Pretty. Odd. chords this took like four days, but i finally finished it. 1.) We're so starving 2.)nine in the afternoon 3.) she's a handsome woman 4.)do you know what i'm seeing? 5.) that green gentleman 6.) i have friends in holy spaces 7.) northern downpour 8.) when the day met the night 9.) Pas De Cheval 10.) the piano knows something i don't know 11.) behind the sea 12.) folkin' around 13.) she had the world 14.)from a mountain in the middle of the cabins 15.) mad as rabbits --------------------------------- 1.) We're so starving F Ab Bb F F Oh, how it's been so long F We're so sorry we've been gone Ab Bb We were busy writing songs for F (pause) you F Oh, how it's been so long F We're so sorry we've been gone Ab Bb We were busy writing songs for F Ab Bb You don't have to worry 'cause we're still the same F Band F You don't have to worry F You don't have to worry Ab Bb you don't F You don't have to worry F You don't have to worry Ab Bb you don't F Ab Bb F F Oh, how it's been so long F We're so sorry we've been gone Ab Bb We were busy writing songs for Bb you ----------------------------------------------------- 2.)nine in the afternoon Bb Bb Back to the street where we began Gm Feeling as good as lovers can, you know Dm Ebm Yeah we're feeling so good Bb Picking up things we shouldn't read Gm Looks like the end of history as we know Dm Ebm It's just the end of the world Gm Gm/F# Back to the street where we began F F# Gm Dm Eb Feeling as good as love, you could, you can Bb Into a place where thoughts can bloom Gm Into a room where it's nine in the afternoon Dm Eb Bb And we know that it could be And we know that it should Gm And you know that you feel it to Dm Eb Bb ‘Cause it's nine in the afternoon Bb Bb/A Gm And your eyes are the size of the moon Dm You could ‘cause you can so you do Eb We're feeling so good, just the way that we do Bb When it's nine in the afternoon Bb Bb/A Gm Your eyes are the size of the moon Dm You could ‘cause you can so you do Eb We're feeling so good Bb Bb Back to the street, down to our feet Gm Losing the feeling of feeling unique Dm Eb Do you know what I mean? Bb Back to the place where we used to say, Gm "Man it feels good to feel this way" Dm Eb Now I know what I mean G G/f# F Back to the street, back to the place F# G G/f# Back to the room where it all began F F# G Back to the room where it all began Dm Eb Bb 'Cause it's nine in the afternoon Bb Bb/A Gm Your eyes are the size of the moon Dm You could ‘cause you can so you do Eb We're feeling so good, just the way that we do Bb When it's nine in the afternoon Bb Bb/A Gm Your eyes are the size of the moon Dm You could ‘cause you can so you do Eb We're feeling so good, just the way that we do Bb When it's nine in the afternoon Bb Bb/A Gm Your eyes are the size of the moon Dm You could ‘cause you can so you do Eb We're feeling so good, just the way that we do Bb When it's nine in the afternoon repeat chorus pattern till end -------------------------------------------------------------- 3.) she's a handsome woman A 6 6 E 7 10 10 7 6 5 4 4 play 4X E Abm F# B F# C# E Innocence. Abm F# Sunk the glow and drowned in covers, B F# C# send for all your absent lovers things. E Sheepish Wolves. Abm F# Looking lived in eating buttons, B F# C# Wink, just don’t put your teeth on me. (play intro 2X) E Accidents. Abm F# Let the evening in the backdoor, B F# C# filled the room ceiling to the floor. E Beat backbones. Abm F# Grazed the poem and made it strange, B F# C# I wasn’t born to be a skeleton. (play intro through lines) Go on, grab your hat and fetch a camera. Go on, film the world before it happens. E Jealous orchard. Abm F# The sky is falling off the ceiling B F# C# while I’m tucking fibs into a cookie jar. E Bombed reverie. Abm F# It’s useless searching in the cupboards B F# C# when everything you have is on your back. (play intro through lines) Go on, grab your hat and fetch a camera. Go on, film the world before it happens. --------------------------------------------------- 4.)do you know what i'm seeing? Eb Clouds are marching along, singing a song, just like they do. If the clouds were singing a song, I'd sing along, wouldn't you too? Abm If you just knew what they could do. Oh, if you just knew, what would they do? Eb Ebm And if the birds are just all the words flying along, singing a song, Abm What would they do? If they just knew what