I Need You Back Chords
by Ben Kweller
I Need You Back by Ben Kweller is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of A# with a capo on the 1st fret. It uses the chords A, E, B, G#, C#m and D. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
intro
e------------------------
B------------------------
G-----0h1-----2-0--------
D---2-----2-------2-0-2-- x 4
A-----------4------------
E-0-------------------0--
(verses use the intro riff)
Take me back when you think that it's good
It feels worse than they said it would
You're gone but not forever
When i know that i'm never wanted
I tuck away in my turtle shell
I've standed on this hex forever
A E
I need you back
B E
I need you here
A E
To take away all of my pain
G# A
And then my fe-ee-ee-ar
E B C#m A
Hey, hey i need you ba-aa-aa-ck
E B C#m A
Hey, hey i need you ba-aa-aa-ck
e------------------------
B------------------------
G-----0h1-----2-0--------
D---2-----2-------2-0-2-- x 4
A-----------4------------
E-0-------------------0--
little solo built into the riff:
G-2b4r-7-4p2-
like a ghost on it's darkest visit
you got my soul now baby why is it
gone gone gone? take it from me
you are free if you can sleep at night
you really must be hard if you're feeling alright
hey hey hey we're way uptown (we've gotta turn around)
A E
I need you back
B E
I need you here
A E
To take away all of my pain
G# A
And then my fe-ee-ee-ar
E B C#m A
Hey, hey i need you ba-aa-aa-ck
E B C#m A
Hey, hey i need you ba-aa-aa-ck
E B C#m A
Hey, hey i need you ba-aa-aa-ck
E B C#m D A
Hey, hey i need you ba-aa-ck yeah
A E
I need you back
B E
I need you here
A E
To take away all of my pain
G# A
And then my fe-ee-ee-ar
E B C#m A
Hey, hey i need you ba-aa-aa-ck
E B C#m A
Hey, hey i need you ba-aa-aa-ck
E B C#m A
Hey, hey i need you ba-aa-aa-ck
E B C#m D A
Hey, hey i need you ba-aa-aa-ck
C#m A E