Taylor Swift – Dear John (Taylor’s Version)

Performed by
Taylor Swift
Release Year
2023
Album
Speak Now (Taylor's Version)
Suggested Capo
Fret 4

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Taylor Swift – Dear John (Taylor’s Version)
Key: E Major BPM: ♩. = 40 Time: 6/8
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 Long were the nights when my days once revolved around you
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 Counting my footsteps, praying the floor won't fall through again

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And my mother accused me of losing my mind, but I swore I was fine

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You paint me a blue sky and go back and turn it to rain
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And I lived in your chess game, but you changed the rules every day

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 Wondering which version of you I might get on the phone  tonight
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Well, I stopped picking up, and this song is to let you know   why

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Dear John, I see it all now that you're gone,    don’t you think I was too
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 young to be messed with? The girl in the dress cried the whole way home

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I should've known

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Well, maybe it's me and my blind optimism to blame
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Or maybe it's you and your sick need to give love, then take it away

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And you'll add my name to your long list of traitors who don't understand
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And I'll look back and regret how I ignored when they said, "Run as fast as you can"

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Dear John, I see it all now that you're gone,    don’t you think I was too
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 young to be messed with? The girl in the dress cried the whole way home
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Dear John, I see it all now, it was wrong,   don’t you think 19's too
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 young to be played, by your dark, twisted games, when I loved you so?

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I should've known

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You are an expert at sorry and keeping lines blurry, never impressed by me acing your tests
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All the girls that you've run dry have tired, lifeless eyes, ’cause you burned them out

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But I took your matches before fire could catch me, so don't look now
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I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty

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 town
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 Oh,      oh

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Dear John, I see it all now that you're gone,    don’t you think I was too
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 young to be messed with? The girl in the dress cried the whole way home
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    I see it all now that you're gone,    don’t you think I was too
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 young to be messed with? The girl in the dress wrote you a    song

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You should've known,  you should've known
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      Don't you think I was too young?     You should've known

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