How to Save a Life The Fray
This is a pretty simple way of playing this song and duplicating the sound of the piano
a guitar. Once you get the main gist of it, it mostly repeats. The other tabs I've seen
really make too much sense or are fragmented so I hope everyone can enjoy this one.
How To Save A Life
By The Fray
Standard Tuning
[C] [Em7]
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Step 1 you say we need to talk he walks, you say sit down its just a talk
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Smiles politely back at you, you stare politely right on
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Through, some sort of window to your right as he goes left and you stay
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right, between the lines of fear and blame you begin to wonder why you came
[F]Where did I go [G]wrong, I lost a [Am]friend, somewhere [C]along in the bitterness and
[F]I would have stayed [G]up with you all [Am]night, had I know [F]How to [G]save a [C]life
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Let him know that you know best, cause after all you do know best,
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Try to step out of his defense, without granting innocence
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Lay down a list of what is wrong, things you told him all along
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and pray to god he hears you and pray to god he hears you and
[F]Where did I go [G]wrong, I lost a [Am]friend, somewhere [C]along in the bitterness and
[F]I would have stayed [G]up with you all [Am]night, had I know [F]How to [G]save a [C]life
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As he begins to raise his voice, you lower yours and grant him one last
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Choice, drive until you lose the road, or break with the ones you followed
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He will do one of two things, he will admit to everything
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or he'll say he's just not the same and you'll begin to wonder why you came
[F]Where did I go [G]wrong, I lost a [Am]friend, somewhere [C]along in the bitterness and
[F]I would have stayed [G]up with you all [Am]night, had I know [C]How to save a life
[F]Where did I go [G]wrong, I lost a [Am]friend, somewhere [C]along in the bitterness and
[F]I would have stayed [G]up with you all [Am]night, had I know [F]How to [G]save a [C]life
Tabbed by theflyingwaffle
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