The Thing About Love Chords
by Alicia Keys
The Thing About Love by Alicia Keys is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of D#. It uses the chords D#, G#maj7, Fm, Cm, G#, F, C#, F#, Fm7, G#m and D#maj7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: D#
Verse 1:
D#
Love
G#maj7
Love will come find you
Fm
Just to remind you
Cm
Of who you are
D#
Oh love
G#maj7
It will forsake you
Fm
Threaten to break you
Cm
Take what you got
Pre-Chorus:
G#
Everybody laughs
Fm
Everybody cries
Cm
It could hurt you baby
F
But give it a little try
G# D#
See that's the thing about love
Verse 2:
D#
Friends
G#maj7
Sometimes will blind you
Fm
Sneak up behind you
Cm
You can't give enough
D#
Then life
G#maj7
It will embrace you
Fm
Totally amaze you
Cm
So you don't give up
Pre-Chorus:
G#
Everybody laughs
Fm
Everybody cries
Cm
Sure it could hurt you baby
F
But give it a little try
G# D#
See that's the thing about love
(fill)
e|-------------|
B|-------------|
G|-------------|
D|-1-----------|
A|---4-1-------|
E|-------4-2-1-|
D# C# G# D#
Oooh, tell me that I'm not the only that's going through it all
D# C# G# D#
Oooh, sometimes I feel like I'm the only that's going through it all
D# (Fm) F#
But it's time
Fm7
Oh it's about time
D#
For me to shine (fill)
Outro:
G#
Everybody laughs
Fm
Everybody cries
Cm
Sure it could hurt you baby
F
But give it a little try
G# D#
That's the thing about love
G# D#
That's the thing about love
G# G#m
That's the thing about
D#maj7
That's the thing about love