Chords
If I Were To Write The Song

Key: C

Introduction:

difficulty
very easy |||||
                   C# 
Ring the verse, let it in, said softly begin
             B 
If it feels like the first time, don't let it end
                   F#                                     A                                       B 
Cause it wanders by like something that could have been
       C#                                                                   B 
If I were to write the song that could penetrate your ears
                   F# 
Would it calm your trembling soul
                   A                             B 
Would it ease your every fear
                     Ebm                                                                       F# 
Can we go back to the place where we all used to see through
                                                 Ebm                                                             A 
Everything blinding us, now you don't understand anything anymore
           B             C# 
And you shiver at the sight...
               C#                 F#                           A             B             C# 
You're afraid to show that you're only so human tonight
                     C# 
Could one song solve all our problems
                   B 
Could it have the strength to heal
                         F# 
Or would it cripple and destroy
                     A                     B 
And leave nothing unrevealed
 C# 
Might it uproot every lie
         B 
And force us all to cower
 F# 
Beneath its tremendous weight
               A                             B 
In the wake of all its power
                     Ebm                                                                       F# 
Can we go back to the place where we all used to see through
                                                 Ebm                                                             A 
Everything blinding us, now you don't understand anything anymore
                   B                       C# 
And you shiver at the sight...
               C#                 F#                           A             B             C# 
You're afraid to show that you're only so human tonight

 C# 
Oh, did you know, did you know
Did you know better
 B 
Don't you know, don't you know
Don't you know better
 F# 
Don't you know, don't you know
Don't you know better
 A 
Don't you know that
           B                       C# 
you shiver at the sight...
               C#                 F#                           A             B             C# 
You're afraid to show that you're only so human tonight
       C#                 F#               A     B 
If I were to write the song
                       C#             F#                 A     B 
That could somehow change the world
                   C#               F# 
Would it be a calm surrender
           A                         B 
Or a fight to the death?
                   C#                               F# 
Would it give something to live for
                   A                           B 
Would we give our final breath?
                   C#                     F# 
Would it be a roaring opera
                 A                               B 
Or as sweet as a child's kiss?
                   C#                                 F# 
Would it sound like all the others
                         A                   B 
Or would it sound something like this