I Love Her But She Loves Someone Else chords by Sting

  • Am

  • E

  • A

  • Dm

  • G

  • B

    2
  • C

  • F

  • Bdim

  • G#

    4
  • Esus4

  • Asus4

  • F#dim

    4
  • Em

  • F#m

    2
  • Bm

    2
  • Bbm

  • Ebm

    6
  • Ab

    4
  • Absus4

    4
  • Db

    4
  • Cdim

    3
  • Gdim

    5
  • Gb

    2
  • Fsus4

Verse 1
Am
E
When a man of my age shaves
his face in the morning,
A
Who is it that stares back
Dm
and greets him?
The ghost of his father long dead
all these years?
G
Or the boy that he was,
still wet in the ears?
E
Am
Or the terrible sum of all of his fears,
B
E
In the eyes of this stranger who meets him?
Am
E
So his glance rarely strays from his chin or
Verse 2
his jawline,
A
Dm
To face up to the truth of his soul,
It's the eyes he avoids so afraid
to acknowledge,
G
Something strange, unexpected,
E
out of control.
Verse 3
C
There are times when a man needs
to brave his reflection,
G
And face what he sees without fear,
Am
F
It takes a man to accept his mortality,
Dm
Bdim
Or be surprised by the
G
E
presence of a tear.
Verse 4
Am
F
Dm
It was only an arrangement,
A
a practical arrangement,
B
I forgot the first commandment of
E
the realist's handbook,
F
Don't be fooled by illu
Dm
A
sions you created yourself,
E
G#
B
And fall in love with someone,
Esus4
E
C
E
Am
Asus4
Am
when she loves someone else.
Verse 5
E
Esus4
Am
Like a covering of snow on a winter's night,
C
Dm
G
It glistens and it sparkles
C
in the moonlight,
Bdim
But it's gone by the morning,
E
Am
G
F#dim
how quickly it melts,
F
Bdim
You still love her but she
E
loves someone else.
F
Esus4
Verse 6
B
Em
And where does that leave you?
F#m
B
You self- styled man of vision.
G
You feel stupid, you feel angry,
E
are you losing your mind?
Am
To destroy the one she loves,
Bm
E
does that become your mission?
C
Like a pantomime villain
A
with an axe to grind?
Dm
To regain your self- respect,
Em
A
hold your head up like a man,
F
Use the ice around your
heart before it melts,
Dm
But you're not fooling anybody,
G
Em
Asus4
you're only fooling yourself.
A
Verse 7
F
Like a covering of snow
Bbm
on a winter's night,
Ebm
Ab
It glistens and it sparkles
Absus4
Db
in the moonlight,
Cdim
But it's gone by the morning,
F
Bbm
Db
Gdim
how quickly it melts
Outro 1
Gdim
Gb
Cdim
F
Gb
Fsus4
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