Tell Her What I Said chords by The Sadies

Chords with lyrics

Tell Her What I Said
The Sadies, Darker Circles

A minorAm E minorEm | E minorEm Em

G+G        E minorEm
I look so much older
D MajorD              B minorBm
Most times the pills take away all my dreams
     C majorC         G+G
And there?s so much I never told her
  E minorEm           D MajorD
Her eyes are so pretty they can?t even see
A minorAm            E minorEm
That it?s more than I?m used to
G+G             D MajorD
Lately it all weighs so heavy on me
   A minorAm      E minorEm
So I do what I have to

  G+G            D MajorD
The little that?s left of me gets on all right
    A minorAm           E minorEm
But I?m too sick and tired to put up a fight
G+G          D MajorD
I turn to oblivion night after night
A minorAm
I wait right here
A minorAm
Smoking and drinking
A minorAm
And smoking and
C*    C majorC C | C majorC C | C majorC C | C majorC C | A minorAm E minorEm | E minorEm Em [2x]
Dropping

G+G          E minorEm
When the mind is forsaken
  D MajorD            B minorBm
The body?s abandoned and the spirit turns black
C majorC       G+G
If I never awaken
E minorEm               D MajorD
At least then I?ll have all the answers I lack
A minorAm            E minorEm
You?re the last one I?ll turn to and
G+G            D MajorD
Someday I promise that I?ll get you back
  A minorAm         E minorEm
And I?ll do what I have to

   G+G            D MajorD
The little that?s left of me gets on all right
    A minorAm           E minorEm
But I?m too sick and tired to put up a fight
G+G          D MajorD
I turn to oblivion night after night
A minorAm
I?ll wait right here
A minorAm
Smoking and drinking
A minorAm
And smoking and
C*    C majorC C | C majorC C | C majorC C | C majorC C | A minorAm E minorEm | E minorEm Em
Dropping

C majorC C | C majorC C | C majorC C | C majorC C | A minorAm G+G [mandolin:

G+G G MajorG | G+G G/F# | E minorEm Em | G+G G MajorG | C majorC C | G+G G/F# | E minorEm Em | G+G G MajorG | C majorC C]

G+G            G/F#  E minorEm
We all thought we?d be someone
      G+G          C majorC
One man?s promise means nothing
             G/F#
Against the will of his god
E minorEm             C majorC
You can?t serve two masters
        G+G
No matter the cause
G+G         F#F#   E minorEm
We all thought we were someone
G+G            C majorC
Will you take redemption
       G/F#        E minorEm
Or watch me fall down from grace?
     G+G     C majorC
I?ve seen all seven devils
        G+G
And I?m not afraid
         G/F# E minorEm
We all thought we were somewhere

E minorEm Em | G+G G MajorG | C majorC C | G+G G/F# | E minorEm Em | G+G G MajorG | C majorC C

G+G          G/F# E minorEm
We all thought we?d be someone

E minorEm Em | G+G G MajorG | C majorC C | G+G G/F# | E minorEm Em | G+G G MajorG | C majorC C | G+G G/F#m | E minorEm . . .


*you can play any C majorC here; I have not the competence to figure out what dallas or travis
 is actually doing, but to imitate it I go straight from 1st position A minorAm to a partial C majorC
at the 8th position (see below), and noodle around on that and it sounds good enough.
where the song shifts, around the mandolin break, you abbreviate that progression 2nd
time around and go right to G. the mandolin break [in brackets] can be skipped if no mandolin
is present, but it helps shift into the walkdown patterns that I?m indicating with the
G/F#--which is a walkdown from G+G to Em. I can only approximate those; play along with
the song to get the timing. I love this band and this is one of their great songs.
thanks to my friend jp who gave me the chords to start with.


E----0--------------|
B------8------------|
G--------9----------|
D----------10-------|
A----X--------------|
E----X--------------|