had just slips right through my hands
       G+G    FF                 C majorC
While my ever-present conscience shakes its head and reprimands me
  G+G
Reprimands me

     C majorC
Then and there
 FF
I confess
C majorC                FF
I'll blame all this on my selfishness
Yet you love me
And that consumes me
And I'll stand up again
And do so willingly

Bridge 2:
      FF C majorC   FF        C....
You give me hope, and hope it gives me life
You touch my heavy heart, and when you do you make it light
As I exhale I hear your voice
And I answer you, though I hardly make a noise
And from my lips the words I choose to say
Seem pathetic, but it's fallen man's praise
Because I love you
Oh God, I love you
And life is now worth living
If only because of you
And when they say that I'm dead and gone
It won't be further from the truth

Coda:
When I go down
I lift my eyes to you
I won't look very far
Cause you'll be there
With open arms
To lift me up again
To lift me up again

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