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

[Intro]

          Gm7                 F2/A
There are people and they are publishing my book,
              Gm7                 F2/A
And there's a party that they are throwing.
                 Bbm7                               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.
              Dm9                 Bbmaj7#11
But what's it really about? Is it really about a party Cathy?
       Dm9                      C/E                     Eb/F       Gm/F
Can we please for a minute stop blaming and say what you feel?
      Bb/C                  F/C           Gm7/C                 F/C
Is it just that you're disappointed to be touring again for the summer?
        Ab6/9                        Eb2/G            Fm7
Did you think this would all be much easier than it's turned out to be?
          Gm11                       Fsus
Well then talk to me, Cathy, talk to me.

[Verse 1]

   F            Bb/D             Eb2                    Fsus     F
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           Dm11         F2/C              Am7
If I didn't think you could do anything you ever wanted to,
   Bb2                   F2/A                 G7sus  G7
If I wasn't certain that you'd come through somehow,
    Gm7                    F2/A     Bb2         Bb/C
The fact of the matter is, Cathy, I wouldn't be standing here now.


[Verse 2]

   F            Bb/D           Eb6                     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/A           Dm9         F/C                      Am7
But I never could let that go knowing the things about you I know,
Bb2                         F2/A       G7sus G7
Things, when I met you four years ago, I     knew
   Gm7                F2/A                    Eb/Bb  Bb/C         F   Bb2/D   Eb2
It never took much convincing to make me believe           in you.


[Bridge]

Cm7                 Bb2/D
Don't we get to be happy Cathy?
Cm7                     Bb2/D                       Eb
At some point down the line don't we get to relax,
                 Bb2                   F            Bb/F     F
without some new tsuris to push me yet further from you.
Am7b5            Ab6/9
If I'm cheering on your side, Cathy,
Am7b5               Ab6/9
Why can't you support mine? Why do I have to
Eb2                      Bb2               C
feel I've committed some felony doing what I always swore I would do?
Am11                 D/A
I don't want you to hurt,
Am11/F               D/F
I don't want you to sink,
D7sus                D7(b5)   Ab7(b5)         C/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           Gsus
Will you listen to me?
Dbmaj7              Dm7
No one can give you courage.
Eb6/9                   Csus
No one can thicken your skin.
           Fm7     Bb6/9      F7/A        G7/B
I will not fail so you can be comfortable Cathy.
           Ab/C    Db     Bb/D      Eb      Ab/C   Db2   Eb
I will not lose because you   can't win.


[Instrumental]

Eb   Ab/C   Db2   Eb


[Verse 3]

   Eb           Ab/C             Db2                         Ebsus  Eb
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              Cm7            Eb/Bb                     Gm7
And said, "This is the life I choose. This is the thing I can't bear to loose.
Abmaj7                 Eb/G                F7sus  F7
Trip us or trap us but we refuse to fall."
Fm7                        Eb2/G    Fm7   Eb2/G
That's what I thought we agreed on, Ca  - thy.
   Ab  Fm7       Eb/Bb    Cm11
If I   hadn't believed in you,
  Fm            Ab/Bb        Eb   Ab/C   Db2   Eb
I wouldn't have love you at all.


[Instrumental]