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Song title:       When Love Breaks Down
Original Album:   Steve McQueen

Words and Music by Paddy McAloon
Copyright © 1985 EMI Blackwood Music Inc.
Published by EMI Music Publishing Ltd.

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
Capo on 1. Chords and tab are relative to capo. Timing is 4/4.


INTRO:
Chords:
C     x32010    Dm7 xx0211
Am7   x02010    G   320003
Fmaj7 x33210

[play: | C | % | Am7 | % | Fmaj7 | % | Dm7 | G |


VERSE1:
Chords:
C/G   332010    G5   3x003x
G/D   x5x003    Dm7  xx0211
Am7   x02010    Am9  x05557
Fmaj7 x33210

C/G              G/D
  My love and I,     we work well together
Am7                Fmaj7
  But often we're apart
G5                  Am7  
  Absence makes the     heart lose weight, yeah,
Dm7                                  C/G
  Till love breaks down, love breaks down


[play: | C/G | % | Am9 | % | Fmaj7 | % | Dm7 | % |]


VERSE2:
C/G             G/D
   Oh my, oh my,   have you seen the weather?
Am7                    Fmaj7
   The sweet September rain
G5           Am7  
  Rain on me,   like no other
Dm7
  Until I drown, until I drown


CHORUS1:
Chords:
Fmaj7/A x03210    G/A x05433    Fmaj7 133210
Fadd9/G 3x3210    G5  3x003x    Dm7   xx0211
C/G     332010    G   320003

Fmaj7/A                                 Fadd9/G
  When love breaks down, the things you do
To stop the truth from hurting you

Fmaj7/A                              Fadd9/G
  When love breaks down, the lies we tell,
They only serve to fool ourselves,

Fmaj7/A                                 Fadd9/G
  When love breaks down, the things you do
To stop the truth from hurting you

Fmaj7/A                                   Fadd9/G
  When love breaks down, when love breaks down


[play: | C/G   | % | G/A | % | G5 | % | G | % |

       | Fmaj7 | % | Dm7 | % | G5 | % | G | % |]


VERSE3:
Chords:
C/G   332010    Fmaj7 x33210
G/D   x5x003    G5    3x003x
Am7   x02010    Dm7   xx0211

C/G               G/D
   My love and I,     we are boxing clever
Am7                      Fmaj7
   She'll never crowd me out
G5                 Am7  
  Fall, be free as     old confetti
Dm7
  And paint the town, paint the town


[repeat CHORUS1]


CHORUS2:
Chords:
Fmaj7/A x03210    G/A x05433    Fmaj7 133210
Fadd9/G 3x3210    G5  3x003x    Dm7   xx0211
C/G     332010    G   320003

Fmaj7/A                              Fadd9/G
  When love breaks down, the lies we tell
They only serve to fool ourselves,

Fmaj7/A                                 Fadd9/G
  When love breaks down, the things you do
To stop the truth from hurting you

Fmaj7/A                               Fadd9/G
  When love breaks down, you join the wrecks
Who leave their hearts for easy sex

Fmaj7/A                                        C/G
  When love breaks down, when love breaks down


OUTRO:
Chords:
C/G   332010    Fmaj7 x33210
G/D   x5x003    G5    3x003x
Am7   x02010    Dm7   xx0211

[play: | C/G | % | G/D | % | Am7 | % | Fmaj7 | % |

       | G5 | % | Am7 | % | Dm7 | % |]


[play: | C/G | % | Dm7 | % |]

[repeat to fade]