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Lost cause

Beck

RockMedium for beginners7 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

F
C×
G
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Am×
E7
A×

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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              F      C   G/B      F       C      G/B      F      C    G/B    Am
Your sorry eyes /  they cut through bone / They make it hard / to leave 
     E7      F     C   G/B    F      C      G/B     F      C   G/B    Am
you alone / Leave you here / wearing your wounds / Waving your guns / at
        E7          F        G        F        G       F        G
 somebody new  /  Baby I'm a lost / Baby I'm a lost / Baby I'm a lost 
C          F       C      G/B       F    C    G/B       F       C
Cause / There's too many people / you used to know  /  They see you
G/B      Am         E7         F      C      G/B        F      C     G/B
 coming / they see you go  / They know your secrets / and you know theirs
    F      C      G/B    Am          E7       F         G       F
 / This town is crazy / but nobody cares  /  Baby I'm a lost / Baby I'm a
   G       F        G       C    Am
 lost  /  Baby I'm a lost cause.
   F              C         F      C     G/B         F             G
  I'm tired of fighting / I'm tired of fighting  /  Fighting for a lost
  C    A      F                      C         A    F               
Cause  /  There's a place  where you are going  / You ain't never been 
C       A     F                          C                    F
Before  /  There's no one laughing at your back now /  No one standing at 
   C               F                        C
your door  /  Is that what you thought love was for?
   F        G       F         G         F         G    C   A        F
Baby I'm a lost  /  Baby I'm a lost  / Baby I'm a lost cause  /  I'm 
            C           F              C       F     C        G/B
tired of fighting  /  I'm tired of fighting /  Fighting for a lost cause. 
          
 

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Chord set

F · C · G · B · Am · E7 · A

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.