Chords with lyrics
Picking pattern in the intro continues throughout the song.
I played around with strumming and picking for the Chorus, do what like there.
INTRO:
Cmaj7Cmaj7 C/BC/B
e---------------------------------------------------------------------------
B------------1------------------1----------------1------------------1-------
G---------0----0-------------0----0-----------0-----0------------0-----0----
D------2----------2--------2---------2------0----------0-------0----------0-
A---------------------------------------------------------------------------
E--0------------------0-----------------2------------------2----------------
G+G
e----------------------------------------------------------------------------
B------------0-------------------0-----------------0------------------0------
G---------0-----0-------------0-----0-----------0-----0------------0-----0---
D------0----------0--------0----------0------0----------0-------0----------0-
A----------------------------------------------------------------------------
E--3-------------------3-----------------3------------------3----------------
VERSE:
Cmaj7Cmaj7 C/BC/B
Love used to be the ruler
G+G
From which you measured all
Cmaj7Cmaj7 C/BC/B
Love used to be the dizzying height
G+G
From which you wished to fall
Cmaj7Cmaj7 C/BC/B
Love used to be the white and cozy apparition
G+G
towering in your dreams
Cmaj7Cmaj7 C/BC/B
Love used to be
G+G
Love used to be
PICKING PATTERN AND CHORDS SAME AS ABOVE:
Cmaj7Cmaj7 C/BC/B
Love used to be the horseshoe made of iron
G+G
And always smiling up
Cmaj7Cmaj7 C/BC/B
And in your arms it gathered all manner
G+G
Of silky satin golden luck
Cmaj7Cmaj7 C/BC/B
Love used to be the pyramid and on top
G+G
Its eye that always sees
Cmaj7Cmaj7 C/BC/B
Love used to be
G+G
Love used to be
CHORUS:
A minorAm C majorC
Dig a six foot hole
D MajorD
Inside my chest
A minorAm C majorC
Heart like a grave stone
D MajorD
Laid down to rest
A minorAm C majorC G+G
Good-bye love
D MajorD G+G
Amen
VERSE:
Cmaj7Cmaj7 C/BC/B
Love used to be a sigh like petals
G+G
Gently falling down
Cmaj7Cmaj7 C/BC/B
From the flower of my lover's
G+G
Half open rose bud mouth
Cmaj7Cmaj7 C/BC/B
Love used to be the thirst, oh and the quenching
G+G
The question in need of answering
Cmaj7Cmaj7 C/BC/B
Love used to be
G+G
Love used to be
Cmaj7Cmaj7 C/BC/B
Love used to be hope unflinching
G+G
A augmentedA dare that believed it must
Cmaj7Cmaj7 C/BC/B
Love used to be the heady drunken feeling of
G+G
Flesh heavy with lust
Cmaj7Cmaj7 C/BC/B
Love used to be a photograph of the future
G+G
taken by one mind four eyes could see
Cmaj7Cmaj7 C/BC/B
Love used to be
G+G
Love used to be
CHORUS:
A minorAm C majorC
Dig a six foot hole
D MajorD
Inside my chest
A minorAm C majorC
Heart like a grave stone
D MajorD
Laid down to rest
A minorAm C majorC G+G
Good-bye love
D MajorD G+G
Amen
VERSE:
Cmaj7Cmaj7 C/BC/B
Love used to be a miracle
G+G
The proof that God exists
Cmaj7Cmaj7 C/BC/B
As I doubled our image, immortality delivered
G+G
by the double helix
Cmaj7Cmaj7 C/BC/B
Love used to be the bedrock you built a life upon
G+G
Into the future reaching
Cmaj7Cmaj7 C/BC/B
It used to be what woke you each day
G+G
And eased me into sleeping
Cmaj7Cmaj7 C/BC/B
Love used to be my compass
G+G
But now I'm alone and I'm adrift and I'm lost at sea
Cmaj7Cmaj7 C/BC/B
'Cause love used to be
G+G
Love used to be
Cmaj7Cmaj7 C/BC/B
Love used to be
G+G
Love used to be