Liability - Lorde

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Capo: Fret 1
Tuning: Standard, E A D G B E

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So I was just casually playing this song and I suddenly realized that Lorde used the same EXACT chord
progression as I Dreamed a Dream from Les Miz and I was a bit #shook about it. Anyway...
Another thing I discovered is that none of the tabs quite do justice to the song... so yeah.
Lemme explain it a bit for ya tho: while the chords are playing, the bass notes do some kind of scale downward
throughout the verse, until the A kicks in and she basically plays A, B, C# and E upward.
So, while the rest of the song plays the chords, the bass notes do: D, C#, B, A, G, F# and E downward -- then
A, B, C# and E upward, and then you go back to the D. It's the same throughout the whole song.
It looks quite difficult but it isn't, I swear. You just need to get into the mindset. At least, on piano and
uke (my instruments) it doesn't, maybe it will on guitar.
For any of you who might be wondering: yes, Bm7 and D6 are the same notes (arranged differently, but the same
notes). No it's not the same thing (kinda why the bass notes are different).

[Intro]

 /  /  / 

 /  / 

[Verse]
   
     Baby real

   
ly hurt me
              
Crying in the 


taxi
              
He don't wanna

 
 know me
              
Says he made t

          
he big mistake

              
 of dancing in

        
 my storm
            
Says it was po

/
ison
    
So I guess I'l

    
l go home
         
Into the arms 

#             
of the girl th

     
at I love
              
The only love 

          
I haven't scre

      
wed up
              
She's so hard 

   
to please
             
But she's a fo


rest fire
   
       I do my

  
  best to meet

 her demands
        
Play at romanc

           
e, we slow dan

ce
              
In the living 

          
room, but all 

              
that a strange

        
r would see
         
Is one girl sw

        
aying alone
             
Stroking her c

   
heek

[Chorus]
             
They say, "You

        
're a little m

        
uch for me
          
You're a liabi

    
lity
          
You're a littl

#           
e much for me"
   
So they pull b

              
ack, make othe

  
r plans
           
I understand, 

          
I'm a liabilit

 
y
         
Get you wild, 

           
make you leave
    
I'm a little m


uch for
            
E-a-na-na-na, 

      
everyone

[Verse]
            
The truth is I

        
 am a toy that

        
 people enjoy
              
'Til all of th

          
e tricks don't

            
 work anymore
              
And then they 

    
are bored of m

e
   
I know that it

   
's exciting
              
Running throug

      
h the night, b

ut
              
Every perfect 


summer's
          
Eating me aliv

              
e until you're

 
 gone
     
   Better on m

       
y own

[Chorus]
             
They say, "You

        
're a little m

        
uch for me
          
You're a liabi

    
lity
          
You're a littl

#           
e much for me"
   
So they pull b

              
ack, make othe

  
r plans
           
I understand, 

          
I'm a liabilit

 
y
         
Get you wild, 

           
make you leave
    
I'm a little m


uch for
            
E-a-na-na-na, 

      
everyone

[Outro]
              
They're gonna 


watch me
             
Disappear into

   
 the sun
              
You're all gon

   
na watch me
            
Disappear into

    
 the sun

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