A Thousand Places I Don't Know I (Chords)
These are the official lyrics and chords for the song “A Thousand Places I Don’t Know (Part 1)”. It’s track #4 from the album “Until It’s Over”.
The only song of the album (including its part 2) that’s not very angry or sad, and perhaps needs some more instruments/voices to sound great.
(Because of the long held notes and the plucking pattern on the guitar that’s quite high. It just means it sounds a bit thin with just guitar and voice.)
Notes
Capo 7. Chords:
- C/D = 050030
- F* = 100010
Intro
Verse 1
Am
Oh he __ is
G Em
Falling away __
Told him not __ to
Run but to stay
Only see __ what
You need to see __
To go on __
The way it must be __
Chorus 1
C C/B Am
Time will tell
G D/F# Em
Where he went
C C/B Am
Was it all lies
G D/F#
Or just pretend
G C
For the light that dawns every day
G C C/B
That dawns in your own way __
C C/D
Would you care
Am G Em
From whence it came __
Verse 2
Oh he __
Will fulfill the needs __
He will stand __
Don’t care if he bleeds __
Chorus 2
Time will tell
Where he went
Was it all lies
Or just pretend
For the light that dawns every day
That dawns in your own way
Would you care
From whence it came
Solo
TO DO
A heavy guitar solo feels most suited here. (Perhaps with big, reverby “ooh” choir voices along it. Like the end of act 1 from a musical, where the character is going down and down and down and it’s all going wrong.) Idea: re-use the intro pluckings here. (Otherwise feels like a waste of a unique melody/chord progression.)
Bridge
F* G Em
Oh he’s __ falling apart now
Oh lost __ every sense of heart now
Oh he’s __ never getting better
G
(Not) again
Chorus 3
Time will tell
Where it went
It was all lies
And a pretense
For the light that dawns every day
That has to dawn again
No room to care
From whence it came
Outro
Play the chorus chords, but sped up, using the G-string for a “2->0” hammer-on note.
If you want, you can move the hammer note higher and higher as you go.
This is a terrible explanation, but I’m not going to make a detailed tab of that.