You Saved My Life Chords
by Cass Mccombs
You Saved My Life by Cass Mccombs is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of Em. It uses the chords Em, D, Bm, C, Am, C/G, D/A, G, Cmaj7, F#m and C(add9). Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Em D Bm (D) C
In this spare room
Am Em D C/G
we better see what we have and whom
Em D Bm (D) C
An I.O.U. for the same thing
Am Em D C/G
Only angels have wings, so they say
C/G D/A
Em D G C Cmaj7
Here I stand, alive unto you
Em D Bm (D) C
My fate's mercy seat
Am Em D C/G
sought blood to gulp and flesh to eat
Em D Bm (D) C
And I can't blame you enough
Am Em D C/G
but I'm indepted to your mercy and your love
C/G D/A
Em D G C Bm
Here I stand, alive unto you
Am
alive unto you
Cmaj7 Em
'cause you saved my life
D G C Bm
Now I see there's so much to lose
Am
so much to lose
Cmaj7 G D C
'cause you saved my life
G D C
my life
G D C
you saved my life
Bm
Darling, now I
C
must live for you
D Em
One reprieve grants another
F#m G Cmaj7
until each world is born anew
Em D
Bm D C(add9)
in the live video on youtube he plays it like this:
e|--------------|
B|--0---3---3---|
G|--0---0---0---|
D|------0-------|
A|--2--(2)--3---|
E|--------------|
Am Em D C/G
C/G D/A
Em D G C Bm
Here I stand, alive unto you
Am
alive unto you
Cmaj7 Em
'cause you saved my life
D G C Bm
Now I see there's so much to lose
Am
so much to lose
Cmaj7
'cause you saved my
repeat Chorus one more time
then just the Chorus chords 2x
Em D
Never understand, never could ignore
G C Bm Am Cmaj7
I'm rotten to the core, since 1994
Em D
Never understand, never could ignore
G C Bm Am Cmaj7
I'm rotten to the core, since 1994
Em D G C Bm Am Cmaj7
just keep waltzing ad nauseam ;)