Break Your Heart Chords

KeyE CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays436

Break Your Heart by The Gaslight Anthem is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords E, C#, Bm and A. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
E
Text
16
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Intro: E 

VERSE 

         C#    Bm   E            C#   Bm E 
it would break your heart if you knew me well 

           C#  Bm E                A   Bm   
see i have run so far that i have lost myself 

           C#        Bm       E        A             E 
there are things that i have seen that i never will tell 

               A         E        Bm        E 
they drove me out of my mind and inside of myself 



Chorus 

    C# Bm E            C#    Bm   E 
and oh my my, it would break your heart 
         
       C#   Bm     E                A            Bm 
if you knew how i loved you, if i showed you my scars 

      E             Bm                   C#   Bm     A  
if i played you my favourite song lying here in the dark 

E     Bm            C#   Bm   E 
oh my my, it would break your heart 



verse 2 

          C#   Bm      E            C#   Bm     E 
it would bring you to tears if you knew what i know 

       C#   Bm         E        A           Bm 
see i spent all of my money on second hand love 

     C#   Bm    E       A            E 
but i trusted somebody way and back when 

       A              E             C#   Bm  E 
and i loved her like fire until it drove me insane 



Chorus 

    C# Bm E            C#    Bm   E 
and oh my my, it would break your heart 
         
       C#   Bm     E                A            Bm 
if you knew how i loved you, if i showed you my scars 

      E             Bm                   C#   Bm     A  
if i played you my favourite song lying here in the dark 

E     Bm            C#   Bm   E 
oh my my, it would break your heart 



Bridge: 

             A                     Bm 
and you can lean on me until your heart don't beat 

       E 
i'll leave me lying there on the floor 

             A                     Bm 
and you can lean on me until your heart don't beat 
  
                 E         
i'll leave you spinning there on the floor 



Chorus 

    C# Bm E            C#    Bm   E 
and oh my my, it would break your heart 
         
       C#   Bm    E                A             Bm 
if you knew how i loved you, if i showed you my scars 

      E             Bm                   C#   Bm     A  
if i played you my favourite song lying here in the dark 

E     Bm            C#   Bm   E 
oh my my, it would break your heart  X2 


           A     Bm   E 
until it breaks your heart 
    	

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