they could do. Oh, if they just knew. F# I know it's sad that I never gave a damn about the weather, Ebm B And it never gave a damn about me. F# I know it's sad that I never gave a damn about the weather, Ebm Abm And it never gave a damn about me. Ebm Abm Abm/G F# F#/F E No, it never gave a damn about me. Abm Abm/G F# I know it's mad, but if I go to hell F#/F E Will you come with me or just leave? Abm Abm/G F# I know it's mad, but if the world were ending F#/F E Would you kiss me or just leave me? Just leave me? Eb Clouds are singing a song, marching along, just like they do. If the clouds were playing a song, I'd play along, wouldn't you too? Abm If you just knew what they could do. Oh, if you just knew, what would they do? Eb Ebm And if words are just hollow birds, flying along, singing a song, Abm What would they do? If they just knew what we could do. Oh, if they just knew. F# I know it's sad that I never gave a damn about the weather, Ebm B And it never gave a damn about me. F# I know it's sad that I never gave a damn about the weather, Ebm Abm And it never gave a damn about me. Ebm Abm Abm/G F# F#/F E No, it never gave a damn about me. Abm Abm/G F# F#/F E Abm Abm/G F# I know it's mad, but if I go to hell F#/F E Will you come with me or just leave? Abm Abm/G F# I know it's mad, but if the world were ending F#/F E Would you kiss me or just leave me? Just leave me? F# I know it's sad that I never gave a damn about the weather, Ebm B And it never gave a damn about me. F# I know it's sad that I never gave a damn about the weather, Ebm Abm And it never gave a damn about me. F# I know it's sad that I never gave a damn about the weather, Ebm B And it never gave a damn about me. F# I know it's sad that I never gave a damn about the weather, Ebm Abm And it never gave a damn about me. Ebm B No, it never gave a damn about me. --------------------------------------------------- 5.) that green gentleman Bb Eb Bb Eb Bb Eb Things are shaping up to be pretty odd. Bb Eb Little deaths in musical beds. Gm F Eb So it seems I'm someone I've never met. Bb Eb You will only hear these elegant crimes, Bb Eb Fall on your ears from criminal dimes. Gm F Eb They spill unfound from a pretty mouth. Dm Cm everybody gets there and everybody gets there Bb Eb Bb Eb and everybody gets their way. Dm Cm I never said I missed her when everybody kissed her, Now I'm the only one Bb Eb F# Ab to blame. Bb Bb/A Gm F Bb Bb/A Gm Things have changed for me, and that's okay. Cm F F/Eb I feel the same, I'm on my way, and I say. Bb Bb/A Gm F Eb Things have changed for me, and that's okay. Bb Eb I want to go where everyone goes, Bb Eb I want to know what everyone knows Gm F Eb I want to go where everyone feels the same Bb Eb I never said I'd leave the city, Bb Eb I never said I'd leave this town. Gm F Eb A falling out we won't tiptoe about. Dm Cm everybody gets there and everybody gets there Bb Eb Bb and everybody gets their way. Dm I never said I missed her when everybody kissed her, Cm Bb Eb Bb Bb F# Ab Now I'm the only one to blame. Bb Bb/A Gm F Bb Bb/A Gm Things have changed for me, and that's okay. Cm F F/Eb I feel the same, I'm on my way, and I say. Bb Bb/A Gm F Eb Things have changed for me, and that's okay. F F/Eb I feel the same and I say. (play 4X) Bb Bb/A Gm F Eb F# Ab Bb Bb/A Gm F Eb Things have changed for me (this last line is the best i can get) --------------------------------------------------------- 6.) i have friends in holy spaces A C#m F# Bm You remind me of a former love that I once knew Dm E And you carry a little speech with you A C#m F# We were holding hands walking through the middle of the street Bm Dm E It's fine with me, I'm just taking in the scenery D Dm Amaj7 F#m You remind me of a few of my famous friends B Dm E Well, that all depends what you qualify as friends D Dm Amaj7 F# You remind me of a few of my famous friends B Dm E Well, that all depends what you qualify as friends A C#m F# Take a chance, take your shoes off, dance in the rain Bm Dm E And I was flashing around and the news spread all over town A C#m F# I'm not complaining that it's raining, I'm just saying that I like it a lot Bm Dm E More than you think, if the sun would come out and sing with me D Dm Amaj7 F#m You remind me of a few of my famous friends B Dm E Well, that all depends what you qualify as friends D Dm Amaj7 F#m You remind me of a few of my famous