To Live A Life by First Aid Kit (G)uitar (C)hords

(C)apo on 6th fret

[Riff in intro and between verses]
(C) (Em) F (C) (G)

[Intro]
(C) (Em) F (C) (G)

[Verse 1]
(C) (Em)
I wrote you a letter to make myself feel better
F (C) (G)
To redeem some part of me I thought I had lost
(C) (Em)
And we were lost cause long before we fell apart
F (C) (G)
‘(C)ause honey, I was too eager And you were too smart
(C) (Em)
Yet I look for you in these empty rooms
F (C) (G)
You’re a phone call away, I’m on the interstate
(C) (Em)
And I been drinking cheap wine just to pass the time
F (C) (G)
I’m falling behind and it doesn’t matter
(C) (Em) F (C) (G)
Who you are to meee

(C) (Em) F (C) (G)

[Verse 2]
(C) (Em)
I’m just like my mother, we both love to run
F (C) (G)
(C)hase impossible things or unreachable dreams
(C) (Em)
Lie awake in the night thinking this can’t be right
F (C) (G) (C) (Em) F
But there is no other way to live a life alone
(C) (G)
I’m alone now

(C) (Em) F (C) (G)

[Verse 3]
(C) (Em) F (C) (G)
Then suddenly we wake from this dream that we have made
(C) (Em) F (C) (G)
It hits you all at once and then it slowly fades
(C) (Em) F (C) (G)
I’m racing into nothing now, it all falls away
(C) (Em) F (C) (G)
I know it now for my own sake that I cannot stay

(C) (Em) F (C) (G) (C)