Les Misérables - On My Own Chords

On my own
by Claude-Michel Schönberg
Les Miserables
 
From the official Les Miserables notes.
 
 
[Intro]
D  Em  D  Em
 
 
[Verse 1]
       D       Em/D            D     D/C#
 On my own, pretending he's beside me.
      Bm      E7                 A     A/G#
 All alone, I walk with him till morning.
         G      F#7            Bm
 Without him, I feel his arms around me.
     Em                            Em/D            A
 And when I lose my way I close my eyes and he has found me!
 
 
[Verse 2]
        D         Em/D                 D     D/C#
 In the rain, the pavement shines like silver.
         Bm         E7           A    A/G#
 All the lights are misty in the river.
        G             F#7               Bm
 In the darkness, the trees are full of starlight.
     Em                         Em/D        A
 And all I see is him and me forever and forever.
 
 
[Bridge]
       Bb        Cbm5/Bb    Bb  Bb/A
 And I know it's only in my mind,
          Gm           Bb/F            Eb
 that I'm talking to myself and not to him.
         Em                      B    B7
 And, although I know that he is blind,
         Am7           C7
 still I say there's a way for us.
 
 
[Verse 3]
   F             Gm/F              F   F/E
 I love him. But when the night is over.
       Dm        G7             C    C/B
 He is gone, the river's just a river.
     Bb           A               Dm
 Without him, the world around me changes,
     Gm                                Gm/F                C
 the trees are bare and everywhere the streets are full of strangers.
 
 
[Verse 4]
   F             Bb/F          F       F/E
 I love him, but every day I'm learning.
        Dm         G7           C      C/B
 All my life, I've only been pretending.
     Bb          A                Dm
 Without me, his world will go on turning.
   Gm                                               C
 A world that's full of happiness that I have never known.
 
 
[Outro]
   F
 I love him,
   F/Eb
 I love him,
   Dm
 I love him,
     Bbm/Db     F
 but only on my own.
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