Love Song
Sara Bareilles
I think these chords are pretty close for piano. You have the ascending bass line of
notes F# G, A Bb, C D, E F under the chords during the verses.
Bb can be played as Bbsus2 instead.
Intro
[Gm] [Bb] [Dm] [F]
Verse 1
[Gm] [Bb]
Head under water
[Dm]
And they tell me
[F]
To breathe easy for a while
[Gm] [Bb]
But breathing gets harder
[Dm] [F]
Even I know that
[Gm] [Bb]
You made room for me
[Dm]
But it's too soon to see
[F]
If I'm happy in your hands
[Gm] [Bb] [Dm] [F]
I'm unusually hard to hold on to
Pre-Chorus
[Gm] [Am]
Blank stares at blank pages
[Bb] [C]
No easy way to say this
[Gm] [Am] [Bb]
You mean well, but you make this hard on me
Chorus
[Gm]
I'm not gonna write you a love song
[C]
Cause you asked for it
[F/A] [Bb]
Cause you need one, you see
[Gm]
I'm not gonna write you a love song
[C]
Cause you tell me it's
[F/A]
Make or break in this
[Bb]
If you're on your way
[Gm] [Am]
I'm not gonna write you to stay
[Dm] [G/B]
If all you have is leavin' im'a need a better reason
[Bb] [C] [Gm] [Bb] [Dm] [F]
To write you a love song today, today, yeah
Verse 2
[Gm] [Bb]
I learned the hard way
[Dm]
That they all say
[F]
Things you wanna hear
[Gm] [Bb]
And my heavy heart
[Dm] [F]
Sings deep down under you
[Gm] [Bb]
And your twisted words
[Dm]
Your help just hurts
[F] [Gm]
You were not what I thought you were
[Bb] [Dm] [F]
Hello to high and dry
Pre-Chorus
[Gm] [Am]
Convinced me to please you
[Bb] [C]
Made me think that I need this too
[Gm] [Am] [Bb]
I'm trying to let you hear me as I am
Chorus
[Gm]
I'm not gonna write you a love song
[C]
Cause you asked for it
[F/A] [Bb]
Cause you need one, you see
[Gm]
I'm not gonna write you a love song
[C]
Cause you tell me it's
[F/A]
Make or break in this
[Bb]
If you're on your way
[Gm] [Am]
I'm not gonna write you to stay
[Dm] [G/B]
If all you have is leavin' im'a need a better reason
[Bb] [C] [Dm]
To write you a love song today
Bridge
[Am] [Bb]
Promise me
[F] [C]
You'll leave the light on
[Dm] [Am] [Bb]
To help me see
[F] [C]
With daylight, my guide, gone
[Dm] [A] [Bb]
Cause I believe there's a way
[C]
You can love me because I say
Chorus
[Gm]
I won't write you a love song
[C]
Cause you asked for it
[F/A] [Bb]
Cause you need one, you see
[Gm]
I'm not gonna write you a love song
[C]
Cause you tell me it's
[F/A]
Make or break in this
[Bb] [Gm]
Is that why you wanted a love song?
[C]
Cause you asked for it
[F/A] [Bb]
Cause you need one, you see
[Gm]
I'm not gonna write you a love song
[C]
Cause you tell me it's
[F/A]
Make or break in this
[Bb]
If you're on your way
[Gm] [Am]
I'm not gonna write you to stay
[Bb]
If your heart is no where in it
[C]
I don't want it for a minute
[Dm]
Babe I'll walk the seven seas
[G/B]
When I believe that there's a reason
[Bb] [C] [Gm] [Bb] [Dm] [F]
To write you a love song today, today
[Gm] [Bb] [Dm] [F]
