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When Love Is Dying

The Union

Intro: Bb Ab Gb 2 times

verse

Bb                                           F+/A

They say we bruise too easily. I don't know if it's that way for me

Fm/Ab                                                                   G7

I've seen 'em come, I've seen 'em go I've seen everyone I know

                           Cm                                 F F7

Fall in and out of love. It's just the way it goes

2nd verse

Word is out, silence seems so loud. There's no light above or below me now

I've seen it grow, I've seen it live. I've seen everything I give

Falling out my hands, no matter who I'm with

 

chorus

                                    Eb                        F7                          Bb

And nobody ever tells you, when love is dying, when love is dying

          Bb7

It just gets a little colder

                        Eb                Cm                           Bb    Dm/A   Gm

And we stop trying, we stop trying, yeah we stop tryin

              Eb         F7                      Bb Ab Gb (go to intro-after 1st chorus only)

Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh-Oh when love is dying

3rd verse

There's a pain you never can explain Cuts so deep time and time again

I felt it then, I feel it now But nobody told me how

To fight a world of hurt Somebody help me now

                                                                                                             Bb

go to: chorus (last line of 2nd chorus before interlude).... when love is dying

interlude

        F                            F7              Bb                     G/B

But love never gets to show you And I never got to know you

            F/C                 C/G                                 F

No we never stood a chance When love was dying

F                                          F7         Bb                      G/B

No and love never makes it easy And I never got that feeling

             F/C                C/G                            F

No we never stood a chance When love was dying

go to: chorus
                                                             Bb   Dm/A    Gm

last line of last chorus: ....when love is dying

               Eb        F7                         Bb     Dm/A     Gm
Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh-Oh    when love is dying

               Eb        F7                          Eb         Bb
Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh-Oh    when love is dying