Year Of Love chords by Jenny Hval

• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Key: Gm

Intro:

Gm


Verse 1:
Gm
We were married on a rainy day

Isn't that how the song goes?
Gm
I wore black jeans and codeine

I guess I wanted to make sure

I seemed relaxed
Gm
"It's just for contractual reasons, " I explained

Signing the papers

As if I truly believed that a contract was further

From the institution than the industrial happiness complex


Chorus:
           Dm       Cm
But in the year of love
  Eb       Gm
I signed a deal with patriarchy
     Dm      Cm
Now watch me step
         Eb          Gm
Into the place where you can see me
Cm
Look at me
    Eb             Gm                   Cm
You think that I'm different, but I'm a stagehand
           Eb               Gm
Look, it's there, under the ring
    F             Gm
The imprint on my skin


Verse 2:
Gm
Ooh, a year later, I'm on stage

When a man proposes to a woman

Right in front of me, in the middle of a song

I thought I knew what was about
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And I am holding a disco flashlight

It is meant to make the audience

Feel like multitudes of colors

That belong to nobody in particular
Gm
That they share between their bodies

But now all it does is light up a proposal

A normcore institution
Gm
I am giving it my voice, but then again, I already did

Oh, already did


Chorus:
           Dm      Cm
But in the year of love
  Eb         Gm
I did what I never thought I would
        Dm                 Cm
And you may think I'm different
    Eb          Gm               Cm
But listen, all contracts can be sung
      Eb
in my voice
    Gm         Cm
Now I'm just a stagehand
           Eb               Gm
Look, it's there, under the ring
     F            Gm
The imprint on my skin


Outro:
Gm
Oh, oh, oh