Dear John (Taylor's Version) chords by Taylor Swift

♫ Intro:

B   B   B   B


♫ Verse 1:
 B
Long were the nights
                                   B
When my days once revolved around you
 B
Counting my footsteps
                                B
Prayin' the floor won't fall through again
        C                    B#m       C
And my mother accused me of losin' my mind
        B
But I swore I was fine
     B
You?paint?me a blue sky
                            B
Then go back to turn it to rain
       B
And I lived in your chess game
                                B
But you change the rules every day
 C                         B#m
Wonderin' which version of you
         C           B
I might get on the phone tonight
          C
Well, I stopped pickin' up
          B#m        C            B
And this song is to let you know why

♫ Chorus:
       B                                 B
Dear John, I see it all now that you're gone
                           B#m
Don't you think I was too young to be messed with?
     C                            B
The girl in the dress cried the whole way home
            B
I shoulda known

♫ Interlude:
B   B


♫ Verse 2:
       B                                       B
Well, maybe it's me and my blind optimism to blame
               B
Or maybe it's you and your sick need
                           B
To give love and take it away
     C                          B#m           C
And you'll add my name to your long list of traitors
     B
Who don't understand
               C                       B#m             C
And I'll look back and regret how I ignored when they said
         B
"Run as fast as you can"

♫ Chorus:
      B                                  B
Dear John, I see it all now that you're gone
                           B#m
Don't you think I was too young to be messed with?
     C                            B
The girl in the dress cried the whole way home
      B                               B
Dear John, I see it all now, it was wrong
                                B#m
Don't you think nineteen's too young to be played by
      C                          B
Your dark, twisted games when I loved you so?
            B
I shoulda known

Instrumental ♫ Break:
B   B


♫ Bridge:
            B#m                    C
You are an expert at "Sorry" and keepin' lines blurry
 B
Never impressed by me acing your tests
         B#m                         C
All the girls that you run dry have tired, lifeless eyes
            B
'Cause you burned them out
    C                     B#m              C
But I took your matches before fire could catch me
    B
So don't look now
      C                     B                    B    B
I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town
B#m   C   B
Oh

♫ Chorus:
       B                                 B
Dear John, I see it all now that you're gone
                           B#m
Don't you think I was too young to be messed with?
     C                            B         B
The girl in the dress cried the whole way home
                              B
I see it all now that you're gone
                           B#m
Don't you think I was too young to be messed with?
     C                       B
The girl in the dress wrote you a song
              B
You shoulda known

♫ Outro:
              B
You shoulda known
B                             B
  Don't you think I was too young?
                  B
You shoulda known