John My Beloved chords by Sufjan Stevens (Official Version)
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Intro 1
(A minor/E) (E minor) (B minor) (C major) (G/D) (D major)
(A minor/E) (E minor) (B minor) (C major) (G/D) (D major)
Verse 1
(A minor/E) Are we to speak, (E minor) first (B minor) day of the week
(C major) Stumbling words (G/D) at the bar (D major)
(A minor/E) Beauty blue eyes, (E minor)
my (B minor) order of fries
(C major) Long Island (G/D) kindness and wine (D major)
Be (A minor/E) loved of John, (E minor) I (B minor) get it all wrong
I (C major) read you for some (G/D) kind of poem (D major)
(A minor/E) Covered in lines, (E minor) the (B minor) fossils I find
(C major) Have they no life (G/D) of their own? (D major)
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Chorus 1
(E minor) So can we pretend (B minor) sweetly
Be (C major) fore the (G/D) mystery ends? (D major)
I am a man (C major) with a heart that of (G/D) fends
With its (C major) lonely and (G/D) greedy demands (D major)
There's (E minor) only a (D/F#) shadow of me (G major)
in a (C major) matter of (G/D) speaking I'm (D major) dead
Verse 2
(A minor/E) Such a (E minor) waste, your (B minor) beautiful face
(C major) Stumbling carpet (G/D) arise (D major)
Go (A minor/E) follow your gem, (E minor)
your (B minor) white feathered friend
(C major) Icarus, point (G/D) to the sun (D major)
If (A minor/E) history speaks (E minor) of (B minor) two baby teeth
I'm (C major) painting the hills (G/D) blue and red (D major)
(A minor/E) They said beware, (E minor) (B minor) Lord hear my prayer
I've (C major) wasted my throes (G/D) on your head (D major)
Chorus 2
(E minor) So can we be friends, (B minor) sweetly
Be (C major) fore the (G/D) mystery ends? (D major)
I love you (C major) more
than the world can con (G/D) tain
In its (C major) lonely and (G/D) ramshackle (D major) head
There's (E minor) only a (D/F#) shadow of me (G major)
in a (C major) matter of (G/D) speaking I'm (D major) dead
Interlude 1
(A minor/E) (E minor) (B minor) (C major) (G/D) (D major)
(A minor/E) (E minor) (B minor) (C major) (G/D) (D major)
Verse 3
I'm (A minor/E) holding my breath (E minor)
My (B minor) tongue on your chest
(C major) What can be said (G/D) of my heart? (D major)
If (A minor/E) history speaks, (E minor) the (B minor) kiss on my cheek
(C major) Where there remains (G/D) but a mark (D major)
Be (A minor/E) loved my (E minor) John, so (B minor) I'll carry on
(C major) Counting my cards (G/D) down to one (D major)
And (A minor/E) when I am dead, (E minor)
come (B minor) visit my bed
My (C major) fossil is bright (G/D) in the sun (D major)
Chorus 3
(E minor) So can we contend, (B minor) peacefully
Be (C major) fore my (G/D) history ends? (D major)
Jesus I (C major) need you, be near me,
come (G/D) shield me
From (C major) fossils that (G/D) fall on my (D major) head
There's (E minor) only a (D/F#) shadow of me (G major)
in a (C major) matter of (G/D) speaking I'm (D major) dead
John My Beloved
Sufjan Stevens
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