Let Me Down Easy chords by Saving Jane

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)



Key: C#

Intro:
F# G#  x2


Verse 1:
F#
  I can feel us changing
          G#
you don't wait for my
       G#
key to turn the lock
F#
  And it's all around me
     G#
I am messing up and
                 D#m
I can't seem to stop
              D#m
And I want an answer
        G#
I have spent the best
                G#
of all my years with you
D#m
   If you think it's over
        G#
tell it to me straight
      G#
cause I deserve the truth

Chorus 1:
C#                A#m
  If you're gonna leave
               F#
me Let me down easy
                 G#
Don't string me along
C#               A#m
  Tell me you're sorry
                 F#
Say it's you and not
                G#
me That's all I want
D#m                F#
   If you're gonna leave
               C#
me Let me down easy


Verse 2:
F#
  I came in to save us
       G#
And it turned out there
            G#
was nothing left to fix
F#
  And I've been no angel
      G#
But I never thought
    G#
I'd see us come to this
D#m
   I'm not pointing fingers
        G#
Neither one of us should
G#
have to take the blame
D#m
   If you say it's over
         G#
that's a minute less
   G#
my heart will beat your name


Chorus 2:
C#                A#m
  If you're gonna leave
               F#
me Let me down easy
                 G#
Don't string me along
C#               A#m
  Tell me you're sorry
                 F#
Say it's you and not
                G#
me That's all I want
D#m                F#
   If you're gonna leave
               C#
me Let me down easy


Bridge:
    A#m
And It seems like a thousand years
    C#
I'm tracing back with you
    D#m
And everybody's got something
   G#      A#m
to say But when it's said and
                  C#
done Well this is what is comes
                 D#m
down to Just the two of us
                  G#
and all of our mistakes


Verse 3:
F#
  Oh well it's been a long time
          G#
Since you waited for my key
            F#
to turn the lock No turning
                G#
back now No use trying to make
G#
something where there's not


Chorus 3:
C#                A#m
  If you're gonna leave
               F#
me Let me down easy
                 G#
Don't string me along
C#               A#m
  Tell me you're sorry
                 F#
Say it's you and not
                G#
me That's all I want
D#m                F#
   If you're gonna leave
               C#
me Let me down easy


Chorus 4:
C#
  I never wanted to believe
C#
  You couldn't stand to be with me
A#m
   I never thought that you would care
A#m
   The thoughts you had, we never shared
F#
   And when you left an open door
G#
  I checked out other spots to go


Chorus 5:
C#
  What are we doing all this for?
D#m
  You couldn't stand to be with me
F#
  I can't be something that I'm not
G#
  I never thought that you would care
C#                          D#m
  I won't go and you won't stay
                             F#
I checked out other spots to go
G#                          C#
No there's nothing left to say