Nothing Completed chords by Joshua Burnside

• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Key: Eb

Verse 1:
  Cm  Eb     Bb             Ab
Beat well, heart of little lentil
       Cm      Eb
Growing fast inside the belly of
     Bb         Abmaj7
The one I love the most
  Cm      Eb         Bb            Ab
I will not lie, the path ahead is daunting
        Cm                 Eb
Haunted by those pesky little ghosts
   Bb               Abmaj7
That moan, 'you don't know what you're doing,
   Eb   Ab   Eb   Ab
Do you '

Verse 2:
   Cm       Eb                   Bb
And when the gold on my finger catches my eye
   Ab              Cm              Eb
To my surprise my hands are not the hands of my
   Bb          Abmaj7            Cm        Eb
Father's or grandfather's but my own, how strange
   Bb       Abmaj7
It was only yesterday
   Cm                       Eb
The cool dangling earrings swayed and touched my neck
   Bb            Abmaj7
As my mother lent to kiss me


Chorus:
   Eb           Ab
Farewell, for the evening
   Eb               Abmaj7          Eb    Abmaj7
Thank god, for childminders and wine
   F           Fm
And a few hours peace
   Eb         Ab         Eb       Abmaj7
Because the truth is, this love's a burden
  Eb        Ab     Eb    Abmaj7
A garden to maintain
          F
Nothing's completed
        Eb     Ab
Nothing's completed
  Eb  Ab  Eb  Abmaj7
Da da da da da da
       F
Nothing's completed
  Eb   Ab   Eb   Abmaj7
Nothing's completed

Eb  Abmaj7  Eb  Amaj7

F


Verse 3:
            Cm
And that perfume still lingers
Eb         Bb            Ab
In a dusty corner of my heart
           Cm                  Eb
And when I wake to a start to find that I'm much older
      Abmaj7        Cm              Eb                Bb
Yet no older. Seems time it is no javelin, soaring, glinting
        Abmaj7            Cm                   Eb
In the sun, more like the track that circles round each lap
     Abmaj7               Eb
You find you're back where you began


Chorus:
   Eb           Ab
Farewell to my evenings
   Eb             Abmaj7     Eb   Ab
Oh god, and to so many friends
         Fm
Hardly recognise me
   Eb         Abmaj7        Eb
Their woes will seem oh so quaint
   Ab            Eb
Oh what I wouldn't give
   Abmaj7         F
For a few hours peace
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Nothing's completed
  Ab  Eb  Abmaj7  Eb
Da da da da da da
  Abmaj7     F
Nothing's completed
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Nothing's completed
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Da da da da da da

F


Verse 4:
     Cm               Ab         Eb            Bb        Abmaj7
Well I know, I know, I may be getting a little ahead of myself
        Cm               Ab               Eb
But it grieves me so to know that someday I will leave you
         Abmaj7
Oh, the betrayal
      F                     Abmaj7
But don't think on the soil above me,
        F                  Abmaj7
Or the worms wriggling in my skull
        F                        Abmaj7
I'll be finally free you see, of my love for you
                    F
And your love for me

Abmaj7


Verse 5:
            Eb              Ab
Yes, I'll be gone where the air is thinner
    Eb           Abmaj7
Lost, in a moonlight shimmer
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Far, far out of reach
        Eb            Abmaj7      Eb
With the fruits of my labour rotting
      Abmaj7      Eb     Abmaj7
On the side of a motorway
           F
Nothing completed
           Eb    Abmaj7
Nothing completed
  Eb  Abmaj7  Eb  Abmaj7
Da da da da da da
            F
Nothing completed
            Eb   Abmaj7
Nothing completed
  Eb  Amaj7  Eb  Amaj7
Da da da da da da
           F
Nothing completed


Outro:

Eb  Ab  Eb  Abmaj7  Eb  Abmaj7  F
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