Twist The Knife by Sam Roberts
Key: CC | Capo: 0fr |  Left-Handed 

    


Intro: C, G6, Am, G6, C x2
C          G6              Am
I hear you knocking on the door,
    G6               C
but you ain't comin' in, no, no,
        G6       Am
to this house no more.
      G6       C
Cause it ain't like,
         G6            Am
it ain't like it was before.
    G6     C                   G6      Am
You went a-sailin' on for that distant shore.
C   G6  Am
Oh, oh, oh...
C            G6      Am
True, we had love so true, 
   G6     C
oh we had skies so blue,
       G6       Am
we had skies so blue.
G6 C           G6       Am
So I, I had my hopes up high,
     G6    C                        G6         Am
till all I heard was goodbye when I called for you.
F                   C         G6
I turn the key, you twist the knife,
        Am
I can't win,
           F
no I can't win.
           C               Em                      Am
Now you're knockin' on the door but you can't come in.
   Am
Oh no...
                      C
So you take it on the chin,
         G6             Am
yeah you take it on the weak chin.
         G6        C
Then you do it all again and again,
        G6           Am
tell me when will it end.
    G6           C
And now you come back,
             G6         Am
oh yeah, you crawled on back,
          G6        C                               G6     Am
with your head held high and your book of lies in a burlap sack.
G6 C                         G6        Am     G6
   I just don't know, honey, what went wrong.
C                                G6      Am   G6
Love just can't grow when you're gone so long.
F                   C         G6
I turn the key, you twist the knife,
        Am
I can't win,
           F
no I can't win.
           C               Em                      Am
Now you're knockin' on the door but you can't come in.
   Am
Oh no...
C       G6         Am
Oh, you just don't know,
G6            C       G6       Am    G6
Which way the wind is going to blow.
C            G6    Am
No, you just don't know,
G6            C      G6       Am    G6
Just when the sky is going to fall.
              C
You've been a soldier,
              G6   Am
you've been a privateer,
           G6           C              G6      Am
now you're looking much older, yes you are, my dear.
           G6   C
Now you're back again,
         G6     Am
from the lion's den,
             G6           C
you've for a plagiarist's eye,
             G6     Am   G6
you've got a poison pen.
F                   C         G6
I turn the key, you twist the knife,
        Am
I can't win,
           F
no I can't win.
           C               Em                      Am
Now you're knockin' on the door but you can't come in.
   Am
Oh no...
G6-C    G6         Am
Oh, you just don't know,
G6            C       G6       Am    G6
Which way the wind is going to blow.
C            G6    Am
No, you just don't know,
G6            C      G6       Am    G6
Just when the sky is going to fall.
C                           G6
Love can bend you, love can break,
Am                             G6
hearts can mend and hearts can ache.
C                           G6
Life will give you what you take,
Am                              G6
oh, life will give you what you take.
C                           G6
Love can bend you, love can break,
Am                             G6
hearts can mend and hearts can ache.
C G6 Am till the end!