Free chords by Carol Ades

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Verse 1:
Bb majorBb            Dm7Dm7      DmDm    FF   C majorC
I'm just a baby, still a baby, trying to figure it out
Bb majorBb      Dm7Dm7   DmDm            Bb majorBb  FF
My intuition couldn't listen but it's listening now
    Bb majorBb             Dm7Dm7
And I'm hearing me saying it after years of not saying it
   FF                    C majorC
I was drowning in waves of it, like all of the time
Bb majorBb            Dm7Dm7      DmDm       Bb majorBb
Kissing my sanity, like "Shut up, Caroline, you aren't crazy"
  FF
And now I know why

Chorus:
Gm7Gm7       Dm7Dm7    DmDm
It wasn't easy, it wasn't patient
Bb majorBb            FF        A minorAm
Having the arrow but not knowing where to aim it
Gm7Gm7       Dm7Dm7     DmDm
Out in the open, it isn't painless
  Bb majorBb
And it may never be
  FF      A minorAm
But this time I get to be
Dm7Dm7   Am7Am7
Free, free
FF    A minorAm
Free, free
     Gm7Gm7 Dm7Dm7
It isn't free being free
  Bb majorBb      FF
And it may never be

Verse 2:
Gm7Gm7            Dm7Dm7     A minorAm        Bb majorBb
And now I'm sitting on the couch and Lauren's holding my head
           FF      A minorAm
(Laying on the couch, holding your head)
Gm7Gm7             Dm7Dm7            Bb majorBb
Now there's before and therе is after, that's what she said
           FF
(Therе is before and there is after)
    Gm7Gm7            Dm7Dm7     DmDm
And I'm hearing me saying it after years of not saying it
    Bb majorBb              FF     A minorAm
I was drowning in waves of it, like all of the time
Gm7Gm7           Dm7Dm7              Bb majorBb
Kissing my sanity, like "Shut up, Caroline, you aren't crazy"
    FF     A minorAm
Ah, and now I know why

Chorus:
Gm7Gm7       Dm7Dm7    DmDm
It wasn't easy, it wasn't patient
Bb majorBb            FF        A minorAm
Having the arrow but not knowing where to aim it
Gm7Gm7       Dm7Dm7     DmDm
Out in the open, it isn't painless
  Bb majorBb
And it may never be
  FF      A minorAm
But this time I get to be
Bb majorBb   Dm7Dm7
Free, free
Gm7Gm7   DmDm
Free, free
     Gm7Gm7 Dm7Dm7
It isn't free being free
  Bb majorBb      FF
And it may never be

Post-Chorus:
       Gm7Gm7
It may never be
Dm7Dm7   DmDm  Bb majorBb
It may never be
FF         Gm7Gm7
(At least I get to be free)
Dm7Dm7     DmDm     Bb majorBb
(This time I get to be free)

Outro:
FF Gm7Gm7
Free
     Dm7Dm7             Bb majorBb
I had to know I'm not alone to let it out
     FF             Gm7Gm7
I had to let a little go to feel it now
       Dm7Dm7            DmDm   Bb majorBb
And when the lonely and the tears come back around
     FF                 Bb majorBb
I got my love, I got my friends, to hold it down
     FF            C majorC
I had to know I'm not alone to figure out
                Bb majorBb
Everything is not my fault somehow
     FF            C majorC
And I am more than when I had to go without
       Eb MajorEb    Bb majorBb
That I won't leave her now
  FF       C majorC             Bb majorBb
Say you can be my family and I will hold you close
  F minorFm   FF   C majorC
If someone understands me
     Eb MajorEb   Bb majorBb
Then finally, I know