John My Beloved chords by Sufjan Stevens

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
BbmBbm F minorFm C minorCm
DbDb AbAb Eb MajorEb
BbmBbm F minorFm C minorCm
Eb MajorEb DbDb AbAb Eb MajorEb

Verse 1:
BbmBbm    F minorFm      C minorCm    Eb MajorEb
Are we to speak, first day of the week
DbDb     AbAb      Eb MajorEb
Stumbling words at the bar
BbmBbm     F minorFm    C minorCm
Beauty blue eyes, my order of fries
DbDb      AbAb     Eb MajorEb
Long island kindness and wine
BbmBbm     F minorFm   C minorCm     Eb MajorEb
Beloved of John, I get it all wrong
  DbDb      AbAb      Eb MajorEb
I read you for some kind of stone
BbmBbm     F minorFm     C minorCm
Covered in lines, the fossils I find
DbDb      AbAb      Eb MajorEb
Have they no life of their own?

Chorus 1:
BbmBbm     Eb MajorEb   AbAb
So can we pretend sweetly
BbmBbm     AbAb   Eb MajorEb
Before the mystery ends?
AbAb   DbDb           AbAb
I am a man with a heart that offends
              Eb MajorEb
With its lonely and greedy demands
     F minorFm  Eb MajorEb    AbAb             Eb MajorEb
There’s only a shadow of me; in a manner of speaking I'm dead

BbmBbm F minorFm C minorCm DbDb
AbAb Eb MajorEb

Verse 2:
BbmBbm   F minorFm      C minorCm   Eb MajorEb
Such a waste, your beautiful face
DbDb      AbAb  Eb MajorEb
Slumbering carpet arise
BbmBbm        F minorFm     C minorCm
But you and your ring, your life-giving string
 DbDb     AbAb    Eb MajorEb
Come to me now as a friend
F minorFm  BbmBbm   F minorFm    C minorCm    Eb MajorEb
If history speaks, the kiss on my cheek
F minorFm        AbAb       Eb MajorEb
I’m painting the hills blue and red
BbmBbm      F minorFm  C minorCm      Eb MajorEb
They said beware, Lord hear my prayer
DbDb      AbAb      Eb MajorEb
Anointing my love on your head

Chorus 2:
Eb MajorEb       C minorCm   AbAb
So can we be friends sweetly
DbDb         Eb MajorEb
Before the mystery ends?
 AbAb     DbDb           AbAb
I love you more than the world can contain
     DbDb     AbAb    Eb MajorEb
In its loneliest ramshackle head
F minorFm        Eb MajorEb   AbAb    DbDb    AbAb      Eb MajorEb
There’s only a shadow of me; in a manner of speaking I'm dead

BbmBbm F minorFm C minorCm DbDb
AbAb Eb MajorEb G minorGm
BbmBbm F minorFm C minorCm
AbAb Eb MajorEb

Verse 3:
BbmBbm      F minorFm
I’m holding my breath
  C minorCm     Eb MajorEb
My signature death
F minorFm      AbAb      Eb MajorEb
What can be said of my heart?
BbmBbm     F minorFm     C minorCm    Eb MajorEb
If history speaks, the kiss on my cheek
DbDb      AbAb      Eb MajorEb
Where there remains but a mark
BbmBbm    F minorFm    C minorCm     Eb MajorEb
Beloved my John, so I’ll carry on
DbDb      Eb MajorEb      C minorCm
Counting my cards down to one
BbmBbm       F minorFm  C minorCm
And when I am dead, return to the bed
Eb MajorEb  DbDb    AbAb     Eb MajorEb