I Love You I'm Sorry Please Help Me Thank You chords by Bad Books

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 1st

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

Difficulty: Novice

Kevin plays the FF with a C-shape, but it sounds fine enough as a normal F. If you're tuned a half step down.

Verse 1:
C majorC            FF        C majorC
"I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thanks"
C majorC                    FF      C majorC
Some bumper sticker wisdom while you're walking the plank
C majorC           FF        C majorC
I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thanks
C majorC                 FF     C majorC
The illusion of protection in the face of a tank

Chorus:
      DmDm
You were a student
      E minorEm
You were a soldier
      FF
You were a symbol
        G+G
They made you a martyr

Verse 2:
C majorC           FF        C majorC
I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thank you
C majorC                    FF      C majorC
When the nationalist demagogues eat the desperately confused
C majorC           FF        C majorC
I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thank you
C majorC                  FF     C majorC
We're so far past civility it feels useless to argue

Chorus:
        DmDm
But love isn't passive
       E minorEm
A augmentedA trick or a tactic
       FF
Tried to call action
        G+G
So, go let 'em have it

Bridge:
    FF    C majorC          FF      C majorC
When I open my perspective from my fear of the world
    FF       C majorC     C/BC/B  C majorC
For the daughter I was trying to raise
     FF      C majorC     FF      C majorC
With the total sum of everything asleep in my lap
    FF       C majorC     C/BC/B
I could hear I was the one in my way
     FF    C majorC   FF         G+G
You said life is sweet, but my brain's got teeth
C majorC FF C majorC
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C majorC FF C majorC
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Verse 3:
C majorC           FF        C majorC
I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thank you
C majorC                      FF   C majorC
You said acceptance and forgiveness, I said nobody asked you
C majorC           FF        C majorC
I love you, I'm sorry, please help me now
C majorC                 FF      C majorC
I have to drop it sometime, but I hate that I have to

Chorus:
        DmDm
Oh, but it saved me
          E minorEm
Oh, but it changed me
         FF
It shaped and remade me
         G+G
Oh, what it gave me

Bridge 2:
   FF       C majorC         FF     C majorC
I was burned out on obsessing with the end of the world
    FF       C majorC     C/BC/B  C majorC
And the daughter I was helping to raise
     FF      C majorC     FF      C majorC
With the total sum of everything awake in my lap
    FF         C majorC     C/BC/B
I could hear what you were trying to say
     FF    C majorC   FF         G+G
You said life is sweet, but my brain's got teeth
     FF    C majorC   FF         G+G
You said life is sweet, but my brain's got teeth
     FF    C majorC   FF      G+G
You said life is sweet, if I let it be

Outro:
C majorC           FF        C majorC
I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thanks
C majorC           FF        C majorC
I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thanks
C majorC           FF        C majorC
I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thanks
C majorC           FF        C majorC
I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thanks