Breakdown chords by Guns N' Roses

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 1st

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

Key: C#C#

Difficulty: Novice

Verse 1:
C majorC
We all come in from the cold
  Bb majorBb
We come down from the wire
  FF                     C majorC
An' everybody warms themselves to a different fire
  C majorC        C majorC
'N sometimes we get burned
   Bb majorBb
You'd think sometime we'd learn
  FF                       G+G
The one you love is the one that should take you higher
     FF           C majorC    G+G    C majorC
You ain't got no one, you better go back out and find her

Verse 2:
 C majorC
Just like children hiding in a closet
         G+G
Can't tell what's going on outside
         FF
Sometimes, we're so far off the beaten track
    C majorC
We get taken for a ride
   FF          G+G
By a parlor trick, or some words of wit
C majorC         FF
A augmentedA hidden hand up a sleeve

To think the one you love could hurt you, now
          G+G
Is a little hard to believe
                           C majorC
But everybody, darlin', sometimes bites the hand that feeds

Verse 3:
    C majorC
When I look around
  G+G
An' everybody always brings me down
   FF
Well, is it them or me?

Well, I just can't see
  C majorC
But there ain't no peace to found
    FF       G+G
But if someone really cared
       C majorC         FF
Well, they'd take the time to spare
                       G+G
A augmentedA moment to try and understand another one's despair
 G+G                             C majorC
Remember, in this game we call life, that no one said it's fair

Chorus:
FF  C majorC        FF
Breakdown Let me hear it, now
             C majorC
Breakdown Let me hear it, now
   FF     G+G
Yeah Breakdown Let me hear it, now

Verse 4:
   C majorC
I've come to know the cold
 Bb majorBb
I think of it as home
     FF
When there ain't enough of me to go around
          C majorC
I'd rather be left alone
     C majorC
But if I call you out of habit
      Bb majorBb
I'm out of love and I gotta have it
FF
Would you give it to me if I fit your needs?
             C majorC
Like when we both knew we had it
FF         G+G
Now, the damage's done
C majorC             FF
And we're back out on the run
                           G+G
Funny how everything was roses when we held on to the guns
                            C majorC
Just because you're winnin' don't mean you're the lucky one

Chorus:
FF  C majorC        FF
Breakdown Let me hear it, now
             C majorC
Breakdown Let me hear it, now
   FF     G+G
Yeah Breakdown Let me hear it, now

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