friends B Dm E A Well, that all depends what you qualify as friends F Bb (play 4X) ---------------------------------------------------------------- 7.) northern downpour F Bb F Bb F Bb If all our life is but a dream F Fantastic posing greed Bb Then we should feed our jewelery to the sea Dm F For diamonds do appear to be Dm Bb Just like broken glass to me Bb And then she said she can’t believe F Genius only comes along Bb In storms of fabled foreign tongues Dm F Tripping eyes, and flooded lungs Dm Bb Northern downpour sends its love Am C7 Dm Hey moon, please forget to fall down Am C7 F Hey moon, don’t you go down F Bb Sugarcane in the easy mornin’ Dm Am Bb Weathervanes my one and lonely F Bb The ink is running toward the page F It’s chasin’ off the days Bb Look back at boat feet And that winding knee Dm F I missed your skin when you were east Dm Bb You clicked your heels and wished for me F Bb Through playful lips made of yarn F That fragile Capricorn Bb Unraveled words like moths upon old scarves Dm F I know the world’s a broken bone Dm Bm But melt your headaches, call it home Am C7 Dm Hey moon, please forget to fall down Am C7 F Hey moon, don’t you go down F Bb Sugarcane in the easy morning Dm Am Bb Weathervanes my one and lonely F Bb Sugarcane in the easy mornin’ D Am Bb Weathervanes my one and lonely F Bb Sugarcane in The easy mornin’ D Am Bb Weathervanes my One and lonely (repeat and fade out) --------------------------------------------------------- 8.) when the day met the night D Gadd9 Am When the Moon fell in love with the Sun Em D G All was golden in the sky D C Em D All was golden when the day met the night D D/C# When the Sun found the Moon C G She was drinking tea out in a garden Bb D Under the green umbrella trees G In the middle of summer D D/C# When the moon found the sun C G He looked like he was barely hanging on Bb D But her eyes saved his life G In the middle of summer (summer) C In the middle of summer Em D G All was golden in the sky D C Em D All was golden when the day met the night C Summer (summer) Em D G All was golden in the sky D C Em D All was golden when the day met the night C Summer, summer, summer, summer D C Em D All was golden when the day met the night D/C# So he said, "Would it be all right C G If we just sat and talked for a little while Bb D If in exchange for your time G I give you this smile?" D D/C# So she said, "That's okay C As long as you can make a promise G Not to break my little heart Bb D G Or leave me all alone in the summer." A Well he was just hanging around Dm Then he fell in love And he didn't know how A But he couldn't get out Just hanging around Dm Then he fell in love C In the middle of summer Em D G All was golden in the sky D C Em D All was golden when the day met the night C Summer Em D G All was golden in the sky D C Em D All was golden when the day met the night C Summer, summer, summer, summer (Bm7?) D Am Em D G D C Em D D Am When the moon fell in love with the sun Em D G All was golden in the sky D C Em D All was golden when the day met the night D Summer, summer, summer, summer In the middle of summer,summer,summer, summer the middle of summer, summer, summer, summer the middle of summer, summer, summer, summer In the middle of.. ------------------------------------------------------ 9.) Pas De Cheval E B Oh, little did she know A Couldn't let me go E Already a part of her E B So, often do I need A People in between E That just can't get a hold of it B So we'll just sing it for them A Ahhh E Yeah, we'll just sing it for them (Just can't get a hold of it) B So we'll just sing it for them A Ahhh Yeah, we'll just sing it E D A It's the greatest thing that's yet to have happened G E Imagine knowing me D A It's the greatest thing you'd ever imagine B A E But you'll never know until you're there B (pause) E No, you'll never know until you're there E B Slow, leave walking to the world A Give your feet a chance E They'll do all the thinking B Toast, high until they find A Less pathetic wine E Until they get a better blend B And we'll just drink it for them A Ahhh E Yeah we'll just drink it for them (Until they get a better plan) B So we'll just drink it for them A Yeah we'll just drink it E D A It's the greatest thing that's yet to have happened G E Imagine knowing me D A It's the greatest thing you'd ever imagine B A E But you'll never know until you're