Note: This version is based on Taylor Swift City of Lover Concert.
I love all the acoustic versions of Taylor’s songs, especially the ones she plays live :)
Please feel free to correct any mistakes in the comments.

Avoid hitting the first string when playing this version.

* = Single Strum
*** = Downward Heavy Strums

[Intro]

       

[Chorus]
             
Saying goodbye

        
 is death by a

          
 thousand cuts
           
Flashbacks wak

         
ing me up
              
I get drunk, b

        
ut it's not en

ough
             
’Cause the mor

              
ning comes and

        
 you're not my

 baby
             
I look through

        
 the windows o

       
f this love
              
Even though we

          
 boarded them 

   
up
              
Chandelier's s

      
till flickerin

g here
             
’Cause I can't

          
 pretend it's 

              
okay when it's

       
 not
              
It's death by 

             
a thousand cut

   
s


[Verse 1]
              
I dress to kil

          
l my time, I t

              
ake the long w

      
ay home
              
I ask the traf

              
fic lights if 

      
it'll be alrig

ht
              
They say, "I d

         
on't know"
              
And what once 

          
was ours is no

        
 one's now
              
I see you ever

              
ywhere, the on

   
ly thing we sh

are
              
Is this small 

   
town
              
You said it wa

              
s a great love

          
, one for the 

     
ages
              
But if the sto

              
ry’s over, why

      
 am I still wr

iting pages?


[Chorus]
             
Saying goodbye

        
 is death by a

          
 thousand cuts
           
Flashbacks wak

         
ing me up
              
I get drunk, b

        
ut it's not en

ough
             
’Cause the mor

              
ning comes and

        
 you're not my

 baby
             
I look through

        
 the windows o

       
f this love
              
Even though we

          
 boarded them 

   
up
              
Chandelier's s

      
till flickerin

g here
             
’Cause I can't

          
 pretend it's 

              
okay when it's

       
 not
              
It's death by 

             
a thousand cut

   
s


[Verse 2]
(           
My heart, my h

              
ips, my body, 

   
my love
              
Tryna find a p

              
art of me that

            
 you didn't to

uch
              
Gave up on me 

              
like I was a b

   
ad drug
              
Now I'm search

              
ing for signs 

              
in a haunted c

   
lub
              
Our songs, our

              
 films, united

    
 we stand
              
Our country, g

              
uess it was a 

        
lawless land
              
Quiet my fears

              
 with the touc

          
h of your hand
              
Paper cut stin

              
gs from our pa

             
per-thin plans
              
My time, my wi

              
ne, my spirit,

    
 my trust
              
Tryna find a p

              
art of me you 

            
didn't take up
              
Gave you so mu

              
ch, but it was

    
n't enough
              
But I'll be al

              
right, it's ju

             
st a thousand 

    
cuts


[Chorus]
              
I get drunk, b

            
ut it's not en

   
ough
              
'Cause you're 


not my baby
             
I look through

        
 the windows o

       
f this love
              
Even though we

          
 boarded them 

   
up
              
Chandelier's s

      
till flickerin

g here
             
’Cause I can't

          
 pretend it's 

              
okay when it's

 
 not
        
No it’s not
              
It's death by 

             
a thousand cut

  
s


[Post-Chorus]
              
Part of me tha

              
t you didn't t


ouch
          
My body, my lo

          
ve, my trust
              
But it wasn't 

          
enough, it was

              
n't enough, no

      
, no


[Outro]
(         
I take the lon

      
g way home
              
I ask the traf

              
fic lights if 

      
it'll be alrig

ht
              
They say, "I d

     
on't know"