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(If You Want Love) Lower Your Expectations

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Bo Burnham

Version
studio
published by
southboy
Tone
A-
A+
Slide
A -> La
Video
Chords
	 
[Verse]
E
You want a guy that's sweet
C#m
A guy that's tough
C#m A
A feminist who likes to pay for stuff
The kinda guy that gets along with your friends
B
Without being attracted to any of them
E C#m
A good boy, a bad boy, a good bad boy
A half good half bad half boy
A
Loves your brother sensitive but not weak and
B
Is a great lover calls your mother on the weekend
E A B C#m A
Then you might think that this guy only exists in your mind
E
Well guess what
B
You're right
[Chorus]
E C#m A
If you want love
B E C#m
Lower your expectations a few
A B
Cause Prince Charming would never settle for you
E C#m A
If you want love
B E
Just pick a guy and love him
C#m A
And if he's got a thing for feet
B
Say fuck it, sweep me off them
[Verse]
E
You want a girl that's nice
C#m
A girl that's not
C#m A
Obsessed with her looks but is insanely hot
The kinda girl that you can show to your folks
B
Loves the movies that you like and always laughs at your jokes
E C#m
A real girl, a hot girl, a really hot girl
A brand new really hot real doll
A
Wants to impress you doesn't care if you notice
B
And only ever uses you to tickle her throat with
E A E B C#m A
Then you might think that this girl only exists in your mind
E
She's real
B
But last week
She died
[Chorus]
E C#m A
If you want love
B E C#m
Lower your expectations a lot
A B
You might think your dick is a gift I promise it's not
E C#m A
If you want love
B E
Just pick a girl and love her
C#m
Then whip out your dick and let the
A B
Girl you love decline the offer
A E B
I don't want a neat freak I don't want a slob
B A
Or somebody with bedhead and a dead-end job
E B
Cause I won't settle for less
B
Than perfect
A E B
We want perfect children, a perfect life
B A
Perfect husband or a perfect wife
A E B
But deep down we know
C#m
We don't deserve it
[Outro]
[Mute]
But
E C#m A
We all deserve love
B E C#m
Even on the days when we aren't our best
A
Cause we all suck
B
But love can make us suck less
E C#m A
We all deserve love
B E C#m
It's the very best part of being alive
A
And I would know
B E
I'm almost twenty five
Sad