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The Man I Knew Chords by Dessa

The Man I Knew chords by Dessa

Guitar chords with lyrics

  • Tuning: Standard tuning
  • Difficulty: Beginner
SONG:   THE MAN I KNEW
ARTIST: DESSA
TAB BY: DON CZARSKI
EMAIL:  GUITARZAN7@HOTMAIL.COM


                        THE MAN I KNEW
                            DESSA

INTRO:
Am C F G
Am C F G


VERSE:
        Am                           C                         F     G
By the time that you told me it was already plain that you`d changed
          Am                           C                    F   G
But your conscience was clean and as white as a line of cocaine
    Am                       C
My back to the wall of your bedroom apartment
        F                           G
You`re talking in circles, got two cigarettes burning
    Am                     C                          F   G
And I couldn`t hide how afraid I was to see you so strange
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 Am                  C
Don`t get me wrong, I`ve got no ill will for you
 F                      G
It`d just been so long, I thought I`d always know you
Am
But you`re so far gone
C                      F
Up where the air gets thin
 G
You cut the kite strings

 Am                   C                            F
I`ve seen my name in lights, I`ve seen my face in papers
                 G
But my civilian life, I spent ten good years waiting
 Am                                  C                              F  G
Waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, for you

                 Am
You charmed the snake
                C
You picked the card
               F      G
You bent the spoo-oo-oon

          Am                 C
A curved plane, the shapes change
          F                G
Euclid`s made to play the fool, but

Am                            C
I don`t know what that stuff does to you
 F                        G    Am
And I don`t know if it`s real, but
                     C
I spent a decade in love with you
 F                           G
And I can`t stand if you`re here, `cause


HOOK:
    Am  C  Fmaj7
The man I knew
G                           Am  C  Fmaj7 G
 I don`t think that he can hear me  now

G                 Am C   F  G
So dizzy with the al-ti-tude
 G         Am   C   F  G
It`s just tooooooo far


VERSE:
Am           C                F
Who am I to tell you to come down?
 F                             G
Lucky that my palate still prefers a legal poison

 Am          C                F
Who am I to tell you to come down?
 F                              G
Sit back and raise a glass, a glass to easy choices

Am              C               F
Who am I, yeah, who am I, yeah who am I
    G                Am   C   F  G
To tell you to come doooooooown?


HOOK:
    Am  C  Fmaj7
The man I knew
G                          Am  Cmaj7 F      G
I don`t think that he can hear  me  now-o-o-ow

G                 Am C  Fmaj7 G
So dizzy with the al-ti-tude
 G         Am   C   F
It`s just tooooooo far,

       G                      Am                     C
Who am I to tell you, tell you, to tell you, tell you,
                 F                   G
To tell you, to tell you, tell you, tell you, tell you


OUTRO::
      F                               G
Last night you came to kiss me in a dream and when I woke
              Am
What kind of foolishness is this
                C
Breathed out a lungful of your smoke

      F
I`ve seen you at your brightest
        G
What a mind, let it burn
Am                             C
Who am I to pull you down to Earth?
       F           G                Am  C
Yeah, who am I to tell you to come doooown?
      F    G    Am
Come dooooownnn

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