Jan202018

First Aid Kit – To Live A Life Chord Progression on Piano, Guitar, Ukulele and Keyboard

ChordsC Em F G

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This is the chord progression of To Live A Life by First Aid Kit on Piano, Guitar, Ukulele and Keyboard.

[Intro]
C Em F C G

[Verse 1]
C Em
I wrote you a letter to make myself feel better
F C G
To redeem some part of me I thought I had lost
C Em
And we were lost cause long before we fell apart
F C G
‘Cause honey, I was too eager And you were too smart
C Em
Yet I look for you in these empty rooms
F C G
You’re a phone call away, I’m on the interstate
C Em
And I been drinking cheap wine just to pass the time
F C G
I’m falling behind and it doesn’t matter
C Em F C G
Who you are to meee

C Em F C G

[Verse 2]
C Em
I’m just like my mother, we both love to run
F C G
Chase impossible things or unreachable dreams
C Em
Lie awake in the night thinking this can’t be right
F C G C Em F
But there is no other way to live a life alone
C G
I’m alone now

C Em F C G

[Verse 3]
C Em F C G
Then suddenly we wake from this dream that we have made
C Em F C G
It hits you all at once and then it slowly fades
C Em F C G
I’m racing into nothing now, it all falls away
C Em F C G
I know it now for my own sake that I cannot stay

ends with these chords C Em F C G C.

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How to play To Live A Life: key, chords and progression

To Live A Life by First Aid Kit is in the key of C major (no sharps or flats). The song uses 4 chords: C, Em, F and G.

The progression the song keeps returning to is C – Em – F – C (I – iii – IV – I in C major). In solfa, that is doh – mi – fah – doh. Learn these 4 changes first and most of the song falls into place.

Good to know: F is played as barre or movable shapes on guitar. Practise the change into it slowly; on piano and ukulele the same chords are easier.