What Sarah Said Chords & Tabs
This is really easy to play and strum along too. It doesn’t sound like a piano, but
You can either pluck or strum both sound good. Kind of just threw this together so feel free
make changes.
-Nick
Standard Tuning
Intro F, G, Am, C (pretty much repeats the whole song)
F G Am C
And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time
F G Am Em
As I stared at my shoes in the ICU that reeked of piss and 409
F G Am
And I rationed my breathes as I said to myself that I'd already taken too
C
much today
F G Am
Em
As each descending peak of the LCD took you a little farther away from me
F G Am
C
Away from me
Repeat intro twice
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F G Am
Amongst the vending machines and year-old magazines in a place where we only
C
say goodbye
F G Am
It stung like a violent wind that our memories depend on a faulty camera in
Em
our minds
F G
Am
But I knew that you were a truth I would rather lose than to have never lain
C
beside at all
F G Am
And I looked around at all the eyes on the ground as the TV entertained
Em
itself
Dm F Am Em
'Cause there's no comfort in the waiting room
Dm F Am Em
Just nervous pacers bracing for bad news
Dm F
Em
And then the nurse comes round and everyone will lift their heads
Dm F Am Em
But I'm thinking of what Sarah said that "Love is watching someone die"
F G Am C
So who's going to watch you die?.. Repeat
