Key: A major
Intro 1
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Bsus4
E
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Bm
D
A
G
F#
B
G#m
Verse 1
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C#m
True love is a rose behind glass
G#
That's locked and kept closed
Maybe just to me
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'Cause my heart's been attacked
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E
A
And shattered by tough
G
F#
B
love bad love
Verse 2
G#m
B
So I bought mine off the street
C#m
G#
True love, man, it just can't be beat
B
I felt so complete
D
E
Married to heavenly bod
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G
F#
ies above
C
And each night I'd look up
Bm
F#
Gdim
F#
At a bright honey moon
B
'Cause it
Verse 3
G#m
sure seemed
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built to last
C#m
G#
And even after my honeymoon passed
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I kept right with it, man
D
C#m
A
E
Like a ghost to a house it once
G
haunted
F#
B
F#
Verse 4
G#m
B
And day after day
C#m
G#
I'd steal with my true love away
B
To some hideout we're left undisturbed
D
A
G
F#
We could do what we wanted
C
G
Em
But I started to feel like a liar
Bm
F#
Gdim
F#
Saying I love you
E
B
She was
Verse 5
E
D
madly in love or mad mean
C
F#
B
There was no in between it raised my alarm
E
D
I found I can't make a stand
C
I'm her hired hand i have
to do harm
F#
B
F#
Verse 6
G#m
One day I got sick
B
C#m
G#
She played me a nasty old trick
B
Said, "I need cigarettes"
D
A
Walked 'round the block
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F#
B
F#
caught a cab
G#m
B
Stayed gone for too long
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G#
My love had gotten so strong
B
D
Just to try being back on my own
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G
I had to go to rehab
F#
Verse 7
E
D
C
All I need is a safe place to bleed
F#
E
Is this where it's at?
D
Half of no chance
Steps in a dance
C
F#
Rest of my life spent in combat
B
F#
Now I'm the
Verse 8
G#m
B
king of the ward
E
'Cause I'm good and I swallow
my sword
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And puke it out for the doctor
D
C#m
A
G
To write me a new prescription
F#
B
F#
G#m
B
Tranquil as a dove
C#m
G#
People that have lost their true love
B
D
C#m
They all seem to fit the same
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F#
description
Verse 9
C
Bm
I feel cold, useless and old
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Gdim
F#
I wish I was no one
Interlude 1
B
Verse 10
E
Em
Take me up,
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E
Em
E
B
my Lord take me up today
Em
E
Em
B
B
Take me out of this place
Em
E
Take me up with you
Outro 1
today
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B
Gaug
Em
B
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