It Could've Been You chords by Hannah Grae

• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Key: C

Verse 1:
N.C.              C
Oh, that familiar body ache the way I break
  F
I talk too much, we stayed up late
        Am            G                       F
And the color of your shirt, made me wanna cry
N.C.        C
And I never understood the phrase, "It's just phase"
      F
"It's medicine you need to taste"
     Am            G                       F
When all I hear is "have fun wastin' your time"

Pre-Chorus:
    G*      Am*                      G*  C*   F*
I'm not the one and it's not somethin' I can change
             Dm*                 C*             F
No, it's not love, it's just the comfort of its name


Chorus:
     C                      Dm                         Am       F
So I tried to leave, and he got on his knees and said, "Fuck you,"
      C            Dm                        Am                            F
After losing sleep disappointing me with the songs he'd never heard of and nor did he want to
C                   Dm                 Am    F
Had no flame, and I tried to blame the perfume
            Dm                       F                             C
Left on his counter, and if I'd have found her, would it have been true?

Could it have been true?


Verse 2:
                  C
Oh, that peculiar summer break, I stayed awake
  F
I thought too much of my mistakes
        Am          G                     F
And the color of my walls made me wanna die
C                F
But I never understood the point in throwin' coins in wishing wells to fix my choice
     Am            G                  F
When all we had to do was say our goodbyes


Pre-Chorus:
           Am*                               C
You're not the one, and it's not somethin' I can change
F*           Dm*                         C*     F*
No, it's not love, it's just the comfort of its name


Chorus:
C                            Dm                          Am     F
 So I tried to leave, and he got on his knees and said, "Fuck you,"
      C                 Dm                   Am                             F
After losing sleep disappointing me with the songs he'd never heard of and nor did he want to
C                   Dm                 Am   F
Had no flame, and I tried to blame the perfume
            Dm                       F                             C
Left on his counter, and if I'd have found her, would it have been true?
G                  F
Could it have been true?


Bridge:
                    C*
Thank God, I got my twenties
              Dm*
We didn't get married
                 Am*                   F*
At least I'm not forty and cursing our bedsheets
            C*                      Dm*
Wishin' I'd left you, wishin' you'd left me
         C*                   F*
Probably cryin', I'd probably hate you
               C                       A#
And though I’m unemployed , tryna find some joy
                 F                      Fm
At least I'm not forty and screwin' the pool boy
C                                    A#
Stayin' for the children, might even resent them
                 F
We could've been true

It could've been you


Chorus:
     C                      Dm                          Am     F
So I tried to leave, and he got on his knees and said, "Fuck you,"
      C                 Dm                   Am                             F
After losing sleep disappointing me with the songs he'd never heard of and nor did he want to
C                   Dm                 Am   F
Had no flame, and I tried to blame the perfume
            Dm                       F                             C
Left on his counter, and if I'd have found her, would it have been true?
G
(It could've been you)
     C                      D                           Am    F
So I tried to leave, and he got on his knees and said, "Fuck you,"

(It could've been you)
      C                 Dm                   Am                             F
After losing sleep disappointing me with the songs he'd never heard of and nor did he want to

(It could've been you)
C                   Dm                 Am  F
Had no flame, and I tried to blame the perfume
            Dm                             F                       C
Left on his counter, and if I'd have found her, would it have been true?
            F                                                 C
Left on his counter, and if I'd have found her, could it have been true?


Outro:
                 Dm                     F                                C*
If you weren't a liar and I'd have been kinder, it could've it have been you, yeah