How Long

How Long by Lifehouse
Transcribed by Loloy D

Intro: A DM7 A DM7

  A
Climb on top of all you despise
        DM7
It's a better view from the lies
      A
Two steps behind before I've begun
       DM7
Time stops to tell me all I could have done

Refrain
          F#m
And I'll say
     C#            D                A
How long 'til the work will be completed
F#m       C#         D             A
How many times will history repeat it
F#m      C#       DM7   Dm
How long will it take

Chorus
     A         DM7
How long, how long
         F#m            C#         DM7   DM7-pause
I wanna go,  will you show me the way

Verse
     A                   A/C#
I'd rather be wrong than be deceived
    D                 D/F#m
To thinking that I ("high") believe
     A               A/C#         D       D/F#m
That I can stand to be here on my own

Verse
A                               A/C#
There's too many questions that we won't ask
    D              D/F#m
In hopes that this too will pass
     A                 A/C#                   D       D/F#m
But how far down do we have to go before we know it

Refrain
F#m  C#            D                A
How long 'til the work will be completed
F#m      C#          D             A
How many times will history repeat it
F#m      C#       DM7     Dm
How long will it take

Chorus
     A         DM7
How long, how long
        F#m           C#           D
I wanna go,  will you show me the way
     A         DM7
How long, how long
    F#m          C#         D
How long will it take, how long....

Instrumentals: F#m  C#   D   A   F#m  C#   D   A 

F#m  C#  D   DM7
Whoahoahoah...

Chorus
     A         DM7
How long, how long
         F#m           C#          D
I wanna go,  will you show me the way

Chorus alternative version
     A         DM7
How long, how long
    F#m          C#    D   DM7
How long will it ta-...ke

Outro Refrain Acoustic (see chords below)
F#m  C#            DM7              A
How long 'til the work will be completed
F#m  C#            DM7              A
How many times will history repeat it
F#m  C#            DM7               A
How long 'til the words fall to the pages
F#m        C#            DM7               A
How many times 'til all we can say you're savin'

Outro C# = 1st string: 1
           2nd string: 2
           3rd string: 1
           4th to 6th string muted
Outro DM7 = 1st string: 2
            2nd string: 2
            3rd string: 2
            4th string: 0
            5th to 6th string muted