Love Will Tear Us Apart Chords

KeyEm CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays435

Love Will Tear Us Apart by Soul Asylum is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Em. It uses the chords Em, D, Bm and A. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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Verse 
        Em         D 
When routine bites hard, 
      Bm          A 
And ambitions are low, 
      Em             D 
And resentment rides high, 
     Bm            A 
But emotions won't grow, 
          Em           D 
And we're changing our ways, 
Bm               A 
Taking different roads. 

 
     Em    D                  Bm    A 
Then love, love will tear us apart again. 
Em    D                  Bm    A 
Love, love will tear us apart again. 


Verse 
           Em         D 
Why is the bedroom so cold? 
               Bm          A 
You've turned away on your side. 
      Em          D 
Is my timing that flawed? 
      Bm            A 
Our respect runs so dry. 
            Em           D 
Yet there's still this appeal 
           Bm               A 
That we've kept through our lives. 


Verse 
    Em    D                  Bm    A 
But love, love will tear us apart again. 
Em    D                  Bm    A 
Love, love will tear us apart again. 


Verse 
    Em              D 
You cry out in your sleep, 
       Bm         A 
All my failings exposed. 
              Em          D 
And there's a taste in my mouth, 
        Bm           A 
As desperation takes hold. 
          Em           D 
Just that something so good 
           Bm          A 
Just can't function no more. 

 
    Em    D                  Bm    A 
But love, love will tear us apart again. 
Em    D                  Bm    A 
Love, love will tear us apart again. 
Em    D                  Bm    A 
Love, love will tear us apart again. 
Em    D                  Bm    A 
Love, love will tear us apart again. 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante