When I Go Down

great song by an amazing band! show your support by liking or correcting anything! thanks : ) capo on 2 : Verse 1 : D G i’ll tell you flat out Bm it hurts so much to think of this Asus4 so from my thoughts i will exclude the very thing that i hate more than everything is the way i’m powerless to dictate my own moods Verse 2 : C F i’ve thrown away C F so many things that could’ve been much more C F and i just pray C F D my problems go away if they’re ignored F but that’s not the way it works G C no that’s not the way it works Chorus : C when i go down F i go down hard Am and i take everything i’ve learned G and teach myself some disregard when i go down it hurts to hit the bottom and of the things that got me there i think , if only i had fought them Verse 3 : if and when i can clear myself of this clouded mind i’ll watch myself settle down into a place where peace can search me out and find that i’m so ready to be found Verse 4 : i’ve thrown away the hope i had in friendships i’ve thrown away so many things that could have been much more i’ve thrown away the secret to find an end to this and i just pray my problems go away if they’re ignored but that’s not the way it works no that’s not the way it works Bridge : C G F C any control i thought i had just slips right through my hands G F C while my ever - present conscience shakes its head and reprimands me G reprimands me C then and there F i confess C F i’ll blame all this on my selfishness yet you love me and that consumes me and i’ll stand up again and do so willingly Bridge 2 : F C F C . . . . you give me hope , and hope it gives me life you touch my heavy heart , and when you do you make it light as i exhale i hear your voice and i answer you , though i hardly make a noise and from my lips the words i choose to say seem pathetic , but it’s fallen man’s praise because i love you oh god , i love you and life is now worth living if only because of you and when they say that i’m dead and gone it won’t be further from the truth coda : when i go down i lift my eyes to you i won’t look very far cause you’ll be there with open arms to lift me up again to lift me up again