We've Got The Knife chords by AFI

• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Key: G#m

♫ Intro:

C#m  C#  B  G#m
C#m  C#  E  G#m




♫ Verse 1:
C#m             C#
You've got your pretty face
B             G#m
You've got disarming eyes
C#m             C#
You've got such social grace
E           G#m
I've got my pretty spies
C#m         C#
I found you lost, misplaced
B           G#m
I love that loving guise
C#
I said I'd try my luck
        E
And you said
                 G#m
"Well, you don't have to try."

♫ Pre-Chorus:
A
I forgot that night
F#m
What you said that night
G#m        C#m            A
"I had the most exquisite time."
A
Well, you got that right
F#m                      G#
But that's not the whole story
G#m
I want it all


♫ Chorus:
C#m         E            A
I court the loveliest of crimes
B                      C#m
Say it, as if it were true
              E                A
We’ve got the knife you left behind
B
Play it just like you do
A       E
I wanna hear you mean it
G#m                          C#m
When you say I’m not next in line
            B            A
I court the loveliest of crimes
E           G#            C#m
Save it cuz we’ve got the knife


♫ Interlude:
C#  B  G#m  C#m  C#  E
G#m


♫ Verse 2:
C#m             C#
You’ve got your pretty face
B               G#m
You’ve got your stunning glow
C#m
You’ve got exquisite taste
E            G#m
I’ve got the marks to show
C#m
You said you’d shoot the stars
B           G#m
But bullets make you blush
C#m
Turns out, you liked to play
          E
Play with knives and I hear
        G#m
That it gives you a rush


♫ Pre-Chorus:
A
Well we’ve got the knife
F#m
Yeah we’ve got the knife
G#m          C#m              A
I’ve got the knife you left behind
A
Well we’ve got the knife
F#m                  G#
Now I want the whole story
G#m
I want it all


♫ Chorus:
C#m         E            A
I court the loveliest of crimes
B                      C#m
Say it, as if it were true
              E                A
We’ve got the knife you left behind
B
Play it just like you do
A       E
I wanna hear you mean it
G#m                          C#m
When you say I’m not next in line
            B            A
I court the loveliest of crimes
E           G#            C#m
Save it cuz we’ve got the knife


♫ Bridge:
F#        A#m            G#
I thought you looked familiar
              F#        A#m         C#
I’d seen your face long before that night
    G# F#        A#m              G#
Now I  wait, for you were no stranger
            A  F#        G#   B
No stranger to taking a life


♫ Chorus:
C#m         E            A
I court the loveliest of crimes
B                      C#m
Say it, as if it were true
              E                A
We’ve got the knife you left behind
B
Play it just like you do
A       E
I wanna hear you mean it
G#m                          C#m
When you say I’m not next in line
            B            A
I court the loveliest of crimes
E           G#            C#m
Save it cuz we’ve got the knife


♫ Outro:
C#m  A  B  G#  C#m
A  B  G#