MYSTERY (Emily Saliers)
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[Each chord, or pair of chords joined by hyphens, is one 6/8 measure.]
Bbmaj9 Eb Bb - Bbsus4 Bb - Bbsus9 Bbmaj9 Eb Bb- Ebm Bb
[intro] (Handed down or made by hand)
Bbmaj9 Eb
Each time you'd pull down the driveway
Bb - Bbsus4 Bb
I wasn't sure when I would see you again
Cm7 Eb - F7sus4
Yours was a twisted, blind-sided highway
Bb - Ebm Bb
No matter which road you took then
Bbmaj9 Eb
Oh you set up your place in my thoughts
Bb - Bbsus4 Bb
Moved in and made my thinking crowded
Cm7 Bb/D
Now we're out in the back with the barking dogs
Eb F7sus4 F7
My heart the red sun, your heart the moon clouded
Eb F
I could go crazy on a night like tonight
Bb - Bb/A Ebmaj7/G
When summer's beginning to give up her fight
Eb F
And every thought's a possibility
Bb - Bb/A Bb7/G#
And voices are heard, but nothing is seen
Eb F
Why do you spend this time with me
Eb - F Bb- Bbsus4 Bb
May be an equal mystery
So what is love then
Is it dictated or chosen (handed down or made by hand)
Does it sing like the hymns of a thousand years
Or is it just pop emotion (handed down or made by hand)
And if it ever was there, and it left
Does it mean it was never true
And to exist it must elude
Is that why I think these things of you
But I could go crazy on a night like tonight
When summer's beginning to give up her fight
And every thought's a possibility
And voices are heard, but nothing is seen
Why do you spend this time with me
May be an equal mystery
G#9
Oh, but you like the taste of danger
G#9 Bb - Bbsus4 Bb
It shines like sugar on your lips
G#9 G#9
And you like to stand in the line of fire
Cm7 Bb7/G#
Just to show you can shoot straight from your hip
Eb Ebm
There must be a thousand things you would die for
Bb - Bb/A Ebmaj7/G
I can hardly think of two
Cm7 Bb/D
But not everything is better spoken aloud
Eb F7sus4 F7
Not when I'm talking to you
Bbmaj9 Eb
Oh, the pirate gets the ship and the girl tonight
Bb - Bbsus4 Bb
Breaks a bottle to christen her
Cm7 Eb - F7sus4
Basking in the exploits of her thief
Bb - Ebm Bb
She's a very good listener
Bbmaj9 Eb
And maybe that's all that we need is to meet in the middle
Bb - Bbsus4 Bb
Of impossibility
Cm7
Standing at opposite poles
Eb - F Bb - Bbsus4 Bb
Equal partners in a mystery
Cm7
We're standing at opposite poles
Eb - F Bb - Bbsus4 Bb - Bbsus4 Bb - Ebm Bb.
Equal partners in a mystery
AMY'S CHORDS:
Dmaj9: x00220 G: 320033 Gm: xx0333 A7sus4: x02030
D/C#: x40232 Gmaj7/B: x20032 D7/C: x30232
C9: x32330 (actually x32333, but can _you_ play that?)
(The rest should be pretty standard.)
If you want to get that jangly 12-string kind of sound on an ordinary
6-string, put a capo at the 5th fret and transpose everything to the
key of A. Then, try using these for some of your chord fingerings:
Fmaj9 Bb(9) F Fs2s4 F Fs2s4
x02100 x00230 x07650 - x07700 x07650 - x07700
[intro]
Fmaj9 Bb(9) F Bbm(9) F
x02100 x00230 x02220 - x03230 x02220
[intro]
Later in the song, the only suggestions I have are 32320x for G9,
and x02220 x02120 x00252 (A Amaj7 D(9)) instead of A A/G# Dmaj7/F#.
- transcribed by Adam Schneider, http://adamschneider.net/
