Gentle With Me

G 
Why are you so 
Em 
Emotionally inaccessible? 
C 
Why are you scared 
       G               D 
Of the things that you feel? 

G 
Why are youcold? 
       Em 
Alwaysrun away whenI need you the most 
C 
Oh I’vebeen told 
    G             D 
I’m asleep at the wheel 

C 
I’ve heard it before 
         D 
But they don’t know the why 
Em                        G 
Fight or flight, it’s the way I survive 
    C 
Now everything’s changed 
In the best kinda way 
     Cm 
With you, I feel safe 

G 
Whenever I start to cry 
B5 
Everything in me wants to hide 
Em 
You hold my hand and you say it’s 
C 
Okay to feel things 

G 
Cause breaking down’s not a big deal 
Bm      B5 
You validate how I feel 
Em 
Nobody’s ever been so 
C 
Gentle with me 

G 
When I can’t express 
      Em 
How I feel cause I’m not the best 
C 
At finding the words 
        D 
Somehow you know them all 

          G 
All of my flaws you love 
          Em 
I’m less ashamed of me 
               C 
You throw your fairy dust 
                 D 
And everything’s so easy 

     C 
I’ve heard it before 
         D 
But they don’t know the why 
Em                        G 
Fight or flight, it’s the way I survive 

C 
Now everything’s changed 
In the best kinda way 
     Cm 
With you I feel safe 

G 
Whenever I start to cry 
Bm 
Everything in me wants to hide 
Em 
You hold my hand and you say it’s 
C       D 
Okay to feel things 

G 
Cause breaking down’s not a big deal 
Bm 
You validate how I feel 
Em 
Nobody’s ever been so 
C      D 
Gentle with me 

G    Bm    Em     C   D 

G 
Breaking down’s not a big deal 
Bm 
You validate how I feel 
Em 
Nobody’s ever been so 
C 
Gentle with me 

G 
Whenever I start to cry 
Bm 
Everything in me wants to hide 
Em 
You hold my hand and you say it’s 
C       D 
Okay to feel things 

G 
Cause breaking down’s not a big deal 
Bm 
You validate how I feel 
Em 
Nobody’s ever been so 
            D 
Gentle with me