Love Alone Is Worth The Fight chords – Switchfoot V3

 "Love Alone is Worth the Fight" by Switchfoot

This is a pretty simple song.  You can play it different ways.  For example, I've seen
Jon use the E and E5 interchangeably, but I like using the E to give certain parts more
emphasis, so you can do it however you want.  I would recommend listening to a radio
performance to get the strumming.  At the bottom I've included a few notes on things you can
add to make it more interesting once you've got this down.  Have fun.

Standard tuning, no capo.

Chords:
 B -  7998xx
 E5 - 079900
 E - 022100
 EM7 - 066440
 F# - 2443xx

Intro:    B E5 B E5 B E EM7 F# E 

Verse 1:
 B 
I’m trying to find where my place is

I’m looking for my own oasis
 E5 
So close I can taste this

The fear that love alone erases
 B 
So I’m back to the basics

I figure it’s time I face this
 E5 
Time to take my own advice
(pause)                  B 
Love alone is worth the fight
                         E5 
Love alone is worth the fight

Verse 2:
 B 
And I never thought it’d come to this

But it seems like I’m finally feeling numb to this
 E5 
The funny thing about a name is

You forget what the reason you were playing the game is
 B 
And it’s all an illusion

A 21st century institution
 E 
So I’m heading down the open road unknown

Chorus:
 B 
And we find what we’re made of
 E5 
Through the open door
 B 
Is it fear you’re afraid of?
 E 
What are you waiting for?
                         B E5 
Love alone is worth the fight
                         B E5 
Love alone is worth the fight

Verse 3:
 B 
We’re only here for a season

I’m looking for the rhyme and reason
 E5 
Why you’re born why you’re leaving

What you fear and what you believe in
 B 
Why you’re living and breathing

Why you’re fighting it and getting it even
 E 
Let’s go headed down the open road unknown

Chorus:
 B 
And we find what we’re made of
 E5 
Through the open door
 B 
Is it fear you’re afraid of?
 E 
What are you waiting for?
                         B E5 
Love alone is worth the fight
                         B E5 
Love alone is worth the fight


Then on the last “yeah” you play this (listen for strumming pattern; I recommend an
acoustic/radio performance):

e-------------------------------------|
B-------------------------------------|
G--11/16-16-15-13—-11/16-16-15-13-----|
D-------------------------------------|
A---9/14-14-13-11---9/14-14-13-11-----|
E-------------------------------------|

Outro:
 B 
Here we are here we go
 E5 
Where the road is our own
 B 
Feel it calling you home
 E 
Here we are here we go
                         B 
Love alone is worth the fight
                         E 
Love alone is worth the fight
                         B 
Love alone is worth the fight
                         E 
Love alone is worth the fight
                         B 
Love alone is worth the fight

 E5 B E5 


Notes:  
There's a few things you can add in if you want to make the song a little more interesting.

-I like to play the B and e strings open for the second half of strumming the F# in the
intro.  I think it sounds more like the song.

-During the verses it sounds like Jon is sort

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