If I Didn't Believe In You chords by Jason Robert Brown

Chords with lyrics

[Intro]

     Gm7Gm7         F2/A
There are people and they are publishing my book,
       Gm7Gm7         F2/A
And there's a party that they are throwing.
         BbM7Bbm7                F2/C
And while you've made it very clear that you're not going,
     Db2        F2
I will be going, and that's done.
       Dm9Dm9         Bbmaj7#11
But what's it really about? Is it really about a party Cathy?
    Dm9Dm9           C/EC/E           Eb/FEb/F    Gm/F
Can we please for a minute stop blaming and say what you feel?
   Bb/CBb/C         F/CF/C      Gm7/C         F/CF/C
Is it just that you're disappointed to be touring again for the summer?
    Ab6/9            Eb2/G      Fm7Fm7
Did you think this would all be much easier than it's turned out to be?
     Gm11Gm11            FsusFsus
Well then talk to me, Cathy, talk to me.

[Verse 1]

  FF      Bb/DBb/D       Eb2          FsusFsus   FF
If I didn't believe in you, we'd never have gotten this far.
  F2/A     F2/B      Bbm(maj7)
If I didn't believe in you and all of the ten thousand women you are,
  F2/C      Dm11Dm11     F2/C       Am7Am7
If I didn't think you could do anything you ever wanted to,
  Bb2          F2/A         G7sus G7G7
If I wasn't certain that you'd come through somehow,
  Gm7Gm7          F2/A   Bb2     Bb/CBb/C
The fact of the matter is, Cathy, I wouldn't be standing here now.


[Verse 2]

  FF      Bb/DBb/D      Eb6Eb6           F2
If I didn't believe in you, we wouldn't be having this fight.
  F2/A     F2/B      Bbm(maj7)
If I didn't believe in you, I'd walk out that door and say, "Cathy you're right."
  F/AF/A      Dm9Dm9     F/CF/C           Am7Am7
But I never could let that go knowing the things about you I know,
Bb2             F2/A    G7sus G7G7
Things, when I met you four years ago, I   knew
  Gm7Gm7        F2/A          Eb/BbEb/Bb Bb/CBb/C     FF  Bb2/D  Eb2
It never took much convincing to make me believe      in you.


[Bridge]

Cm7Cm7         Bb2/D
Don't we get to be happy Cathy?
Cm7Cm7           Bb2/D            Eb MajorEb
At some point down the line don't we get to relax,
         Bb2          FF      Bb/FBb/F   FF
without some new tsuris to push me yet further from you.
Am7b5Am7b5      Ab6/9
If I'm cheering on your side, Cathy,
Am7b5Am7b5        Ab6/9
Why can't you support mine? Why do I have to
Eb2           Bb2        C majorC
feel I've committed some felony doing what I always swore I would do?
Am11Am11         D/AD/A
I don't want you to hurt,
Am11/F        D/F
I don't want you to sink,
D7susD7sus        D7(b5)  Ab7(b5)     C/GC/G
But you know what I think? I think you'll be fine!
            C/Bb
Just hang on and you'll see!
         F2/A          Fm9/Ab
But don't make me wait 'til you do to be happy with you.
     C2/G      GsusGsus
Will you listen to me?
Dbmaj7Dbmaj7       Dm7Dm7
No one can give you courage.
Eb6/9          CsusCsus
No one can thicken your skin.
      Fm7Fm7   Bb6/9   F7/A    G7/B
I will not fail so you can be comfortable Cathy.
      Ab/C  DbDb   Bb/DBb/D   Eb MajorEb   Ab/C  Db2  Eb MajorEb
I will not lose because you  can't win.

[Instrumental]

Eb MajorEb  Ab/C  Db2  Eb MajorEb


[Verse 3]

  Eb MajorEb      Ab/C       Db2             Ebsus Eb MajorEb
If I didn't believe in you, then here's where the travelogue ends.
  Eb2/G    Eb2/A     Abm(maj7)
If I didn't believe in you, I couldn't have stood before all of our friends
  Eb2/G       Cm7Cm7      Eb/BbEb/Bb           Gm7Gm7
And said, "This is the life I choose. This is the thing I can't bear to loose.
Abmaj7Abmaj7         Eb/GEb/G        F7susF7sus F7F7
Trip us or trap us but we refuse to fall."
Fm7Fm7            Eb2/G  Fm7Fm7  Eb2/G
That's what I thought we agreed on, Ca - thy.
  AbAb Fm7Fm7    Eb/BbEb/Bb  Cm11Cm11
If I  hadn't believed in you,
 F minorFm      Ab/Bb    Eb MajorEb  Ab/C  Db2  Eb MajorEb
I wouldn't have love you at all.


[Instrumental]