Life Chords
Life by The Avett Brothers is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G with a capo on the 4st fret. It uses the chords G, D, Em, C, Cm and Bm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: G D Em C
G D Em C
One comes of it, love it, love it
G D Em C
Let go of it, love comes from it
G D Em C
We're not of this world for long.
G D Em C
Faith and promise keep me honest
G D Em C
When starvation, falls upon us
G D Em C
Daylight told me he would be.
G D Em C
G D Em C
Gone with cold words, spoke among hers
G D Em C
Wretched is the tongue of their world
G D Em C
We're not of that world at all
G D Em
We will never be.
Cm G D Em
Wouldn't it be fine to stand
Bm C G D
behind the words we say in the best of times?
G D Em
Oh and you and I know all too well
Bm C G Bm C D
about the hell and paradise right here on Earth.
G D
Keep it use it
Em C
Build it move it
G D Em C
Flames can't touch how time will prove it
G D Em C
Watch us fly as loud as we can
G D
Let her heart beat
Em C D
Change what I am now.
C G D Em
Wouldn't it be fine to stand
Bm C G D
behind the words we say in the best of times?
G D Em
Oh and you and I know all too well
Bm C G Bm C
about the hell and paradise right here on Earth.
Cm G