How It Feels To Be Alive

C/G    332010
D/F#   2x0232
Em/G   322000


[Intro]
| Am |


[Verse 1]
        Am            E       F
When my heart doesn't beat anymore
       C      E   Am
And my body's cold
         Am               E            F
You will walk, dressed in black, to my door
        C          E   Am
And the bells will toll


[Pre-Chorus]
           Am                Em/G
You use my love like an open vein
                             F
Just when I thought it would heal
         Esus4
Back you came


[Chorus]
E                              Am
Seeing you again for the first time
                           C/G
Tryna look ahead and not behind
                             F
Raging as you do against the tide
                                 Dm
Knowing that your his instead of mine
                            Am
Getting used to being hurt again
                          C/G
Every day's closer to the end
                                 D/F#
Holding back the tears I need to cry
                                F
Waiting to breathe for the last time
                                 Am   C/G   F
Yeah, that's how it feels to be alive
Dm                         Am   C/G  F   Dm
That's how it feels to be alive


[Verse 2]
      Am              E            F
At my grave, they did say one last verse
          C        E        Am
'Bout the new love that you found
      Am         E           F
And I lay in the rain by the church
         C          E      Am
And they lured me into the ground


[Pre-Chorus]
             Am                 Em/G
You stole my heart as your souvenir
                                  F
Thought that you would never come back
               Esus4
But now you're here


[Chorus]
E                              Am
Seeing you again for the first time
                           C/G
Tryna look ahead and not behind
                             F
Raging as you do against the tide
                                 Dm
Knowing that your his instead of mine
                            Am
Getting used to being hurt again
                          C/G
Every day's closer to the end
                                 D/F#
Holding back the tears I need to cry
                                F
Waiting to breathe for the last time
                                 Am   C/G   F
Yeah, that's how it feels to be alive
      Dm                         Am   C/G   F
Yeah, that's how it feels to be alive
      Dm                         Am
Yeah, that's how it feels to be alive


[Outro]
         C/G                  F
(Outside waiting in the cold again)
(I'm outside waiting to be held again)
      Dm                         Am
Yeah, that's how it feels to be alive
         C/G                 F
(Outside standing on my own again)
Dm                         Am
That's how it feels to be alive