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Song title:      I Want You
Original Album:	 Blood And Chocolate

Words and Music by Elvis Costello
Copyright © 1986 Demon/Columbia Records
Published by Sony Music Entertainment

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
This is transcribed from the album version. Timing is 4/4.


INTRO:

  A               E                A
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|---------2---------------0------|---------2---------------2------|
|---------2---------------1------|---------2---------------2------|
|-----2-------2-------2-------2--|-----2-------2-------2-------2--|
|-0------------------------------|-0---------------0--------------|
|-----------------0--------------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|

  Oh          my  ba      -   by   baby                        I


  A               A7               E
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|---------2---------------2------|---------0---------------0------|
|---------2---------------0------|---------1---------------1------|
|-----2-------2-------2-------2--|-----2-------2-------2-------2--|
|-0---------------0--------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|-0---------------0--------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|

love you more than I          can  tell                        I


  A               A7               D/A
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|---------2---------------2------|---------3---------------3------|
|---------2---------------0------|---------2---------------2------|
|-----2-------2-------2-------2--|-----0-------0-------0-------0--|
|-0---------------0--------------|-0---------------0--------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|
  don't think
            I can live        with-out you                 and I


  A               E7               A
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|---------2---------------3------|---------2---2------------------|
|---------2---------------1------|---------2---2------------------|
|-----2-------2-------0-------0--|-----2-------2------------------|
|-0------------------------------|-0-----------0------------------|
|-----------------0--------------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|

  know    that I  never            will


  A               E                A
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|---------2---------------0------|---------2---------------2------|
|---------2---------------1------|---------2---------------2------|
|-----2-------2-------2-------2--|-----2-------2-------2-------2--|
|-0------------------------------|-0---------------0--------------|
|-----------------0--------------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|

  Oh,         my  ba      -   by   baby                        I


  A               A7               E
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|---------2---------------2------|---------0---------------0------|
|---------2---------------0------|---------1---------------1------|
|-----2-------2-------2-------2--|-----2-------2-------2-------2--|
|-0---------------0--------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|-0---------------0--------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|

  want you so it  scares  me  to   death                       I


  A               A7               D/A
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|---------2---------------2------|---------3---------------3------|
|---------2---------------0------|---------2---------------2------|
|-----2-------2-------2-------2--|-----0-------0-------0-------0--|
|-0---------------0--------------|-0---------------0--------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|

  can't say any   more   than "I   love you"       everything


  A               E7               F#m
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|---------2---------------3------|--------------------------------|
|---------2---------------1------|-2------------------------------|
|-----2-------2-------0-------0--|-4------------------------------|
|-0------------------------------|-4------------------------------|
|-----------------0--------------|-2------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|

  else    is  a   waste       of   breath


[Intro]
A      E     A                         A7    E
Oh, my baby, baby I love you more than I can tell
  A                 A7       D/A
I don't think I can live without you
    A             E7    A
And I know that I never will

A     E    A                            A7    E
Oh my baby baby I want you so it scares me to death
  A            A7         D
I can't say anymore than "I love you"
A                    E7       F#m
Everything else is a waste of breath


[play: Guitar Figure 1]

Guitar Figure 1
  Ebm                              Em              G
|-6~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~--|-0-------0-------3-------3------|
|-7~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~--|-0-------0-------0-------0------|
|-8~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~--|-0-------0-------0-------0------|
|-8~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~--|-2-------2-------0-------0------|
|--------------------------------|-2-------2-------2-------2------|
|--------------------------------|-0-------0-------3-------3------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|

                                            I want you...

VERSE1:
Chords:
Em 022000    B7  x2120x
G  320003    B   x24442
C  x32010    Ebm xx8876

Em       G           C                 B7                Em
  I want you! You've had your fun, you don't get well no more,
  G              C              B7                Ebm
I want you! Your fingernails go dragging down the wall,
   B        C        B
Be careful, darling, you might fall!


