The Cure – A Letter To Elise (Guitar)

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Song: A Letter to Elise Transcribe by: Paul N [Verse]
   A                               E
oh Elise it doesn't matter what you say

                             F#m
I just can't stay here every yesterday

                    D
like keep on acting out the same
the way we act out
A
every way to smile
forget
    E
and make-believe we never needed

F#m
any more than this

D
any more than this
[Verse 2]
    A                               E
oh Elise it doesn't matter what you do

                         F#m
I know I'll never really get inside of you

             D
to make your eyes catch fire
the way they should
A
the way the blue could pull me in

        E
if they only would
if they only would
   F#m                                        D
at least I'd lose this sense of sensing something else
that hides away
A
from me and you
there're worlds to part
     E
with aching looks and breaking hearts

    F#m
and all the prayers your hands can make

   D
oh I just take as much as you can throw

A
and then I throw it all away

E
oh I throw it all away

F#m
like throwing faces at the sky

     D
like throwing arms around

E
yesterday
I stood and stared
     F#m
wide-eyed in front of you

    E
and the face I saw looked back

          F#m
the way I wanted to

      E
but I just can't hold my tears away

    F#m
the way you do
[Bridge]
  G                   F#m
Elise believe I never wanted this

  G                                    F#m
I thought this time I'd keep all of my promises

  G                                F#m
I thought you were the girl always dreamed about

      G
but I let the dream go

        F#m
and the promises broke

                         E
and the make-believe ran out...
[Verse 3]
    A
so Elise

                           E
it doesn't matter what you say

                             F#m
I just can't stay here every yesterday

                    D
like keep on acting out the same
the way we act out
A
every way to smile
forget
    E
and make-believe we never needed

F#m
any more than this

D
any more than this
[Outro]
    A                           E
and every time I try to pick it up
like falling sand
F#m
as fast as I pick it up

         D
it runs away through my clutching hands

            A
and there's nothing else I can really do

E
there's nothing else I can really do

F#m
there's nothing else I can really do

   D
at all...