I die for you today    (video)

 

    Em - D - A (2x)

 

     Em                                   - D                         A 

1.        Come in close to me        and bring me joy,

                                    Em                         - D                       A

    lift me higher, much higher and higher         than light allows.

                           Em                                       D

    I wanted to be everything, everything for you,

         A

    I wanted you, I needed you, I thought that you did, too.

                             Em           D

    You built me beauty and took it all away,

A

    and I can‘t face another day.

 

                            Em - D                               A

I‘ll die for you toda.........y, I‘ll die for you today  !

                            Em - D                               A

I‘ll die for you toda.........y, I‘ll die for you today, you took it all away.

 

+  Em - D - A

 

                                  Em                                            D

2. Tempt me, sweet tempest, and shower me with stars,

                    A

    I want to be as beautiful as you,

                            Em

    take me to the summit and show me,

        D                                           A

    show me all that I could ever have.

                               Em                          D

    You brought me everything I ever thought I wanted,

                          A

    and now you take it all away,

                         Em                                                    - D

    you gave me love and then you killed me blindly,

                                            A

     I think I‘ll die for you today, I can‘t pursue another way.

 

                            Em - D                               A

I‘ll die for you toda.........y, I‘ll die for you today  !

                            Em - D                                A

I‘ll die for you toda.........y, I‘ll die for you today, you took it all away.

 

+  Em - D - A

 

                 C                                    - D

+  Like a garden growin‘ in flames,

         A

    a forest filled with fear of the wind,

                    C                                   D

    like the moon so beautiful from afar,

              A

    but shattered on the surface, full of scars.

         C                                   D

    A sea with no more fish, planets without air,

         A

    whales with no more song.

                                                           Em   - D - A

    I know I‘m gonna die with them today,

                                Em - D    - A

    I‘ll die for you toda........y !

 

                            Em - D                               A

I‘ll die for you toda.........y, I‘ll die for you today  !

                            Em - D                                A

I‘ll die for you toda.........y, I‘ll die for you today, you took it all away.

 

    (Alphaville)