Meat Loaf - If I Can't Have You
CAPO: 2nd Fret
INTRO:
C
(# Spoken #)
To say it's love would be too simple, too obvious
It's more like a calling, a vocation
Something I was put on this earth to do
Now I'm shooting with the stars and I'm flying with the angels
G C
And my heartbeat is a symphony, the closer I get to you
F C
I never saw you coming, 'til you came and here you are
F C
I never thought someone would ever dare to come this far
F G
You're up for the resistance and I'm strong in my persistence
And I've never known a remedy like ours
CHORUS:
C G F C G F
If I can't have you, if I can't have you
Am Em
I would be a river, dried up into dust
F G
I would be imprisoned for never having loved
F C G C G C
If I can't have you, I don't wanna be me
F C
Then I would be the same man you scraped off the ground
F C
I'd have to go back being, that broken soul you found
F C G
Those days are in the darkness, I buried them with hardness
And I'd have to dig those demons out
C F C
Your life is like an anchor that puts me in my place
F C
No, you won't let me sink, when I'm off losing my way
F C
Thank God for your virtue and the wisdom in your eye
G
'Cause somehow you get through, on all that crazy in my mind
CHORUS:
C G F C G F
If I can't have you, if I can't have you
Am Em
I would be a river, dried up into dust
F G
I would be imprisoned for never having loved
F C G C G F C G
If I can't have you, I don't wanna be me
I don't wanna be...
Dm F C G
Why did it take you so long to finally see
Dm F C G
That we had a love that you don't find easily?
Dm F Am G
You broke my heart and the price to pay for that
Dm F Am G F C G
Is you'll have to live the misery of losing what you had_______
F C G C G F
If I can't have you_____
INSTRUMENTAL: C G F C G F C G F D
Bm G D
Me, my words have come too late
Bm G D
I've already turned that page
G
Don't you look at me that way
Esus4
'Cause you'll throw me back
D
And that's the part I hate
Bm G D
I'll stay trapped inside my hell
Bm G D
Where it's so hot that my walls melt
Bm A
I can hear a promise in every lie
D
You said you'd never tell
Bm G D
If I had only told the truth
Bm G D
Oh, I could never trust you to
A
You'll survive
A G C G
No, I will die_____
D A G D A G
If I can't have you, if I can't have you
D A
Then I'm sorry for the things I cost you in the end
G A
My punishment is more than any man can stand
D A G
I need you in my life
D A G
I can't let go
D A G
Why don't you stay with me, tonight?
G D A G
I feel alone
D A G
Turn off all the lights
G D A G
Take me home
CHORUS:
D A G D A G
If I can't have you, if I can't have you
Bm F#m
Then I would be a river, dried up into dust
G A
I would be imprisoned for never having loved
D A G D A G
If I can't have you, I don't wanna be me_____
OUTRO: (# Spoken #)
G D G D G D G D
To say it's love would be too simple
