Meat Loaf – If I Cant Have You (Guitar)

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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