I Love You

[Intro]
Em G Am C Em G Am C
Em G Am C

[Chorus]
Em            G                        Am
I love you, I love you, I told you I do
                   C
It's all I've ever felt,
I've never felt so well
Em                 G
  And if you don't know it,
                 Am
I wrote you this tune
           C
To be here loving you when I'm in the tomb
Em                G
  I've eddied the heart now,
                 Am
from Dublin to Paris
                 C
And if there was sunshine,
                Em
it was never on me
              G
So close, the rain,
so pronounced is the pain
Am C
    Yeah

[Interlude]
Em G Am C Em G Am C

[Chorus]
      Em
Well, I love you,
 G                        Am
imagine a world without you
               C
It's only ever you, I only think of you
Em              G
  And if it's a blessing,
              Am
I want it for you
                 C
If I must have a future,
               Em
I want it with you
              G
System in our hearts,
you only had it before
Am                  C
  You only open the window,
                  Em
never open up the door
                  G
And I love you, I love you,
           Am C
told you I do

[Interlude]
Em G Am C Em G Am C

[Verse 1-1]
Em                        G
Selling genocide and half-cut pride,
I understand
         Am
I had to be there from the start,
      C
I had to be the fucking man
         Em
It was a clamber of the life,
         G
I sucked the ring off every hand
        Am
Had 'em plying me with drink,
 C
even met with their demands
         Em
When the cherries lined up,
       G
I kept the spoilings for myself
           Am                      C
'Til I had thirty ways of dying looking at me from the
shelf
      Em
Cloud-parting smile I had,
      G
a real good child I was
         Am                              C
But this island's run by sharks with children's bones stuck
in their jaws
        Em                              G
Now the morning's filled with cokeys tryna talk you through
it all
         Am                     C
Is their mammy Fine Gael and is their daddy Fianna Fail?
         Em
And they say they love the land,
         G
but they don't feel it go to waste
       Am                           C
Hold a mirror to the youth and they will only see their
face

[Verse 1-2]
      Em
Makes flowers read like broadsheets,
   G
every young man wants to die
       Am
Say it to the man who profits,
    C
and the bastard walks by
        Em
And the bastard walks by,
    G
and the bastard walks by
       Am                           C
Say it to him fifty times and still the bastard won't cry

[Interlude]
          Em G Am C
Would I lie?

[Chorus]
Em            G                       Am
I love you, I love you, I told you I do 
                   C
It's all I've ever felt,
I've never felt so well
Em                 G
  And if you don't know it,
                 Am
I wrote you this tune
           C
To be here loving you when I'm in the tomb
Em              G
  System in our hearts,
you only had it before
Am            C
  Echo, echo, echo, the lights, they go
Em                       G
The lights, they go, the lights, they go
       Am C
Echo, echo

[Verse 2-1]
Em                        G
Selling genocide and half-cut pride,
I understand
         Am
I had to be there from the start,
      C
I had to be the fucking man
         Em
It was a clamber of the life,
         G
I sucked the ring off every hand
        Am
Had 'em plying me with drink,
 C
even met with their demands
      Em                           G
And I loved you like a penny loves the pocket of a priest
         Am                             C
And I'll love you 'til the grass around my gravestone is
deceased
        Em
And I'm heading for the cokeys,
  G
I will tell 'em 'bout it all
          Am                    C
'bout the gall of Fine Gael and the fail of Fianna Fail

[Verse 2-2]
            Em
And now the flowers read like broadsheets,
   G
every young man wants to die
       Am
Say it to the man who profits,
    C
and the bastard walks by
        Em
And the bastard walks by,
    G
and the bastard walks by
       Am                           C
Say it to him fifty times and still the bastard won't cry

[Outro]
          Em G Am C
Would I lie?