Ellie Goulding - The Writer
This is how I play this beautiful song! :)
Hope you like it!
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Intro
D Cadd9 G D
D Cadd9 G D
D Cadd9 G D
D Cadd9 D G
D Cadd9
You wait for a silence
G D
I wait for a word
D Cadd9
Lying next to your frame
G D
Girl unobserved
D Cadd9
You change your position
G D
You're changing me
D Cadd9
Casting these shadows
D G
Where they shouldn't be
D Cadd9
We're interrupted
G D
By the heat of the sun
D Cadd9
Trying to prevent
G D
What's already begun
D Cadd9
You're just a body
G D
I can smell your skin
D Cadd9
And when I feel it
D G
You're wearing thin
Am
But I've got a plan
D Em7
Why don't you be the artist
Cadd9 G
And make me out of clay?
D Em7
Why don't you be the writer
Cadd9 G
Decide the words I say?
Em7 D
Cause I'd rather pretend
Cadd9 Em7
I'll still be there at the end
G D
Only it's too hard to ask
Cadd9 G
Won't you try to help me?
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D Cadd9
Sat on your sofa
G D
It's all broken springs
D Cadd9
This isn't the place for
G D
Those violin strings
D Cadd9
I try out a smile
G D
And I aim it at you
D Cadd9
You must have missed it
D G
You always do
Am
But I've got a plan
D Em7
Why don't you be the artist
Cadd9 G
And make me out of clay?
D Em7
Why don't you be the writer
Cadd9 G
Decide the words I say?
Em7 D
Cause I'd rather pretend
Cadd9 Em7
I'll still be there at the end
G D
Only it's too hard to ask
Cadd9 G
Won't you try to help me?
Cadd9
You wait
Cadd9
I wait
Em7 D
Casting shadows
D
Interrupted
Cadd9
You wait
Cadd9
I wait
Em7 D
Casting shadows
D
Interrupted
Cadd9
You wait
Cadd9
I wait
Em7 D
Casting shadows
D
Interrupted
Cadd9
You wait
Cadd9
I wait
Em7 D Cadd9
Casting shadows
D Em7
Why don't you be the artist
Cadd9 G
And make me out of clay?
D Em7
Why don't you be the writer
Cadd9 G
Decide the words I say?
Em7 D
Cause I'd rather pretend
Cadd9 Em7
I'll still be there at the end
G D
Only it's too hard to ask
Cadd9 G
Won't you try to help me?
D Em7
Why don't you be the artist
Cadd9 G
And make me out of clay?
D Em7
Why don't you be the writer
Cadd9 G
Decide the words I say?
Em7 D
Cause I'd rather pretend
Cadd9 Em7
I'll still be there at the end
G D
Only it's too hard to ask
Cadd9 G
Won't you try to help me?
