You Can Love Yourself

You Can Love Yourself - Keb Mo

From: Just like You (1996)

Transcribed by: Dirk Cushenbery (dirkcush@pdq.net)

Define: CHORUS Chords:

D7=2120xx; Db7=464644; f#m=222442; bm=234422; B7=242422; A=02220x; E=001220

Verse Chords:

edim7=245x0x; ebdim7=356x0x; cdim7=989xxx; c#dim7=878xxx

My [edim7]Baby [ebdim7]wrote me a [cdim7]letter [c#dim7]

She didn't[edim7]call me [ebdim7]on the [cdim7]phone [c#dim7]

Five little [edim7]words is [cdim7]all she [c#dim7]wrote

See ya [E]later I'm [A]gone [A][E]

She had no explanation

About why she had to go

Well I can't take a joke

But I can take a hint

She don't love me no more

But if [D7]nobody [Db7]loves you

And you [f#m]feel like dust on an [bm]empty [B7]shelf

just re[A]member, [E]You can love your[A]self

My mother says she loves me

But you know she could be jivin' too

And everybody's always criticizing

everything that I do

I work 9 to 5, do the best I can

try to plese the boss

I bought a big ol' house

and a brand new car

and then he laid me off

Everytime I meet a lady

I wanna try to get to know

Either I'm too small or

she's too tall

she's rich and I'm po'

So I called my old

friend Hazel Mae

asked her out for a little date

She said,"I'm married now and

I got three little kids,

boy ya just a little too late."

CHORUS twice

("Nice to meet me...")