"Crown of Love" by Arcade Fire (Chord Chart)

Song Info

  • Key: D#/Eb major
  • Chord Family: C
  • Capo: 3
  • Capo Key: C major
  • G-Whiz: No
  • Genre:
  • Skills: Basic Strumming, Barre Chords, Open Chords

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VERSE 1
            C            FM7          C/G           E7|G#
They say it fades if you let it, love was made to forget it.
              C              FM7                   C/G             E7|G#
I carved your name across my eyelids, you pray for rain I pray for blindness


CHORUS
             Am                 FM7                   C               G 
If you still want me, please forgive me, the crown of love is fallen from me
             Am                 FM7                  C            G
If you still want me, please forgive me, because the spark is not within me


VERSE 2
             C             FM7              C        
I snuffed it out before my mom walked in my bedroom
         C                   FM7              C/G                 E7|G#
The only thing that you keep changin' is your name, my love keeps growin'
          C                 FM7                   C/G                E7|G#
Still the same, just like a cancer, and you won't give me a straight answer


CHORUS
             Am                 FM7                   C               G       G#dim 
If you still want me, please forgive me, the crown of love is fallen from me
             Am                 FM7                  C            G
If you still want me, please forgive me, because the spark is not within me


VERSE 3
                C             FM7              C     
I shrugged them off before my mom walked in my bedroom
             C                   FM7            C/G                   E7|G#
The pains of love, and they keep growin', in my heart there's flowers growin'
       C            FM7                 C/G                E7|G#
On the grave of our old love, since you gave me a straight answer


CHORUS
             Am                 FM7                   C             G       G#dim 
If you still want me, please forgive me, the crown of love is not upon me
             Am                 FM7                  C            Fm
If you still want me, please forgive me, because the spark is not within me
         C|G                   Fm
It’s not within me, it’s not within me. 


OUTRO
                 C|G
You gotta be the one, you gotta be the way,
                 Fm/Ab
Your name is the only word that I can say
                 C|E
You gotta be the one, you gotta be the way,
                 Fm                                  C|G 
Your name is the only word, the only word that I can say!
Fm/Ab                     C/E   Fm               
      Only one that I can say!

C|G   Fm/Ab   C/E   Fm  *Fade Out
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