VERSE2:
Chords:
Em 022000    B7  x2120x
G  320003    B   x24442
C  x32010    Ebm xx8876

Em       G      C              B7            Em
  I want you! I woke up, and one of us was crying,
  G             C                   B7                Em
I want you! You said, "young man, I do believe you're dying!"
  G                C              B7                     Em
I want you! If you need a second opinion, as you seem to do, these days,
  G         C                  B7
I want you! You can look in my eyes,

            Ebm            [Guitar Figure 2]
And you can count the ways!


Guitar Figure 2

  Em      C       Em          B7   Em              G
|--------------------------------|-0-------0-------3-------3------|
|-----0-------1------------------|-0-------0-------0-------0------|
|-----0-------0-------0-------2--|-0-------0-------0-------0------|
|---------------------0-------1--|-2-------2-------0-------0------|
|-2-------3-------2-----------2--|-2-------2-------2-------2------|
|-------------------------2------|-0-------0-------3-------3------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|

                                            I want you...


VERSE3:
Chords:
Em 022000    C  x32010    Ebm x68876
G  320003    B7 x2120x

  G                 C                B7             Em
I want you! Did you mean to tell me, but seem to forget?
  G               C                B7                Em
I want you! Since when were you so generous, and inarticulate?
  G              C               B7              Em                G
I want you,  but it's the stupid details that my heart is breaking for,
         C                  B7                      Em
It's the way your shoulders shake, and what they're shaking for,
  G              C               B7                   Em
I want you! It's knowing that he knows you now, after only guessing,
G          C                B7
  It's the thought of him undressing you,

    Ebm                [Guitar Figure 2]
Or...   you undressing!


VERSE4:
Chords:
Em 022000    C  x32010    E(b5) x789xx
G  320003    B7 x2120x

  G            C                 B7              Em
I want you! He tossed some tatty compliment your way,
  G             C              B7
I want you, and you were fool enough to love it...
        Ebm  | Em  G |    C     B7 |
When he said,     "I want you!"


[play: Guitar Figure 3]  [x2]

Guitar Figure 3

  E(b5)
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-9---9---9-9-9---9---9-9-9---9--|-9---9---9-9-9---9---9-9-9---9--|
|-8---8---8-8-8---8---8-8-8---8--|-8---8---8-8-8---8---8-8-8---8--|
|-7---7---7-7-7---7---7-7-7---7--|-7---7---7-7-7---7---7-7-7---7--|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


VERSE5:
Chords:
Em 022000    C  x32010
G  320003    B7 x2120x

Em         G        C                     B7                 Em
    I want you! The truth can't hurt you, it's just like the dark,
   G                   C                 B7                   Em
It scares you witless, but, in time, you see things clear and stark,
  G            C                B7                Em
I want you! Go on, and hurt me, then we'll let it drop,
  G         C            B7                  Em
I want you! I'm afraid I won't know where to stop,
  G             C              B7               Em
I want you! I'm not ashamed to say, I cried for you!


VERSE5:
Chords:
Em 022000    C  x32010
G  320003    B7 x2120x

  G           C                B7                   Em
I want you! I want to know the things you did, that we did too,
  G           C               B7               Em
I want you! I want to hear he pleases you more than I do,
  G           C                B7                 Em
I want you! I might as well be useless for all it means to you,
  G                  C                 B7             Em
I want you!  Did you call his name out as he held you down?
  G             C               B7               Em
I want you! Oh, no, my darling,    not with that clown,


G      C    B7
I want you!


Em       G           C                 B7                Em
  I want you! You've had your fun, you don't get well no more,
  G            C                  B7                Ebm
I want you! No one who wants you,    could want you more!


| Em  G | C B7            | Em  G | C      B7 |
               I want you!          I want you!


Em       G    C                 B7          Em
  I want you! Every night, when I go off to bed,
           G        C   B7
And when I wake up,   I want you!

| Em  G |     C            B7             | Em           G |
          I'm gonna say it once again, till I instill it,
    C                  B7              Em              G
I'm going...  going to feel this way until you... kill it,

C   B7       | Em  G | C B7 | Em        G |
  I want you!            I    want you!

C  B7      | Em  G |
   I    want you!