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It Was Love

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Note: At some points I feel C and Am are interchangable and work just as well. It's up to you.
Capo 1
Intro
G Am G C G D
GFound a Amway 
To Gbreak Caway
From the Gone 
You say that you Dlove
Now you Gcry out your Ameyes
GDay and Cnight you set Gfree
The one that you Dlove
And it's Ctrue
I don't Gremember you 
But I'd Embelieve if you say that we Dmet
I get Cconfused
Nights I've been Gwondering
I Emthought I was already Ddead
But man I loAmved
Yeah I Dloved
When I lEmoved
It was Glove
It was Clove
Or at Dleast
The closest I've Gcome
G Am G C G C G Am G
And the Gcoffee, the Amcream
The Gblood in my Cdreams
Are the Gones
That you used to Dknow
And the Ggas the Amplane 
The GintersCtate
Live the Gones
You don't have to Dknow
And I rCegret
This sad and Gawful truth
But my Emmouth it'll get away from Dme
CYou, I just put Gup with you,
Kid, I Emstayed cause you wouldn't Dleave
Remember Amlove?
Oh, Dlove
When we Emloved
It was Glove
It was Amlove
Or at Dleast, as close as I've Gcome
G C G Am G
And Cmaybe Joan was Drunning all alone
And Emthere is a shortcut, Ghome
Putting a Amgun to your brain
Man, to Dtake all that you Ggot
C G Am G
And the Ctruth, that I was just Gscared for you,
But for Emme that's the way that it Dcomes
You'd gotten Cused to me and my Gawful tongue
But Emgod, didn't we have some Dfun?
When we made Amlove
In the Dvan
And I Emdrove with your hand on my Glap
And when San AmDiego got too Dunkind
We just Empicked up and left em beGhind
And we had some Amlove
And some Dhope
A full tank of Emgas and a wide open Groad
It was Amlove
To Dus
It was all that we EmhadG  
And there's Amdays
You just Dbreak
The best thing you EmhaveG  
But I still call it Clove
For Dnow, it's the closest I've Gcome.
G C G Am G

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It Was Love

by The Elected

Lyrics & chords · Original key · Capo on fret 1 (as written in this song)

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Note: At some points I feel C and Am are interchangable and work just as well. It's up to you.

Capo 1

Intro

G Am G C G D

G Am

Found a way

G C

To break away

From the one

You say that you love

G Am

Now you cry out your eyes

G C G

Day and night you set free

The one that you love

And it's true

I don't remember you

Em D

But I'd believe if you say that we met

I get confused

Nights I've been wondering

Em D

I thought I was already dead

But man I loved

Yeah I loved

When I loved

It was love

Or at least

The closest I've come

G Am G C G C G Am G

G Am

And the coffee, the cream

G C

The blood in my dreams

Are the ones

That you used to know

G Am

And the gas the plane

G C

The interstate

Live the ones

You don't have to know

And I regret

This sad and awful truth

Em D

But my mouth it'll get away from me

C G

You, I just put up with you,

Em D

Kid, I stayed cause you wouldn't leave

Remember love?

Oh, love

When we loved

It was love

D G

Or at least, as close as I've come

G C G Am G

C D

And maybe Joan was running all alone

Em G

And there is a shortcut, home

Putting a gun to your brain

D G

Man, to take all that you got

C G Am G

C G

And the truth, that I was just scared for you,

Em D

But for me that's the way that it comes

C G

You'd gotten used to me and my awful tongue

Em D

But god, didn't we have some fun?

When we made love

In the van

Em G

And I drove with your hand on my lap

Am D

And when San Diego got too unkind

Em G

We just picked up and left em behind

And we had some love

And some hope

Em G

A full tank of gas and a wide open road

It was love

To us

Em G

It was all that we had

And there's days

You just break

Em G

The best thing you have

But I still call it love

D G

For now, it's the closest I've come.

G C G Am G

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