Elliott Smith - True Love guitar tab
True Love by Elliott Smith
Transcription by Ian
Tuned down a full step and with a capo on second fret...so yeh, normal tuning!
Dunno bout these lyrics, they're an approximation of the live version
I have from Silverlake lounge.
E7sus4addb9(!) 020201
E 022100
Intro type thing:
A Amaj7 Asus4 A6 A (A G/B) C G/B F E riff
e|-5-----4-----------2------------------------1----0---0-2-4--|
B|-2-----2-----3-----2-----2---2--3---1---3---1----0----------|
G|-2-----2-----2-----2-----2---2--0---0---0---2----1---1-2-4--|
D|-2-----2-----2-----2-----2---2--0---2---0---3----2----------|
A|-0-----0-----0-----0-----0---0--2---3---2---3----2----------|
E|--------------------------------------------1----0----------|
Verse:
F#m Amaj7 Bm F#
e|-5--------------4---------2-------------------2------------|
B|-2--------------2---------3-------------------2------------|
G|-2--------------2---------4-------------------3------------|
D|-4--------------2---------4-------------------4------------|
A|-4--------------0---------2-------------------4------------|
E|-2--------------------------------------------2------------|
True love is a rose in a case, locked to get close cos its
A G/B C D5 F E riff
e|-0----------------------0--------1------0---0-2-4--|
B|-2------------------3---1---3----1------0----------|
G|-2------------------0---0---0----2------1---1-2-4--|
D|-2------------------0---2---0----3------2----------|
A|-0------------------2---3---2----3------2----------|
E|---------------------------------1------0----------|
way more expensive than anybody earns
F#m Amaj7
So I bought mine off the street
Bm F#
True love man it just can't be beat
A G/B C G/B F E
I felt so complete like all my wrong moves turned into right turns
Fmaj7 Am Esus* E riff
And each night I look up at a bright honey moon
Seems so built to last
Even after my heart in the past
I would go after it like a ghost to a house it once haunted
Day after day, I'd steal with my true love away
To some hide out left undisturbed we could do what we wanted
But i started to feel like a liar saying "I love you"
Dm C
She was happy in love and that means
Bb
There's no in between
E riff
I felt so alone
Dm C
I can't make a stand
Bb
And her helping hand
E riff
I have to get home
One day i got sick
She played me a nasty old trick
Said "I need cigarettes,"
Walked down the block, called a cab
Stayed gone for too long
My love had gotten too strong
Just to try to get back on my own
I had to go to rehab
Well alls I need a safe place to be
They said this is it
Well half a chance
They said that "Man, that's, that's all that you get"
(Intro chords)
Now I'm the king of the ward
Cause I'm good and I swallow my sword
Puke it out so the doctor can write his prescription
(Normal verse chords)
Tranquil as a dove
People that have lost their true love
They all seem to fit the same description
They feel cold, they feel old
Like a no one
Repeat Intro
Good Luck xo
Ian
