IF THIS IS LOVE from THE NOTEBOOK

Words and Music by

INGRID MICHAELSON
Arrangement by
CARMEL DEAN

Moderately fast
138
G 5
YOUNGER ALLIE:

I’ve wait - ed ev - ’ry day to

G 5 /F

feel the way I feel. Knots in my stom-ach, the kind that nev - er heal.

G 5 /E C sus2

But-ter-flies that fly in me and nev - er seem to go a - way.

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D G 5

Sick to my stom-ach when I think a - bout his face,

G 5 /F G 5 /E

but in a good way, in a way I can’t re-place. No one can stop this, it’s

C sus2 D sus D

al - most like a hur - ri - cane. If

G 5 G 5 /F

this is love, I’m not read - y. If this is love, why am I

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G 5 /E

so un - stead - y? If this is love, why did no one tell me the pain

C sus2 D sus D G 5

that I would feel? If this is love, may -

G 5 /F

-be I’m read - y. How do I know I’m in my head a - gain? If

G 5 /E C sus2

this is love, I think I’m in it. If this is, if this is,

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D sus D G /B C sus2

if this is love.

G 5 G 5 /F

The world a - round me says no but I say yes. I want to scream it out. In -

G 5 /E

-stead it’s stuck in - side my chest. It’s like a bird, in a rage, in a cage, and no -

C sus2 D sus D G 5

-bod - y wants to free me. If this is love,

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G 5 /F

I’m not read - y. If this is love, why am I so un - stead - y? If this

G 5 /E C sus2

is love, why did no one tell me the pain that I would feel?

D sus D G 5

If this is love, may - be I’m read - y. How do

G 5 /F G 5 /E

I know I’m in my head a - gain? If this is love, I

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C sus2 D sus D

think I’m in it. If this is, if this is, if this is love,

G 5 E m7

I think I’m in it,

C sus2

and in be - tween it, and up - side - down.

D sus D A

If this is love,

gliss.

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E sus E Fm 7(4)

if this is love, this is what

B m9 A /C

all the songs are a - bout. This is why I have to break out.

sub. cresc. poco a poco

D sus2 E 7sus E 7 B m9

This is what I can’t live with - out. I am read -

A /C D sus2 E sus

- y now. I am read - y for

cresc. poco a poco

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A 5 A

love

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