Key: E
Introduction:
E A GE A GA
All you true believers... all you wide receivers...
A E A GE
Anyone who calls this world their home...
E A GE A GA
When the war is over... I?ll still be your brother...
A E A GE
Maybe we can sort the right from the wrong...
C#m E A GE
Let me put it back the way it was
C#m B
Let me turn the lights on just because
E C#m
Love is a hurting thing
E C#m B E
Ah but love is the only thing... anymore
E A GE A GA
All you American dreamers... all you gay deceivers...
A E A GE
Who will cross their hearts and hope to die...
E A GE A GA
Bring your x-ray vision... from the bedroom to the kitchen...
A E A GE
I?ve seen it all you don?t have to be shy...
C#m E A GE
Who will put it back the way that it was
C#m B
And who will turn the lights off just because?
E C#m
Love is a hurting thing
E C#m B E
Ah but love is the only thing... anymore
E A E A
(Orchestral break, 8 beats on each chord)
E A GE A GA
All you happy hookers... all you night club bookers...
A E A GE
Anyone who has fallen from their throne...
E A GE A GA
There?s a rainbow in the gutter... dewdrops in the shutters...
A E A GE
I?m out here in the garden and I?m all alone...
C#m E A GE
So let me put it back the way that it was
C#m B
Let me turn the lights off just because
E C#m
Love is a hurting thing
E C#m B E
Ah but love is the only thing... anymore
E A
(Orchestral ending, 8 beats on each chord) x6