You’ve Got The Love chords by Florence + the Machine


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You’ve Got The Love | Chords + Lyrics


Intro

| G#m | F# |
Sometimes I feel like throwing my hands up in the air,
| C# | C#sus4 C# |
I know I can count on you.
| G#m | F# |
Sometimes I feel like saying “Lord I just don’t care”,
| C# | C# |
but you’ve got the love I need to see me through.

Verse 1

| G#m | F# |
Sometimes it seems that the going is just too rough,
| C# | C#sus4 C# |
and things go wrong no matter what I do.
| G#m | F# |
Now and then it seems that life is just too much,
| C# | C#sus4 C# |
but you’ve got the love I need to see me through.

Bridge 1

| G#m | F# | C# | C#sus4 C# |
When food is gone you are my daily meal, oh, oh, oh.
| G#m | F# | C# | C#sus4 C# |
When friends are gone I know my savior’s love is real, you know it’s real.

Chorus 1

||: G#m | F# | C# | C#sus4 C# :||
||: You’ve got the love, you’ve got the love, you’ve got the love. :||

Verse 2 (breakdown)

| G#m | F# |
Time after time I think “Oh, Lord, what’s the use?”
| C# | C#sus4 C# |
Time after time I think it’s just no good.
| G#m | F# |
‘Cause sooner or later in life, the things you love you lose,
| C# | C# |
but you’ve got the love I need to see me through.

Chorus 2

||: G#m | F# | C# | C#sus4 C# :||
||: You’ve got the love, you’ve got the love, you’ve got the love. :|| x4

Chorus tag

||: G#m | F# | C# | C#sus4 C# :||
||: Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. :||

Outro

| G#m | F# |
Sometimes I feel like throwing my hands up in the air,
| C# | C#sus4 C# |
’cause I know I can count on you.
| G#m | F# |
Sometimes I feel like saying “Lord I just don’t care”,
| C# | C# |
but you’ve got the love I need to see me through.



You’ve Got The Love Chords: Learn the progressions


The chords for You’ve Got The Love you saw above are from Florence + the Machine‘s version. Originally, this was written by The Source and sung by Candi Staton in 1986.

When Florence released her version, the song saw a revival and came back into the covers band repertoire where it has since stayed, often used at the end of the setlist as a finale or even encore.

Essentially a diatonic II – I – V chord progression in the key of F#, the V chord is varied with sus4 most of the time, like this:

||: G#m (II) | F# (I) | C# (V) | C#sus4 C# :||

Sometimes, we scrap the sus4. For the end, the piano adds 6 and sus2 extensions during the outro. You could experiment with playing fills using the C# Major Pentatonic as that would embrace those notes.

As the vocal melody is using the F# Major Pentatonic, experiment with this scale as well, perhaps blending licks in C# with F#, rather than finding one scale that fits all as doing this will create more musical licks.

The best way to approach You’ve Got The Love’s chords is to vary the chord shapes. This will keep the interest up, without getting in the way. Try long delays when you hold the chords for a bar each.

If you want to apply some rhythms, save that for the C#sus4C# movement only as this is what happens on the recording.



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Florence + the Machine tunes

Florence + the Machine covered You’ve Got The Love chords.

Teenage friends Florence and Isabella started what was to become Florence + the Machine under the name Florence Robot and Isabella Machine.

Their best-known tunes are Dog Days Are Over, You’ve Got The Love, Shake It Out, and Spectrum.


Florence + the Machine on the web

Listen to Florence + the Machine on Spotify.


Candi Staton tunes

Candi Staton recorded You’ve Got The Love chords.

Best known for either reworking classics or having tunes written for her, Candi Staton has released a remarkable 30 studio albums.

Her best tunes include Stand By Your Man, In the Ghetto, Young Hearts Run Free, Nights On Broadway, Suspicious Minds, and You Got The Love.


Candi Staton on the web

Listen to Candi Staton on Spotify.


About me | Dan Lundholm

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