Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)
Verse 1:
B minorBm
Always standing in your wake
D MajorD
With a secret of my own
B minorBm
Too afraid to share with you
DmDm
So I come home alone
FF G+G
Each night and draw the curtain, shut the
blind
FF D#D#
How will you trust me with your secret when
I don’t trust you with -
Chorus 1:
D MajorD A minorAm
If you knew
G+G D MajorD
Knew how I’ve been watching you
D MajorD A minorAm
If you knew
G+G D MajorD
Knew how I see everything you do
D MajorD A minorAm
If you knew
FF E minorEm
Could I still touch you?
D MajorD A minorAm C majorC D MajorD
Would you let me comfort you if you knew?
Verse 2:
Bm7Bm7 B minorBm
The room is hot, the air is thick
D MajorD
And I can barely breathe tonight
B minorBm
Open the window, trim the wick
DmDm
Oh, this cannot be right
FF G+G
For it seems to me a secret’s just a lie
FF D#D#
And Lizzie, no-one knows the emptiness of
lying more than -
Chorus 2:
D MajorD A minorAm
If you knew
G+G D MajorD
Knew that every night I dream of you
D MajorD A minorAm
If you knew
G+G D MajorD
Knew that in my dream I come to you
D MajorD A minorAm
If you knew
FF E minorEm
Would you still touch me?
D MajorD A minorAm C majorC D MajorD
Would you tell me everything if you knew?
Verse 3:
B minorBm
Together we’ll be safe
The truth will make it so
E minorEm
Just like my dream each night
G+G
For in my dream I know
E MajorE
That you are in my arms and everything is
E minorEm
fine
G+G E MajorE
Oh, Lizzie, take me to your hiding-place and
E minorEm
I’ll take you to -
Chorus 3:
D MajorD E minorEm
If you knew
C majorC D MajorD
Knew that in my heart I always knew
D MajorD E minorEm
If you knew
C majorC D MajorD
Knew that every word I spoke was true
A minorAm
If you knew
FF E minorEm
I could protect you
D MajorD A minorAm C majorC
Would you let me hold you close if you knew?