How to Save a Life Chords by The Fray

[Start]

[Verse]
Bb F Bb                     F           
■  ■ ■  Step one you say We need to talk
   Bb                Dm        F      Bb  
He walks you say Sit down it's just a talk
          F        Dm      Bb 
He smiles politely back at you
          Dm                Bb     
You stare politely right on through
             Bbmaj7         Bb   
Some sort of window to your right
           Bbmaj7            Bb   
As he goes left and you stay right
            Bb                     
Between the lines of fear and blame
             Bb                 
You begin to wonder why you came


[Chorus]
Eb             F              Gm    
Where did I go wrong I lost a friend
Gm7       Bb           F         
Somewhere along in the bitterness
Eb                      F               Gm   
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Gm7         Bb                
Had I known how to save a life


[Verse]
                  F            
Let him know that you know best
Gm7                          Bb  
'cause after all you do know best
                 Bb         
Try to slip past his defense
Gm7              Dm       
Without granting innocence
Bb                            Gm7  
■  Lay down a list of what is wrong
           F      Dm                
The things you've told him all along
Bb                      
Pray to God He hears you
      Gm7            F        
And I pray to God He hears you


[Chorus]
Eb                 F              Gm    
And where did I go wrong I lost a friend
Gm7       Bb                     
Somewhere along in the bitterness
Eb                      F               Gm   
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Gm7         Bb     F          
Had I known how to save a life
Bb    Gm7 Bb           F              
■  As ■   he begins to raise his voice


[Verse]
    Gm7                       F        Bb    
You lower yours and grant him one last choice
                Bb           
Drive until you lose the road
Gm7                           F       
Or break with the ones you've followed
Bb                             
■  He will do one of two things
Gm7              F         
He will admit to everything
Bb                                 
Or he'll say he's just not the same
Gm7                 F                  
And you'll begin to wonder why you came


[Chorus]
Eb             F              Gm    
Where did I go wrong I lost a friend
          Bb           F         
Somewhere along in the bitterness
Eb                         F            Gm   
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Gm7         Bb     F          
Had I known how to save a life
Eb             F              Gm    
Where did I go wrong I lost a friend
          Bb           F         
Somewhere along in the bitterness
Eb               F                      Gm   
And I would have stayed up with you all night
            Bb            Bbmaj7
Had I known how to save a life  


[Bridge]
              Bb   F F7 Bb
How to save a life ■ ■  ■ 
F                 
How to save a life


[Chorus]
Eb             F              Gm    
Where did I go wrong I lost a friend
          Bb           F         
Somewhere along in the bitterness
Eb                      F               Gm   
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Gm7         Bb                
Had I known how to save a life
Eb             F              Gm    
Where did I go wrong I lost a friend
          Bb           F         
Somewhere along in the bitterness
Eb                      F               Gm   
And I would have stayed up with you all night
            Bb                
Had I known how to save a life


[Outro]
Bb                
How to save a life
                   Dm
How to save a life ■ 


[End]