The Man I Knew chords by Dessa

• 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

 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