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ELABORATE LIVES - Heather Headley
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Tuning: Whatever makes you happy--they're just chords.
This is from the Tony award-winning Broadway musical AIDA.
Intro: G C
G Dsus4 D
G C
We all lead such elaborate lives
D G
Wild ambitions in our sights
G C#m Em
How an affair of the heart survives
C D
Days apart and hurried nights
C#m
Seems quite unbelievable to me
Em
I don't want to live like that
C#m
Seems quite unbelievable to me
C
I don't want to love like that
D E C D C
I just want our time to be slower and gentler, wiser, free
G C
We all live in extravagant times
D G
Playing games we can't all win
G C#m Em
Unintended emotional crimes
C D
Take some out, take others in
C#m
I'm so tired of all we're going through
Em
I don't want to live like that
C#m
I'm so tired of all we're going through
C
I don't want to love like that
D E C D C G
I just want to be with you now and forever, peaceful, true
C
This may not be the moment
G
To tell you face to face
A
But I could wait forever
D
For the perfect time and place
C G C
We all live such elaborate lives
D G
We don't know whose words are true
G C#m Em
Strangers, lovers, husbands, wives
C D
Hard to know who's loving who
C#m
Too many choices tear us apart
Em
I don't want to live like that
C#m
Too many choices tear us apart
C
I don't want to love like that
D E C D C Dsus4...D...G
I just want to touch your heart, may this confession be the start
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