• Song:

    Telling Stories

  • Artist:

    Tracy Chapman

  • Album:

    Live Performances: 1988...

Tom: Em
Intro
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B---------------------------
G---------------------------
D---------------------------
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E--0-0-------0-0------------
 
 
Em       G                      C     G                  D
There is fiction in the space between lines on a page, a memory
         G                    C           G                D      (2 x Em C G D )
Write it down, but it doesn't mean you're not just telling stories       
 

         G                      C     G         D
There is fiction in the space between you and reality
          G             C                  G                  D
You would do and say anything to make your everyday life seem less mundane
         G                      C     G       D      (2 x  Em C G D )
There is fiction in the space between you and me.    
 

                  G                      C     G       D
There's a science fiction in the space between you and me
       G             C       G              D
A fabrication, grand scheme. I am the scary monster
        G                     C           G              D
Need to say it as I leave the scene in my spaceship I am laughing
       G                  C             G              D
Your remembrance of a bad dream there's no one but you standing.  
( 2 x  Em C G D   )
 

Bridge:
D                          C                G
Feel the pity and the pain for the ones who do not speak
D                                             C       G       
Back the words you get respect and compassion and for posterity
C                    G                     Em
Spread the words and make believe there is truth in the space between. 
( Em 4 Saiten) 

         G                      C     G       D
There is fiction in the space between you and everybody
G                   C             G             D
Give us all what we need. Give us one more sad, sordid story.
       G                      C     G              D
In the fiction of the space between sometimes a lie is the best thing
       G       C       G             D    (repeat G C G D )
                       sometimes a lie is the best thing        

                                       is the best thing  (repeat)
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