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Call Your Girlfriend

Call Your Girlfriend is a song by Robyn from her seventh studio album, Body Talk (2010). It is co-written by Robyn, Klas Ã…hlund, and Alexander Kronlund. The songs lyrics are about a woman advising her lover to break up with his girlfriend in a considerate way, as she is the other woman and believes that they have found a new love. The song was inspired by Robyns own love life at the time.

Key: C

Introduction:

             C             G  
Call your girlfriend
                  C              Em  
It' s time you had the talk
             C        G  
Give your reasons
            C          Em  
Say it' s not her fault
     Am          C                  Am    C  
But you just met somebody new

                          G                              Am                                C  
Tell her not to get upset, second-guessing everything you said and done
                              G                              Bm                            Am    C  
And then when she gets upset tell her how you never meant to hurt no one
                                    G                 Am                         C  
Then you tell her that the only way her heart will mend is when she learns
    Am  
to love again
          G                             Am                                 C  
And it won' t make sense right now but you' re still her friend
                 Am                    C  Am  
And then you let her down easy

             C             G  
Call your girlfriend
                  C              Em  
It' s time you had the talk
             C        G  
Give your reasons
            C          Em  
Say it' s not her fault
     Am          C                    Am    C  
But you just met somebody new

                                 G                                     Am  
Don' t you tell her how I give you something that you never even knew you
C  
missed
                              G                          Bm                      Am     C  
Don' t you even try and explain how it' s so different when we kiss
                             G                 Am                         C  
You tell her that the only way her heart will mend is when she learns to
Am  
love again
          G                             Am                                 C  
And it won' t make sense right now but you' re still her friend
                 Am                    C  Am  
And then you let her down easy

             C             G  
Call your girlfriend
                  C              Em  
It' s time you had the talk
             C        G  
Give your reasons
            C          Em  
Say it' s not her fault
     Am          C                    Am    C  
But you just met somebody new
     Am          C                     Am    C  
And now it' s gonna be me and you

G  Am  C  Am  
G  Am  C  Am  

                                    G                 Am                         C  
Then you tell her that the only way her heart will mend is when she learns
    Am  
to love again
          G                             Am                                 C  
And it won' t make sense right now but you' re still her friend
                 Am                    C  Am  
And then you let her down easy

             C             G  
Call your girlfriend
                  C             Em  
It' s time you had the talk
             C        G  
Give your reasons
            C          Em  
Say it' s not her fault

     Am          C                  Am    C  
But you just met somebody new

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