Black Dahlia chords by Angel Haze

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 2nd

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

Intro:
N.C.
You should write a song where the concept is…
You’re basically writing like a love letter, or like a piece of advice
To your mother, when she was your age

A minorAm
I don’t know
A minorAm
Maybe I would write you a happy ending
A minorAm
I would rearrange the pieces to your sad beginning
A minorAm
I would put you far away from the decaying roots that bore you
A minorAm
And let you experience all the ways that happiness could bloom before you
A minorAm
Or maybe I’m naïve…
A minorAm
Maybe I’m just a kid who thought that if she could plant a seed
A minorAm
It would somehow grow inside you

Verse:
A minorAm
Spent so much of my time wishing you were different
A minorAm
But reality is that with life can't never be provision
A minorAm
But if I could wish for one thing, I’d go back and I’d fix it
A minorAm
I’d tackle all your obstacles and kill 'em with precision
  FF
And better the intentions of every single person
G+G
Who'd play a part in you learning exactly what your worth is
A minorAm
I’d shower you with purpose, I’d wipe hate off the surface
A minorAm
I’d reshape all your pain and make it fucking worth it
A minorAm
No more feeling worthless, no more fucking searching
A minorAm
No more of that fraud shit, nobody else could hurt you
A minorAm
Yeah, said nobody else could hurt you
A minorAm
And if they ever tried too I’d wipe 'em from the Earth too
FF
Cuz I know that you hurting baby, I know that you tired too
G+G
I know that you been running from everything that’s behind you
A minorAm
I know you’ve been burying everything deep inside you
A minorAm
I can see it killing you, wish that I could revive you
A minorAm
But I’m stuck sitting in this time frame
A minorAm
Struggling with my demons and playing these stupid mind game
A minorAm
One day it could get better, maybe it could get better
A minorAm
Maybe we could change shit, no more inclement weather
FF
Know you hated your mom, know it went through your mind
G+G
You were just like me, wish that you had more time
A minorAm
To see life from a different angle, wrestle with a different angel
A minorAm
Wouldn’t lose your wings and fall from heaven like a cliffhanger

Chorus:
A minorAm
Everything is different now, nothing is the same
G+G
And nowadays I swear it feels like you don’t know my name
FF
But I look at the mirror and I see you every day
DmDm
I’m you in every way, every hue and every shade
C majorC
And maybe you should know, it’s the last thing that I wanted
G+G
Cuz what I hate about you makes me feel like I’m haunted
A minorAm
And I don’t wanna spend the rest of my time on the run and-
A minorAm
So I’m just gonna confront it, yeah I’m just gonna confront it
A minorAm
And tell you that I love you for everything you made me
G+G
And that you need to hear this even if it makes you angry
FF
God lives inside you, you’ve already found him
DmDm
The Devil lives in memories and you just let him hound you
C majorC
And I despise your church for every fucking thing they taught you
G+G
It’s just a fucking stain that I wish I could wipe off you
A minorAm
That I wish I could wipe off you
A minorAm
And I forgive you for doing everything that it cost you

Verse:
A minorAm
Everything that it caused you
A minorAm
Fame is such a heavy price I wish it didn’t cost you
A minorAm
Losing a part of me that would follow you to Hell
A minorAm
Follow you to hatred, or follow you to jail
FF
Followed you to patterns that I could never get out of
G+G
Now I realize that I could never make it with that love
A minorAm
Now I realize that shit is the alternative outcome
A minorAm
Never wanted you to save me, I just wish I count some
A minorAm
I just wish that you grew up with someone you could count on
A minorAm
I wish you knew that you could never make it without love
A minorAm
For your goddamn self, and that you never ever find it in anybody else
FF
Cuz I would help you find you
G+G
And if I saw it killing you I swear I would revive you
A minorAm
And if that meant the end of me
A minorAm
I’d do it all for you so you could have your happy end in peace

Bridge:
A minorAm           G+G
Because, you are such a special thing
              FF
You’re not just my mom, but you’re the reason I exist
    DmDm                          C majorC
And the best life that you could’ve had for yourself without making a mistake
                        G+G
Would have meant I woulda had a nicer childhood
                      A minorAm
And even though my childhood wasn’t perfect and I still love you
A minorAm
I just want you to know that if I could go back and do one thing for you
A minorAm
Or be one person for you
          G+G
I would make sure, not just for my sake, but so that you could’ve had a nicer life
         FF
And a nicer childhood, that you know
          DmDm                      C majorC
You would not have made the mistakes that put us all in this bad situation
                   G+G
And not have the strength to leave
G+G
But just so that you would have been happier and stronger
A minorAm
Even if I didn’t exist, even it meant that I was never born
A minorAm
That’s what I would have wanted for you

Outro:
A minorAm
Yeah, and if that meant the end of me
G+G
I’d do it all for you so you could have your happy ending
FF
Cuz I know that you hurting baby, I know that you tired too
DmDm
I know you’ve been running from everything that’s behind you
C majorC
I know that you’ve been burying everything deep inside you
G+G
I can see it killing you, wish that I could revive you
A minorAm
And if that meant the end of me
A minorAm
I’d do it all for you so you could have your happy ending
A minorAm
And if that meant the end of me
G+G
I’d do it all for you so you could have your happy ending
FF
And if that meant the end of me
DmDm                             C majorC
I’d do it all for you so you could have your happy ending

G+G
I don’t know
A minorAm
Maybe I would write you a happy ending
A minorAm
I would rearrange the pieces to your sad beginning
A minorAm                          G+G
I would put you far away from the decaying roots that bore you
            FF                          DmDm
And let you experience all the ways that happiness could bloom before you
Or maybe I’m naïve…
C majorC                             G+G
Maybe I’m just a kid who thought that if she could plant a seed
                 A minorAm
It would somehow grow inside you
A minorAm
And that I could hide you from the rain
A minorAm
So that it could be easier for happiness to find you
A minorAm               G+G
Or maybe I’m still a kid who’s caught in a dream
          FF                       DmDm
I’m the heir to the throne of a princess who’s still trying to be queen
             C majorC
Or maybe we’re all just caught in the winds of a massacre
  G+G                A minorAm
The blackened leaves of dying, black dahlias