Chord Booklet

Matt Nathanson

10 songs|30 chords used|Hard

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Chords used

Esus4

C#m7

E/G

C#m

Cmaj7

Cadd9

Em7

Dsus4

D/F

G/B

Am7

F/C

Abm

B/Eb

Ebm

Lie

Key: EHard

Esus4

C#m7

E/G

C#m

E5Esus4

I dE5on't feel much like tEsus4alkingC#m7 to yE5ou tEsus4onight

I'd rE5ather not let you Esus4twist my words C#m7 arouE5nd Esus4again until they

E/GGive you something to Esus4feel

I would rC#m7ather keep my dE5istance, thank you E/Gvery much

Esus4thank you very much C#m7 E5

E5What do you Esus4want? Do you C#m7want E5my aEsus4pologies?

Do you E5want me to hear me Esus4tell you I'm C#m7wroooE5nnnEsus4ggg?

Because I won't

E/GI won't feed your Esus4melodrama and I C#m7won't be a E5part of your Esus4game

But thank you E/Gvery much

Esus4thank you very much C#m7 E5 Esus4

C#m7Please fix your E5own lie Esus4before you start aE5ttacking mine

C#m7Please fix your E5own lie Esus4before you start aE5ttacking C#m7mine E5 Esus4

E5You can call mEsus4e your friend if C#m7that's the E5kind of seEsus4curity that

You E5need

We all Esus4look for it in C#m7different E5waaaaayEsus4yyyys

E/GJust don't E5persecute Esus4me,

thank you E/Gvery much

Esus4thank you very much C#m7 E5 Esus4

C#m7Please fix your E5own lie Esus4before you start aE5ttacking mine

C#m7Please fix your E5own lie Esus4before you start aE5ttacking C#m7mine E5 it's all miEsus4ne

E5Don't you see that Esus4I will be C#m7all E5that you Esus4want me to be

E5Don't you see that Esus4I will be C#m7all E5that youEsus4 envisioned me to be

E5Don't you see that Esus4I will be C#m7all E5that you Esus4want me to be

E5But I refuse to be Esus4raped

UnC#m7til I confeE5ss Esus4all that you want me to E5hear

Then conEsus4soled and told that it will C#m7be E5alright Esus4alright

Because it's noE/Gt all right, Esus4I don't have the energy and C#m7I don't

E5Have the Esus4strength

To E/Gtake on your eEsus4motional wC#m7eight E5 Esus4

So C#m7please fix your E5own lie Esus4before you start aE5ttacking mine

C#m7Please fix your E5own lie Esus4before you start aE5ttacking mine

C#m7Please fix your E5own lie Esus4before you start aE5ttacking C#mmine E5it's all miEsus4ne It's mine oh mine

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Mission Bells

Key: EmCapo 4Medium

Cmaj7

Cadd9

Em7

EmI had a G6dream you Cmaj7died,

and I just want to Embe with G6you toCmaj7night

Mission bells were Emringing

soG6mewhere hCmaj7igher,

I let you Emget awayG6 Cmaj7

What kind of Emman misunderG6stands

a woman like Cmaj7you,

Emsees her in G6black and Cmaj7white?

It's Em5 AM and G6phone book says that you're Cmaj7not alone

in the Emcold gray G6morning liCmaj7ght

The Emonly G6one that's Cmaj7left to trust,

my Emfaithless G6heart that Cmaj7wasted us.

GI had a Cadd9dream you Em7died,

and I just want to Gbe with Cadd9you tonEm7ight

Mission bells were Gringing

soCadd9mewhere hiEm7gher,

I let you Gget awayCadd9 Em7

EmWhat kind of fool thinks G6love's a prison

or a Cmaj7handicap,

Emonly G6says goodCmaj7bye?

EmSinking fast in the G6rocky waters off Cmaj7Alcatraz,

his Emfriends say G6suiCmaj7cide

The Emonly G6one that's Cmaj7left to trust,

my Emfaithless G6heart that Cmaj7wasted us.

