Chords for Rick James - Stormy Love & When Love Is Gone

_ _ _ _ Today, my [F#] love is like a raging [Em] storm.
_ _ The emptiness surrounds me and I [E] am torn and lost [Bm] within the realm that you are gone.
_ [Em] _ _ Drowning am I in a pool of tears to think that for years to come, I must live alone
without you, _
[Bm] the only one [Em] I've ever loved.
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_ _ [Em] _ And in the night, my heart does reminisce and I savor [E] each memory of you [Em] like a fine wine. _
_ _ _ _ It is said that time will heal the wounds of all men.
_ As for me, there is no time and no cure, _ for [Bm] the love you gave was pure [Em] until this [F#m] day
the gods have not [Em] forgiven me for betraying you.
_ _ And [Bm] you, do you lie awake with thoughts of me in your head?
Is [Em] there another lover, a stranger, beside you in your bed to take the place of me?
_ These words and thoughts [Bm] from me to you come and go in space and time.
And I'll never forget that once you were mine.
_ If saying come back would bring you here, I'd say come back my dear.
As for now, _ my love is like a storm today.
Today, today, today, today. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ There you're old enough to know [Bm] the way your life should [C] be.
Why then do you always ask mother and [G] me? _
Chances of our future [Bm] are almost said and [C] done.
The battle is [G] over and the war I had won is [Em] back [Bm] over.
_ _ _ [C] While you're laying in your sleep at night, _ _ [Em] _ you and me we [Bm] could have made it baby, baby.
[C] But you walked out of my life.
_ [Em] Now my love is gone, _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ now my [C] love is gone.
[Em] Gone, gone, gone.
Now my love is gone, _
_ _ [D] _ _ now my [C] love is gone.
_ Yeah.
_ _ [Bm] Well I see no [Em] further reason for me to carry on.
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This will [G] be the last time I write a good-ending song.
[Em] My heart's an open secret.
[Bm] Your love has closed the door.
[C] My tears have felt like pouring rain.
But the morning [Em] is _ [Bm] over.
_ _ _ _ [C] Like the time that's passed away now.
How much [Em] _ longer [Bm] will I suffer baby, baby?
[C] Yes I'll feel this pain and smile.
_ [G] Now my love is gone, gone, gone, [C] gone.
Your love is gone.
[G] It's gonna be hard to carry on.
[C] _ _ _ [Am] Look at me baby.
Haven't [D] you ever seen a grown man cry?
[Am] Don't it look funny sugar?
[D] Watching tears fall from his [B] _ _ _
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Yesterday I cried. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ [G] see my life without [Bm] you is more than I can [Em] stand.
Picture [C] me an empty heart, oh shallow man.
[G] _ Caged within a feeling [Bm] that one day you'll [Em] return.
Knowing [C] I'll never be my flesh starts to [Bm] burn.
Don't you care baby, _ _ _ [C] _ _
the pain and hurt I'm going through.
[Bm] _ I really, really care baby, [E] baby.
[C] You know what I'm going _ _ [G] through.
Now my love is gone, gone, _ [C] gone.
Your love is [G] gone.
It's gonna be [D] so hard to _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Am] carry on.
Look at me baby.
[D] Haven't you ever seen a grown man cry?
[Am] Don't it look funny sugar?
[D] Watching tears fall _ _ [G] _ _ _
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_ [C] _ _ _ [Em] Yesterday I [G] cried. _
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