Chords
The Lie

Key: C

Introduction:

difficulty
very easy |||||
         C 
And you
                             Am 
Your love?s defining
                     G 
A generation
                                   F 
To settle the score
                             C 
I once knew trust
                                 Am 
But now I?m surrounded
                                   G 
By time I?ve wasted
                                           F 
And hearts that I stole
                                                   C 
I owe to you a second chance
                   G 
An explanation
                                 Am 
A promise I?ll keep
                                               F         G 
For every lie that I told to you
                                                 F 
You said you would come back for me
                                     G 
Said you?d find a safe place
                             Am 
You said that heaven and stars
                         Am                   G 
Would never tear us apart
                           F 
You find the right words
                             G 
Even from the wrong ways
               C 
You lied
Verse
                                 Am 
My lungs were failing
                                 G 
Hands to the sky
                               F 
Face to the ground
                           G                             C 
I found that you have no intentions
                       Am 
You honor nothing
                                                   G 
And how could this be true
                                                 F 
They think so highly of you
Pre-Chorus
 C 
Why won?t you just shut up
 C/D(030010) 
I make you fade away
 Am                                                                                 G(32003x) 
There?s a consequence to every word you say
 F                                         G 
Don?t you know who I am
                                         F 
I said I would come back for you
                                 G 
Said I?d find a safe place
                             Am 
Who knew that heaven and stars
                         Am                 G 
Had their own prison bars
                       F 
I find the right words
                             G 
Even from the wrong ways
           Am 
I lied
     G                       F 
I never wanted so long
                               G 
To turn and to go away
                         Am 
There was a time when your face
                         Am                         G 
I held much higher than grace
                         F 
You are the catalyst
                                     G 
The words I would never say
             F 
Goodbye
Bridge
                     Am                                 G 
And now I only talk to the dead
             F                                           G 
Goodbye
                     Am                                 G 
And now I only talk to the dead
             F 
Goodbye
             F(stºp) 
Now I only talk to the dead
         G                                     F 
You said you would come back for me
                                     G 
Said you?d find a safe place
                             Am 
You said that heaven and stars
                         Am                   G 
Would never tear us apart
                           F 
You find the right words
                             G 
Even from the wrong ways
               Am 
You lied
     G                       F 
I never wanted so long
                               G 
To turn and to go away
                         Am 
There was a time when your face
                         Am                         G 
I held much higher than grace
                         F 
You are the catalyst
                                     G 
The words I would never say
             Am 
Goodbye
Outro
                             F                                     G 
Don?t tell me what to hold onto now
                             F                                     G 
Don?t tell me what to hold onto now
 F                                     G 
What to hold onto now
                       Am 
(I?m gonna see it all, gonna see it all, your way, your way)
                             F                                     G 
Don?t tell me what to hold onto now
                             F                                     G 
Don?t tell me what to hold onto now
 F                                     G 
What to hold onto now
                       Am 
(I?m gonna see it all, gonna see it all, your way, your way)