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Half Alive
Secondhand Serenade
Tuned To DADGAD – everything played with octave chords

Chord Key
D B C# E F# A
D(E)-
A(B)-
g(g)-7-4-6--9-9--14-
d(d)-0-0-0--0-0--0--
a(a)-5-2-4--7-11-12-
D(E)-

VERSE 1 (Plucking)
D B
It's four AM, I'm waking up to your perfume
C#
Don't get up, I'll get through on my own
B
I don't know if I'm home
D
Or if I lost the way into your room
B
I'm spiraling into my doom
C# B
I'm feeling half alive but I know one day
(strum)C#
You and I will be free,


CHORUS:
B D
To live and die by our own rules, Free...
A
Despite the fact that men are fools.
D B(A) D(F#)
I'm almost alive, and I need you to try
E
And save me.
D A
It's okay that we're dying,
D(F#) C# B-C#
But I need to survive tonight, tonight.

Pluck: D B C# B


Verse 2
D
Well excuse me while I get killed softly,
B C#
Heart slows down and I can hardly tell you I'm okay
B
At least 'til yesterday,
D
You know you got me off my highest guard,
B
Believe me when I say it's hard.
C#
We'll get through this tonight
B C#
And I know one day you and I will be free


CHORUS:
B D
To live and die by our own rules, Free...
A
Despite the fact that men are fools.
D B(A) D(F#)
I'm almost alive, and I need you to try
E
And save me.
D A
It's okay that we're dying,
D(F#) C# B
But I need to survive tonight, tonight.


BRIDGE PART 1: (Shots)
C# D
And you touch my hand ever so slightly
C#
(Girl we're not ready for this yet)
D
And the deadly look she cast upon me

I won't regret, I won't regret
C# D C# D
I won't regret. I won't regret...

BRIDGE PART 2:
D A
And I was trying to disappear,
B
But you got me wrapped around you

I can hardly breathe without you
D A
I was trying to disappear
B
But I got lost in your eyes now,

You brought me down to size now.


CHORUS: (Plucking)
D B(A) D(F#)
I'm almost alive, and I need you to try
E
And save me.
(strum)D A
It's okay that we're dying,
D(F#) C#
But I need to survive tonight, tonight, tonight..


CHORUS: (strumming)
D B(A) D(F#)
I'm almost alive, and I need you to try
E
And save me.
D A
It's okay that we're dying,
D(F#) C# B
But I need to survive tonight, tonight.
D(F#) C# B D
But I need to survive tonight, tonight.