Taylor Swift – The Lakes Chords For Guitar, Piano & Ukulele

Presenting Easy Chords and strumming of The Lakes, Jack Antonoff & Taylor Swift produced this single, released on the 18th of August 2020. The track is also written by Jack Antonoff & Taylor Swift. The track is on the D major key, to simplify the chords we can use a capo on the 2nd fret.

• Tuning: Standard(EADGBE)
• Key: D
• Capo: 2nd Fret
• Chords: C, Em, Dm, Am, Am/B, F, G/B, G
• Suggested Strumming:
  D= Down Stroke, U = Upstroke, N.C= No Chord

[Intro]

C    Em   Dm    Am    Am/B     x2

[VERSE 1]

C          Em                    Dm            Am Am/B
Is it romantic how all my elegies eulogize me?
C                 Em                         Dm
I’m not cut out for all these cynical clones
          Am Am/B
These hunters with cell phones

[CHORUS]

Em                                                            F
Take me to the lakes, where all the poets went to die
               Am                                                      G/B
I don’t belong and, my beloved, neither do you
Em                                                      F
Those Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to cry
                     G
I’m setting off, but not without my muse

[VERSE 2]

C                            Em                      Dm
What should be over burrowed under my skin
     Am                               Am/B
In heart-stopping waves of hurt
C                       Em                             Dm
I’ve come too far to watch some namedropping sleaze
                Am              Am/B
Tell me what are my words worth

[CHORUS]

Em                                                            F
Take me to the lakes, where all the poets went to die
               Am                                                      G/B
I don’t belong and, my beloved, neither do you
Em                                                      F
Those Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to cry
                     G
I’m setting off, but not without my muse

[Bridge]

C                                 Em
I want auroras and sad prose
Dm                          Am      (Am/B)       C
I want to watch wisteria grow right over my bare feet
Em                                          Dm
Because I haven’t moved in years
Am
And I want you right here
C                                            Em
A red rose grew up out of ice frozen ground
         Dm                           Am
With no one around to tweet it
C                              Em
While I bathe in cliffside pools
                     Dm                                    Am
With my calamitous love and insurmountable grief

[CHORUS]

Em                                                            F
Take me to the lakes, where all the poets went to die
               Am                                                      G/B
I don’t belong and, my beloved, neither do you
Em                                                      F
Those Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to cry
                     G
I’m setting off, but not without my muse