A Thousand Places I Don't Know II (Chords)
These are the official lyrics and chords for the song “A Thousand Places I Don’t Know (Part 2)”. It’s track #5 from the album “Until It’s Over”.
The only song on the album that’s a bit more upbeat and happy, and perhaps needs some more instruments/voices to sound great.
Also, yeah, it’s weird that it has two (maybe three?) outros, but that’s the way it is, and what I needed to tell this song’s story.
Chords
Used in bridge:
- B* = X240XX
- G* = 304000
- Em* = 004000
Intro
Same as part 1, but now strummed as chords. Includes both verse and chorus.
Verse 1
He’s falling on the si __ deline
He’s telling you to stay and yet you run
So full of disappoin __ tment
Tell everyone your heart just broke and know
Chorus 1
Will you stay or will you go?
To a thousand places you don’t know
Verse 2
Take poison, let your health __ drop
Force thoughts away and live like a machine
Drift away to worlds more hand __ some
Sleep longer and longer to reach where you have been
Chorus 2
Will you stay or will you go?
To a thousand places I can’t show
Will you stay or will you go?
To a thousand places I can’t go
Bridge (repeat)
B* G* Em* G*
He went down to save his old friend
Intermezzo
Going faster and faster, more and more wild, on the chords and pattern of the bridge
Verse 3
Back to melody from part 1. But more shouty, wild, free.
Orpheus don’t look back
There’s no saving when everyone is lost
Orpheus stop looking back
Twenty years enslaved, oh they’re long gone
Verse 4 (different melody; same music)
We’re not going anywhere, we’re not going anywhere
We’re not going anywhere, we’re not going anywhere
We’re not going, we’re not going,
we’re not going anywhere anymore
We will never see it all, we will never see it all
We will never see it all, we will never see it all
You can only see me fall, see me fall,
ever closer to the floor
Chorus 3
Will you take the pill or no?
To a thousand places you might love
Will you keep yourself afloat?
To a thousand places I don’t
Chorus 4 (type B; same as part 1)
C C/B Am
Know why he
G D/F# Em
Never went
C C/B Am
Was it all fear
G D/F# Or impairment
G C
By the dark he must fight every day
G C C/B
That never goes away
C C/D
Would you care
From whence it came?
Outro 1
Same fast-plucked outro as part 1.
Outro 2
Goes to a slow methodical plucking of chords.
G C
It’s a tragedy
Em D
Can’t change the genre halfway
Through with this
I cannot live without a
C G
Night in Rome
Em D
A garden flower-filled and Paris
C G D/F#
Lights they shone so bright
I miss it so
The summer sun stripes leaving
Solid gold
The weight of worlds left safe at
Home I know
It’s just some land, should be a better man
I like to think I am
Em (single strum)