Falling Out Of Love

Words & Music by John Denver
from It's About Time (1983)



  G                            D
This is what it's like falling out of love
  G                                       D
This is the way you lose your very best friend
  C             D                  G
This is how it feels when it's all over
  Am              D7             G
This is just the way a true love ends

 G                                    C
First of all, there's no one you can talk to
  G                                     C
When there is, they just don't seem to hear
 D                               G
Words don't seem to matter much, anyway
      Am                 C          Am                D
They can't describe the pain, they can't explain the fear
  G                                    C
Then the nights grow cold and hard to live through
  G                                C
Still, you hate to see the morning come
 D                                   G
Somehow tomorrow doesn't matter much anymore
     Am               C            Am             D7
The future holds no promise, your life's already done

  G                            D
This is what it's like falling out of love
  G                                       D
This is the way you lose your very best friend
  C             D                  G
This is how it feels when it's all over
  Am              D7             G
This is just the way a true love ends

  G                                  C
Then you find your heart no longer flutters
     G                                  C
And you no longer look through a lover's eyes
  D                                       G
What's to see when the world falls down around you?
     Am             C                Am              D7
You simply can't believe it, but it comes as no surprise

  G                            D
This is what it's like falling out of love
  G                                       D
This is the way you lose your very best friend
  C             D                  G
This is how it feels when it's all over
  Am              D7             G
This is just the way a true love ends

  C                   D             G                  Em
What's this sense of failure? It's such an incredible loss
     C                      Am
It's all the things you'll never do
    C                         D7
and all the dreams that will never come true

  G                            D
This is what it's like falling out of love
  G                                       D
This is the way you lose your very best friend
  C             D                  G
This is how it feels when it's all over
  Am              D7             G
This is just the way a true love ends
      Am              D              G
Oh, this is just the way a true love ends
   Am               D            G
I don't believe a true love ever ends