GI had a Cadd9dream you Em7died,

and I just want to Gbe with Cadd9you tonEm7ight

Mission bells were Gringing

soCadd9mewhere hiEm7gher,

I let you Gget awayCadd9 Em7

I'm the Emend of a Hitchcock G6movie

a little Cmaj7dark and a lot confusing

I'm the Emlast of the worst G6pretenders

so Cmaj7lost, so lost in love

I'm the Emend of a Hitchcock G6movie

a little Cmaj7dark and a lot confusing

I'm the Emlast of the worst G6pretenders

so Cmaj7lost, so lost in love

GI had a Cadd9dream you Em7died,

and I just want to Gbe with Cadd9you tonEm7ight

Mission bells were Gringing

soCadd9mewhere hiEm7gher,

I let you Gget awayCadd9 Em7

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Wedding Dress

Key: AmMedium

AmFCG

DmSo we lFie here in the Cdark

DmAll theF wrong things oCn fire

DmIn sickFness and in heaClth

DmTo bFe with you,Dm just to Fbe with you

AmAnd in your Fwedding Cdress, toG have and to Amhold.F C G

AmEven Fat my Cbest, I Gwant to let Amgo F C G

DmAnd youF hold me in youCr arms

when Gall that I can Dmsee

Is my Ffuture in your Chands

And aGll that I can fDmeel

Is howF long ever afteCr is

When Git's all that I can Dmdo

To Fbe with you. Dmjust to Fbe with you.

AmIn your Fwedding Cdress, to Ghave and to Amhold. F C G

AmEven Fat my Cbest, I Gwant to let Amgo. F C G

FThought I Clost you G

Thought I Amlost you, I Ggave you aFway

Thought I Clost you

Been Dmjealous of the FMoon for how it Cmoves the Gwaves.

