The Things I Say chords by Joanna Newsom

Chords with lyrics

A minorAm G+G C majorC         G+G
If I have the space of half a day,

    C majorC             FF
I'm ashamed of half the things I say.

    C majorC               FF
I'm ashamed to have turned out this way,

   FF      G+G   A minorAm
and I desire to make amends.


A minorAm G+G

  C majorC         G+G
But it don't make no difference, now,

   C majorC           FF
and no-one's listening, anyhow,

   C majorC            FF
and lists of sins and solemn vows

    FF   G+G   A minorAm
don't make you any friends.


A minorAm G+G


      C majorC
There's an old trick played,

      G+G           C majorC
when the light and the wine conspire

           FF
to make me think I'm fine.

   C majorC             FF
I'm not, but I have got half a mind

     G+G     A minorAm
to maybe get there, yet.


A minorAm G+G

     C majorC        G+G
When the sky goes pink in Paris, France,

     C majorC              FF
do you think of the girl who used to dance

       C majorC              FF
when you'd frame her moving within your hands,

        G+G    A minorAm
saying This I won't forget?


A minorAm G+G


   C majorC        G+G
What happened to the man you were,

     C majorC           FF
when you loved somebody before her?

    C majorC
Did he die?

          FF        G+G  A minorAm
Or does that man endure, somewhere far away?


A minorAm G+G


   C majorC            G+G
Our lives come easy and our lives come hard.

    C majorC             FF
And we carry them like a pack of cards:

   C majorC               FF
some we don't use, but we don't discard,

        G+G   A minorAm
but keep for a rainy day.