Lean On chords by Becca Stevens

Chords with lyrics

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

Key: AbmAbm

Difficulty: Intermediate

She plays the AbmAbm Chord in the Intro and Verse as an AbAb sus2 and bends the sus2 up to the minor third.

Particular suggestions how to approximate beccas Open-D Voicings using standard tuning:

  AbmAbm   D/G D MajorD  G6/9 Dmaj7Dmaj7
E MajorE  x    x  x  x   x
BB  x    7  7  x   2
G+G  3b4   7  7  2   2
D MajorD  6    7  7  2   0
A augmentedA  6    x  5  x   x
E MajorE  4    3  x  3   x

Intro:
AbmAbm      E MajorE   GbGb
AbmAbm      E MajorE   GbGb

Verse 1:
AbmAbm             E MajorE  GbGb
  When your prayer to the heavens
AbmAbm        E MajorE  A augmentedA
  heards no answer
AbmAbm             E MajorE  GbGb
  And you#re headsick and writhing like
AbmAbm       E MajorE  A augmentedA
  a broken dancer

Interloude:
D/G   D MajorD   E minor 7Em7  EbM7Ebm7
  Grab ahold love
D/G    D MajorD  E minor 7Em7  EbM7Ebm7
  I can hold us
D/G      D MajorD  E minor 7Em7  EbM7Ebm7
  Don't stay lonely
D/G     D MajorD
  Bring it to me!

Verse 2:
Now you’ve fallen in the black well
Slipping farther
And your poor legs are seizing from
Treading water

Interloude:
Grab ahold love
I can hold us
’Til the Rope drops
Hold on tight love!

Chorus:
G6/9              Dmaj7Dmaj7
  If you trip, lean on
G6/9              Dmaj7Dmaj7
  Little love you can lean on
G6/9              Dmaj7Dmaj7
  If you're trippin', lean on
G6/9          EbM7Ebm7  Dmaj7Dmaj7
  I'm a lover you can lean on

If you trip, lean on
Little love you can lean on
If you're trippin', lean on
I'm a lover you can lean on

Verse 3:
Are you scared for tomorrow?
Can we make it?
Here’s a ring for your finger,
if you’ll take it

Interloude:
Grab ahold love
I can hold us
Through the undertow
Don’t let go, love!

Chorus: (3x)
If you trip, lean on
Little love you can lean on
If you're trippin', lean on
I'm a lover you can lean on

Outro: (just repeat and repeat)
D MajorD           EbM7Ebm7
Lean on, lean on our love