Free chords by Carol Ades

• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Verse 1:
Bb                        Dm7            Dm        F     C
I'm just a baby, still a baby, trying to figure it out
Bb           Dm7      Dm                        Bb    F
My intuition couldn't listen but it's listening now
        Bb                         Dm7
And I'm hearing me saying it after years of not saying it
      F                                        C
I was drowning in waves of it, like all of the time
Bb                       Dm7           Dm              Bb
Kissing my sanity, like "Shut up, Caroline, you aren't crazy"
    F
And now I know why

Chorus:
Gm7             Dm7       Dm
It wasn't easy, it wasn't patient
Bb                       F                Am
Having the arrow but not knowing where to aim it
Gm7              Dm7          Dm
Out in the open, it isn't painless
    Bb
And it may never be
    F           Am
But this time I get to be
Dm7      Am7
Free, free
F        Am
Free, free
          Gm7 Dm7
It isn't free being free
    Bb           F
And it may never be

Verse 2:
Gm7                        Dm7          Am               Bb
And now I'm sitting on the couch and Lauren's holding my head
                      F            Am
(Laying on the couch, holding your head)
Gm7                          Dm7                       Bb
Now there's before and therе is after, that's what she said
                     F
(Therе is before and there is after)
        Gm7                        Dm7          Dm
And I'm hearing me saying it after years of not saying it
       Bb                           F          Am
I was drowning in waves of it, like all of the time
Gm7                      Dm7                           Bb
Kissing my sanity, like "Shut up, Caroline, you aren't crazy"
        F          Am
Ah, and now I know why

Chorus:
Gm7             Dm7       Dm
It wasn't easy, it wasn't patient
Bb                       F                Am
Having the arrow but not knowing where to aim it
Gm7              Dm7          Dm
Out in the open, it isn't painless
    Bb
And it may never be
    F           Am
But this time I get to be
Bb      Dm7
Free, free
Gm7     Dm
Free, free
          Gm7 Dm7
It isn't free being free
    Bb           F
And it may never be

Post-Chorus:
             Gm7
It may never be
Dm7     Dm   Bb
It may never be
F                  Gm7
(At least I get to be free)
Dm7          Dm         Bb
(This time I get to be free)

Outro:
F  Gm7
Free
         Dm7                          Bb
I had to know I'm not alone to let it out
         F                          Gm7
I had to let a little go to feel it now
             Dm7                       Dm      Bb
And when the lonely and the tears come back around
         F                                  Bb
I got my love, I got my friends, to hold it down
         F                        C
I had to know I'm not alone to figure out
                               Bb
Everything is not my fault somehow
         F                       C
And I am more than when I had to go without
             Eb        Bb
That I won't leave her now
    F             C                          Bb
Say you can be my family and I will hold you close
   Fm      F      C
If someone understands me
          Eb     Bb
Then finally, I know