It's Only Life Chords
by The Shins
It's Only Life by The Shins is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords C, G, F, Em and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro
C G F
C Em F G
C Am Em
Died in the woods youve been cornered by a natural desire
F C
You wanna hop along the with the giddy throng through life
C Em F G
But how you did learn to steer when theyre grinding all you gears
C Am Em F
Youve been talking for hours you say time will wash every tower to the sea
C Em F G
And now you got this worry in your heart
F C G
When I guess its only life its only natural
F C G
We all spent a little while going down the rabbit hole
Am C
The things they taught you lining up to haunt you
G F Em
They got your back against the wall
F G
I called on you on the telephone wont you pick up the receiver
C G F C
Ive been down of every road that youre walking now
C Em F
It doesnt have to be so dark and lonesome
C G F Em G
Takes a while till we can figure this thing out and turn it back around
C Am Em G
C Am Em F
You use to be such a lion before you got into all this crying on my lab
C Em F G
Back when you thought I never get this far
F C G
But did you think really I showed an opened door
Am G
But futures calling and I?m answer
Am C
The wheels in motion but I never drink your portion
G F Em
And I know it breaks your heart
F G
Open up your parachute something got to stop the free fall
C G F C
Ive been down of every road that youre walking now
C Em F
It doesnt have to be so dark and lonesome
C G F Em G F C
Takes a while till we can figure this thing out and turn it back around
end on: G