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Love Me For What I Am

Carpenters

RockAdvanced for beginners9 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

F#Diagram coming soon
AbDiagram coming soon
FmDiagram coming soon
BbmDiagram coming soon
Absus4Diagram coming soon
Ab7Diagram coming soon
C#Diagram coming soon
C×
G#susDiagram coming soon

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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           F# 
We fell in love 
       Ab           
On the first night that we met 
Fm 
Together we've been happy 
  Bbm 
I have very few regrets 
F# 
The ordinary problems 
Fm 
Have not been hard to face 
    Bbm           F# 
But lately little changes 
          Absus4        Ab 
Have been slowly taking place 
 
         Fm 
You're always finding 
Bbm          F#              G#7sus-Ab7 
Something is wrong in what I do 
        Fm        Bbm 
But you can't rearrange my life 
  F#                   Ab 
Because it pleases you 
 
Chorus: 
F#     Ab  F# C#               Ab 
You've got to love me for what I am 
    Bbm 
For simply being me 
      F# 
Don't love me for what you intend 
   Absus4           Ab 
Or hope that I will be 
Fm 
And if you're only using me 
   C         Fm 
To feed your fantasy 
Bbm 
You're really not in love 
          F# G#sus Ab      C# 
So let me go, I    must be free 
 
            F# 
If what you want 
      Ab 
Isn't natural for me 
Fm 
I won't pretend to keep you 
       Bbm 
What I am, I have to be 
F# 
The picture of perfection 
Fm 
Is only on your mind 
    Bbm           F# 
For all your expectations 
           G#sus    Ab 
Love can never be designed 
 
     Fm              Bbm 
We either take each other 
    F#            G#7sus-Ab7               
For everything we are 
   Fm                   Bbm 
Or leave the life we've made behind 
    F#        Ab 
And make another start 
 
(Repeat Chorus) 
 
          
 

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Chord set

F# · Ab · Fm · Bbm · Absus4 · Ab7 · C# · C · G#sus

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.