16 Shades Of Blue chords by Tori Amos

• Difficulty: Beginner

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

🎸 Intro:

Am C F Em



🎸 Verse 1:
Am         C               F
  Are you telling me it's over
   G            Am                F            C   D
Disintegrating, lost, and there's nothing I can do?
Am            F           G
  Before you drop another verbal bomb
D            Am                 F           Am
Can I arm myself with Cezanne's 16 shades of blue?

🎸 Pre-Chorus 1:
F      G               C            G
As my heart is slowly ripping into pieces
      Am               G           F      G
Disconnecting from the circuits of my mind
            C      G      F  G    F    G
"You'll get over it," you say, "in time"
   Dm
In time?


🎸 Chorus:
C       G          Am   G
If the clocks are black
  F         Em    D
Absorbing everything but
C    G    Am   G
A remembering
 F               Em
How we made it that
             Am     F    Em
Clocks are black


🎸 Verse 2:
Am              C          F          Em
  You say, "Get over it if 50 is the new black
   Am             F          Em      D
Hooray this could be your lucky day"
Am        C               F
  But my cables they are surging
       Em         Am     F           A    Am
Almost over- overloading as you disen-gage


🎸 Pre-Chorus 2:
F           G               C            G
Could your heart be slowly ripping into pieces
      Am               G             F      G
Disconnecting from the circuits of your mind
            C      G      F  G    F    G
"We’ll get over it," you say, "in time"
   D
In time


🎸 Chorus:
C       G          Am   G
If the clocks are black
  F         Em    D
Absorbing everything but
C    G    Am   G
A remembering
 F               Em
How we made it that
             Am     E
Clocks are black


🎸 Bridge:
C       G      Am     G
"That's it you're done
 F
You've screwed up your life"
 Em             F
Before you've begun
C          Dm      C    F
There are those who say
                    Em
I am now too old to play


🎸 Verse 3:
Am          G        F                   E
  See over there at 33 she fears she'll lose her job
  Am                   F               Em    G
Because they hear the ticking of her clock
Am        A           F          Em               Am
  At only 15 - I said 15 - they say her future's bleak
                 F             Am
She should have started this at 3


🎸 Pre-Chorus 3:
F      G               C            G
As her heart is slowly ripping into pieces
      Am               G           F      G
Disconnecting from the circuits of my mind
             C      G      F  G    F    G
"She’ll get over it," you say, "in time"
  F    G
In time?
     F G   F    G
Stop Father Time


🎸 Chorus:
C       G          Am   G
If the clocks are black
  F         Em    D
Absorbing everything but
C    G    Am   G
A remembering
 F               Em
How we made it that
             Am
Clocks are black


🎸 Outro:
 Am            F           G
  Before you drop another verbal bomb
D            Am                 F           Am
Can I arm myself with Cezanne's 16 shades of blue?