For The Life Of Me Chords
by Wallflowers
For The Life Of Me by Wallflowers is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, C/B, D, Dsus, Dsus2, G, Bm, Am and Em. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Chords (As seen on Rearrange...Rebel,Sweetheart Dual Disk)
...so this might be a little different from the album version
listen for pattern
**CAPO II** (Pick around them for a good sound)
C C/B D Dsus Dsus2 G Bm Am
--0-----0-----2-----0-----3-----3----2----0--
--1-----1-----3-----2-----3-----3----3----1--
--0-----0-----2-----3-----2-----0----4----2--
--2-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0----4----2--
--3-----2-----X-----X-----X-----2----2----0--
--X-----X-----X-----X-----X-----3----2----x--
C C/B D Dsus
I know you find it hard to smile
C C/B D Dsus
To keep your happiness in style
C C/B D Dsus
You pass in silence in the morning
C C/B D Dsus
You know you shouldn't ever try to ignore me
C C/B D Dsus
And you look to be pretty nervous
C C/B D Dsus
Sweaty hands and blood shot eyes
C C/B D Dsus
So hard to identify you
C C/B D Dsus
Just a loser in a loser's disguise
*CHORUS*
Bm C
She don't back down
D Dsus2 G
And she won't come around here
Em C
And there's all this talk about dying
C C/B Am
Man, I don't get it for the life of me
C C/B D Dsus
With your fingernails painted red
C C/B D Dsus
And your eyes all ready to wed
C C/B D Dsus
Decorated from head to toe
C C/B D Dsus
Like a magician in a talent show
*CHORUS*
Bm C
She don't back down
D Dsus2 G
And she won't come around here
Em C
And there's all this talk about dying
C C/B Am
Man, I don't get it for the life of me
C C/B D Dsus
So you've smoked your last cigarette
C C/B D Dsus
Blindfolded on a train from Tibet
C C/B D Dsus
Broke your last bottle of wine
C C/B D Dsus
And unraveled your last ball of twine
*CHORUS*
Bm C
She don't back down
D Dsus2 G
And she won't come around here
Em C
And there's all this talk about dying
C C/B Am
Man, I don't get it for the life of me
Break...just mess around with the chords
and move up the neck with C a little
*CHORUS*
Bm C
She don't back down
D Dsus2 G
And she won't come around here
Em C
And there's all this talk about dying
C C/B Am
Man, I don't get it for the life of me
C C/B D Dsus
Well I know you find it hard to smile
C C/B D Dsus
To keep your happiness in style
C C/B D Dsus
Pass in silence in the morning
C C/B D Dsus
You know you don't need to ignore me
Em C
Now there's all this talkin' about dying
C C/B Am
Man, I don't get it for the life of me.