When Love Breaks Down Chords

KeyC# CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays439

When Love Breaks Down by Prefab Sprout is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of C#. It uses the chords C#, Ab7, Bbm, F#7M, Ab, Ebm7, C#7M, Ebm and F#. 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
  			
C#            Ab7 
My love and I, we work well together 
Bbm                  F#7M 
But often we're apart 
Ab                      Bbm 
Absence makes the heart lose weight, yeah, 
Ebm7                               C#7M Bbm F#7M Ab 
Till love breaks down, love breaks down 

C#            Ab7 
Oh my, oh my, have you seen the weather 
Bbm                 F#7M 
The sweet September rain 
Ab                   BbM 
Rain on me like no other 
Ebm 
Until I drown, until I drown 

F# 
When love breaks down 
Ab 
The things you do 
F# 
To stop the truth from hurting you 

Ab 
When love breaks down 
F# 
The lies we tell, 
Ab 
They only serve to fool ourselves, 
F# 
When love breaks down 
Ab 
The things you do 
F# 
To stop the truth from hurting you 
Ab 
When love breaks down, when love breaks down 

C#            Ab7 
My love and I, we are boxing clever 
Bbm                   F#7M 
She'll never crowd me out 
Ab                   Bbm 
Fall be free as old confetti 
Ebm 
And paint the town, paint the town 
F# 
When love breaks down 
Ab 
The things you do 
F# 
To stop the truth from hurting you 
Ab 
When love breaks down 

F# 
The lies we tell, 
Ab 
They only serve to fool ourselves, 
F# 
When love breaks down 
Ab 
The things you do 
F# 
To stop the truth from hurting you 
Ab 
When love breaks down 

F# 
The lies we tell, 
Ab 
They only serve to fool ourselves, 
F# 
When love breaks down 
Ab 
The things you do 
F# 
To stop the truth from hurting you 
Ab 
When love breaks down 

F# 
You join the wrecks 
Ab 
Who leave their hearts for easy sex 
F# 
When love breaks down 
Ab                   F# 
When love breaks down 
    	

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