Belle and Sebastian - Write About Love: Guitar Chords

Learn to play "Write About Love" on your guitar with our chord guide. This page provides everything you need to perform this song on the guitar, including lyrics integrated with chords, chord diagrams, and a key transposer to match your vocal range.

For easier playing, use our Simplify Chords feature to remove difficult chords like barre.

          Gm  F Gm
I know a spell
                     C  A# F
That would you make well
F#dim        Gm             F         D#
Write about love, it could be in any tense,
        D         Gm  F Gm
but it must make sense

I know a trick
Forget that you are sick
Write about love
It could be in any form
Hand it to me in the morning

Chorus:
   A#                               G#
I hate my job, I'm working way too much
                 F
(every day I'm stuck in an office)
   A#                                     C#
At one o'clock, I take my lunch up on the roof
            F
(up on the roof)
D#            C#                G#    D#     F
The city's spread below, I'll write about a man
          G#      D#        F
He's intellectual and he's hot, but he understands

The seconds move on (if you watch the clock)
And the sky grows dull (if you’re looking up)
But the girls move from
thrill to thrill on the tightrope walk
(On the tightrope walk)

Chorus

I know a way (so you know the way)
Get on your skinny knees and pray (maybe not today)
You’ve got to see the dream through
the windows and the trees of your living room
(of your living room)
You’ve got to see the dream through
the windows and the trees of your living room


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Guitar Chord Diagrams

A#

Guitar chord A#

C

Guitar chord C

C#

Guitar chord C#

D

Guitar chord D

D#

Guitar chord D#

F

Guitar chord F

F#dim

Guitar chord F#dim

G#

Guitar chord G#

Gm

Guitar chord Gm

Here you can see detailed diagrams for each guitar chord used in the song. Utilize our key transposer to adjust the chords to a key that better fits your singing range. Simply select the desired key, and the chords throughout this page will update automatically, ensuring you can play and sing comfortably.

If you are also interested in learning how to play "Write About Love" on the ukulele, check out the chords on our sister site: Ukulele Chords for "Write About Love" by Belle and Sebastian.

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