James Blunt - How It Feels to Be Alive: chords

        Bm            F#       G
When my heart doesn't beat anymore
        D      F#  Bm
And my body's cold
          Bm               F#            G
You will walk, dressed in black, to my door
         D         F#  Bm
And the bells will toll

           Bm                F#m/A
You use my love like an open vein
                              G
Just when I thought it would heal
         F#sus4
Back you came

Chorus:
F#                              Bm
Seeing you again for the first time
                           D/A
Tryna look ahead and not behind
                              G
Raging as you do against the tide
                                 Em
Knowing that your his instead of mine
                            Bm
Getting used to being hurt again
                          D/A
Every day's closer to the end
                                 E/G#
Holding back the tears I need to cry
                                 G
Waiting to breathe for the last time
                                  Bm D/A G
Yeah, that's how it feels to be alive
Em                         Bm  D/A G Em
That's how it feels to be alive

At my grave they did say one last verse
'Bout the new love that you found
And I lay in the rain by the church
And they lowered me into the ground

You stole my heart as your souvenir
Thought that you would never come back
But now you're here

Chorus:
F#                              Bm
Seeing you again for the first time
                           D/A
Tryna look ahead and not behind
                              G
Raging as you do against the tide
                                 Em
Knowing that your his instead of mine
                            Bm
Getting used to being hurt again
                          D/A
Every day's closer to the end
                                 E/G#
Holding back the tears I need to cry
                                 G
Waiting to breathe for the last time
                                  Bm D/A G
Yeah, that's how it feels to be alive
       Em                         Bm D/A G
Yeah, that's how it feels to be alive
       Em                         Bm
Yeah, that's how it feels to be alive

          D/A                  G
(Outside waiting in the cold again)
(I'm outside waiting to be held again)
       Em                         Bm
Yeah, that's how it feels to be alive
          D/A                 G
(Outside standing on my own again)
 Em                         Bm
That's how it feels to be alive