Love Minus Zero / No Limit Chords

KeyC CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays544

Love Minus Zero / No Limit by Bob Dylan is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, G, F and Dm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
C
Text
16
Speed
  			Standard tuning 

  C         G   F 
  :   .   .   .     :    
|-0-----000-333-11|-1--- 
|-1-----111-000-11|-1--- 
|-0-----000-000-22|-2--- 
|-2-----222-000-33|-3--- 
|-3-----333-222-33|-3--- 
|-----------333-11|-1--- 


C                               
My love, she speaks like silence, 
G  F                              C 
    Without ideals or violence, 
G  F                                  C 
    doesn't have to say she's faithful, 
          Dm                       G 
Yet she's true, like ice, like fire. 
C 
People carry roses, 
G  F                            C 
    make promises by the hour. 
G  F                                   C 
    My love she. laughs like the flowers 
Dm                    G  C 
Valentines can't buy her. 

In dime stores and bus stations, 
People talk of situations, 
Read books, repeat quotations, 
Draw conclusions on the wall. 
Some speak of the future, 
My love, she speaks softly. 
She knows there's no success like failure 
And that failure's no success at all. 

The cloak and dagger dangles, 
Madams light the candles. 
In ceremonies of the horsemen 
Even the pawn must hold a grudge. 
Statues made of matchsticks 
Crumble into one another. 
My love winks, she does not bother. 
She knows too much to argue or to judge. 

The bridge at midnight trembles, 
The country doctor rambles, 
Bankers' nieces seek perfection, 
Expecting all the gifts that wise men bring. 
The wind howls like a hammer, 
The night blows cold and rainy. 
My love, she's like some raven 
At my window with a broken wing. 

    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante