Key: Bb major
Intro 1
G
C
I'm gonna walk away
Verse 1
from love
Dsus4
C
G
Gonna walk away, gonna walk away
C
I'm gonna walk away from love
Gonna walk away, gonna walk away
Em
Eb
Gonna walk away, gonna
C
G
walk away
Verse 2
G
C
It's not that I don't love you
Dsus4
G
You know how much I do
D
And it's not that I've found
C
someone
Dsus4
G
To take the place of you
It's just a fear that builds
D
C
within me
Dsus4
G
Every time you touch my hand
And a dread that shakes
C
my body
That even I don't understand
Dsus4
C
So I'm leav
Verse 3
G
ing (I'm leaving,
C
yes, I am)
G
C
This time I'm playing it smart
(I'm leaving, yes, I am)
G
C
G
I'm gonna walk away from love
Dsus4
C
Am
(walk away from love)
C
G
Before love breaks my heart
C
I'm gonna walk
Verse 4
away from love
Em
Gonna walk away, gonna walk away
Eb
C
G
Gonna walk away, gonna walk away
Verse 5
G
D
C
Ooh, you're clinging to me tighter
Than you ever have before,
Dsus4
C
G
I don't understand it
But I know it's gonna take
D
C
everything I've got
G
To keep walking out the door
C
But those arms you've got around me
G
Will let me go someday
D
C
And I'd rather leave you holding on
Than pushing me away
Verse 6
G
So I'm leaving, yes, I am(I'm leaving,
C
yes, I am)
G
C
This time I'm playing it smart (I'm leaving,
yes, I am)
G
C
G
I'm gonna walk away from love
Dsus4
Am
(walk away from love)
C
Before love breaks my heart
G
Verse 7
C
I'm gonna walk away from love
Em
Gonna walk away, gonna walk away
Eb
C
G
Gonna walk away, gonna walk away
D
Interlude 1
C
G
D
C
G
C
G
D
C
Verse 8
G
So I'm leaving, yes, I am (I'm leaving,
C
yes, I am)
G
C
This time I'm playing it smart (I'm leaving,
yes, I am)
G
C
G
I'm gonna walk away from love
Dsus4
(walk away from love)
Am
C
G
Before love breaks my heart
Verse 9
C
I'm gonna walk away from love
Em
Gonna walk away, gonna walk away
G
Ooh, baby
It's not that I don't love you (I'm gonna
C
walk away from love)
You know how much I do (gonna walk
away, gonna walk away)
G
Eb
C
Oh, baby (gonna walk away,
gonna walk away)
G
I'm leaving, baby
C
This time I'm playing it smart (I'm gonna
walk away from love)
Oh, don't break my heart (gonna walk away,
G
gonna walk away)
I'm walkin' away, baby
C
(I'm gonna walk away from love)
Dsus4
Eb
Ooh, will you let me go someday, baby? (Gonna walk away,
C
gonna walk away)
(Gonna walk away, gonna walk away)
G
I'd rather have you holdin' on,
C
holdin' on' (I'm gonna walk away from love)
Oh, than pushin' me away,
woo (gonna walk away, gonna walk away)
G
Ooh- wee, baby, yeah
So I'm leavin' (I'm gonna
C
walk away from love)
I know you know,
playin' it smart (gonna walk away, gonna walk away)
Dsus4
Eb
C
Don't you break my heart, baby (gonna walk away,
gonna walk away)
G
I'm leavin' baby,
C
yeah (I'm gonna walk away from love)
I don't wanna be the one to cry, no,
G
baby (gonna walk away, gonna walk away)
And it's not that I've found someone
C
new (I'm gonna walk away from love)
Oh, just to take the place of you (gonna walk
away, gonna walk away)
Eb
I've got to (gonna walk away,
gonna walk away)
G
I'm leavin', baby,
C
woo (I'm gonna walk away from love)
Oh, baby, don't wanna do it,
G
no (gonna walk away, gonna walk away)
But I'm leavin'
This time I'm playin' it smart
C
(I'm gonna walk away from love)
I'm gonna walk away from love
(gonna walk away, gonna walk away)
Before love breaks my heart
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