Paris chords by Samia

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Difficulty: Novice

Verse 1:
D MajorD           B minorBm
Total exhaustion in Paris
D MajorD             B minorBm
In our nook, we were in charge
G+G              D MajorD
Didn’t our future seem careless
G+G      E MajorE     A augmentedA
Fleeting, beguiling mirage
D MajorD                B minorBm
I remember you wasting your time on me
G+G              D MajorD A augmentedA
Like I deserved your touch, babe
B minorBm            D MajorD G+G
Back when our love was forever
G+G      A augmentedA       D MajorD
Hemingway, those were the days

Verse 2:
D MajorD               B minorBm
You were just one of those statues
G+G               D MajorD
I wished I could be at the Louvre
G+G           B minorBm
We were a renaissance novel
D MajorD           A augmentedA
Carefully written by you
  D MajorD           B minorBm
But I cannot play the princess
G+G             D MajorD A augmentedA
In your breathtaking charade
B minorBm               D MajorD G+G
But oh how I tried to in Paris
G+G     A augmentedA       D MajorD
Lover remember me that way


Verse 3:
D MajorD               B minorBm
I’m sorry I dragged you to Starbucks
G+G               D MajorD A augmentedA
I thought you were being too proud
G+G              B minorBm
You just wanted a perfect story
D MajorD             A augmentedA
I know as I’m reading it now
   D MajorD            B minorBm
Our ghosts sit alone at the café
G+G            D MajorD A augmentedA
Each 6 o’clock in Montmartre
B minorBm           D MajorD     G+G
I hid my heart in our nook there
G+G       A augmentedA     D MajorD
In Paris I’m still in your arms

B minorBm G+G


Verse 4:
    D MajorD              B minorBm
Well, here we are back in the village
G+G          D MajorD A augmentedA
American just like before
G+G                B minorBm
Manhattan’s too small for the both of us
D MajorD            A augmentedA
And I can’t take it anymore
   D MajorD           B minorBm
I’m trying to be a big fish babe
    G+G           D MajorD A augmentedA
There isn’t much room in your pond
B minorBm               D MajorD G+G
But don’t write the end of our novel
G+G          A augmentedA
I won’t write the end of our—

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