A Faint Illusion Acoustic chords by Tilian Pearson

Chords with lyrics

This is all done by ear so if you have any corrections please let me know!


Standard tuning, no capo


(in the E minorEm chord, keep your finger on the BB string 3rd fret. It's just a quick change between E minorEm and G+G)


  G+G  D MajorD  G+G
I know you know.

   E minorEm G+G
Despite your reservations,

       E minorEm  G+G       E minorEm G+G
Out of everything in this world, I choose you.

   E minorEm G+G      E minorEm G+G
It goes to show, despite our conversations,

       E minorEm G+G
Back when you were just a little girl,

   E minorEm G+G
We had no clue

   C majorC                 E minorEm BB E minorEm C majorC
Just what we were getting ourselves into.       (Second E minorEm SHould be A augmentedA barred one)

C majorC                  E minorEm BB E minorEm A minorAm
We were merely trying something new.

D MajorD FF (strum once)


BB    BB     (Fingerpicked)
Woooooah Wooooooah



E minorEm    G+G
Dissolve myself in you,

      D MajorD
Cause I'm not gonna not gonna give you up.

BB
No I'm not gonna not gonna give you up

E minorEm   G+G
Cancel myself to feel you,

      D MajorD
Cause I'm not gonna not gonna give you up.

BB
No I´m not gonna not gonna give you up.

  G+G  D MajorD  G+G
I know you know.

   E minorEm G+G            E minorEm G+G
Despite the implications that we were out of character.

  E minorEm G+G
I always knew

C majorC                    E minorEm BB E minorEm c
Just what we were getting ourselves into.       (Second E minorEm should be barred)

C majorC                  E minorEm BB E minorEm A minorAm
We were merely trying something new.


D MajorD  FF (Strum Once)

BB    BB     (Fingerpicked)
Woooooah Wooooooah


E minorEm    G+G
Dissolve myself in you,

      D MajorD
Cause I'm not gonna not gonna give you up.

BB
No I'm not gonna not gonna give you up

E minorEm   G+G
Cancel myself to feel you,

      D MajorD
Cause I'm not gonna not gonna give you up.

BB
No I´m not gonna not gonna give you up.


C majorC     G+G    D MajorD       A minorAm       C majorC
When we used to lay ourselves out on the front lawn

G+G       D MajorD
Of their ivory towers,

A minorAm    C majorC    G+G       D MajorD
We would show our bodies to the world.

A minorAm        C majorC     BB
Then we would go home and work on a castle of our own.



C majorC
You were impatient, I was a fall back.

G+G
A augmentedA dirty mistake, you never called back.

BB
You were salvation,

BB
I never told you


C majorC
You were impatient, I was a fall back.

E minorEm
A augmentedA dirty mistake, you never called back.

G+G
You were salvation,

     BB
I never told you I always had the notion

BB
I would fall in love with you.

C majorC
You were a call girl, I was your gentleman

E minorEm
A augmentedA faint illusion of your simple plan.

G+G
I was salvation.

        BB
You never told me you always had the notion that you knew

BB
What we could be.
[x2]


C majorC (Strum once)


  G+G  D MajorD  G+G
I know you know.

   E minorEm G+G
Despite your reservations,

       E minorEm  G+G       E minorEm G+G