A Letter to Elise Chords by The Cure

[Start]

[Intro]
Ab Eb Ab Fm Db Ab
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Eb Fm Db
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[Verse]
Ab                                     
Oh Elise it doesn't matter what you say
             Cm              Fm       
I just can't stay here every yesterday
                    Db          
Like keep on acting out the same
    Db            
The way we act out


[Chorus]
Ab                       
Every way to smile forget
    Cm                   Cm7   
And makebelieve we never needed
Fm                
Any more than this
Db                
Any more than this


[Inst]
Ab Eb Ab Fm Db
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[Verse]
Ab7                        Ab         
Oh Elise it doesn't matter what you do
  C7        G7           F7  Fm           
I know I'll never really get inside of you
             Db             
To make your eyes catch fire
    Db             
The way they should
Ab                               
The way the blue could pull me in
        Cm                           
If they only would if they only would
Fm                                     
At least I'd lose this sense of sensing
Db                            
Something else that hides away
Ab                                    
From me and you they're worlds to part
Eb   Cm7                             
With aching looks and breaking hearts
    Fsus4                      Fm            
And ■     all the prayers your hands can make
Db                                Ab   
Oh I just take as much as you can throw
                      Eb   Cm7
And then throw it all away ■  
     Eb           Fsus4
Oh I throw it all away 
     Fm       Db              
Like throwing faces at the sky
                          Eb       
Like throwing arms 'round yesterday


[Chorus]
  Eb              
I stood and stared
Fm                      
Wideeyed in front of you
        Eb                               Fm       
And the face I saw looked back the way I wanted to
      Eb                                Fm        
But I just can't hold my tears away the way you do
Fm                               
Elise believe I never wanted this
               Gb                Ab7   Fm       Fm7
I thought this time I'd keep all of my promises ■  
  Fm                   Gb            Fm           
I thought you were the girl I always dreamed about
          Gb          
But I let the dream go
Ab7         Fm                             Eb  Eb7
■   And the promises broke and makebelieve ran out


[Solo]
Eb Fm Eb Fm Eb7 Eb Fm Eb
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Db Ab Eb Ab Fm Db
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[Verse]
   Ab                               Eb  Cm7
So Elise it doesn't matter what you say ■  
                             Fm       
I just can't stay here every yesterday
                    Db          
Like keep on acting out the same
    Db            
The way we act out


[Chorus]
Ab                       
Every way to smile forget
Cm                             
And makebelieve we never needed
Fm            Db  
Any more than this
              Db  
Any more than this
    Ab                          Abmaj7
And every time I try to pick it up    
Cm           Eb   Cm
Like falling sand ■ 
Fm                     
As fast as I pick it up
        Db                             
It runs away through my clutching hands
            Ab                          
But there's nothing else I can really do
Eb      Cm                          
There's nothing else I can really do
Fm      F7                 Fm       
There's nothing else I can really do


[Outro]
   Db 
At all