{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2407441,"song":"How Could You Leave Us","artist":"NF","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11496292-how-could-you-leave-us-chords-by-nf/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2407441?type=chord","rating":5,"votes":95,"content":"[Intro]\r\n[ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab]                [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nHow could you leave so unexpected?[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Em[/ch]          [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWe waited, we waited[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]                 [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nFor you, but you just left us[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Em[/ch]            [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWe needed you, I needed you[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]\r\nYo, I don't know what it's like to be addicted to pills[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBut I do know what it's like to be a witness, it kills[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nMama told me she loved me, I'm thinkin' this isn't real[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI think of you when I get a whiff of that cigarette smell, yeah[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\r\nWelcome to the bottom of hell[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThey say pain is a prison, let me out of my cell[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nYou say you proud of me, but you don't know me that well[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]F[/ch]\r\nSit in my room, tears running down my face and I yell[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]\r\nInto my pillowcases, you say you coming to get us[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThen call 'em a minute later just to tell us you not, I'm humiliated[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]\r\nI'm in a room with a parent that I don't barely know[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\r\nSome lady in the corner watching us while she's taking notes[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\r\nI don't get it mom, don't you want to watch your babies grow?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI guess pills are more important, all you have to say is \"no\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                                                               [ch]F[/ch]\r\nBut you won't do it, will you? You gon' keep popping, 'til those pills kill you[/tab]\r\n\r\nI know you're gone, but I can still feel you\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                        [ch]Am[/ch]                                [ch]Em[/ch]\r\n  Why would you leave us?   Why would you leave us here?[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]F[/ch]\r\n  How could you leave us here?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                                       [ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]Em[/ch]\r\n  How could you leave us? Why would you leave us? Oh[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nHey[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]           [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI got this picture in my room and it kills me[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBut I don't need a picture of my mom, I need the real thing[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Em[/ch]                                                                   [ch]F[/ch]\r\nNow a relationship is something we won't ever have, but why do I feel like I lost something that I never had?[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]F[/ch]\r\nYou should have been there when I graduated[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]Am[/ch]                                                         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nTold me you loved me and congratulations, instead you left us at the window waitin'[/tab]\r\n\r\nWhere you at mom?\r\n[tab]                            [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWe're too young to understand, where you at, huh?[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]F[/ch]\r\nYeah, I know them drugs have got you held captive[/tab]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI can see it in your eyes, they got your mind captured[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nSome say it's fun to get the high, but I am not laughin'[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd what you don't realize and what you not graspin'[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThat I was nothing but a kid, who couldn't understand it[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI ain't gon' say that I forgive you 'cause it hasn't happened[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nI thought that maybe I'd feel better as time passes[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]F[/ch]\r\nIf you really cared for me, then where you at then?[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                         [ch]Am[/ch]                              [ch]Em[/ch]\r\n  Why would you leave us?   Why would you leave us here?[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]F[/ch]\r\n  How could you leave us here?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                                       [ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]Em[/ch]\r\n  How could you leave us? Why would you leave us? Oh[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nHey[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab]         [ch]F[/ch]\r\nOur last conversation, you and I sat in the living room[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nTalkin' 'bout my music and I brought you some to listen to[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nYou started cryin', telling me \"this isn't you\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]F[/ch]\r\nA couple weeks later, guess you were singin' a different tune[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]F[/ch]\r\nYou took them pills for the last time, didn't you?[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThey took you from us once, I guess they came back to finish you[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nCryin' my eyes out in the studio is difficult[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]F[/ch]\r\nMusic is the only place that I can go to speak to you[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]F[/ch]\r\nIt took everything inside of me, not to scream at your funeral[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSittin' in my chair, that person talkin' was pitiful[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nI wish you were here, mama, but every time I picture you[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAll I feel is pain, I hate the way I remember you[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThey found you on the floor, I could tell you felt hollow[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nGave everything you had, plus your life to them pill bottles[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nYou gave everything you had, plus your life to them pill bottles[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]F[/ch]\r\nDon't know if you hear me or not, but if you're still watching, why?[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                         [ch]Am[/ch]                               [ch]Em[/ch]\r\n  Why would you leave us?   Why would you leave us here?[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]F[/ch]\r\n  How could you leave us here?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                                       [ch]Am[/ch]             [ch]Em[/ch]\r\n  How could you leave us? Why would you leave us? Oh[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\r\nHey[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Outro]\r\n[ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch]\r\n[tab]                           [ch]F[/ch]\r\nSometimes I think about like[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]F[/ch]                         [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSometimes I think about things like, you know[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]Em[/ch]      [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWhen I'd have kids, I'm like[/tab]\r\n\r\nYou won't be there, you know?\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                   [ch]Em[/ch]     [ch]F[/ch]     [ch]F[/ch]\r\nYou won't be there for any of that[/tab]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]Am[/ch]               [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd I'll never get to see you again[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                 [ch]F[/ch]\r\nSometimes I wish I would've just called you[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                             [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI wish I would have just picked up the phone[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWish you were here[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nI mean you should of been there for us[/tab]\r\n[tab]                            [ch]F[/ch]\r\nYou should have been here![/tab]\r\n[tab]                           [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThem pills got you, right?[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]                     [ch]Em[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThem pills got you, right?[/tab]\r\n\r\nI wish you were here","plain_text":"[Intro]\nF Am Em F\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI know you're gone, but I can still feel you\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhere you at mom?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Outro]\nF Am Em\n\n\n\n\nYou won't be there, you know?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI wish you were here","chords":["F","Am","Em","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]}}}