Because I Had You chords by Shawn Mendes

• Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Shawn Mendes
"Because I Had You"

Standard tuning.

   Em   C    G    Bm   D
e|(7)-----------------------|
B|-8----8----3----7----7----|
G|-9----9----4----7----7----|
D|-9----10---5----9----7----|
A|-7----10---5----9----5----|
E|------8----3----7---------|


Verse 1:
Em                        C    G
   I think it's time that I be honest
Em                    C      G
   Should've told you not to go
Em        C                G
   Thought I knew just what I wanted
Em            C         G
   I didn't know myself at all

Pre-Chorus 1:
Bm                         C
   You're with somebody I can't be, yeah
Bm                             C
   But I can tell that you're happy


Chorus 1:
              Em                 C        G
It's time for me to finally meet somebody new
            Em                  C         G
Take her to all the places that I took us to
              Em              C          G                  D           Em
And she might help me forget that loving her is something I could never do
C         G
Because I had
          Em      C  G   Em  C  G
Because I had you


Verse 2:
Em           C           G
   Hey, remember when I told you
                Em                     C    G
   That you and I will go down in history together, yeah
Em                  C        G
   And does your sister ask about me?
          Em                    C      G
  You and I, what we had, is it gone forever?


Pre-Chorus 2:
Bm                         C
   You're with somebody I can't be, yeah
Bm                             C
   But I can tell that you're happy


Chorus 1:
              Em                 C        G
It's time for me to finally meet somebody new
            Em                  C         G
Take her to all the places that I took us to
              Em              C          G                  D           Em
And she might help me forget that loving her is something I could never do
C         G
Because I had
          Em
Because I had you


Bridge:
               C       G
   There's nothin', oh
                           Em
   There's nothin' left to lose
C            G
   Because I had you, babe
Em            C    G
   There's nothin'
                        Em
   Nothin' that I could do
 C              G
   I wish I had you


Chorus 2:
                 Em             C              G
But I think it's time I finally found somebody new
            Em                          C      G
And tell myself that she's the one that get me through
              Em             C          G                D             Em
And she might help me forget but loving her is something I could never do
C
Because I had you