The Writer Uke tab by Ellie Goulding

4 Chords used in the song: C, Em, D, G

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Artist: Ellie Goulding

Album: Lights

Year: 2010

Difficulty:

3.25

(Beginner)

Key: G, EmChords

Intro: 
C, Em, D
C, Em, D
C, Em, D
D, C, Em, G


     C           Em
You wait for a silence
   G          D
I wait for a word
       C            Em
Lying next to your frame
 G       D
Girl unobserved
      C           Em
You change your position
          G     D
You're changing me
   C            Em
Casting these shadows
       D             G
Where they shouldn't be


C           Em
We're interrupted
        G          D
By the heat of the sun
C           Em
Trying to prevent
         G       D
What's already begun
C              Em
You're just a body
        G        D
I can smell your skin
     C          Em
And when I feel it
         D      G
You're wearing thin


     Em      C  D
But I've got a plan
           D           Em
Why don't you be the artist
     C             G
And make me out of clay?
           D           Em
Why don't you be the writer
  C                G
Decide the words I say?
            Em     G
Cause I'd rather pretend
            D               Em
I'll still be there at the end
           C           Em
Only it's too hard to ask
           D          G
Won't you try to help me?


C           Em
Sat on your sofa
     G            D
It's all broken springs
       C           Em
This isn't the place for
        G        D
Those violin strings
   C           Em
I try out a smile
      G         D
And I aim it at you
     C           Em
You must have missed it
       D    G
You always do



     Em      C  D
But I've got a plan
   D           Em
Why don't you be the artist
     C             G
And make me out of clay?
           D           Em
Why don't you be the writer
  C                G
Decide the words I say?
            Em     G
Cause I'd rather pretend
            D               Em
I'll still be there at the end
           C           Em
Only it's too hard to ask
           D          G
Won't you try to help me?

 C
You wait
        Em
I wait
Em         D
Casting shadows
    D
Interrupted


 C
You wait
        Em
I wait
Em         D
Casting shadows
    D
Interrupted



 C
You wait
        Em
I wait
Em         D
Casting shadows
    D
Interrupted


 C
You wait
        Em
I wait
Em         D
Casting shadows



     Em      C  D
But I've got a plan
         D           Em
Why don't you be the artist
     C             G
And make me out of clay?
           D           Em
Why don't you be the writer
  C                G
Decide the words I say?
            Em     G
Cause I'd rather pretend
            D               Em
I'll still be there at the end

           C           Em
Only it's too hard to ask
           D          G
Won't you try to help me?

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        D           Em
Why don't you be the artist
     C             G
And make me out of clay?
           D           Em
Why don't you be the writer
  C                G
Decide the words I say?
            Em     G
Cause I'd rather pretend
            D               Em
I'll still be there at the end

           C           Em
Only it's too hard to ask
           D          G
Won't you try to help me?

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About this song: The Writer

"The Writer" is the fifth track on Ellie Goulding's debut album Lights. Goulding told Sky Songs: "The Writer is the most personal and emotional song I've written yet. It's about how you'd do anything and change absolutely EVERYTHING about yourself if necessary, just to be noticed by this one person."

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