U2 - Love Rescue Me | Heartwood Guitar

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Love Rescue Me

Note: The original song is in the key of A. This version uses key-of-G chord shapes to make it a hair easier. Play with Capo 2 to match the key of the original recording.

Chord Guide

3 4

G: 3x0003

32 1

C: x32010

132

D/F#: 2x0232

3 4

G7: 3x300x

If you want to strum instead of pick, here’s the pattern:

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B D U D U D D U D U < = accent

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 +

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Picking Pattern:

1 |------------|

2 |------X-----| 3

3 |----X---X---| 2

4 |--X-------X-| 1

5 |------------|

6 |X-----------| T <--Bass note changes depending on chord.

1 2 3 4 5 6

Intro: Instrumental Verse

G (2)

Love rescue me

C G

Come forth and speak to me

G (2) D/F#

Raise me up and don't let me fall

G (2)

No man is my enemy

C G

My own hands imprison me

G D/F# G (2)

Love rescue me

G (2)

Many strangers have I met

C G

On the road to my regret

G (2) D/F#

Many lost who seek to find themselves in me

G G7

They ask me to reveal

C G

The very thoughts they would conceal

G D/F# G (2)

Love rescue me

C (2) G (2)

And the sun in the sky makes a shadow of you and I

G (2) D/F# D7/F#

Stretching out as the sun sinks in the sea

G G7 C G

I'm here without a name in the palace of my shame

G D/F# G (2)

Said love rescue me

G (2)

In the cold mirror of a glass

C G

I see my reflection pass

G (2) D/F#

I see the dark shades of what I used to be

G G7

I see the purple of her eyes

C G

The scarlet of my lies

G D/F# G (2)

Love rescue me

C (2) G (2)

And the sun in the sky makes a shadow of you and I

G (2) D/F# D7/F#

Stretching out as the sun sinks in the sea

G G7 C G

I'm hanging by my thumbs I'm ready for whatever comes

G D/F# G (2)

Love rescue me

D/F# (2) G (2)

Yeah though I walk through the valley of shadow

D/F# (2) G (2)

Yet I will fear no evil

G G7 C G

I have cursed thy rod and staff they no longer comfort me

G D/F# G (2)

Love rescue me

G (2)