Love Is a Battlefield by Pat Benatar

Overview

Key: D minor · Chords used: 9 · Sections: 12

Form: Intro → Chorus → Chorus → Interlude → Verse → Chorus → Chorus → Interlude → Verse → Chorus → Chorus → Outro

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). This page shows that transcription as-is: the analysis below is generated directly from it by code, not written by AI. Consecutive repeats of a chord are shown once, and the piano voicings are our playable arrangement of each chord symbol, not a note-for-note transcription.

Section by section

Intro

• Dm – C – Am7 – B♭ (×6)
  i – bVII – v7 – bVI

Chorus 1

• Dm – C – Am7 – B♭ (×3)
  i – bVII – v7 – bVI

Chorus 2

• B♭maj7
  bVImaj7

Interlude 1

• Dm – C/D – B♭/D
  i – bVII (bass D) – bVI⁶

Verse 1

• Dm – C – B♭ – Gm (×3)
  i – bVII – bVI – iv
• G9sus4
  IV9sus4

Chorus 3

• Dm – C – Am7 – B♭ (×7)
  i – bVII – v7 – bVI

Chorus 4

Same chords as Chorus 2.

Interlude 2

• Dm – C/D
  i – bVII (bass D)

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 5

Same chords as Chorus 3.

Chorus 6

Same chords as Chorus 2.

Outro

• Dm – C/D – B♭/D (×2)
  i – bVII (bass D) – bVI⁶

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0741, CC0), via ChoCo.
• Not verified: only one expert transcription of this song is available so far.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.