A Woman Oversees chords by Brandi Carlile

• Capo on 2nd
• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Intro:

D
D      D/C
(Oh-oh-oh)
D      Gm
(Oh-oh-oh)


Verse 1:
D                     D/C
 One time, I went overseas
                        Bm
With a woman I know too deep
                               F
I live and breathe to hold her in
          G        D
I love to hear her speak
                    D/C
We went to people's parties
                           Bm
And we haunted her old hometown
                   Bb
We rambled into restaurants
C                       D
Tracking her old friends down

Refrain:
       D/C
(Oh-oh-oh)
G      Bb
(Oh-oh-oh)


Verse 2:
D                        D/C
 They all knew the magic number
                        Bm
The weather, the kids, TV
                                F
But this is where she pulls the strings
    G                    D
And slips into someone's grief
                                D/C
She's all tarot cards and gypsy moves
                        Bm
She's on fire with listening
               Bb
No one sees it coming, no
    C              D                 D/C
The canary doesn't sing (Sing, sing, sing)
            Bm   Bb
She doesn't sing
      C         G
For a woman oversees (Sees)
Gm             D
  (A woman oversees)


Verse 3:
                        D/C
I feel for them and not because

Of what they're going through
Bm                      Bb              F             G
  I'm sure they used to try and reach inside an empty room
D                            D/C
 But she doesn't make it easy  (No)
                           Bm
She hides behind her hair (Hair)
                  Bb
She asks too many questions
        C
And she cuts you off with care (Ah)
D                   D/C
 She reaches deep inside you like an open cookie jar (Ah)
Bm                         Bb
  And not because you're interesting
       C
But to mine your broken heart
D                     D/C
 For borrowed pain to hide behind
                    Bm
Divorce, disdain, disease
                                 Bb
And it ain't like she don't have her own
    C               D  D/C
But hers is hers to keep (Keep, keep, keep)
             Bm
It's hers to keep
Bb      C         G
  For a woman oversees
             Gm
(A woman oversees)


Bridge:
    Em             A                D        D/C         G
And in a chair sat right beside the puppeteer   sits me (Ha)
Em          A               D      D/C    G
Recognizing maybe that I've said too many things (Ha)
     Em             A                D      F#7    Bm A G  Gm
I've fallen prey to conversate, I've spoken her to sleep


Verse 4:
D         D/C
 Even an eviction
                         Bm
Would be a mercy in that place
                F                  G              D
Wordlessness is cruel, and I can't wipe it off my face
                          D/C
I know I need compassion, Lord
                      Bm
I'm sure she needs it too
                        Bb
She won't even make excuses
           C               D  D/C
That would all be too much truth
              Bm
It's too much truth
Bb   C         D
  (A woman oversees)
                              D/C
When you're this far north of forty
                    Bm
The growing's up to you
                           F
Even if you grow away from me
        G
And I'd die to watch you bloom
D                    D/C
 I opened up my eyes one time
                G
When I went overseas
                            Gm
With a woman, no one really knows
                       D
But I live to hear her speak