Because We Had To chords by The 502s

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

9. Because We Had To

Verse 1:
G       Bm       C
Well you were wrong about the way
  D          G
You said my memory would change
      Bm    C
Day after day, you claimed
  D            G
I’d find it inside of me to grow
       B
Away from the pain
           Am
And the shame and the guilt
  C
And the questions
D         G
Wondering what did I do wrong
   Bm    C           D
To you, to decide it was time to go

Chorus:
  G   C   D
Because we had to
    G           Em
Because I tried the best that I could
 D      C    D
To have and to hold you
    G  D      Em
In the way I knew that I should
  D       C         D
And we’d still be breathing darling
   G    D     Em    D
If I did the little you asked of me
  C     D             G G
But I couldn’t, so now we’re nothing at all


Verse 2:
         Bm
The way that the night came down
  C         D
You were alone in your room
       G
With somebody else
         Bm         C
But you were too big, and bold in my eyes
       D
And I was to cowardly to call all your lies
G        Bm          C
 Well I didn’t know not telling the truth
         D          G
Would cost me my soul, and most of my youth
       Bm         C
So with you I stayed in spite of myself
         D
And I don’t know why


Chorus:
  G   C   D
Because we had to
    G           Em
Because I tried the best that I could
 D      C    D
To have and to hold you
    G  D      Em
In the way I knew that I should
  D       C         D
And we’d still be breathing darling
   G    D     Em    D
If I did the little you asked of me
  C     D             G G
But I couldn’t, so now we’re nothing at all


Instrumental:
Em D Bm C (x2)


Bridge:
Em      D
Why would you roam when you knew
     Bm             C
That I’d always be coming back home, alone, to you?
Em          D       Bm
You knew that I never, ever, ever, ever
      D
Would have done that to you

Still you did


Chorus:
  G   C   D
Because we had to
    G           Em
Because I tried the best that I could
 D      C    D
To have and to hold you
    G  D      Em
In the way I knew that I should
  D       C          D
And we’d still be breathing darling
   G    D     Em    D
If I did the little you asked of me
  C     D             G G
But I couldn’t, so now we’re nothing at all


Verse 3:
         C    D
And when we were younger
    G    F#m     Em  D
And our hearts outpaced our wits
    C    D
It was better
  G       D       Em   D
and I preferred to live in the ignorance
      C D
In the bubble
     G      Em    E
that you built with a fake façade
    D      C
In the guise of another
        D           G
Well you sold lies and I bought them all