Taylor Swift – The Archer

Performed by
Taylor Swift
Release Year
2019

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Taylor Swift – The Archer
Key: C Major BPM: ♩ = 125 Time: 4/4
|G     |Am             |F     |F   |
 Combat,  I’m ready for combat
             |G        |Am             |F   |F   |
I saw I don't want that,  but what if I do?
      |G      |Am           |F     |F   |
'Cause cruelty   wins in the movies
        |G                   |Am               |F          |F   |
I've got a hundred thrown out speeches I almost said to you

|C              |C              |G                     |G             |
 Easy they come, easy they go, I jump from the train, I ride off alone
 |Am                 |Am             |F                |F   |
I never grew up, it’s getting so old, help me hold onto you
             |C     |C      G       |F   |F   |
I've been the archer,  I’ve been the prey
              |Am              |Am    G        |F    |F   |
Who could ever leave me darling,  but who could stay?

|G       4nAm|%               |F        |F   |
 Dark side, I search for your dark side
               |G         4nAm|%         |F          |F   |
But what if I'm all right, right, right, right here?
     |G     4nAm|%             |F       |F   |
And I cut off  my nose just to spite my face
              |G      4nAm|%           |F    |F   |
Then hate my reflection  for years and years

 |C                   |C                     |G                 |G            |
I wake in the night, I pace like a ghost, the room is on fire, invisible smoke
   |Am            |Am            |F                |F   |
And all my heroes, die all alone, help me hold onto you
             |C     |C      G       |F   |F   |
I’ve been the archer,  I've been the prey
                        |Am              |Am    G        |F    |F   |
Screaming who could ever leave me darling,  but who could stay?

      |C                         |C                        |
'Cause they see right through me, they see right through me
|G                             |G                        |
 They see right through me, can you see right through me?
|Am                     |Am                       |
 They see right through, they see right through me
|F                      |F                     |
 I see right through me, I see right through me

|C                     |C                  |G                |G           |
 All the king's horses, all the king's men, couldn't put me together again
      |Am                |Am                  |F                |F   |
'Cause all of my enemies, started out friends, help me hold onto you
             |C     |C      G       |F   |F   |
I've been the archer,  I’ve been the prey
              |Am              |Am    G        |F    |F   |
Who could ever leave me darling,  but who could stay?

   |C         |C   G        |F    |F   |
Who could stay?    Who could stay?
   |Am        |Am   G        |F   |F   |
Who could stay,     you could stay
         |C   |C   G   |F   |F   |
You could stay
|Am    |Am    G        |F     |F   |
 Combat,  I’m ready for combat

|C     |