Isley Brothers – Let Me Down Easy chords

Let Me Down Easy - The Isley Brothers

Abmaj7   4x554xA#7aug   6x677x
A#m7     6x666x (sometimes 6x669x)
Bbm7     6x666x
Bbsus4   x1334x
B/D#     x6444xBmaj7    x2434x (in intro, but verse uses 7x887x)
Bmaj9    x2132x
Cm7      x3534xC#sus    x4444x
D#m      x466xx (or better, B988xx, where B == 11)D#sus    x6666x
Ebsus    x6666x
Fsus     1x334xF#7b9    212020
F#maj7   2x332xG7aug    3x344x
Gm7      3x333x
G#m7     4x444x

Intro
| 1   &   2   &   3   &   4   &    | 1   &   2   &   3   &   4   &    |  
| Bmaj7       Bmaj9       -        | G#m7            C#sus   A#7aug   |
| D#sus       D#m         A#m7     | D#sus           D#m     A#m7     |
| G#m7        B/D#        G#m7     | C#sus           -       A#7aug   | 
| D#sus       D#m         A#m7     | D#sus           D#m     A#m7     |  
| G#m7        -           F#7b9    | Bmaj7           C#sus            | 
| F#maj7                  A#m7     |

Verse
| 1   &   2   &   3   &   4   &    | 1   &   2   &   3   &   4   &    |  
|:G#m7        -           -        | A#m7            Bmaj7   A#m7     |
| G#m7        -           -        | A#m7            Bmaj7   A#m7     || G#m7        -           -        | C#sus           -       A#7aug   |
| D#sus       D#m         A#m7     | D#sus           D#m     A#m7    :|Is love behind me?  
Though I need you to satisfy me
Destiny will prove to divide me    
For you're a part of me
I feel the love within you
Your beauty lies deep within you
Touching me when you feel the need to
Become as one with me

Chorus
| 1   &   2   &   3   &   4   &    | 1   &   2   &   3   &   4   &    |  
| G#m7        B/D#        G#m7     | C#sus           -       A#7aug   | 
| D#sus       D#m         A#m7     | D#sus           D#m     A#m7     |  
| G#m7        -           F#7b9    | Bmaj7           C#sus            | 
| F#maj7                  A#m7     |So let me down easy
If ever you were to leave
My love, let me down easy
For all I know is you

Verse
| 1   &   2   &   3   &   4   &    | 1   &   2   &   3   &   4   &    |  
|:G#m7        -           -        | A#m7            Bmaj7   A#m7     |
| G#m7        -           -        | A#m7            Bmaj7   A#m7     || G#m7        -           -        | C#sus           -       A#7aug   |
| D#sus       D#m         A#m7     | D#sus           D#m     A#m7    :|Take you for granted?
That could never, never be
An advantage
All this love, and free from demanding
You have always felt the need to be pleased
And you stay close beside me
Though our minds are free for deciding
The life to lead and desiring
To see what they can see

Chorus
| 1   &   2   &   3   &   4   &    | 1   &   2   &   3   &   4   &    |  
| G#m7        B/D#        G#m7     | C#sus           -       A#7aug   | 
| D#sus       D#m         A#m7     | D#sus           D#m     A#m7     |  
| G#m7                             | Fsus            Bbsus4  Gm7      | Oooh! 
Let me down easy
If ever you were to leave
My love, let me down easy
Ooohhh...

Bridge
| 1   &   2   &   3   &   4   &    | 1   &   2   &   3   &   4   &    | 
| Cm7                              | Gm7                              |
| Bbm7            Ebsus            | Abmaj7                  G7aug    |
| Cm7                              | Gm7                              || G#m7                             | C#sus                   A#7aug   |
| D#sus       D#m         A#m7     | D#sus           D#m     A#m7     | Ah! Spending time, time with you
Counting the days of my life
Oh, hoping that, that with me 
You will stay

Chorus
| 1   &   2   &   3   &   4   &    | 1   &   2   &   3   &   4   &    |  
| G#m7        B/D#        G#m7     | C#sus           -       A#7aug   | 
| D#sus       D#m         A#m7     | D#sus           D#m     A#m7     |  
| G#m7        -           F#7b9    | Bmaj7           C#sus            | 
| F#maj7                  A#m7     |So let me down easy
If ever you were to leave
My love, let me down easy
For all I know is you

Verse
| 1   &   2   &   3   &   4   &    | 1   &   2   &   3   &   4   &    |  
|:G#m7        -           -        | A#m7            Bmaj7   A#m7     |
| G#m7        -           -        | A#m7            Bmaj7   A#m7     || G#m7        -           -        | C#sus           -       A#7aug   |
| D#sus       D#m         A#m7     | D#sus           D#m     A#m7    :|Being around you
Lovely things I feel are about you
Being strong until I'm without you
For you're the strength in me
And you give me inspiration
Realizing that it has taken 
More love and more love makin'
To fulfill my every need
So for me

Chorus
| 1   &   2   &   3   &   4   &    | 1   &   2   &   3   &   4   &    |  
|:G#m7        B/D#        G#m7     | C#sus           -       A#7aug   | 
| D#sus       D#m         A#m7     | D#sus           D#m     A#m7    :| x6, fade Let me down easy
If ever you were to leave
My love, let me down easy
If ever you were to leave
My love, let me down
Oh, easy
If ever you were to leave
My lo-ove, let me down, let me down, let me down
Easy, baby
Oh-ho! Let me down, down, down, down, down, down easy
Hey, if ever, if ever, ever, ever you were to leave me