Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)
🎸 Intro:
DmDm
🎸 Verse 1:
DmDm
Easy there, old man
F6F6 BdimBdim
I'll drop you where you stand
C majorC Asus4Asus4 DmDm
You wear wings of white but I smell your hellfire
F6F6 BdimBdim
Cause I know you are a racist and a coward
C majorC Asus4Asus4 DmDm
And all you've got to show for life is dust
DmDm
Cause you lay roses on the ground
F6F6 BdimBdim
And turn lies to common wisdom
C majorC Asus4Asus4
You're a good man when it suits you
DmDm
Yes I know
DmDm
But whatever good you've done
F6F6 BdimBdim
Is dwarfed by mountains made of wrong
C majorC Asus4Asus4 DmDm
And your savior may forgive you but I won't
🎸 Chorus:
C majorC Asus4Asus4
Oh, but somebody loves you
DmDm
I guess they don't know better
C majorC Asus4Asus4
There's a fool for every fool
DmDm
And somebody loves you
C majorC Asus4Asus4
Oh, yeah somebody loves you
DmDm
And how can it be true?
C majorC Asus4Asus4
Fool for every fool
DmDm
And somebody loves you
🎸 Verse 2:
DmDm F6F6 BdimBdim
It was from you I learned some men can not be trusted and
C majorC Asus4Asus4 DmDm
from you I learned some friends do not inspire
DmDm
Cause you were like my brother
F6F6 BdimBdim
But you filled my heart with anger
C majorC Asus4Asus4 DmDm
And I'll thank you when those lessons have helped at all
DmDm F6F6 BdimBdim
Oh your stories gave me life and they flowed through me like wine
C majorC Asus4Asus4 DmDm
But they were darkest pitch-black arrows to my soul
DmDm F6F6 BdimBdim
Yes, I was your true believer now my bones do shake and shiver
C majorC Asus4Asus4 DmDm
With a poison that does rot me to the core
🎸 Chorus:
C majorC Asus4Asus4
Oh, but I did once love you
DmDm
I guess I knew no better
C majorC Asus4Asus4
Yes I was once that fool
DmDm
And I did love you
C majorC Asus4Asus4
Oh, yes I did once love you
DmDm
And how can it be true?
C majorC Asus4Asus4
I was once that fool
DmDm
And I did love you
🎸 Verse:
DmDm F6F6 BdimBdim
And like some ghastly phantom voice, lifelong companion
C majorC Asus4Asus4 DmDm
Or a devil on left shoulder, lashing tongue
DmDm F6F6
I spit crescent, spite filled language like some drunkard
BdimBdim C majorC Asus4Asus4 DmDm
To the heavens, when to hell he knows his spirits surely bound
DmDm F6F6 BdimBdim
Yes, I lay roses on the ground and deceive you beyond wisdom
C majorC Asus4Asus4 DmDm
There's a good man in the shadows, so I'm told
DmDm
But whatever good I've done
F6F6 BdimBdim
Is dwarfed by mountains made of wrong
C majorC Asus4Asus4 DmDm
And that truth comes cold to blacken out the sun
🎸 Chorus:
C majorC Asus4Asus4
Oh, but somebody loves me
DmDm
I guess they don't know better
C majorC Asus4Asus4
There's a fool for every fool
DmDm
And somebody loves me
C majorC Asus4Asus4
Oh, yeah somebody loves me
DmDm
And how can it be true?
C majorC Asus4Asus4
That somebody loves me
DmDm
Somebody loves you