AmAnd in your Fwedding Cdress, toG have and to Amhold.F C G

AmEven Fat my Cbest, I Gwant to let Amgo F C G

AmAnd I want to bFe somebody else now

CAnd I want to Gthicken my skin

AmAnd I want to Fwish it all, to Cwish it all Gaway again Am F C G

AmFCG

Amand i want to beF somebody else

and i Cwant to be holding you in

Gand i want to be Ammissing you, love

Fmissing you, love

withC all that i have Gleft to give.Am.. F C G

FCG

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German Cars

Key: CCapo 4Medium

Well I met you at a Cparty

You were looking for your Gcar keys

Rich kids and Bob AmMarley

Yeah they're Fnever any fun

So we drove out to the Cocean

Just to finally feel Gsome motion

The waves sounded like Amexplosions

And we Fcounted every one

And Gyou kissed like the AmQueen of CaliFfornia

And Git felt like I Amhadn't been born F

I really miss your CWest Coast JV

I know you had to Gget yourself free

I know it gets Amhard just to breath someFtime

I'm never gonna Cforget your name

I'll never see the Gworld quite the same

I'll always keep a Ampart of your dreams with Fmine

With mine C

You and me we're different Cpages

Torn out of the Gsame book

My parents they just Amgave up

And yours Fwore each other down

Spent so long beClieving

We were less than what we Gneeded

Twenty years of Amscreaming

And we Fbarely made a sound

But Gyou kissed like the AmQueen of CaliFfornia

And Git felt like I Amhadn't been born F

I really miss your CWest Coast JV

I know you had to Gget yourself free

I know it gets Amhard just to breath someFtime

I'm never gonna Cforget your name

I'll never see the Gworld quite the same

I'll always keep a Ampart of your dreams with Fmine

And we Ghated the way everyAmbody talked

About their Ffather's money and their Csummer jobs

GPrinces and Princesses Amtrying to get lost

In FGerman cars that their Cparents bought

In the Gfade and the glow of the Amsummer light

You Fasked me if I ever felt the Cpressure to get everything Gright

To swim the mess

Am To stay the course

F To be someone

That they adore C

I really miss your CWest Coast JV

Know you wore your Gheart on your sleeve

Know it gets Amhard just to breath someFtime

I'm never gonna Cforget your name

I'll never see the Gworld quite the same

I'll always keep a Ampart of your dreams with Fmine

With Cmine

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Watching You Watch Him

Key: GHard

Cadd9

Dsus4

D/F

I Glove you

From the Cadd9bottom Gof my DhearDsus4t

And Amthat's not gonna' Emchange

But things look Cgrim

When I am Cwatching Dyou watch Ghim

I Ggive you

The best a Cadd9man can Ghope to DgiveDsus4

But AmI'm not feeling Embrave

Chances are Cslim

When I am Cwatching Dyou watch Ghim

Oh, Emwhat is Cleft to lG6earn D/F

When he would Emlet you Ccrash and G6burn D/F

He never Emgives aCttention

But G6you D/Fstill Emyearn

Where do I fit Cin

When I am Cwatching Dyou watch Ghim

C God only knows why I stillB wait around

Em Except I D/Fhate to see yA7ou cry

C And I need you

But there are D7things I cannot do

And I Gwant you

When he's Cadd9playing Gall his DgameDsus4s

And Amit gets hard to Emtell whose the vicCtim

When I am Cwatching Dyou watch Ghim

Cadd9GDDsus4

AmEmC

CDG

Oh, Emwhat is Cleft to lG6earn D/F

When he would Emlet you Ccrash and G6burn D/F

He never Emgives aCttention

But yG6ou D/FstillEm yearn

Where do I fit Cin

When I am Cwatching Dyou watch Ghim

C God only knows why I still Bwait around

Em Except I hD/Fate to see you cA7ry

C And I need you

But there are D7things I cannot do

And I Glove you

Like a Cadd9broken Grecord DplayDsus4s

But AmI'm a window Empane

A phantom Climb

When I am Cwatching Dyou watch Ghim

When I am Cwatching Dyou watch Emhim

When I am Cwatching Dyou watch Ghim

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Room The End Of The World

Key: GCapo 4Medium

Cadd9

G/B

Em7

D/F

GCadd9G/BEm7D/F

G/BI was weaving with the drunks

Cadd9singing Sinatra loud

G/BI let go of love

Cadd9once it finally had me figured out

G/BI was buried like a treasure

Cadd9But no one ever came to mark the spot

G/BSo I got good at pleasure

Cadd9And started tyin' tighter knots

Em7sad can't catcD/Fh me

Cadd9call me baby now Em7 D/F

Cadd9when it's all I use to believe

Gif the sun don't light

Cadd9and the night won't turn

Gwe'll get a room at the Em7end of the woD/Frld

and Gwe'll rewrite all the Cadd9wrongs we've learned

Gsafe in our room at the Em7end of the D/Fworld

GCadd9

G/Bthese streets are haunted

Cadd9with ghosts who wait on luck to come

G/Bsleep with hornets

Cadd9and they wonder why they wake up stung

Em7sad can't D/Fcatch me

Cadd9call me baby now Em7 D/F

Cadd9when it's all I use to believe

Gif the sun don't light

Cadd9and the moon won't turn

Gwe'll get a room at the Em7end of the woD/Frld

and Gwe'll rewrite all the Cadd9wrongs we've learned

Gsafe in our room at the Em7end of the D/Fworld

Cadd9

Em7one heart is D/Fnever enough alone Cadd9

Come on, come on

Em7come on and D/Fdance with me, Cadd9love

Em7just come on and D/Fdance with me Cadd9love

'cause I Em7need it, I D/Fneed it now Cadd9

I can Em7see it, D/Fbelieve it

Gif the sun don't light

Cadd9and the night won't turn

Gwe'll get a room at the Em7end of the woD/Frld

and Gwe'll rewrite all the Cadd9wrongs we've learned

Gsafe in our room at the Em7end of the D/Fworld

G Cadd9Cause I can see it

G Cadd9You and me at the end of the world

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Sky High Honey

Key: FMedium

Am7

F/C

Sky High Honey

Matt Nathanson

(All Fs should be barred)

There's a chord in the Chorus that I don't know the name of, but I know it's right. I'm

calling it F/C, and it's fingered like this:

The low E string 1 is optional, and played by the thumb. It's basically a C chord with a

bar over the G and B strings.

Also, in the Chorus, there is a C (walkdown). If you listen to the song the guitar

mimics the melody in the "sky high honey" part, which you can do by playing a C chord and

then going:

Alternatively, if you want it to sound bigger, you can go:

CSky Ghigh Am7honeGy, Cgone.

OK, on to the music.

CI bet you're Emlaughing at some jFoke he tGold you

CWith his aEmrm around your Fsunburnt sGhoulders

GI spent the Emmorning with my Fface against the Gwindowseat

GLooking Emdown at all the Fthings that got the Gbest of me

CNo more late night F/Cdrives to Boston

FNo more Cure songs Cto get lost in

CNo more taxis, F/Csubway tokens

FArms wide open, I'm Csky high honey, Cgone.

I take the streetcars around San Francisco

Get winks from the pretty boys down in the Castro

Through the turnstiles roll the Jappy (?) girls, the shabby dolls

I can't resist myself, I get their names, I never call.

CNo more late night F/Cdrives to Boston

FNo more Cure songs Cto get lost in

CNo more taxis, F/Csubway tokens

FArms wide open, I'm Csky high honey, Emgone.

CI'm sky high honey, Emgone.

EmYou wait too Flong, you never lCeave

EmAnd it feels like Fdying, but Cstill your Gheart beats

EmFCG

EmFC

CNo more late night F/Cdrives to Boston

FNo more Cure songs Cto get lost in

CNo more taxis, F/Csubway tokens

FArms wide open, I'm Csky high honey, Emgone.

CI'm sky high honey, Cgone.

