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G C/G G Am/G

[Verse 1]
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   Here I am standing at your window again
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   Waiting for you to say go away or come in
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I'm your locked door's worst knocker
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I'm your curtain's best friend

[Chorus]
    Am                             D                 G   C/G  G
I'm trying hard to love you - you don't make it easy babe
    Am                            D                    G  C/G G
I'm trying hard to love you - I'm lookin' for an easy way

[Verse 2]
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  Your friends ask about me, you say I can be found
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  with the cheap romance novels with their spines battered down
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Oh the   heart has no bones you say so it won't break
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but the   purpose of lovin' is the pounding it takes

[Chorus]
    Am                             D                 G   C/G  G
I'm trying hard to love you - you don't make it easy babe
    Am                            D                    G  C/G G
I'm trying hard to love you - I'm lookin' for an easy way

[Solo]
G C/G G Am/G
G C/G G Am/G

[Verse 2]
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  the ropes that have bound me leave no marks by their knots
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and   though they’re your hair that don't mean I'm not caught
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I know the   sound of the handcuffs as they scrape across the floor
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but that   new thing you've got I've got no clue what it's for

[Chorus]
    Am                             D                 G   C/G  G
I'm trying hard to love you - you don't make it easy babe
    Am                            D                    G  C/G G
I'm trying hard to love you - I'm lookin' for an easy way

[Solo]
G C/G G Am/G
G C/G G Am/G

[Verse 3]
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With   fortune's rocks millstones you hang round my throat
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and a   brick for my window weighted down with a note
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Well, I   hope you find someone just as hard as you come
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in this   hard world sadly that's so easily done

[Chorus]
    Am                             D                 G   C/G  G
I'm trying hard to love you - you don't make it easy babe
    Am                            D                    G  C/G G
I'm trying hard to love you - I'm lookin' for an easy way
    Am                             D                 G   C/G  G
I'm trying hard to love you - you don't make it easy babe
    Am                                D                 G   C/G  G
I'm trying hard to love you - There's gotta be an easy way