there B (pause) E No, you'll never know until you're there E B A E E B A E D A It's the greatest thing that's yet to have happened G E Imagine knowing me D A It's the greatest thing you'd ever imagine B A E But you'll never know until you're there B A E No, you'll never know until you're there B A E No, you'll never know until you're there --------------------------------------------------------- 10.) the piano knows something i don't know F E I won't cut my beard and I won't change my hair Dm A It grows like fancy flowers but it grows nowhere F Dm E Dm My hair, my hair F Am If I could build my house just like the Trojan horse F Dm E7 I'd put a statue of myself upon the shelf Dm A F E Of course, of course, of course A E D A E D F F She's the smoke She's dancin' fancy pirouettes Swan diving off of the deep end Of my tragic cigarette A She's steam E D F#m F#m/F Laughing on the windowpanes E F F#m The never-ending swaying haze E D A Oh, that ever smiling maze E D F#m F#m/F E E/Eb D D/C# (C B Bb notes) Oh, that ever smiling maze A E D A E D Ballet F Everything's gone missing I've lost more songs to floods I can't prove this makes any sense but I sure hope that it does A Perhaps E D F#m F#m/F I was born with curiosity E F F#m The likes of those of old crows E D A The likes of those of old crows E D F#m F#m/F E F And oh, how the piano knows F#m F#m/F E The piano knows something Dm I don't know F E I won't cut my beard and I won't change my hair Dm A It grows like fancy flowers but it grows nowhere F Dm E Dm My hair, my hair F Am If I could build my house just like the Trojan horse F Dm E7 I'd put a statue of myself upon the shelf Dm A F E Of course, of course, of course Dm A F E Of course, of course, of course Dm A F E Of course, of course, of course Dm A Of course ------------------------------------------------------------ 11.) behind the sea A Our daydream spills from my gold head F#m Breaks free of my wooden neck F A Left a nod over sleeping waves Like bobbing bait for bathing cod F#m Floating flocks of candle swans F Slowly drift across wax ponds A F#m C#m The men all played along to marching drums F#m C#m A E And boy did they have fun behind the sea A F#m C#m They sang, “so our matching legs are marching clocks F#m C#m A E And we’re all too small to talk to god A F#m E Yes, we’re all too smart to talk to god" A Toast the fine folks casting silver crumbs F#m To us from the dock. F A Jinxed things ringing as they leak Through tiny cracks in the boardwalk. F#m Scarecrow now it’s time to hatch F A Sprouting sons and ageless daughters. G Bm F#m E Those watermelon smiles just can’t ripen underwater Bm F#m E Just can’t ripen underwater A F#m C#m The men all played along to marching drums F#m C#m A E And boy did they have fun behind the sea A F#m C#m They sang, “so our matching legs are marching clocks F#m C#m A E And we’re all too small to talk to god A F#m E Yes, we’re all too smart to talk to god A F#m E Yes, we’re all too smart to talk to god" ----------------------------------------------------------- 12.) folkin' around G C Em D G C D G (close guess of chords at beginning G Em C G Allow me to exaggerate a memory or two G D/F# Em Where summer's lasted longer than C D Longer than we do C Em G When nothing really mattered C Em Except for me to be with you C Em D But in time we all forgot and G We all grew C Em Your melody sounds as sweet D G As the first time it was sung C Em G D With a little bit more character for show C Em And by the time your father's heard Am Of all the wrong you've done C Em Am G Then I'm putting out the lantern D G Find your own way back home G Em If I've forgotten how to sing C G Before I've sung this song G Em I'll write it all across this wall C D Before my job is done C Em G And I'll even have the courtesy C Em Of admitting I was wrong C Em D G As the final words before I'm dead and gone C Em You've never been so divine D G In accepting your defeat C Em G D And I've never been more scared to be alone C Em Am If love is not enough to put my enemies to sleep C Em Am G Then I'm putting out the lantern D G Find your own way back home ------------------------------------------------------- 13.) she had the world D E A D/F# D E A D E A D/F# D E A D E A D/F# She held the world upon a string D E A But she didn't ever hold me D E A D/F# Spun the stars on her fingernails D E A But it never made her