Relient K – When I Go Down (Guitar Intro)

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Tabbed by aaroncutter No Capo. [Intro] C#m A C#m E [Verse 1]
C#m                    A
I'll tell you flat out

                                  C#m
It hurts so much to think of this

           A
So from my thoughts I will exclude

C#m                 A
The very thing that

                               C#m
I hate more than everything is

            A
The way I'm powerless

                        F#m
To dictate my own moods
[Pre-Chorus]
F#m          G
I've thrown away

   F#m               G
So many things that could've been much more

F#m     G
And I just pray

    F#m          G               E
My problems go away if they're ignored

                           G
But that's not the way it works

           A              
No that's not the way it works
[Chorus]
D
When I go down

Bm
I go down hard

G                           A
And I take everything I've learned
And teach myself some disregard
D
When I go down

Bm
It hurts to hit the bottom

G
And of the things that got me there

       Asus4             A
I think, if only I had fought them
C#m A C#m E [Verse 2]
C#m               A
If and when I can

                                  C#m
Clear myself of this clouded mind

            A
I'll watch myself settle down

C#m                A
Into a place where

                                 C#m
Peace can search me out and find

             A
That I'm so ready to be found
[Pre-Chorus]
F#m          G
I've thrown away

F#m        G
The hope I had in friendship

F#m          G
I've thrown away

   F#m               G
So many things that could've been much more

F#m          G
I've thrown away

      F#m              G
The secret to find an end to this

F#m     G
And I just pray

    F#m          G               E
My problems go away if they're ignored

                           G
But that's not the way it works

           A              
No that's not the way it works
[Chorus]
D
When I go down

Bm
I go down hard

G                           A
And I take everything I've learned
And teach myself some disregard
D
When I go down

Bm
It hurts to hit the bottom

G
And of the things that got me there

       Asus4             A
I think, if only I had fought them
[Bridge]
Bm      A                G                     D/F#           Asus4
Any control I thought I had just slips right through my hands

          A             G                             D/F#     Em
While my ever-present conscience shakes its head and reprimands me

     Asus4    A
Reprimands me

          D
Then and there

  G
I confess

D                                 G
I'll blame all this on my selfishness

        D
Yet you love me

             G
And that consumes me

     D
And I'll stand up again

            G
And do so willingly
[Instrumental] G D/F# | G D | G Bm | G D [Bridge 2]
             G D/F#   G              D
You give me hope, and hope it gives me life

    G             Bm                   G               D
You touch my heavy heart, and when you do you make it light

G      D/F# G                   D
As I exhale  I hear your voice

       G         Bm          G             D
And I answer you, though I hardly make a noise

G            D/F#        G                 D
And from my lips, the words I choose to say

         G   Bm            G             D
Seem pathetic, but it's a fallen man's praise

          G    D       Bm D
Because I love you

          G    Bm      G D
Oh God, I love you
[Instrumental] G D/F# | G D | G Bm | G D (baa-baas galore!) [Bridge 3]
     G                 D/F#
And life is now worth living

    G               D
If only because of you

     G                  Bm
And when they say that I'm dead and gone

             G                 D
It won't be further from the truth
[Instrumental] D/F# G A Bm D/F# G  (x2) [Coda]  (piano bit, don't worry about the slashes for guitar!)
D
When I go down

Bm/D
I lift my eyes to you

G/D
I won't look very far

Asus4/D               A/D
Cause you'll be there

          C#m     A
With open arms

              C#m    A
To lift me up again

              F#m    G
To lift me up again