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
|E |E |Aadd9 |Aadd9 |
|E |E |Aadd9 |Aadd9 |
|E |E |Aadd9 |Aadd9 |
Long were the nights when my days once revolved around you
|E |E |Aadd9 |Aadd9 |
Counting my footsteps, praying the floor won't fall through again
|Badd4 |C#m7 Badd4 |Aadd9 |Aadd9 |
And my mother accused me of losing my mind, but I swore I was fine
|E |E |Aadd9 |Aadd9 |
You paint me a blue sky and go back and turn it to rain
|E |E |Aadd9 |Aadd9 |
And I lived in your chess game, but you changed the rules every day
|Badd4 |C#m7 Badd4 |Aadd9 |Aadd9 |
Wondering which version of you I might get on the phone tonight
|Badd4 |C#m7 Badd4 |Aadd9 |Aadd9 |
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
|C#m7 |Badd4 |Aadd9 |Aadd9 |
young to be messed with? The girl in the dress cried the whole way home
|E |E |Aadd9 |Aadd9 |
I should've known
|E |E |Aadd9 |Aadd9 |
Well, maybe it's me and my blind optimism to blame
|E |E |Aadd9 |Aadd9 |
Or maybe it's you and your sick need to give love, then take it away
|Badd4 |C#m7 Badd4 |Aadd9 |Aadd9 |
And you'll add my name to your long list of traitors who don't understand
|Badd4 |C#m7 Badd4 |Aadd9 |Aadd9 |
And I'll look back and regret how I ignored when they said, "Run as fast as you can"
|E |E |Aadd9 |Aadd9 |
Dear John, I see it all now that you're gone, don’t you think I was too
|C#m7 |Badd4 |Aadd9 |Aadd9 |
young to be messed with? The girl in the dress cried the whole way home
|E |E |Aadd9 |Aadd9 |
Dear John, I see it all now, it was wrong, don’t you think 19's too
|C#m7 |Badd4 |Aadd9 |Aadd9 |
young to be played, by your dark, twisted games, when I loved you so?
|E |E |Aadd9 |Aadd9 |
I should've known
|C#m7 |Badd4 |Aadd9 |Aadd9 |
You are an expert at sorry and keeping lines blurry, never impressed by me acing your tests
|C#m7 |Badd4 |Aadd9 |Aadd9 |
All the girls that you've run dry have tired, lifeless eyes, ’cause you burned them out
|Badd4 |C#m7 Badd4 |Aadd9 |Aadd9 |
But I took your matches before fire could catch me, so don't look now
|Badd4 |Aadd9 |
I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty
|E |E |Aadd9 |Aadd9 |
town
|C#m7 |Badd4 |Aadd9 |Aadd9 |
Oh, oh
|E |E |Aadd9 |Aadd9 |
Dear John, I see it all now that you're gone, don’t you think I was too
|C#m7 |Badd4 |Aadd9 |Aadd9 |
young to be messed with? The girl in the dress cried the whole way home
|E |E |Aadd9 |Aadd9 |
I see it all now that you're gone, don’t you think I was too
|C#m7 |Badd4 |Aadd9 |Aadd9 |
young to be messed with? The girl in the dress wrote you a song
|E |E |Aadd9 |Aadd9 |
You should've known, you should've known
|E |E |Aadd9 |Aadd9 |
Don't you think I was too young? You should've known
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