Verse
F#
The traffic light
Waits for you to tell me the
D#m
tale of a shattered life, tonight
And I just passed by when you have
C#
had the chance to fight
Or would you spend your last days alone
Thinkin nobody would have cared
B
Or known just look me in the eye and see that its a light
C# F# (leads into chorus)
So you're telling me,
Chorus
C#
This is how you're going down
D#m
You thought that I never really wanted you around
F#
Well you are way off track to think like that
C# B
Coz now you have taken back,
D#m
everything that you ever said
C#
Bout how Id never want to see you again
B
Well this is what I, what I left behind
F# D#m
What I left behind, what I left behind
Verse 2
F#
Need a change
D#m
In a minute of my time did I get your name?
Well you say, that I haven't been
C#
asked that in years now I think,
the traffic light that stood in the way
B
So that I can hear what you had to say
Im half way through your story
C# F#
Cant help thinking that you're just like me
Chorus
C#
This is how you're going down
D#m
You thought that I never really wanted you around
F#
Well you are way off track to think like that
C# B
Coz now you have taken back,
D#m
everything that you ever said
C#
Bout how Id never want to see you again
B G#m
Well this is what I, what I left behind
B
Forgetting about ourselves
D#m
Is like history that dust is covering
C# B
left on the shelf, on the shelf
C# (single strum)
The crosswalks make the way for us to say what we need to say
Chorus
F# C#
Yeah, this is how you're going down
D#m
You thought that I never really wanted you around
F#
Well you are way off track to think like that
C# B
Coz now you have taken back,
D#m
everything that you ever said
C#
Bout how Id never want to see you again
B D#m
Well this is what I, what I left behind
(So your telling me)
(This is how you're going down)
B
This is what I, what I left behind