🎸 I Love You I'm Sorry Please Help Me Thank You chords by Bad Books

• Capo on 1st

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Difficulty: Novice

Kevin plays the F with a C-shape, but it sounds fine enough as a normal F. If you're tuned a half step down.

Verse 1:
C            F        C
"I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thanks"
C                    F      C
Some bumper sticker wisdom while you're walking the plank
C           F        C
I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thanks
C                 F     C
The illusion of protection in the face of a tank

Chorus:
      Dm
You were a student
      Em
You were a soldier
      F
You were a symbol
        G
They made you a martyr

Verse 2:
C           F        C
I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thank you
C                    F      C
When the nationalist demagogues eat the desperately confused
C           F        C
I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thank you
C                  F     C
We're so far past civility it feels useless to argue

Chorus:
        Dm
But love isn't passive
       Em
A trick or a tactic
       F
Tried to call action
        G
So, go let 'em have it

Bridge:
    F    C          F      C
When I open my perspective from my fear of the world
    F       C     C/B  C
For the daughter I was trying to raise
     F      C     F      C
With the total sum of everything asleep in my lap
    F       C     C/B
I could hear I was the one in my way
     F    C   F         G
You said life is sweet, but my brain's got teeth
C F C
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C F C
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Verse 3:
C           F        C
I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thank you
C                      F   C
You said acceptance and forgiveness, I said nobody asked you
C           F        C
I love you, I'm sorry, please help me now
C                 F      C
I have to drop it sometime, but I hate that I have to

Chorus:
        Dm
Oh, but it saved me
          Em
Oh, but it changed me
         F
It shaped and remade me
         G
Oh, what it gave me

Bridge 2:
   F       C         F     C
I was burned out on obsessing with the end of the world
    F       C     C/B  C
And the daughter I was helping to raise
     F      C     F      C
With the total sum of everything awake in my lap
    F         C     C/B
I could hear what you were trying to say
     F    C   F         G
You said life is sweet, but my brain's got teeth
     F    C   F         G
You said life is sweet, but my brain's got teeth
     F    C   F      G
You said life is sweet, if I let it be

Outro:
C           F        C
I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thanks
C           F        C
I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thanks
C           F        C
I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thanks
C           F        C
I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thanks