Suzanne Vega

Cracking

Csus2  G/B  G5  G5/F#    Csus2  G/B  G5  G5/F#  G5/F#
[intro]
Em7  Em7/B  A7  A7    C  Cmaj7  G5  G[single note]
[intro]

       Csus2     G/B          G5      G5/F#
It's a one time thing, it just happens a lot
Csus2        G/B   G                G5/F#
  Walk with me and we will see what we have got
Csus2  G/B  G5  G5/F#    Csus2  G/B  G5  G5/F#
Ahhhhhhh...              Ahhhhhhh...

   Csus2         G/B           G5            G5/F#
My footsteps are ticking, like water dripping from a tree
Csus2      G/B          G5            G5/F#
Walking a hairline, and stepping very carefully
Csus2  G/B  G5  G5/F#    Csus2  G/B  G5  G5/F#  G5/F#
Ahhhhhhh...              Ahhhhhhh...
Em7  Em7/B  A7  A7    C  Cmaj7  G5  G[single note]
Ahhhhhhh...

   Csus2    G/B    G5          G5/F#
My heart is broken; it's worn out at the knees
Csus2            G/B           G5            G5/F#
Hearing muffled, seeing blind, soon it will hit the deep freeze
Csus2  G/B  G5  G5/F#    Csus2  G/B  G5  G5/F#
Ahhhhhhh...

    Csus2        G/B      G5             G5/F#
And something is cracking, I don't know where
Csus2       G/B      G5               G5/F#
Ice on the sidewalk, brittle branches in the air

    Csus2    G/B     G5             G5/F#
The sun is blinding, dizzy golden, dancing green
Csus2                   G/B        G5                  F#[single note]
Through the park in the afternoon, wondering where the hell

Csus2    G/B    G5  G5/F#  G5/F#
I     have   been
Em7     Em7/B  A7  A7    C  Cmaj7  A7  A7    C  Cmaj7  G5  G[single note]
Ah ha haaaaa...

Marlene on the wall

chord   F  A# d# g# c  f
E       0  2  2  1  0  0
Esus4   0  2  2  2  0  0
F#msus4 2  2  2  2  2  2
Amaj9   X  0  2  1  0  0
Aadd2   X  2  2  2  2  0
Em7     0  2  0  0  0  0
Cmaj7   X  3  2  0  0  0
C6      X  3  2  2  1  0
Bm7sus4 X  2  4  2  5  2
Bm7     X  2  4  4  3  2
G/C     X  3  0  0  0  3
D       X  X  0  2  3  2
D/C     X  3  0  2  3  2   (you can also play simple D)

Intro: E | Esus4 | F#msus4 | Amaj9
(Last warning: these are the chords for guits w/ capo on 1st fred.
If you play bass or w/o capo, the intro is F|Fsus4|Gm7sus4|Bbmaj9 etc.)

1.
[E]Even if I am in love with you all
[Esus4]this to say what's it to you? Ob-
[F#msus4]serve the blood the rose tatoo of the
[Aadd2]fingerprints on me from you.
[E]other evidence has shown that
[Esus4]you and I are still alone we
[F#msus4]skirt around the danger zone and don't
[Aadd2]talk about it later.

CHORUS
[Em7]Marlene watches from the walls
[Cmaj7]her mocking [C6]smile says it all
[Bm7sus4]as she records[Bm7] the rise and
[Cmaj7]fall of every soldier passing
[Em7]but the only soldier now is me
[Cmaj7]I'm fighting things[C6] I cannot
[Bm7sus4]see. I think its [Bm7]called my desti-
[G/C]ny but [D/C]I [G/C]am [Cmaj9]changing
[D] Marlene on the wall
[Cmaj7] | [D] | [Cmaj7]   (Well I)

2.
[E]Walk to your house in the afternoon by the
[Esus4]butcher shop with the saw-dust strewn
[F#msus4]"don't give away the goods too soon" is
[Aadd2]what you might have told me and I
[E]tried so hard to resist when you
[Esus4]held me in your handsome fist and re
[F#msus4]minded me of the night we kissed and of
[Aadd2]why I should be leaving

CHORUS

3. Instrumental

CHORUS (on last [Cmaj7] words are: "And")
repeat 1st verse
(additional lyrics are "And I" within last bar of 1st verse)
CODA
[E]tried so hard to resist
[Esus4]held me in your handsome fist and re-
[F#msus4]minded me of the night we kissed and of
[Aadd2]why I should be leaving.
||:
[Em7]Marlene watches from the wall
[Cmaj7]her mocking [C6]smile says it all
[Bm7sus4]as she records the rise and
[Cmaj7]fall of every <1.man whose been here / 2.soldier passing>
[Em7]but the only <1.one here / 2.soldier> now is me
[Cmaj7]I'm fighting things [C6]I cannot
[Bm7sus4]see I think it's [Bm7]called my desti-
[G/C]ny but [D/C]I [G/C]am [Cmaj9]changing
<1.[D]changing changing
   [Cmaj7]changing changing :||
/2.[D] Marlene on the wall.>

OUTRO
[Cmaj7] | [D] | [Cmaj7] | [D] | [Cmaj7] | [E]

nice song but not that easy...

