Shape of You | Chords + Lyrics
Intro
||: C#m F#m7 | A (Bsus4) B :||
Verse 1
||: C#m F#m7 | A (Bsus4) B :||
The club isn’t the best place to find a lover so the bar is where I go.
Me and my friends at the table doing shots drinking fast and then we talk slow.
And you come over and start up a conversation with just me and trust me I’ll give it a chance now.
Take my hand, stop, put Van the Man on the jukebox and then we start to dance, and now I’m singing like.
Bridge 1
||: C#m F#m7 | A (Bsus4) B :||
Girl, you know I want your love, your love was handmade for somebody like me.
Come on now, follow my lead, I may be crazy, don’t mind me.
Say, boy, let’s not talk too much, grab on my waist and put that body on me.
| C#m F#m7 | A N.C |
Come on now, follow my lead, come, come on now follow my lead.
Chorus 1
||: C#m F#m7 | A (Bsus4) B :||
I’m in love with the shape of you, we push and pull like a magnet do.
Although my heart is falling too, I’m in love with your body.
And last night you were in my room and now my bedsheets smell like you.
Every day discovering something brand new, I’m in love with your body.
Chorus tag 1
||: C#m F#m7 | A (Bsus4) B :||
Oh-I-oh-I-oh-I-oh-I, I’m in love with your body.
Oh-I-oh-I-oh-I-oh-I, I’m in love with your body.
Oh-I-oh-I-oh-I-oh-I, I’m in love with your body.
Every day discovering something brand new, I’m in love with the shape of you.
Verse 2
| C#m F#m7 | A (Bsus4) B |
One week in we let the story begin, we’re going out on our first date.
| C#m F#m7 | A N.C |
You and me are thrifty, so go all you can eat, fill up your bag and I fill up a plate.
| C#m F#m7 | A (Bsus4) B |
We talk for hours and hours about the sweet and the sour and how your family is doing okay.
| C#m F#m7 | A (Bsus4) B |
Leave and get in a taxi, then kiss in the backseat, tell the driver make the radio play, and I’m singing like.
Bridge 2
Girl, you know I want your love, your love was handmade for somebody like me.
Come on now, follow my lead, I may be crazy, don’t mind me.
Say, boy, let’s not talk too much, grab on my waist and put that body on me.
Come on now, follow my lead, come, come on now, follow my lead.
Chorus 2
I’m in love with the shape of you, we push and pull like a magnet do.
Although my heart is falling too, I’m in love with your body.
And last night you were in my room and now my bedsheets smell like you.
Every day discovering something brand new, I’m in love with your body.
Chorus tag 2
Oh-I-oh-I-oh-I-oh-I, I’m in love with your body.
Oh-I-oh-I-oh-I-oh-I, I’m in love with your body.
Oh-I-oh-I-oh-I-oh-I, I’m in love with your body.
Every day discovering something brand new, I’m in love with the shape of you.
Middle 8
| N.C | N.C |
Come on, be my baby, come on. Come on, be my baby, come on.
| N.C | N.C |
Come on, be my baby, come on. Come on, be my baby, come on.
| C#m F#m7 | A B |
Come on, be my baby, come on. Come on, be my baby, come on.
| C#m F#m7 | N.C |
Come on, be my baby, come on. Come on, be my baby, come on.
Chorus 3
I’m in love with the shape of you, we push and pull like a magnet do.
Although my heart is falling too, I’m in love with your body.
Last night you were in my room and now my bedsheets smell like you.
Every day discovering something brand new, I’m in love with your body.
Outro
||: C#m F#m7 | A (Bsus4) B :|| x3
||: (Come on, be my baby, come on. Come on, be my baby, come on.) I’m in love with your body. :|| x3
| C#m F#m7 | A N.C |
Every day discovering something brand new, I’m in love with the shape of you.
Shape of You Chords: Learn the progressions
Shape of You is built around a four-chord progression and common tones, creating a never-ending loop that is only varied by stopping or adding a temporary layer.
This style of production is most likely influenced by Ed’s use of the loop pedal, something he became famous for doing and has since stuck with.
The chords in question are VI – II – IV – V in the key of C#m, with extensions, they look like this:
| C#m (VI) F#m7 (II) | A (IV) (Bsus4) B (V) |
IN the TAB lesson, we analyze how this arrangement uses common tones, how this can be adjusted into a single acoustic guitar part, and also developed, here’s a link:Shape of You – Guitar Lesson with TAB.
Having absorbed the TAB and played along with Ed’s original recording, all you need is. simple chord charts, here’s one I made for you.
Shape of You Chord Chart | Related Pages
Should you want to download this chart, here’s a PDF: Shape Of You Chord Chart PDF.
This chord chart was created using iReal Pro, here’s a link to that file: Shape Of You iReal Pro. Using this and the iRealPro app, you can change the key.
Ed Sheeran’s biggest hit!
Ed Sheeran‘s biggest hit, Shape of You reached the #1 spot in 34 countries in 2017, selling over 40 million copies.
Due to the inspiration being No Scrubs by TLC, Ed gave some of the publishing to the girls who wrote it, something he didn’t agree to do with Marvin Gaye‘s estate for Thinking Out Loud which is (perhaps even more) similar to Let’s Get It On.
Ed’s career is steeped in controversy about songwriting theft like this which is partly down to that many producers these days start with a track for inspiration and then start rewriting it.
I know for a fact that Ed spent his early career going from one 360 producer to the next, often doing a gig after a full day of writing.
You may think using reference tracks is immoral but as the saying goes: Inspiration is for amateurs, the rest of us just go to work!
If you listen to interviews with Paul McCartney you’ll soon realize that this is what he did too so perhaps it is the way forward…
Shape of You Chords | Related Pages
Shape Of You | Guitar Lesson + TAB
With this guitar lesson, you can learn to play Shape Of You by Ed Sheeran using TAB and chord analysis.
| C#m F#m7 | A (Bsus4) B |
The club isn’t the best place to find a lover so the bar is where I go…
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Ed Sheeran tunes
Best known for his relentless work ethic and ability to get in with everyone in the business, Ed Sheeran has been one of the best-selling artists since 2011.
His best tunes include The A Team, Thinking Out Loud, Perfect, Bad Habits, Sing, and Shape of You.
Ed Sheeran on the web
About me | Dan Lundholm
This was a guitar lesson about Shape Of You’s chords, by Dan Lundholm. Discover more about him and how you can learn guitar with Spytunes.
Most importantly, find out why you should learn guitar through playing tunes, not by practising scales or studying theory in isolation.
