If I Were You chords by Switchfoot

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

🎸 Verse 1:
   E   B
2020 enemies
       C    Am
What a dismal odyssey
        E   B
Hell bound the apathy
       C    Am
Is there any remedy?
           E     B
'Cause we bicker over Listerine
          C    Am
With Twitter as our liturgy
       E   B
What a crummy legacy
   C    Am
2020 enemies

🎸 Chorus:
     E  B
If I were you
     C   G
And you were me
         A   G#
Would we still be doomed
     G  F
To disagree?
        E  B
'Cause you'd be me
     C  G
If I were you
       A  G#
And you never see
      G  F
My point of view
     E G#m A B
If I were you
      E G#m A B
If I were you, mm-mm


🎸 Verse 2:
        E   B
Hey Romeo, it's Juliet
          C    Am
Are you Montague or Capulet?
          E    B        C N.C.
Or some denigrating apathetic insult that we both forget?
           E    B
'Cause fake is on the internet
          C   Am
And fear is on the TV set
       E    B
Our rage is a habitat
       C     Am
For our 2020 novelettes


🎸 Chorus:
     E       B
If I were you (If I were you)
       C        G
And you were me (And you were me)
         A             G#
Would we still be doomed (Would we still be doomed)
    G       F
To disagree? (To disagree?)
        E          B
'Cause you'd be me ('Cause you'd be me)
     C       G
If I were you (If I were you)
       A         G#
And you never see (And you never see)
      G         F
My point of view (My point of view)
     E G#m A B
If I were you


🎸 Bridge:
E          C     G E
Hey babe, we're the dinosaurs (Oh-oh)
E              C      G E
I get the feeling we've been here before (Oh-oh)
E             C      G E
Ain't it clear what we're aiming for? (Oh-oh)
E          C
Hey babe, we're the dinosaurs
B            E
Yeah, but what if me and you
N.C.
Were in each other shoes
N.C.
Could we break through?
N.C.
To somewhere different, somewhere new
          Bass:  E D#
'Cause if you're stuck with me
            C# B
I guess I'm stuck with you
     A       G#         F#       B
Could we rise above the scars that we both put each other through


🎸 Chorus:
     E             B
If I were you (I think I'm ready to try us)
       C#m           E
And you were me (I think I'm ready to try)
         A            E
Would we still be doomed (To put the past behind us)
    A              B
To disagree? (Yeah, to put the past behind)
        E            B
'Cause you'd be me ('Cause it's already behind us)
     C#m              E
If I were you (Yeah, I'm sick of falling behind)
     A             E
And all I see (I think I'm ready to try us)
          A               B
Is what you put me through (Maybe I'd be ready to try)

🎸 Outro:
       E        B     C
If I were you if you were me, I would be you
  G         A
And then we'd both be true
 G#        G   F
I wonder what we'd do
E       B     C
If you were me, I would be you
   G        A
Would one plus one be two?
 G#        G   F
I wonder what we'd do
     E
If I were you



*you can also play the bass line (E D# C# B A G# F# B) during the N.C. part in the bridge.