Chords with lyrics
Riff (played on top of a G+G chord)
It will referred to as G2
e|--------------------------|
BB|--------------------------|
G+G|--------------------------|
D MajorD|--------------------------|
A augmentedA|--------------------------|
E MajorE|--2h3--2h3----2h3--2h3----|
G2 x2
C majorC D MajorD C majorC B7B7
I heard the truth about you
C majorC D MajorD
And it doesn't really read at all
E minorEm G+G
Like the whipping stick you raised me with
C majorC D MajorD
A augmentedA scared woman in a private hell
C majorC B7B7
Hushed voice like electric bells
C majorC D MajorD
Strange talk about Edgar Cayce
C majorC G+G
And the long lame walk of the dark seventies
C majorC D MajorD
Strange talk about Edgar Cayce
Bb majorBb G+G
And the long lame walk of the dark seventies
C majorC D MajorD C majorC B7B7
I heard the truth about you, yeah you
C majorC D MajorD
Mama, they woke me up
C majorC G+G
I was deep in an idiot sleep
C majorC D MajorD
I was just eight years old
B7B7 E minorEm
Heard big words with horrible sound
C majorC D MajorD
Why'd they have to call my school
Bb majorBb G2
Tell me my mother had a nervous breakdown
G2
C majorC D MajorD C majorC B7B7
I wish I believed like you do, yeah you
C majorC D MajorD
In the myth of a merciful God
E minorEm G+G
In the myth of a heaven and hell
C majorC D MajorD C majorC
I hear the voices you hear sometimes
B7B7
sometimes
C majorC D MajorD
It gets so much
C majorC G+G
I feel like letting go
C majorC D MajorD
Sometimes it gets so hard
B7B7 E minorEm
I feel like letting it go
C majorC D MajorD Bb majorBb G+G
Sometimes it gets so goddamn hard I feel like letting it all go
Bb5Bb5 D5D5
Letting it all go
G5G5 F5F5
Letting it all go
Bb5Bb5 D5D5
Letting it all go
G5G5 F5F5
Letting it all go
Bb5Bb5 D5D5
Yeah, letting it all go
G2 x2
C majorC D MajorD
I ran away and went looking for you
B7B7 E minorEm
Back to Culver City and the old neighborhood
C majorC D MajorD
Needed to know if you were really gone
B7B7 E minorEm
Needed to know if you were gone for good
C majorC D MajorD
I ran through the projects at night
B7B7 E minorEm
Hide in the dark from my friends in the light
C majorC D MajorD
Hide from my brother-in-law
B7B7 E minorEm
Hide from the things he'd say
C majorC D MajorD
Said you weren't losing your mind
B7B7 E minorEm
Yeah, said you just needed a rest
C majorC D MajorD
He said you would be coming home soon
B7B7 E minorEm
He said the doctors there would know what's best
C majorC D MajorD C majorC
Said that maybe I could go live with them for a while
N.C
I know the truth about you
N.C
I know the truth about you
C majorC D MajorD
I know the truth about you
B7B7 E minorEm
I know the truth
C majorC
I know the truth
D MajorD
I know the truth
B7B7
I know the truth
E minorEm
I know the truth about you
C majorC
Mama, they woke me up
G+G
I was just eight years old
C majorC D MajorD
Sometimes it gets so hard
B7B7 E minorEm
I feel like letting it go
C majorC D MajorD
Sometimes it gets so hard
Bb majorBb G+G
I feel like letting it all go
G+G
Yeah, letting it all go
G+G G2
Letting it all go
G2
Ooh, letting it all go
G+G
Yeah letting it all go
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| x Dead note
| b Bend
| h Hammer-on
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