How am I supposed to live without you (1989)    (video)    (midi)

 

    C - D - Bm - G       - C - Bm - G - B7

 

    G                                                      D

1.      I could hardly believe it when I heard the news today

        C                       Am                          G     - CGD

    I had to come and get it straight from you.

G                                                                     D

    They said you where leaving, someone swept you heart away,

                    Am                   Cm                 Am   - D

    from that look upon your face I see it's true.

         Bm                                                                            C

    So tell me all about it, tell me about the plans you’re making, oh,

    Am                       Em                C    - D

    tell me one thing more before I go.

 

                C                   D                      Bm          - Em

Tell me, how am I supposed to live without you.

C                                D                   Bm    - Dm - G

    now that I've been loving you so long.

   C                  D                      Bm  Em

How am I supposed to live without you ?

        Am                 C                    D    - D7

And how am I supposed to carry on,

          Am                     D                 C

when all that I've been living for is gone ?

 

+  C - D - Bm - B7

 

    G                                             D

2.     Too tired for crying, didn’t come here to break down,

                     Am                            C                  G     - C-G-D

    it’s just a dream of mine that’s coming to an end.

G                                                   D

    How I can I blame you when I built my world around

                           Am                           Cm                            Am      - D

    the hope that one day we would be so much more then friends.

  Bm                                                                            C

    I don’t wanna know the price I’m gonna pay for dreaming, oh,

Am                      Em                   Am    - D

    even now it’s more than I can take.

 

+  CHORUS  (ending in G)

 

 

 

 

 

 

+  G - D - C - D     - Bm - C - D  - C - D

 

+  G - D - C - D     - Bm - D

 

(orig. moves up half a note to capo 4th here)     +  G - D

 

           G                                                                            C

+  Now I dont wanna know the price I'm gonna pay for dreaming, oh,

Am                 Em                              Am   - D

       now that your dream has come true.

 

                C                   D                      Bm          - Em

Tell me, how am I supposed to live without you.

C                                D                   Bm    - Dm - G

    now that I've been loving you so long.

C                         D                      Bm  Em

    How am I supposed to live without you ?

        Am                 C                    D    - D7

And how am I supposed to carry on,

          Am                     D       D7      C          - D - G - Am - D - G

when all that I've been living for is gone ?

 

 

(orig. = capo 3rd)    (Michael Bolton)