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If You Can't Love Me chords by Sting

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Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
Chord diagramD/AD/A  GMaj7  Chord diagramD/F#D/F#  Chord diagramE minor 7Em7
Chord diagramD MajorD  F#m7/C#  Chord diagramB minorBm

Verse I:
Chord diagramD/AD/A
Please sit down, just talk to me
GMaj7
We'll see if we can talk this through
Chord diagramD/F#D/F#
I've tried so hard to understand it
Chord diagramE minor 7Em7
Just tell me something that's close to the truth…
Chord diagramD MajorD
I'd rather you were cruel than kind
F#m7/C#
Is all that I'm demanding
Chord diagramB minorBm
I've given up on peace of mind
Chord diagramD/AD/A
For the open wound of understanding

GMaj7
You can't be here and someplace else
Chord diagramD/F#D/F#
If your mind is in that other place
Chord diagramE minor 7Em7
You're trying to convince yourself
Chord diagramD MajorD
But you're lying in my face
F#m7/C#
I've listened ‘til my head would spin
Chord diagramB minorBm
I don't want half of anything
Chord diagramD/AD/A
The sand sits in the hourglass
Chord diagramG#m7b5G#m7b5
Time slips through our fingers fast
Em7/G
Your counterfeits deceived me
Chord diagramD/F#D/F#
If you can't love me this way
Chord diagramE minor 7Em7           Chord diagramA augmentedA          Chord diagramD MajorD
Then you must leave me

Verse II:
Chord diagramD/AD/A
Tell me how it came to this
Chord diagramGmaj7Gmaj7
Just don't think to spare me this
Chord diagramD/F#D/F#
Perhaps the truth can set us free
Chord diagramE minor 7Em7
From the half truths ensnaring you and me
Chord diagramD MajorD
This black hole of intensity
F#m7/C#
Collapses on its density
Chord diagramB minorBm
And sucks me to a darker place
Chord diagramD/AD/A
That hides behind a broken face

Chord diagramGmaj7Gmaj7
Keep up appearances they say
Chord diagramD/F#D/F#
And all those reasons you might stay
Chord diagramE minor 7Em7
Ring hollow in my mind today
Chord diagramD MajorD
I've listened ‘til my head would spin
F#m7/C#
I don't want half of anything
Chord diagramB minorBm
I don't want half of anything
Chord diagramD/AD/A
The fields are sown with seeds of doubt
Chord diagramG#m7b5G#m7b5
The wine is warm, you spit it out
Em7/G
This drinking won't relieve me
Chord diagramD/F#D/F#
If you can't love me this way
Chord diagramE minor 7Em7           Chord diagramA augmentedA         Chord diagramD MajorD
Then you must leave me

Bridge:
DMaj7
The patterns in the distant stars, our fates upon a loom
GMaj7
The changes in the temperature when you walked into a room
DMaj7
The smell of your perfume, the taste of your skin
Chord diagramBm7Bm7                        Aadd4         GMaj7
All those bitter reminders of the failed state I'm in

Verse III:
Chord diagramD/AD/A
How do I breathe now, how do I inhale?
Chord diagramGmaj7Gmaj7
I'm a diver on the seabed, my oxygen's failed
Chord diagramD/F#D/F#
How do I wake up, how do I sleep?
Chord diagramE minor 7Em7
How do I laugh now, I can't even weep?
Chord diagramD MajorD
Where do I run to, where do I hide?
F#m7/C#
An insect preserved in formaldehyde
Chord diagramB minorBm
Yesterday's paper its pages curled
Chord diagramD/AD/A
How can I live in this broken world?

Chord diagramGmaj7Gmaj7
Keep up appearances they say
Chord diagramD/F#D/F#
But all those reasons you might stay
Chord diagramE minor 7Em7
Ring hollow in my mind today
Chord diagramD MajorD
I've listened ‘til my head would spin
F#m7/C#
I don't want half of anything
Chord diagramB minorBm
I don't want half of anything
Chord diagramD/AD/A
The sand it falls in the hour glass
Chord diagramG#m7b5G#m7b5
And time slips through our fingers fast
Em7/G
And nothing that you say relieves me
Chord diagramD/F#D/F#
If you can't love me this way
Chord diagramE minor 7Em7           Chord diagramA augmentedA        Chord diagramD MajorD
Then you must leave me

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