Hope Is A Dangerous Thing For A Woman Like Me To Have - But I Have It chords by Lana Del Rey

Chords with lyrics (Ver. 2)

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Difficulty: Novice

Verse 1:
    A minorAm           G+G           D MajorD
I was reading Slim Aarons and I got to thinking that I thought
 A minorAm              G+G           D MajorD
Maybe I'd get less stressed if I was tested less like

All of these debutantes
 A minorAm            G+G             D MajorD
Smiling for miles in pink dresses and high heels on white yachts
 A minorAm    G+G    D MajorD
But I'm not, baby, I'm not
  A minorAm   G+G    D MajorD
No, I'm not, that, I'm not

Instrumental:
A minorAm G+G D MajorD

Chorus:
      C majorC           D MajorD
I've been tearing around in my fucking nightgown
 G+G      C majorC
24/7 Sylvia Plath
             D MajorD
Writing in blood on the walls
            G+G           C majorC
'Cause the ink in my pen don't work in my notepad
              D MajorD
Don't ask if I'm happy, you know that I'm not
    G+G     Gmaj7Gmaj7   E minorEm
But at best I can say I'm not sad
    A minorAm          G+G           D MajorD
'Cause hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
 A minorAm          G+G          D MajorD
Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have

Verse 2:
    A minorAm
I had fifteen-year dances
    G+G             D MajorD
Church basement romances, yeah, I've cried
 A minorAm            G+G
Spilling my guts with the Bowery Bums
    D MajorD
Is the only love I've ever known
 A minorAm              G+G           D MajorD
Except for the stage, which I also call home, when I'm not
 A minorAm         G+G            D MajorD
Servin' up God in a burnt coffee pot for the triad
 A minorAm             G+G           D MajorD
Hello, it's the most famous woman you know on the iPad
 A minorAm           G+G            D MajorD
Calling from beyond the grave, I just wanna say, "Hi, Dad"

Chorus:
      C majorC           D MajorD
I've been tearing up town in my fucking white gown
     G+G        C majorC
Like a goddamn near sociopath
            D MajorD
Shaking my ass is the only thing that's
      G+G           C majorC
Got this black narcissist off my back
                D MajorD
She couldn't care less, and I never cared more
      G+G     Gmaj7Gmaj7    E minorEm
So there's no more to say about that
     A minorAm         G+G          D MajorD
Except hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
 A minorAm          G+G          D MajorD
Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman with my past

Bridge:
      A minorAm         G+G         D MajorD
There's a new revolution, a loud evolution that I saw
 A minorAm           G+G           D MajorD
Born of confusion and quiet collusion of which mostly I've known
 A minorAm            G+G             D MajorD
A augmentedA modern day woman with a weak constitution, 'cause I've got
 A minorAm           G+G           D MajorD
Monsters still under my bed that I could never fight off
 A minorAm           G+G            D MajorD
A augmentedA gatekeeper carelessly dropping the keys on my nights off

Chorus:
      C majorC           D MajorD
I've been tearing around in my fucking nightgown
 G+G       C majorC
24/7 Sylvia Plath
              D MajorD
Writing in blood on your walls
           G+G             C majorC
'Cause the ink in my pen don't look good in my pad
    C majorC             D MajorD
They write that I'm happy, they know that I'm not
    G+G       Gmaj7Gmaj7   E minorEm
But at best, you can see I'm not sad
   A minorAm          G+G          D MajorD
But hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
 A minorAm          G+G          D MajorD
Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have

Outro:
 A minorAm         G+G          D MajorD
Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
   C majorC   G+G
But I have it
    D MajorD
Yeah, I have it
   C majorC   G+G
Yeah, I have it
D MajorD
I have

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