How Do You Love Someone

Ashley Tisdale

PopAdvanced for beginners6 chords

How to play it

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

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Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

 
              
Intro: G#m  C#m  F#  G#m 
 
G#m 
Mama never taught me how to love 
C#m 
Daddy never taught me how to feel 
F# 
Mama never taught me how to touch 
      G#m 
Daddy never showed me how to heal 
G#m 
Mama never set a good example 
      C#m 
Daddy never held mama's hand 
F# 
Mama found everything hard to handle 
      G#m 
Daddy never stood up like a man 
 
             E     F# 
I've walked around broken 
B           C#m 
emotionally frozen 
        E          F# 
Getting on getting on 
 
Chorus 1: 
           G#m 
How do you love someone? 
        E 
Without getting hurt 
           B 
How do you love someone? 
        F#/Bb 
Without crawling 
 
in the dirt 
       G#m 
So far in my life 
            E 
Clouds have blocked the  
               G#m 
sun How do you love how  
       F#   E 
do you love someone? 
           G#m 
How do you love how 
       F#       E 
do you love someone? 
 
G#m 
I was always the chosen child 
           C#m 
To be the scandal I became 
     F# 
They told me I'd never survive 
       G#m 
but survival's my middle name 
 
Refrain 2: 
              E     F# 
I've walking around hoping 
B           C#m 
just barely coping 
        E          F# 
Getting on getting on 
 
           G#m 
How do you love someone? 
        E 
Without getting hurt 
           B 
How do you love someone? 
        F#/Bb 
Without crawling 
 
in the dirt 
       G#m 
So far in my life 
            E 
Clouds have blocked the  
               G#m 
sun How do you love how  
       F#   E 
do you love someone? 
           G#m 
How do you love how 
       F#       E 
do you love someone? 
 
             C#m 
It's hard to talk 
   E 
to see what's deep inside 
             C#m 
It's hard to tell the truth 
E 
when you've always lied 
 
G#m  C#m  F#  G#m 
G#m  C#m  F#  G#m 
 
           G#m 
How do you love someone? 
        E 
Without getting hurt 
           B 
How do you love someone? 
        F#/Bb 
Without crawling 
 
in the dirt 
       G#m 
So far in my life 
            E 
Clouds have blocked the  
               G#m 
sun How do you love how  
       F#   E 
do you love someone? 
           G#m 
How do you love how 
       F#       E 
do you love someone? 
 
           G#m 
How do you love someone? 
    E 
and make it less 
           B 
How do you love someone? 
        F#/Bb 
Without filthing 
 
in the keeps 
       G#m 
So far in my life 
            E 
Clouds have blocked the  
               G#m 
sun How do you love how  
       F#   E 
do you love someone? 
           G#m 
How do you love how 
       F#       E 
do you love someone? 
  
G#m E G#m

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Chord set

G#m · C#m · F# · E · B · Bb

Practice tip

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