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Kill The Lights

Key: CMedium

CMy Amheads a stereo I Gcant turn off

CYou Amsaid I should learn to Gsing along

CIn your Ambedroom out on Gtaraval

We were Chaunted by Ameverything we Gwanted

Kill the Amlights F C

Im Gafraid of Amnothing F C

The Gchurch of your Amcurves

The Fghost inCside us

The Glast temptAmation F C G

The Amnight is Fyoung but wCe are yGounger

AmTime is Fon our Cside

GKill the lights

CI Amfound religion at the Grecord store

CI Amfound heaven on your Gkitchen floor

CYou be Amstunning baby IlGl be stunned

Keep Cglowing Ill fAmollow your expGlosions

Kill the Amlights F C

Im Gafraid of Amnothing F C

The Gchurch of your Amcurves

The Fghost inCside us

The Glast temptAmation F C G

The Amnight is Fyoung but wCe are yGounger

AmTime is Fon our Cside

GKill the lights

Of Gall the things I left undone

I Cdont miss a single one

When Feverything felt good

Id fall aGpart

GAll the things I couldnt see

CStanding right in front of me

Your Fbody pushed against me

In the Gdark

Kill the Amlights F C

Im Gafraid of Amnothing F C

The Gchurch of your Amcurves

The Fghost inCside us

The Glast temptAmation F C G

The Amnight is Fyoung but wCe are yGounger

AmTime is Fon our Cside

GKill the Amlights the lFights the liCghts

GKill the lights

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Bill Murray

Key: FHard

Abm

B/Eb

Ebm

I fell Fasleep

HBad a dream Bill Murray and I were Ffriends

WBe drove the world from Boston to JFapan

BBlasting old Van Halen

And Abmone night over Fdrinks Bill started B/Ebcryin'

He said to me Fkid

Of Ball the stupid things I ever Fdid

You know BI let go when I should've pulled her Fin

And he Bhanded me a cell phone

AbmWhen I called Fyou were on a B/Ebplane

AbmMoving back to FPortland for the Dbrain

EbmI won't only Blove you when you're Fwinning

EbmOther fools prBetend to underFstand

EbmCome on take my Bhand and we'll go down sFwingin'

Let me be your Ebmman B F

A hundred Fdays

we Bhiked the coast of Galway in the Frain

And BBill said something late one night in FSpain

And it's aBlways just stuck with me

"You Abmonly get one Fperson knows you B/Ebbest

and it's Abmtemporary Feverybody Dbelse"

EbmI won't only Blove you when you're Fwinning

EbmOther fools prBetend to underFstand

EbmCome on take my Bhand and we'll go down sFwingin'

Let me be your Ebmman B F

I?m Ebmdone Bwith Fsleep

IEbmmaginBed Fthings

Cause Ebmdreams Baren?t Fdreams

Til you Abmwake up

So Bwake up

Just Abmwake up here with Dbme

EbmI won't only Blove you when you're Fwinning

EbmOther fools prBetend to underFstand

EbmCome on take my Bhand and we'll go down sFwingin'

Let me be your Ebmman B F

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10.

I Hope That Something Better Comes Along

Key: FHard

You Fcan't live with 'em, you Bbcan't live withCout 'em.F

There's somethin' irresistableBb-ish abouCt 'em. Dm

We grin and bear it 'cause the Bbnights are long.

I Fhope that somethin' Cbetter comes alFong.

It's Fno good complainin' andBb pointless to Choller. F

If she's a beauty she'll get Bbunderneath your Ccollar.Dm

She made a monkey out of Bbold King Kong,

I Fhope that somethin' Cbetter comes alFong.

Ah, but Emwhat could be Abetter than a Dsaucy Irish Bsetter

When Empuppy loveA comes onD strong?

Or a Gcollie that's classy, aC laddie needs a lassie,

A Flover and wife gives you a Fnew leash on Glife.

FI don't mean to scare ya, my Bbfriend, but I Cbetcha F

Come "Father's Day", the litter Bbbug is gonna Cgetcha Dm

The urge is righteous, but the Bbface is wrong.

I Fhope that somethin' Cbetter comes aFlong.

Still, it's Emfun when they're Afetching,

And agDree to see an Betching

That you Emkeep at yourA lily pDad.

There Gis no solution, it's Cpart of evolution,

The pitter Fpatter of soles,

The little Ffeet of tadGpoles.

There's Fno limitation toBb mixin' and mCatchin' F

Some get an itchin' for a Bbcritter they've been Cscratchin'.Dm

A skunk was badgered the reBbsults were strong.

FI hope that somethin' Cbetter,

FI hope that somethin' Cbetter comes alBbongA. G F

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