If I Can't Have You

	  		Meat Loaf - If I Can't Have You 
  
  
nd Fret 
  
  
Intro: 
     C 
  
(# Spoken #) 
To say it's love would be too simple, too obvious 
It's more like a calling, a vocation 
Something I was put on this earth to do 
Now I'm shooting with the stars and I'm flying with the angels 
                      G                             C 
And my heartbeat is a symphony, the closer I get to you 
  
  
                F                                  C 
I never saw you coming, 'til you came and here you are 
                    F                                C 
I never thought someone would ever dare to come this far 
                    F                                G 
You're up for the resistance and I'm strong in my persistence 
                                   
And I've never known a remedy like ours 
  
  
Chorus: 
     C     G    F         C     G    F 
If I can't have you, if I can't have you 
Am                  Em 
I would be a river, dried up into dust 
F                         G  
I would be imprisoned for never having loved 
     F     C    G   C        G        C  
If I can't have you, I don't wanna be me 
  
  
                                 F               C 
Then I would be the same man you scraped off the ground 
                    F                           C 
I'd have to go back being, that broken soul you found 
                      F           C                G 
Those days are in the darkness, I buried them with hardness 
  
And I'd have to dig those demons out 
  
  
     C                           F             C 
Your life is like an anchor that puts me in my place 
                                    F             C 
No, you won't let me sink, when I'm off losing my way 
                                  F              C 
Thank God for your virtue and the wisdom in your eye 
       G 
'Cause somehow you get through, on all that crazy in my mind 
  
  
Chorus: 
     C     G    F         C     G    F 
If I can't have you, if I can't have you 
Am                  Em 
I would be a river, dried up into dust 
F                         G 
I would be imprisoned for never having loved 
     F     C    G   C        G        F  C  G 
If I can't have you, I don't wanna be me 
  
I don't wanna be... 
  
  
Dm         F           C        G 
Why did it take you so long to finally see 
     Dm       F             C              G 
That we had a love that you don't find easily? 
Dm           F             Am               G 
You broke my heart and the price to pay for that 
          Dm               F         Am              G    F  C  G 
Is you'll have to live the misery of losing what you had_______ 
     F     C    G   C  G  F 
If I can't have you_____ 
  
  
Instrumental: C G F   C G F   C G F   D 
  
  
       Bm         G        D 
Me, my words have come too late 
      Bm     G           D 
I've already turned that page 
          G 
Don't you look at me that way 
              Esus4 
'Cause you'll throw me back 
                      D 
And that's the part I hate 
          Bm        G       D 
I'll stay trapped inside my hell 
              Bm          G     D 
Where it's so hot that my walls melt 
      Bm                A 
I can hear a promise in every lie 
                     D 
You said you'd never tell 
  
  
         Bm   G        D 
If I had only told the truth 
            Bm    G         D  
Oh, I could never trust you to 
  
  
          A 
You'll survive 
           A   G   C  G 
No, I will die_____ 
     D     A    G         D     A    G 
If I can't have you, if I can't have you 
         D                      A  
Then I'm sorry for the things I cost you in the end 
   G                       A 
My punishment is more than any man can stand 
                 D   A  G 
I need you in my life 
            D  A  G 
I can't let go 
                              D      A  G 
Why don't you stay with me, tonight? 
  G     D    A  G 
I feel alone 
                 D      A  G 
Turn off all the lights 
G       D     A  G 
Take me home 
  
  
Chorus: 
     D     A    G         D     A    G 
If I can't have you, if I can't have you 
     Bm                  F#m 
Then I would be a river, dried up into dust 
G                         A 
I would be imprisoned for never having loved 
     D     A    G                     D  A  G  
If I can't have you, I don't wanna be me_____  
  
  
OUTRO:  (# Spoken #) 
   G            D            G         D  G  D  G  D 
To say it's love would be too simple