How To Save A Life - The Fray

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Capo: Fret 4
Tuning: Standard, E A D G B E

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CAPO 4TH!! The song won't be in the original key (capo 3rd) but it's more easy to sing 
and sounds good anyway.

       
e|-0------3---
B|-3------3---
G|-0------2---
D|-4------0---
A|-5------0---
E|-0------2---

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INTRO and FIRST PART OF EVERY VERSE:

             
e|------3-----
B|--------3---
G|------------
D|------------
A|------------
E|-3--3-----3-

     
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-3------------
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------2--2----

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-3-----3-|
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----2----|

           
e|------------
B|----------3-
G|-------0----
D|------------
A|------------
E|-0--0-------

      
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---3----------
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-2------------
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-------2--2---

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--3-----3-|
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[Verse 1]

             
Step one you s

       
ay we need to 

talk
           
He walks you s

          
ay sit down it

           
’s just a talk
             
He smiles poli

/           
tely back at y


ou
             
You stare poli

/        
tely right on 

through
             
Some sort of w

        
indow to your 


right
           
As he goes lef

#          
t and you stay

 right
            
Between the li

          
nes of fear an


d blame
              
And you begin 

   
to wonder why 

you came


[Chorus]
             
Where did I go

            
 wrong, I lost


 a friend
             
Somewhere alon

         
g in the bitte

rness
             
And I would ha

           
ve stayed up w

 
ith you all ni

ght
             
Had I known ho

            
w to save a li

   (  
fe

[Verse 2]
             
Let him know t

    
hat you know b

est
           
Cause after al

      
l you do know 

best
             
Try to slip pa

   
st his defense
           
Without granti

     
ng innocence
          
Lay down a lis

#        
t of what is w

rong
           
The things you

#
’ve told him a

ll along
             
And pray to Go

     
d he hears you
           
And pray to Go

     
d he hears you

[Chorus]
             
Where did I go

           
 wrong, I lost


 a friend
             
Somewhere alon

              
g in the bitte


rness
             
And I would ha

             
ve stayed up w

        
ith you all ni

ght
             
Had I known ho

           
w to save a li

     ( 
fe


[Verse 3]
             
As he begins t

   
o raise his vo

ice
           
You lower your

          
s and grant hi

       
m one last cho

ice
              
Drive until yo

  
u lose the roa

d
           
Or break with 

              
the ones you’v

  
e followed
             
He will do one

 
 of two things
           
He will admit 

   
to everything
             
Or he’ll say h

     
e’s just not t

he same
           
And you’ll beg

      
in to wonder w

hy you came

[Chorus]
             
Where did I go

            
 wrong, I lost

 
 a friend
             
Somewhere alon

             
g in the bitte

rness
             
And I would ha

            
ve stayed up w

         
ith you all ni

ght
             
Had I known ho

     
w to save a li

fe

[Chorus]
             
Where did I go

            
 wrong, I lost


 a friend
             
Somewhere alon

              
g in the bitte


rness
             
And I would ha

            
ve stayed up w

          
ith you all ni

ght
             
Had I known ho

            
w to save a li

   (  
fe

[Chorus]
             
Where did I go

            
 wrong, I lost


 a friend
             
Somewhere alon

              
g in the bitte


rness
             
And I would ha

            
ve stayed up w

         
ith you all ni

ght
             
Had I known ho

          
w to save a li


fe

[Chorus]
             
Where did I go

            
 wrong, I lost


 a friend
             
Somewhere alon

              
g in the bitte


rness
             
And I would ha

            
ve stayed up w

         
ith you all ni

ght
             
Had I known ho

           
w to save a li

fe

(   )

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