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.