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How To Save A Life Tab

by The Fray


Okay, so this is my first tab.  I was trying to learn the chords for this song 
from this site, and I found 2 that sound okay, but I put them together and it 
sounded almost EXACTLY like the song!  Hope you like it!

*IMPORTANT BEFORE YOU PLAY!!!* --->>> The D/F# is a chord that I don't know the 
name of.  It's not picking, but this is where your fingers must go to be awesome!!
                   e -----3-------
                   B -----3-------
                   G -----2-------
                   D -------------
                   A -------------
                   E -----2-------

Capo 3
Standard Tuning

                       
Step one you say we need to talk
                                 
He walks you say sit down it’s just a talk
                        
He smiles politely back at you
                          
You stare politely right on through
                         
Some sort of window to your right
                          
As he goes left and you stay right
                           
Between the lines of fear and blame
                               
And you 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



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