How To Save a Life Chords

Capo: 3rd fret
[Intro]
G  D     G  Bm
 
[Verse]
G                    D
Step one you say we need to talk
    Em                 D                G
He walks you say sit down it’s just a talk
             D              Em
He smiles politely back at you
             D                 G
You stare politely right on through
               D             Em
Some sort of window to your right
             D                 G
As he goes left and you stay right
              D                Em
Between the lines of fear and blame
                   D
And you begin to wonder why you came
 
[Chorus]
  C             D                Em
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
            G             D
Somewhere along in the bitterness
    C                   D                Em
And I would have stayed up with you all night
             G     D        G
Had I known how to save a life
 
[Instrumental]
D   Em   D
 
[Verse]
G                 D
Let him know that you know best
       Em           D
Cause after all you do know best
G                  D
  Try to slip past his defense
Em               D
Without granting innocence
G             D                Em
   Lay down a list of what is wrong
             D
The things you’ve told him all along
G                   D
And pray to God he hears you
    Em             D
And pray to God he hears you
 
[Chorus]
  C             D                Em
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
            G             D
Somewhere along in the bitterness
    C                   D                Em
And I would have stayed up with you all night
             G     D       G
Had I known how to save a life
 
[Instrumental]
D   Em   D
 
[Verse]
    G            D
As he begins to raise his voice
     Em              D                     G
You lower yours and grant him one last choice
                 D
Drive until you lose the road
    Em             D
Or break with the ones you’ve followed
G             D
   He will do one of two things
Em            D
He will admit to everything
G                      D
Or he’ll say he’s just not the same
     Em             D
And you’ll begin to wonder why you came
 
[Chorus]
  C             D                Em
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
            G             D
Somewhere along in the bitterness
    C                   D                Em
And I would have stayed up with you all night
             G     D
Had I known how to save a life
 
  C             D                Em
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
            G             D
Somewhere along in the bitterness
    C                   D                Em
And I would have stayed up with you all night
             G     D       G
Had I known how to save a life
 
[Interlude]
D G  D             G
     How to save a life
D G  D
     How to save a life
 
[Chorus] (x2)
  C             D                Em
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
            G             D
Somewhere along in the bitterness
    C                   D               Em
And I would have stayed up with you all night
             G     D
Had I known how to save a life
 
  C             D                Em
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
            G             D
Somewhere along in the bitterness
    C                   D               Em
And I would have stayed up with you all night
             G     D       G
Had I known how to save a life
 
[Outro]
D G  D             G
     How to save a life
D G  D             G    D     G  Bm  G
     How to save a life
 
 
Piano riff that happens periodically throughout the song:
 
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