Gracie Abrams – I Know It Won’t Work

Performed by
Gracie Abrams
Release Year
2023
Album
Good Riddance
Suggested Capo
Fret 3

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Gracie Abrams – I Know It Won’t Work
Key: C Minor BPM: ♩ = 120 Time: 4/4
|Cm          |Ab             |Eb            |Bb          |
   I left you here, heard you keep the extra closet empty
|Cm            |Ab          |Eb                  |Bb             |
   In case this year, I come back and stay throughout my twenties
|Cm         |Ab           |Eb           |Bb              |
   What if I won’t? How am I supposed to put that gently?
|Cm            |Ab            |Eb           |Bb           |
   And down the road, you will love me until you resent me

|Cm     |Bb     |Ab    |Ab    |
         Mm, mm, mm

|Cm            |Ab               |Eb                 |Bb            |
   I've had the thought, tried to work it out through anxious pacing
|Cm           |Ab            |Eb               |Bb                 |
   What if I'm not, worth the time and breath I know you're saving?
|Cm          |Ab          |Eb             |Bb           |
   But it's a lot, all the shine of half a decade fading
|Cm           |Ab             |Eb              |Bb         |
   The whole facade, seemed to fall apart, it's complicated

|Cm     |Bb         |Ab    |Ab    |
         Mm, mm, hmm-mm

|Eb                       |Ab                              |
   And part of me wants to walk away 'til you really listen
|Eb                           |Fm                                   |
   I hate to look at your face and know that we're feeling different
|Eb                 |Ab                 |Eb               |Fm                  |
   'Cause part of me wants you back, but   I know it won't work like that, huh?
|Eb                           |Ab                               |
   Why won't you try moving on for once? That might make it easy

|Eb                          |Fm                             |
   I know we cut all the ties but you're never really leaving
|Eb              |Ab                 |Eb               |Fm                  |
   And part of me wants you back, but   I know it won't work like that, huh?

|Eb    |Ab    |Eb               |Fm            |
                 I know it won't work like that

|Cm         |Ab              |Eb            |Bb           |
   I'll open up, I’m thinking everything you wish I wasn't
|Cm            |Ab               |Eb             |Bb          |
   The call was tough, but you're better off, I'm being honest
|Cm            |Ab           |Eb             |Bb              |
   So won't you stop, holding out for me when I don't want it?
|Cm             |Ab                  |Eb                   |Bb          |Ab  |
   Just brush me off, ’cause I'm your ghost right now, your house is haunted

|Eb                       |Ab                              |
   And part of me wants to walk away 'til you really listen
|Eb                           |Fm                                   |
   I hate to look at your face and know that we're feeling different
|Eb                 |Ab                 |Eb               |Fm                  |
   'Cause part of me wants you back, but   I know it won't work like that, huh?
|Eb                           |Ab                               |
   Why won't you try moving on for once? That might make it easy

|Eb                          |Fm                             |
   I know we cut all the ties but you're never really leaving
|Eb              |Ab                 |Eb               |Fm                  |
   And part of me wants you back, but   I know it won't work like that, huh?

|Eb    |Ab    |Eb                 |Fm                  |
           oh, oh, I know it won't work like that, huh?
|Eb    |Ab    |Eb                 |Fm                  |
           oh, oh, I know it won't work like that, huh?

|Eb                       |Ab                              |
   And part of me wants to walk away 'til you really listen
|Eb                           |Fm                                   |
   I hate to look at your face and know that we're feeling different
|Eb                 |Ab                 |Eb               |Fm                  |
   'Cause part of me wants you back, but   I know it won't work like that, huh?
|Eb                           |Ab                               |
   Why won't you try moving on for once? That might make it easy

|Eb                          |Fm                             |
   I know we cut all the ties but you're never really leaving
|Eb              |Ab                 |Eb               |Fm                  |
   And part of me wants you back, but   I know it won't work like that, huh?