Expecting Too Much Chords
Expecting Too Much by Orla Gartland is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of A with a capo on the 2st fret. It uses the chords A, Asus4, E7, Bm, F#m, D, E and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: A Asus4
A Asus4
She is on her own now
E7 A
This just got real
Bm F#m Bm E7 A
Her mum is no longer there to make her favourite meal all the dishes and the worries,
D
they will pile and stack
A E A Asus4 E A
She loved the world but it did not love her back
A E7 A
She often wouldn't feel well and her friends said go to bed
Bm F#m Bm E7
They would never understand this was a sickness of the head
A D
So she would sit and think for hours and her sadness she'd defer
A E A Asus4 E A
She loved the world but it was so cruel to her
D A E
Can't turn back
D A E E
Head intact
F#m D A
She knows what she can't have (she'll only want it more)
F#m D A
The journey makes her sad (she'll only start a war)
F#m D Bm A G
She won't understand she's just a girl
E (A Asus4 E7 A )
Expecting too much from the world
A E7 A
She lost sight of important things and bad things she would crave
Bm F#m Bm E7
But there is not an ounce of good in things that send you to the grave
A D
So she would put a pen to paper but no thoughts came out the pen
A E A Asus4 E7 A
She loved the world but it stood her up again
D A E
Can't turn back
D A E
Head intact
F#m D A
She knows what she can't have (she'll only want it more)
F#m D A
The journey makes her sad (she'll only start a war)
F#m D Bm A G
She won't understand she's just a girl
E
Expecting too much from the world
F#m D A
Can't turn back
F#m D A
Head intact
F#m D A
Can't turn back
F#m D E
Head intact
Single Strums)
F#m D A
She knows what she can't have
F#m D A
The journey makes her sad
F#m D Bm A G
She won't understand she's just a girl
E
Expecting too much
F#m D A
She knows what she can't have (she'll only want it more)
F#m D A
The journey makes her sad (she'll only start a war)
F#m D Bm A G
She won't understand she's just a girl
E A Asus4 E7 A
Expecting too much from the world