How Could You Leave Us Cifras

Same chord progression whole song, I like to strum on the choruses, yet pick on the verses.
Play each chord twice in the verses.
 
 
[Intro]
         C        G         Bm         Em
e|-------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------0--------------------------------|
G|-------0--------0--------------------0-----------|
D|-------2-------------------4\2-------2-----------|
A|-------3-------------------2---------2-----------|
E|----------------3--------------------------------|
 
 
C                          G
How could you leave so unexpected?
Bm             Em
We waited, we waited
 
C                      G
For you, but you just left us
Bm                  Em
We needed you, I needed you
 
 
[Verse 1] (TRY USING INTRO, PICKING EACH CHORD TWICE)
 
C
Yo, I don't know what it's like to be addicted to pills
G
But I do know what it's like to be a witness, it kills
 Bm
Mama told me she loved me, I'm thinkin' this isn't real
   Em
I think of you when I get a whiff of that cigarette smell, yeah
  C
Welcome to the bottom of hell
  G
They say pain is a prison, let me out of my cell
   Bm
You say you proud of me, but you don't know me that well
  Em
Sit in my room, tears runnin' down my face and I yell
   C
Into my pillowcases, say you comin' to get us
   G
Then call a minute later just to tell us you're not, I'm humiliated
   Bm
I'm in a room with a parent that I don't barely know
    Em
Some lady in the corner watchin' us while she's takin' notes
    C
I don't get it, Mom, don't you want to watch your babies grow?
     G
I guess pills are more important, all you have to say is "no"
     Bm
But you won't do it, will you? You gon' keep poppin' 'til them pills kill you
     Em
I know you're gone, but I can still feel you
 
 
[Chorus] (TRY STRUMMING)
C                          G
Why would you leave us? Why would you leave us?
Bm                     Em
How could you leave us here?
C                          G                    Bm
How could you leave us? Why would you leave us? Oh
Em
Hey
 
 
[Verse 2] (TRY INTRO, PICKING EACH CHORD TWICE)
 C
I got this picture in my room and it kills me
  G
But I don't need a picture of my mom, I need the real thing
  Bm
Now a relationship is somethin' we won't ever have
  Em
But why do I feel like I lost somethin' that I never had?
  C
You shoulda been there when I graduated
  G
Told me you loved me and congratulations
  Bm
Instead you left us at the window waitin'
   Em
Where you at mom?
 
We're too young to understand, where you at, huh?
   C
Yeah, I know them drugs have got you held captive
   G
I can see it in your eyes, they got your mind captured
    Bm
Some say it's fun to get the high, but I am not laughin'
   Em
And what you don't realize and what you're not graspin'
   C
That I was nothin' but a kid who couldn't understand it
   G
I ain't gon' say that I forgive you 'cause it hasn't happened
   Bm
I thought that maybe I'd feel better as time passes
   Em
If you really cared for me, then where you at then?
 
 
[Chorus] (TRY STRUMMING)
C                          G
Why would you leave us? Why would you leave us?
Bm                     Em
How could you leave us here?
C                          G                    Bm
How could you leave us? Why would you leave us? Oh
Em
Hey
 
 
[Verse 3] (PICK EACH CHORD ONCE FOR THE SLOW PARTS)
C
Our last conversation, you and I sat in the livin' room
 G
Talkin' 'bout my music and I brought you some to listen to
   Bm
You started cryin', tellin' me this isn't you
   Em
A couple weeks later, guess you were singin' a different tune
    C
You took them pills for the last time, didn't you?
    G
They took you from us once, I guess they came back to finish you
    Bm
Cryin' my eyes out in the studio is difficult
   Em
Music is the only place that I can go to speak to you
 
(EACH CHORD TWICE AGAIN)
  C
It took everything inside of me, not to scream at your funeral
    G
Sittin' in my chair, that person talkin' was pitiful
    Bm
I wish you were here, mama, but every time I picture you
     Em
All I feel is pain, I hate the way I remember you
 
(EACH CHORD ONCE AGAIN)
   C
They found you on the floor, I could tell you felt hollow
     G
Gave everything you had, plus your life to them pill bottles
     Bm
You gave everything you had, plus your life to them pill bottles
     Em
Don't know if you hear me or not, but if you're still watchin', why?
 
 
[Chorus] (TRY STRUMMING)
C                          G
Why would you leave us? Why would you leave us?
Bm                     Em
How could you leave us here?
C                          G                    Bm
How could you leave us? Why would you leave us? Oh
Em
Hey
 
 
[Outro]
N.C.
Sometimes I think about like...
 
Sometimes I think about things like, you know
 
When I'd have kids, I'm like...
 
You won't be there, you know?
 
You won't be there for any of that
 
And I'll never get to see you again
 
Sometimes I wish I would've just called you
 
I wish I would have just picked up the phone
 
Wish you were here
 
I mean you should've been there for us
 
You should have been here!
 
Them pills got you, right?!
 
Them pills got you, right?!
 
I wish you were here
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