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Too Much Love Will Kill You

Brian May
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Note this!: I did not make these chords. I just wanted to post them on this site.
Introduction:
The intro to this song is relatively easy, but is one of my favorites. If you can master
the sequences between the chords, you will be set.
The intro starts with Brian using a multitracked set of ooooh's then the piano starts.
You see the * symbol, it indicates a type of arpeggio on G used in the intro. You will
see elements of the intro used throughout the song.
Oooh oooh oooh oooh
(Piano)
      

Verse 1

G C/G G *
I'm just the pieces of the man I used to be
Too many bitter tears are raining down on me
I'm far away from home, and I've been facing this alone for much too lo-ng  

Verse 2

G C G *
I feel like no one ever told the truth to me
About growing up and what a struggle it would be 
In my tangled state of mind, I've been looking back to find where I went wrong.  

Chorus

Too much love will kill you, if you can't make up your mind
Torn between the lover, and the love you leave behind
You're headed for disaster, 'cos you never read the signs
Too much love will kill you, every time.
      
G C/G G *
I'm just the shadow of the man I used to be
And it seems like there's no way out of this for me
I used to bring you sunshine, now all I ever do is bring you down   
G C G *
How would it be if you were standing in my shoes
Can't you see that it's impossible to choose 
No, there's no making sense of it, every way I go I have to lose.  

Chorus

Too much love will kill you, if you can't make up your mind
Torn between the lover, and the love you leave behind
You're headed for disaster, 'cos you never read the signs
Too much love will kill you, every time.

Acoustic Guitar Solo

     
    
     
Yeaahhh....    
Too much love will kill you, it'll make your life a lie
Yeah, too much love will kill you, and you won't understand why
You'd give your life, you'd sell your soul, but here it comes again
   
(Play notes from high down: D C G Eb D C)
Too much love will kill you
Eb (Vary the way you play Ebsus4 twice) then play Ebsus2 and continue
in the end
in the end.

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These need nothing beyond G/B, C, G/D, Em6/C#, G, D/G, C/G, C/E, Dsus4, D/F#, Em, Am, D, C/D, C#dim, Csus2/G, Bm/D, Cmadd9, Eb, Gadd9.

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