I Want You
Elvis Costello
A E A A7 E
Oh... my baby baby I love you more than I can tell
A A7 D
I don't think I can live without you
A E7 A
And I know that I never will
A E A A7 E
Oh my baby baby I want you so it scares me to death
A A7 D
I can't say anymore than "I love you"
A E7 F#m (5?)
Everything else is a waste of breath
Em G
I want you
C B7
You've had your fun you don't
Em
get well no more
G
I want you
C B ...
Your fingernails go dragging down the wall
B7 C C B
be careful darling you might fall
Em G
I want you
C B Em
I woke up and one of us was crying
G
I want you
C B7 Em
You said "Young man I do believe you're dying"
G
I want you
C B7 Em
If you need a second opinion as you seem to do these days..
C B B
You can look in-to my eyes and you can count the ways
B C C B
Em G
I want you
C B Em
Did you mean to tell me but seem to forget.
G
I want you
C B Em
Since when were you so generous and inarticulate
G
I want you
C B Em G
It's the stupid details that my heart is breaking for...
C B Em G
It's the way your shoulders shake and what they're shaking for
C B Em
It's knowing that he knows you now after only guessing
G
I want you
C B -----?
It's the thought of him undressing you on you undressing
B C C B
Em G
I want you
C B
He tossed some tatty compliment your way
Em G
I want you
C B .................pause
And you were fool enough to love it when he said
Em
"I want you"
G
I want you
C B Em
The truth can't hurt you it's just like the dark
G
It scares you witless
C B Em
But in time you see things clear and stark
G
I want you
C B Em
Go on and hurt me when we'll let it drop
G
I want you
C B Em
I'm afraid I won't know where to stop
G
I want you
C B
I'm not ashamed to say (that) I cried for you
G
I want you
C B Em
I want to know the things you did that we do too
G
I want you
C B Em
I want to hear he pleases you more than I do
G
I want you
C B Em
I might as well be useless for all it means to you
G
I want you
C B Em
Did you call his name out as he held you down
G
I want you
C B Em
Oh no my darling not with that clown
G
I want you
C B Em (orig: says hold the B)
ou've had your fun (and now) you don't get well no more
G
I want you
C B Em
No-one who wants you could want you more
G
I want you
C B Em G
Ev'ry night when I go off to bed and when I wake up
C B
......I want you...
Em
G
I want you
C B Em
I'm going to say it once again 'til I instill it
G C B Em
I know I'm going to feel this way until you kill it
G .... C .... B
I want you