The Ballad of Love and Hate Chords by The Avett Brothers

[Start]

[Verse]
Eb                      Bb              Eb  
■  Love writes a letter and sends it to Hate
   Ab                                     Eb
My vacation's ending I'm coming home late ■ 
Ab                 Bb       Eb            Cm   
■  The weather was fine and the ocean was great
Eb               Bb               Ab
And I can't wait to see you again ■ 
           Eb                           
Hate reads the letter and throws it away
Ab                                 Eb  
No one here cares if you go or you stay
  Ab          Bb               Cm       
I barely even noticed that you were away
         Eb       Bb    Ab      
I'll see you or I won't whatever
Eb                       Bb                Eb 
Love sings a song as she sails through the sky
          Ab                  Eb             
The water looks bluer through her pretty eyes
Ab              Bb                    Cm   
■  And everyone knows it whenever she flies
         Bb                  Ab
And also when she comes down ■ 
           Eb                                      
Hate keeps his head up and walks through the street
Ab                               Eb    
■  Every stranger and drifter he greets
    Ab           Bb         Eb    Cm      
And shakes hands with every loner he meets
Eb                     Ab      
With a serious look on his face
Eb           Bb                      Eb 
Love arrives safely with suitcase in tow
Ab                    Eb                 
Carrying with her the good things we know
Ab             Bb                Cm     
■  A reason to live and a reason to grow
         Eb Bb      Ab  
To trust to hold to care
Eb                     Bb      Eb     
Hate sits alone on the hood of his car
             Ab                 Eb          
Without much regard to the moon or the stars
Ab             Eb               
Lazily killing the last of a jar
Cm     Eb        Bb                  Ab
Of the strongest stuff you can drink ■ 
             Eb   Bb      Eb        
Love takes a taxi a young man drives
Ab                                 Eb  
As soon he sees her hope fills his eyes
    Ab           Bb       Eb         Bb      
But tears follow after at the end of the ride
Cm        Eb              Bb  Ab   
'cause he might never see her again
Eb                Bb                Eb   
■  Hate gets home lucky to still be alive
   Ab                                     Eb   
He screams o'er the sidewalk and into the drive
                 Bb               Cm        
The clock in the kitchen says two fifty five
              Eb     Bb         Ab  
And the clock in the kitchen is slow
Eb                    Bb          Eb  
Love has been waiting patient and kind
     Ab                                        Eb
Just wanting a phone call or some kind of sign ■ 


[Chorus]
                      Bb                     Cm      
That the one that she cares for who's out of his mind
             Eb   Bb          Ab  
Will make it back safe to her arms
Eb                        Bb                Eb
Hate stumbles forward and leans in the door ■ 
Ab                           Eb          
■  Weary head hung down eyes to the floor
Ab                     Bb  Eb            Cm 
He says Love I'm sorry and she says What for
                     Bb Ab      
I'm yours and that's it whatever
                  Bb            Cm     
I should not have been gone for so long
    Eb               Bb Ab     
I'm yours and that's it forever
Eb                      Ab     
Your mine and that's it forever


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