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Give It Back To You

Barenaked Ladies

RockMedium for beginners5 chords

How to play it

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

G○○○
D××○
Cadd9×○
Em7○○○○○
F

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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Capo on 2nd fret
              
 
 
 
        G         D       Cadd9 
I don't care how long it takes, 
        G        D      Cadd9 
I will atone for my mistakes, 
       Em7       D              Cadd9 
I will hold your heart when it breaks, 
            Em7         Cadd9 
And give it back to you, 
(Cadd9)              G 
I'll give it back to you. 
 
 
 
verse 1 
 
G       D    Cadd9 
Out of everyone, 
I should have known how, 
G         D    Cadd9 
Knots can come undone, 
               Em7 
I should grown but, 
      D      Cadd9 
I was on the run, 
Cadd9 
And the walls were crumbling, 
(Cadd9) 
And I was tumbling. 
 
verse 2 
 
Should have just fell down, 
Instead of making, 
Such a hole in the ground, 
There's no mistaking, 
I will wear the crown, 
I'm the lord and master, 
Of this disaster. 
 
Chorus 
 
Bridge:
 
Cadd9    G     D         G 
  Any--one can walk on water, 
Cadd9   G             D (strum twice) 
Just before they drown, 
Cadd9    G      D             G        Cadd9  G      F 
  Any--one can talk but they got their story upside-down. 
 
verse 3 
 
Dust coats the floor, 
With every move we, 
Seem to find more. 
I'm out to prove that, 
What we're working for, 
Is worth defending, 
And all this mending. 
 
Chorus 
 
Coda
 
G   Em7       Cadd9  
 I'll give it back to you, 
G   Em7       Cadd9 
 I'll give it back to you, 
(Cadd9)              G 
I'll give it back to you.

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Chord set

G · D · Cadd9 · Em7 · F

Practice tip

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