happy D E A Cause she couldn't ever have me Bm# E She said she won the world at a carnival D E A But she could never win me D E A Cause she couldn't ever catch me D/F# E I, I know why Faug Because when I look in her eyes F#m E D I just see the sky When I look in her eyes E A Well I, just see the sky Amaj7 I don’t love you I'm just passing the time A Amaj7 You could love me if I knew how to lie A But who could love me? D I am out of my mind C#m Throw an old line out to sea D C#m E To see if I can catch a dream A D E A D E A D E A D/F# The sun was always in her eyes D E A She didn't even see me D E A D/F# But that girl had so much love D E A she'd wanna kiss you all the time D E A Yeah, she'd wanna kiss you all the time Bm E She said she won the world at a carnival D E A But I'm sure it didn’t ruin her D E A Just made her more interesting D E A I'm sure it didn’t ruin her D E A Just made her more interesting D/F# E I, I know why Faug Because when I look in her eyes F#m E D I just see the sky When I look in her eyes E A Well I, I just see the sky Amaj7 I don’t love you I'm just passing the time A Amaj7 You could love me if I knew how to lie A But who could love me? D I am out of my mind C#m Throw an old line out to sea D C#m E To see if I can catch a dream A D E A A D E A D E A D/F# D E A D E A D/F# D E A E A -------------------------------------------------- 14.)from a mountain in the middle of the cabins Eb Bb Eb Bb Gm F Eb F Bb Eb Dm Gm C Am Dm Eb Cm F Bb Eb Lying there Dm Gm C With a halo in her hair she cried Am There are feathers everywhere Dm But it's fine Eb Cm F You do this all the time Bb Eb Crying now Dm Gm C Through a rusted smile she knows Am Dm Eb This isn't how he paid the bills before Cm F Drug farm entrepreneur C Am F Go spin circles for me Am Wound relentlessly Dm Around the words we used to sling C Am F Oh, such torturous things Am Dm Always chewing up the only ones I ever mean Am If you're goin', then go Eb Cm F Go go go Am If you're goin', then go Eb Cm F Go go go Bb Eb Watch love Dm Gm C Get strangled by a kite's cold strings Am Dm Fall comes early and summer leaves Eb Cm F As a storm with the car keys Bb Eb Spark your heels Dm Gm C Up against the picket fence I built Am Dm All your wishes they will sink like stones Eb Cm F Slowly down a lonely well C Am F Go spin circles for me A Wound relentlessly Dm Around the words we used to sling C Am F Oh, such torturous things Am Dm Always chewing up the only ones I ever mean Am If you're goin', then go Eb Cm F Go go go Am If you're goin', then go Eb Cm F Go go go Eb Bb Eb Bb Gm F Eb F Bb Eb Dm Gm C Am Dm Eb Cm F Bb Eb Dm Gm C Am Dm Eb Cm F -------------------------------------------------- 15.) mad as rabbits intro (notes Ab F# F E Eb C# C B Ab) Ab Bb Come save me from walking off a windowsill C# Ab or I'll sleep in the rain. Bb Don't you remember when I was a bird C# Ab and you were a map? Bb Now he drags down miles in America C# Ab briefcase in hand. Bb The stove is creeping up his spine again, C# Ab Bb C# can't get enough trash. Eb C# Ab He took the days for pageant Eb C# Ab Became as mad as rabbits Eb C# Fm With bushels of bad habits C# Who could ask for anymore? Fm C# Yea who could have more. (play intro) Ab Bb His arms were the branches of a Christmas tree C# Ab preached the devil in the belfry. Ab Bb He checked in to learn his clothes had been C# Ab thieved at the train station. Ab Rope hung his other branch Bb C# Ab and at the end was a dog called bambi Bb Who was chewing on his parliaments C# Ab Bb when he tried to save the calendar business. C# Ab Bb he tried to save the calendar business. Eb C# Ab He took the days for pageant Eb C# Ab Became as mad as rabbits Eb C# Fm With bushels of bad habits C# Who could ask for anymore? Fm C# Yea who could have more. (play intro) Ab Bb The poor son of a humble chimney sweep C# Ab fell to a cheap crowd Bb So stay asleep and put on that cursive type C# Ab you know we live in a toy. Bb C# Ab Paul Cates bought himself a trumpet from the salvation army Bb But there ain't no sunshine in his song C# Ab We must reinvent love. C# Ab reinvent love. C# Bb C# reinvent love. Eb C# Ab He took the days for pageant Eb C# Ab Became as mad as rabbits Eb C# Fm With bushels of bad habits C# Who could ask for anymore? Fm C# Yea who could have more. C# Ab We must reinvent love. C# Ab reinvent love. C# Bb C# reinvent love.
