How To Save a Life

Capo 3 Std Tuning G D/F# Step one you say we need to talk Em D/F# G He walks you say sit down it?s just a talk D/F# Em He smiles politely back at you D/F# G You stare politely right on through D/F# Em Some sort of window to your right D/F# G As he goes left and you stay right D/F# Em Between the lines of fear and blame D/F# And you begin to wonder why you came C D Em Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend G D/F# Somewhere along in the bitterness C D Em And I would have stayed up with you all night G D/F# G Had I known how to save a life Let him know that you know best Cause after all you do know best Try to slip past his defense Without granting innocence Lay down a list of what is wrong The things you?ve told him all along And pray to God he hears you Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend Somewhere along in the bitterness And I would have stayed up with you all night Had I known how to save a life As he begins to raise his voice You lower yours and grant him one last choice Drive until you lose the road Or break with the ones you?ve followed He will do one of two things He will admit to everything Or he?ll say he?s just not the same And you?ll begin to wonder why you came Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend Somewhere along in the bitterness And I would have stayed up with you all night Had I known how to save a life This is a tab for that little piano riff that happens periodically thruought the song ---------------------- -3-3-3-3----1-0------- ---------2------0----- ---------------------- ---------------------- ----------------------