
Because We Are In Love The Wedding Song
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Tom : Gm
Bb Bb F
[Verse 2]
F
Children
Gm C F
It was more fun to be children
Gm7 C7 Fmaj7
We just took life as it happened
F7 Bb
Run through the days
Bbm Dmaj7 D
Don't look behind
[Verse 2]
F
Over
Gm C F
Wink of an eye and it's over
Gm7 C7 Dm
What a surprise to discover
Bbmaj7 C Bbmaj7
We were people ourselves
Bbmaj7 C Am7 Dm7
What kind of people did we want to be
Bb C F
No answer ever came to me
[Bridge]
Eb F
It didn't sleep at all last night
Eb Bbmaj7
Mom, I've come to you like yesterday
Bb7 Ebmaj7
About today
A7 D
Mom, I'm afraid
Bbm C F
Hon, come and sit by my side
Am7 Bbmaj7 C7
Listen to me
Cm D7
Words come so hard
Gm
But what my heart says
C7 F
I will give you
[Interlude]
G7 G7 A A E E7
[Chorus]
A
Because you are in love
D
Your eyes begin to open
A Amaj7 C#m7 Dmaj7 E
As if you had awoken from a sleep
A
Because you are in love
D
You use imagination
A C#m
And lose your concentration
F#m A D#m G#7
When someone drops his name
[Verse 3]
C# F#m G#
You're back in his arms as always
C# Cm7 F7
Your day-dreams work out that way
A#m7 D#7
It's all just a trick you mind plays
D#m C#
The more love grows
F# D#m7
The more it says the same
C#
(Same little girl who's frightened)
C# F#
But I love him so
C#
(Same little girl who's sure)
C# E
That she loves him so
B E7
(Sees with a woman's vision, knows what a woman knows)
[Chorus 2]
A
Because we are in love
D
We reach for our tomorrows
A C#m
And know we won't be lonely
F#m A D E
In laughter and in sorrows
A C#
Where love abides
F#m E D Dm
There is a place we'll keep our love forever
A F#m
You and I
Bm7 E A
Because we are in love
[Instrumental]
A D A C#m
(We know we won't be lonely)
F#m7 E D
(In laughter and in sorrows)
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