Sting – If You Cant Love Me (Guitar)

D/A
Please sit down, just talk to me

GMaj7
We'll see if we can talk this through

D/F#
I've tried so hard to understand it

Em7
Just tell me something that's close to the truth…

D
I'd rather you were cruel than kind

F#m7/C#
Is all that I'm demanding

Bm
I've given up on peace of mind

D/A
For the open wound of understanding

GMaj7
You can't be here and someplace else

D/F#
If your mind is in that other place

Em7
You're trying to convince yourself

D
But you're lying in my face

F#m7/C#
I've listened ‘til my head would spin

Bm
I don't want half of anything

D/A
The sand sits in the hourglass

G#m7b5
Time slips through our fingers fast

Em7/G
Your counterfeits deceived me

D/F#
If you can't love me this way

Em7           A          D
Then you must leave me

D/A
Tell me how it came to this

Gmaj7
Just don't think to spare me this

D/F#
Perhaps the truth can set us free

Em7
From the half truths ensnaring you and me

D
This black hole of intensity

F#m7/C#
Collapses on its density

Bm
And sucks me to a darker place

D/A
That hides behind a broken face

Gmaj7
Keep up appearances they say

D/F#
And all those reasons you might stay

Em7
Ring hollow in my mind today

D
I've listened ‘til my head would spin

F#m7/C#
I don't want half of anything

Bm
I don't want half of anything

D/A
The fields are sown with seeds of doubt

G#m7b5
The wine is warm, you spit it out

Em7/G
This drinking won't relieve me

D/F#
If you can't love me this way

Em7           A         D
Then you must leave me

DMaj7
The patterns in the distant stars, our fates upon a loom

GMaj7
The changes in the temperature when you walked into a room

DMaj7
The smell of your perfume, the taste of your skin

Bm7                        Aadd4         GMaj7
All those bitter reminders of the failed state I'm in

D/A
How do I breathe now, how do I inhale?

Gmaj7
I'm a diver on the seabed, my oxygen's failed

D/F#
How do I wake up, how do I sleep?

Em7
How do I laugh now, I can't even weep?

D
Where do I run to, where do I hide?

F#m7/C#
An insect preserved in formaldehyde

Bm
Yesterday's paper its pages curled

D/A
How can I live in this broken world?

Gmaj7
Keep up appearances they say

D/F#
But all those reasons you might stay

Em7
Ring hollow in my mind today

D
I've listened ‘til my head would spin

F#m7/C#
I don't want half of anything

Bm
I don't want half of anything

D/A
The sand it falls in the hour glass

G#m7b5
And time slips through our fingers fast

Em7/G
And nothing that you say relieves me

D/F#
If you can't love me this way

Em7           A        D
Then you must leave me