Song:   Letter To Elise
Artist: The Cure
Album:  Wish (1992)
URL:    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLW22B5R3Mc [in G#];
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Letter_to_Elise 
Tempo:  3|4

Capo 2

Chords:  EADGBe
G        320003  
D        XX0232
Em       022000
C/G      332010
F        133211        


INTRO:
|G D Em C/G|
|G D Em C/G|
|G D Em C/G|


VERSE 1:
   G                                D
Oh Elise it doesn't matter what you say,
                             Em
I just can't stay here every yesterday.
                    C/G
Like keep on acting out the same,

The way we act out,
G
every way to smile.

Forget,
    D
And make-believe we never needed,
Em
Any more than this.
C/G
Any more than this.


VERSE 2:
   G                                D
Oh Elise it doesn't matter what you do,
                         Em
I know I?ll never really get inside of you.
             C/G
To make your eyes catch fire,

The way they should.
G
The way the blue could pull me in,
        D
If they only would.

If they only would,
   Em                                       C/G
At least I?d lose this sense of sensing something else,

That hides away.
G
From me and you,

There 're worlds to part,
     D
With aching looks and breaking hearts,
    Em
And all the prayers your hands can make.
    C/G
Oh, I just take as much as you can throw,
G
And then throw it all away.
D
Oh, I throw it all away.
Em
Like throwing faces at the sky,
     C/G
Like throwing arms round,
D
Yesterday.

I stood and stared,
     Em
Wide-eyed in front of you,
    D
And the face i saw looked back,
        Em
the way I wanted to,
      D
But i just can't hold my tears away,
    Em
The way you do.


CHORUS:
F               Em
Elise believe I never wanted this,
  F                                    Em
I thought this time I?d keep all of my promises.
  F                                Em
I thought you were the girl always dreamed about,
    F
But I let the dream go,
        Em
And the promises broke,
                         D  
And the make-believe ran out...


INSTRUMENTAL:
|D Em D   Em|
|D Em D    G|
|G D  Em C/G|


VERSE 3:
    G
Oh, Elise,
                           D
It doesn't matter what you say.
                             Em
I just can't stay here every yesterday,
                    C/G
Like keep on acting out the same.

The way we act out,
G
Every way to smile,

Forget.
    D
And make-believe we never needed,
Em
Any more than this,
C/G
Any more than this.
    G                           D
And every time I try to pick it up,

Like falling sand,
Em
As fast as i pick it up.
        C/G
It runs away through my clutching hands,
            G
But there's nothing else i can really do.
D
There's nothing else,

I can really do,
   C/G     (Em)(G) [Fade]
at all...

[End]