Love Will Tear Us Apart Chords
by Joy Division
Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Em. It uses the chords Dm, C, Am, G and C6/9. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: Dm C Am G Dm C Am G
Dm C Am G
When routine bites hard, and ambitions are low
Dm C Am G
And resentment rides high, but emotion won't grow
Dm C Am G
And we're changing our ways, taking different roads
Dm C C6/9 C Am G
Love, love will tear us a-part, again
Dm C C6/9 C Am G
Love, love will tear us a-part, again
Dm C Am G
Why is this bedroom so cold? You turned away on your side
Dm C Am G
Is my timing that flawed, our respect run so dry?
Dm C Am G
Yet there's still this appeal, that we've kept through our lives
Dm C C6/9 C Am G
Love, love will tear us a-part, again
Dm C C6/9 C Am G
Love, love will tear us a-part, again
Dm C Am G
You cry out in your sleep, all my failings exposed
Dm C Am G
And there's this taste in my mouth as desperation takes hold
Dm C Am G
Why is it something so good just can't function no more?
Dm C C6/9 C Am G
When love, love will tear us a-part, again
Dm C C6/9 C Am G
Love, love will tear us a-part, again
Dm C C6/9 C Am G
Love, love will tear us a-part, again
Dm C C6/9 C Am G
Love, love will tear us a-part, again
Final Dm C C6/9 C Am G
Dm C C6/9 C Am G Dm