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Love Lies

Bon Jovi

MetalAdvanced for beginners8 chords

How to play it

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

F#mDiagram coming soon
Bm×
C#mDiagram coming soon
E
D××
C#Diagram coming soon
A×
G#Diagram coming soon

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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              LOVE LIES  
Bon Jovi (1984) 
 
Intro:   F#m  Bm  C#m  F#m (C#m - E )  
         F#m  Bm  C#m  F#m  
 
 
Verse: (Same chords as Intro) 
I was lost, then I found you   
I never thought it would be this way.  
Showed you my heart, I left it unguarded,  
like a thief in the night you stole it away.  
 
PREChorus: 
F#m             D              E           
Now you're gone, the pain goes on and on.  
F#m                                            D 
I still hear you whispering to me through the shadows of the night.  
 
Chorus: 
F#m                                     D 
Love lies, you're just a victim of the headlines.  
                          C#      
You're running on into a cold night.  
                            F#m 
You're just a number of the love lies.  
 
 
All alone you call it survival,  
he lost at love to a stranger's lines.  
Walking the streets, searching with vengeance  
for a face that he dreams of night after night.  
 
Time goes on, all signs of life stolen, simple dreams were all broken.  
Best of times become desperation but how many tears must you cry to survive?  
 
Chorus x2 
 
Bridge: 
C#m 
   They met late one night in the city.  
 A 
   Both men knew only one would stay.  
F#m 
   Scratched a picture of a heart on a bullet  
    G# 
and took his life away.  
 
 
SOLO ( C#m ? A - G# - C#m )  
 
 
C#m                                           A  
Love lies, you're just another victim of the headlines 
                          G#  
You're running on into a cold night 
                      C#m            
Just a number of the love lies... 
          
 

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Chord set

F#m · Bm · C#m · E · D · C# · A · G#

Practice tip

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