CAPO 3 C5 G5 A5 B5 A5 G5 e | -0------3-------0-------0-------0---------0-------------------- | B | -1------0------ 1-------1-------1---------1-------------------- | G | -0------0-------2-------0-------0---------0-------------------- | D | -2------0-------2-------2-------2---------2-------------------- | A | -3------2-------0-------2-------0---------x-------------------- | E | -x------3-------x-------0-------0---------3-------------------- | When Mikel plays the G chord in this song, he only plucks the top 4 strings. In the into and at some points in the song he strums the D string and then strums the chord. This is subtle, but it makes the chord sound like a D chord at first. At other points in the song, he does strum the whole G chord. So it's tricky, but if you want it to be perfect, you can listen closely and see what I mean. Another side note - The B/C, A/C, and G/C chords are C chords with B, A and G on the bottom instead of C. I'm sure they have more official names than that, but this will do for now. Let me know if you know what their official name is, and i'll add them in. C5 G5 C5 A5 C5 G5 The other day, when we were walking by the graveyard near the house, you C5 A5 C5 asked me if I thought we would ever die. And if life and love both fade so G5 C5 A5 predictably, we've made ourselves a kind of predictable life. C5 G5 C5 And so I pictured us like corpses, lying side by side in pieces, in some dark A5 C5 and lonely blood under a bow. We looked so silly there, all decomposed, half G5 A5 turned to dust, in tattered clothes, but we probably look just as silly now. C5 G5 C5 Bye bye bye bye, bye bye to all this dogged innocence. I cant pretend that I G5 A5 C5 B5 can tell you what is going to happen next, or how to be. But you have no i- A5 G5 A5 C5 dea about me, do you? C5 G5 And it left me to wonder if people will ever know each other by just C5 A5 C5 stumbling around like strangers in the dark. 'Cause sometimes you seem so G5 C5 strange to me, I must seem strange to you. We're like two actors playing our A5 C5 G5 parts. Did you memorize your lines? 'Cause I did. Here's the part where I get C5 A5 C5 so mad, I tell you I cant forget the past. You get so quiet now, and you G5 C5 seem , somehow, like a lost and lonely child. And you just hope that the A5 moment wont last. C5 G5 C5 Bye bye bye bye, bye bye to all this dogged innocence. I cant pretend that I G5 A5 C5 B5 can tell you what is going to happen next, or how to be. But you have no i- A5 G5 A5 C5 B5 A5 G5 A5 C5 dea about me, no i- dea about me, do you? C5 A5 C5 So there's always a way around. There's something tying our feet to the A5 G5 A5 ground. A moment passed, we hate how it sounds. C5 B5 A5 G5 A5 C5 B5 A5 G5 A5 And it seems a little less profound. Like we're all going the same way down. C5 B5 A5 G5 A5 C5 B5 A5 G5 A5 Yeah we're all going the same way down. I'm just trying to write it all down. C5 G5 A5 'Cause I write songs, and you write letters. We are tied like two, in G5 C5 G5 A5 tethers. And we talk and read, and laugh and sleep, at night in bed, G5 C5 G5 A5 together. And you wake in tears sometimes, I can see the thoughts flash G5 C5 G5 across your eyes. They say "Darling, will you be kind? Will you be a good A5 G5 A5 man, and stay behind if I get old?" C5 G5 C5 B5 And then the letters all pass through my head, with the words that I was A5 C5 G5 C5 B5 A5 told. About the fading flesh of life and love, the failures of the bold. I C5 G5 C5 B5 A5 can list each crippling fear like I'm reading from a will. C5 B5 A5 G5 A5 C5 B5 A5 G5 And I'll defy everyone and love you still. I will carry you with me up every A5 A5 B5 C5 B5 A5 A5 hill. If you die before I die, I'll carve your name out of the sky. I'll fall B5 C5 B5 A5 asleep with your memory and dream of where you lie. C5 G5 A5 G5 It maybe better to move on, and to let life just carry on. And I may be A5 C5 wrong. But still, I'll try. A5 B5 C5 B5 A5 A5 'Cause it's better to love whether you win or lose or die. Yeah, It's better B5 C5 B5 A5 A5 B5 C5 to love whether you win or lose or die. It's better to love, and I will love B5 A5 you 'til I die. End on C