Bruce Springsteen – Cutting Knife (Guitar)

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As recorded by Bruce Springsteen (From the 2025 box Set TRACKS II: THE LOST ALBUMS) [Intro] G C D C G D G C D C G D [Verse 1]
G                     C            D
I have a fair love to whom I'm not true

    C                           G       D
For this, I've no reason that'd satisfy you

  G                      C       D
I thought myself a gentleman and kind

            C                          G             D
Yet, to her good soul and beauty, I've willed myself blind
[Chorus]
G   C         D
You are my cutting knife

    C                  D
You cut me through and through

         G   C         D
Darlin', you are my cutting knife

     C                  D
Your blade is sharp and true, dear

     C                  D
Your blade is sharp and true
[Interlude] G C D C D G C D C D [Verse 2]
    G                    C          D
She visits me nightly in the dreamy deep

        C                                           D
Where I walk from door to door with these secrets I keep

    G                       C          D
Her sweet arms around me, I toss and I turn

    C                                D
Her reigns of mercy, holding me as I burn
[Chorus]
G   C         D
You are my cutting knife

    C                  D
You cut me through and through

G   C         D
You are my cutting knife

     C                  D
Your blade is sharp and true, dear

     C                  D
Your blade is sharp and true
[Instrumental Break] Em D/F# G Em D/F# G D Em D/F# G Em D/F# G D [Verse 3]
    G
The truth in your eyes washes over me

     C                         G        D
As I measure my cruelty to the finest degree

          G                        C         D
I built a house for this love that tears us apart

        C                                    D
There I sup on your trust and I dine on your heart
[Chorus]
G   C         D
You are my cutting knife

    C                  D
You cut me through and through

         G   C         D
Darlin', you are my cutting knife

     C                  D
Your blade is sharp and true, dear

     C                  D
Your blade is sharp and true

G   C         D
You are my cutting knife

    C                  D
You cut me through and through

         G   C         D
Darlin', you are my cutting knife

     C                  D
Your blade is sharp and true

     C                  D
Your blade is sharp and true
[Outro] Em D/F# G Em D/F# G D Em D/F# G Em D/F# G D