If You Can't Love Me chords by Sting

Chords with lyrics

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

Intro:
D/AD/A GMaj7 D/F#D/F# E minor 7Em7
D MajorD F#m7/C# B minorBm

Verse I:
D/AD/A
Please sit down, just talk to me
GMaj7
We'll see if we can talk this through
D/F#D/F#
I've tried so hard to understand it
E minor 7Em7
Just tell me something that's close to the truth…
D MajorD
I'd rather you were cruel than kind
F#m7/C#
Is all that I'm demanding
B minorBm
I've given up on peace of mind
D/AD/A
For the open wound of understanding

GMaj7
You can't be here and someplace else
D/F#D/F#
If your mind is in that other place
E minor 7Em7
You're trying to convince yourself
D MajorD
But you're lying in my face
F#m7/C#
I've listened ‘til my head would spin
B minorBm
I don't want half of anything
D/AD/A
The sand sits in the hourglass
G#m7b5G#m7b5
Time slips through our fingers fast
Em7/G
Your counterfeits deceived me
D/F#D/F#
If you can't love me this way
E minor 7Em7      A augmentedA     D MajorD
Then you must leave me

Verse II:
D/AD/A
Tell me how it came to this
Gmaj7Gmaj7
Just don't think to spare me this
D/F#D/F#
Perhaps the truth can set us free
E minor 7Em7
From the half truths ensnaring you and me
D MajorD
This black hole of intensity
F#m7/C#
Collapses on its density
B minorBm
And sucks me to a darker place
D/AD/A
That hides behind a broken face

Gmaj7Gmaj7
Keep up appearances they say
D/F#D/F#
And all those reasons you might stay
E minor 7Em7
Ring hollow in my mind today
D MajorD
I've listened ‘til my head would spin
F#m7/C#
I don't want half of anything
B minorBm
I don't want half of anything
D/AD/A
The fields are sown with seeds of doubt
G#m7b5G#m7b5
The wine is warm, you spit it out
Em7/G
This drinking won't relieve me
D/F#D/F#
If you can't love me this way
E minor 7Em7      A augmentedA     D MajorD
Then you must leave me

Bridge:
DMaj7
The patterns in the distant stars, our fates upon a loom
GMaj7
The changes in the temperature when you walked into a room
DMaj7
The smell of your perfume, the taste of your skin
Bm7Bm7            Aadd4     GMaj7
All those bitter reminders of the failed state I'm in

Verse III:
D/AD/A
How do I breathe now, how do I inhale?
Gmaj7Gmaj7
I'm a diver on the seabed, my oxygen's failed
D/F#D/F#
How do I wake up, how do I sleep?
E minor 7Em7
How do I laugh now, I can't even weep?
D MajorD
Where do I run to, where do I hide?
F#m7/C#
An insect preserved in formaldehyde
B minorBm
Yesterday's paper its pages curled
D/AD/A
How can I live in this broken world?

Gmaj7Gmaj7
Keep up appearances they say
D/F#D/F#
But all those reasons you might stay
E minor 7Em7
Ring hollow in my mind today
D MajorD
I've listened ‘til my head would spin
F#m7/C#
I don't want half of anything
B minorBm
I don't want half of anything
D/AD/A
The sand it falls in the hour glass
G#m7b5G#m7b5
And time slips through our fingers fast
Em7/G
And nothing that you say relieves me
D/F#D/F#
If you can't love me this way
E minor 7Em7      A augmentedA    D MajorD
Then you must leave me