Elliott Smith – True Love (Guitar)

Riff 2 over Bm
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[Intro]
   A*    Amaj7 Asus4 A6    A     C      GM7    F    E   Riff 1
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A            C#m       Bm
True love is a rose behind glass

     Riff 2     F#
It's locked and kept closed

              A                         B* C
Maybe just to me 'cause my heart's been attacked

G            F           E        Riff 1
Shattered by tough love, bad love

      A            C#m
so bought mine off the street

     Bm            Riff 2        F#
true love, man, it just can't be beat

             A              B* C        G    F     E
I felt so complete, married to heavenly bodies above

         Fmaj7                Am          E11b9  E Riff 1
And each night I look up at a bright honeymoon

          A              C#m
'cause it sure seemed built to last

         Bm       Riff 2    F#          A
and even after my honeymoon past I kept right with that, man,

    B* C            G           F       E Riff 1
Like a ghost to the house it once haunted

A             C#m
And day after day

    Bm            Riff 2     F#
I'd steal with my true love away

        A                 B* C
To some hideout we left undisturbed

         G          F      E
we could do what we wanted

      Fmaj7                  Am             E11b9     E Riff 1
But I started to feel like a liar saying "I love you"

        Dm                     C                      Bb
She was madly in love, and mad mean there was no in-between

             E    Riff 1
It raised my alarm

  Dm                   C                   Bb
I found I can't make a stand i'm her hired hand

             E   Riff 1
I have to do harm

A                C#m      Bm        Riff 2    F#
One day I got sick, she played me a nasty old trick

A                     B*
Said, "I need cigarettes"

C                 G            F     E Riff 1
Walked around the block caught a cab

   A            C#m
Stayed gone for too long

   Bm       Riff 2     F#
My love had gotten too strong

        A                      B* C
Just to try to getting back on my own

         G   F    E Riff 1
I had to go to rehab

Dm    C                       Bb
All I need is a safe place to bleed

                   E   Riff 1
Is this where it's at?

Dm         C
Half of no chance, steps in a dance

Bb                      E
rest of my live spin in combat

Riff 1       A              C#m
Now I'm the    king of the ward

       Bm                      F#
'cause I'm good and I swallow my sword

A                         B* C       G    F        E  Riff 1
Puke it up for the doctor to write a new prescription

 A            C#m
tranquil as a dove

Bm               Riff 2          F#
people that have lost their true love

     A        B* C       G     F         E
that all seem to fit the same description

       Fmaj7             Am
I feel cold, useless and old

           E11b9  E Riff 1
Wish I was no one

A*      Amaj7  A   Amaj7
Take me up, my love

A*      Amaj7  A   Amaj7
Take me up   today

A*      Amaj7       A    Amaj7
Take me out of this place

A*      Amaj7         A   Amaj7
Take me up with you today