Verse 1:
Bbmaj7
You know I love you, boy
Dm7
In every single way
Bb
Though I love you, boy
Fmaj7
I'll miss you every day
Bbmaj7
Oh I love you, boy
Dm9
I wish that I could stay with you
Bb7 Bb Fmaj7
And keep the life I made with you
Gm7 Bbmaj7 Dm9 Fmaj7
And even though this feels so right
Gm7 Bbmaj7 A A7
I'm holding back the tears tonight
Chorus:
Dm Bbmaj7 Fmaj7
It's true I'll never be over you
Gm9 Dm7 Bbmaj7 Fmaj7
'Cause I have built a future in my mind with you
Gm7 Dm9
And now the hope is gone
Bbmaj7 Fmaj7
There's nothing left for me to do
Gm7 Bbmaj7
You know it isn't true
A7
But I must say to you
-nc- Dm7 Bbmaj7 Fmaj7
That I don't need your love, no, no
Gm7 Dm7 Bbmaj7 Fmaj7
I don't need your love, no, no
Gm7 Dm7 Bbmaj7 Fmaj7
It'll never be better than it was, no, no
Gm7 Dm7 Bbmaj7 Fmaj7
But I don't need your love, no, no
Verse 2:
Bbmaj7
I've got no choice
Dm7
With the King I stay alive
Bb
Never had a choice
Fmaj7
Been a wife twice before, just to survive
Bbmaj7
I don't have a choice
Dm Cmaj7 Bmaj7
If Henry says "It's you", then it's you
Bbmaj7
No matter how I feel
Bb Fmaj7
It's what I have to do
Gm7 Bbmaj7 Dm Fmaj7
But if, somehow, I had that choice
Gm7 Bbmaj7 Asus4 A7
No holding back, I'd raise my voice
Chorus:
Dm7
I'd say "Henry, yeah it's true
Bbmaj7 Fmaj7
I'll never belong to you
Gm7 Dm Bbmaj7
'Cause I am not your toy, to enjoy till there's something new
Gm7 Dm7 Bbmaj7
As if I'm gonna give up my boy, my work, my dreams
Fmaj7
To care for you, ha!
Gm7 Bbmaj7
Darling, get a clue
A
There's nothing you can do
A7 Dm7 Bbmaj7 Fmaj7
I don't need your love, no, no
Gm7 Dm7 Bbmaj7 Fmaj7
No, I don't need your love, no, no
Gm7 Dm7 Bbmaj7 Fmaj7
There's nothing left to discuss, no, no
Gm7 Dm7 Bbmaj7 Fmaj7
'Cause I don't need your love, no, no"
Interlude: Dm Bbmaj7 Fmaj7 Gm7 Dm7 Bbmaj7 Fmaj7 Gm7 Dm7 Bbmaj7
But the thing is, I can't say that.
Not to the King. So this is goodbye.
-nc-
All my love, Catherine.
Bridge: Fm7 Gm7
Ab
So I sent that letter to my love - got married to the King
Became the one who survived
Fm9
I've told you G#out my life: The final wife
Gm7
But why should that story
Be the one I have to sing G#out just to win?
Cm7
I'm out
That's not my story
Bm7 Bbm7
There's so much more
Am7 Ab -nc-
Remember that I was a writer
Ab Gm7 Fm7 -nc-
I wrote books and psalms and meditations
Fought for female education
Fm Gm Fm -nc-
So all my women could independently
Gm7 -nc-
Study scripture
I even got a woman to paint my picture
Cm7
Why can't I tell that story?
Cm7 Bm7 Bbm7 Am7 Abmaj7 -nc-
'Cause in history
Abmaj7 Gm7
I'm fixed
Fm9 -nc- Fm9
As one of six
Gm7
And without him
Bbmaj7 Am7 Dm7 Am7 Bbmaj7
I disappear
Bb Fmaj7
We all
Gm7 Am A7sus Asus4
Disappear
Verse 3:
A7 Bbmaj7
So we had no choice
Dm7
But now it's us alone
Bb
So we've got no choice
-No, we've got no choice-
-nc-
We're taking back the microphone
Bbmaj7
I'm gonna raise my voice
Dm9
They always said we need your love
Bb Bb F
But it's time for us to rise G#ove
Gm7 Bbmaj7 Dm Fmaj7
It's not what went down in history
Gm7 Bbmaj7 A
But tonight I'm singing this for me
Chorus:
Em7
Henry, yeah, I'm through
Cmaj7 Gmaj7
Too many times it's been told
Am7 Em7
And I have had enough
Cmaj7 G7
Love stories soon get old
Am7 Em7
And you might think it's tough
Cmaj7 Gmaj7
But I've got to let your love run cold
Am7 Cmaj7
We're taking back control
B7
You need to know
xBsusx Em Cmaj7 Gmaj7
I don't need your love, no, no
Am7 Em Cmaj7 Gmaj7
No, I don't need your love, no, no
Am7 Em7 Cmaj7 Gmaj7
Can't let it get the better of us, no, no
Am7 Em7 Cmaj7 Gmaj7
I don't need your love, no, no
Outro:
B7 -nc-
I don't need your love, no, no
-nc-
No, I don't need your love, no, no
-nc-
I don't need your love, no, no
C Am B7
I don't need your love
Em
We don't need your love