Give away your love (2017)    (video)

 

    F - G - C    - F - G - Am

 

   C                                 F                    C

1.     I haven't seen my father in some time,

                 F                       C                    G

    but his face is always staring back at me.

Dm                                              C                F

    His heavy hands hang at the ends of my arms,

                   C           F                    C

    and my colors change like the sea.

 

    C                          F                       C

2.      I don't worry much about time lost,

                   F                        C                       G

    I'm not gunning for the dreams I couldn't find.

Dm                                                            C               F

    'Cause he taught me how to walk the best that I can,

                  C          F         C

    on the road I've left behind.

 

Am                              G                     C

    But most of all he taught me to forgive,

                   F                                    G                             C

    how to keep a cool head, how to love the one you’re with.

                            F                                       G                            C

    And when I'm far into the distance, and pushing comes to shove,

               F                               C                      G                     C

    to remember what comes back when you give away your love,

                G                                     Bb           F         C

    give away your love, when you give your love away,

                              G

    give away your love.

 

   C                                    F                              C

3.     I haven't heard my mother's voice in a while,

                   F                         C                      G

    but her words are always falling out my mouth.

Dm                                        C               F

    My mind and spirit are at odds sometimes,

                    C                    F                   C

    and they fight like the north and the south.

 

    C                               F                          C

4.      But I still care enough to bear the weight

                 F                                   C        G

    of the heaviness to which my heart is tethered.

Dm                                                       C             F

    She taught me to be strong and to say goodbye,

                   C    F      C

    and that love is forever.

 

Am                               G                         C

    But most of all she taught me how to fight,

                   F                                                     G                  C

    how to move across the line between the wrong and the right.

                            F                                             G                            C

    And when I'm turned into the darkness and pushing comes to shove

               F                               C                      G                     C

    to remember what comes back when you give away your love,

                              G                      Bb           F          C

    give away your love, when you give your love away,

                              G - G7

    give away your lo......ve.

 

   C                                 F                    C

5.     I haven't seen my father in some time,

                 F                       C                    G

    but his face is always staring back at me.

Dm                                              C                F

    His heavy hands hang at the ends of my arms,

                   C           F                    C

    and my colors change like the sea.

                   F           G7                   C

    And my colors change like the sea.

 

(orig. = no capo; cover = capo 2nd in G    (Brandi Carlile)