Small blue thing

E5  D6(9)  Cmaj7  D6(9)    E5  D6(9)  Cmaj7  D6(9)
[intro]

E5        D6(9)   Cmaj7      D6(9)
  Today I am    a small blue thing
E5       D6(9)         Cmaj7  D6(9)
  Like a marble or an eye
        E5               D6(9)      Cmaj7      D6(9)
With my knees against my mouth, I am perfectly round
E5    D6(9)    Cmaj7  D6(9)
  I am watching you

F(add#4) G                 F(add#4)      G
  I  am  cold against your skin, you are perfectly
    F(add#4)     G                F(add#4)     G
reflected;  I am lost inside your pocket, I am lost against your
Am9            Bm7                Cmaj7      Bm7
fingers;  I am falling down the stairs, I am skipping on the
Am9             Bm7                 Cmaj7    Bm7
sidewalk;  I am thrown against the sky, I am raining down in
Am9/G         Bm7(4)/A        Am9/G  Bm7(4)/A
pieces;  I am scattering like light, scattering like
Am9/G  Bm7(4)/A        Am9/G   Bm7(4)/A   Bm7(4)/A [single note, held]
light, scattering like light

Today I am a small blue thing
Made of china, made of glass
I am cool and smooth and curious, I never blink
I am turning in your hand, turning in your hand
[4 extra bars: E5 D6(9) Cmaj7 D6(9)]

I am cold against your skin, you are perfectly
reflected;  I am lost inside your pocket, I am lost against your
fingers;  I am falling down the stairs, I am skipping on the
sidewalk;  I am thrown against the sky, I am raining down in
pieces;  I am scattering like light, scattering like
light, scattering like light

Today I am a small blue thing
Like a marble or an eye
I am cool and smooth and curious, I never blink
I am turning in your hand, turning in your
E5     D6(9)           Cmaj7   D6(9)
hand;  turning in your hand,   small blue
E5      D6(9)           Cmaj7  D6(9)
thing;  turning in your hand
E5  D6(9)           Cmaj7   D6(9)   E5.
    Turning in your hand

Straight lines

D      D - Ds4         D     Ds9 - D - Ds4
[intro]
D      Ds9 - D - Ds4         D     Ds9 - D - Ds4
[intro]

                Ds9 - D - Ds4                  Ds9 - D - Ds4
There's a sound               across the alley
              Ds9 - D - Ds4               Ds9 - D - Ds4
Of cold metal               touching skin
            D   Ds9 - D - Ds4                    D      Ds9 - D - Ds4
And you can see               if you look in her window
D     Ds9 - D - Ds4               D     Ds9 - D - Ds4
  That she has gone and cut her hair again

            D     Ds9 - D - Ds4        D     Ds9 - D - Ds4
In straight lines
        D      Ds9 - D - Ds4        D     Ds9 - D - Ds4
Straaaaaight lines

Eb                                 F
  Those soft golden lights in the morning
Eb                      F
  Are now on her wooden floor
Eb                                      F
  The wind has swept them through the apartment, she won't need them
Gm       F        Eb       Ds4
Anymore, anymore, anymore

She's cut down on her lovers
Though she still dreams of them at night
She's growing straight lines where once were flowers
She is streamlined, she is taking the shade down from the light

To see the straight lines
Straaaaaight lines

She wants to cut through the circles
That she has lived in before
She wants to finally kill the delusions, she won't need them
Anymore, anymore, anymore

There's a sound across the alley
Of cold metal too close to the bone
And you can see if you look in her window
The face of a woman finally alone

Behind straight lines
Straaaaaight lines
Behind straight lines
Straaaaaight lines

[End Dsus4]

Undertow

tabbed by Yuval Mishory ([email protected])
minor changes by Bambi Kill ([email protected])

capo on the 3rd fret!

chords used:
Em7 022033
D xx0232
Cadd2 032033

intro: same as the beginning of the verse

lyrics + chords:
----------------
    Em7 D
I believe right now if I could
    Em7 D
I would swallow you whole
Em7      D
I would leave only bones and teeth
Em7    D
We could see what was underneath
  Cadd2
And you would be free then

Once I thought only tears could make me free

Salt wearing down to the bone

Like sand against the stone

Against the shoreline

chorus:
-------
     Em7 D
I am friend to the undertow
  Em7    D
I take you in, I don't let go
Cadd2
And now I have you

I wanted to learn all the secrets
From the edge of a knife
From the point of a needle
From a diamond
From a bullet in flight
I would be free then

chorus: I am friend...

I wanted to see how it would feel
To be that sleek
And instead I find this hunger's
Made me weak

I believe right now if I could
I would swallow you whole
I would leave only bones and teeth
We could see what was underneath
And you would be free then

chorus: I am friend... (x2)

Some journey

transcribed by Yuval Mishory ([email protected])
minor changes (if any) by Bambi Kill ([email protected])

chords used:
Asus2 x02200
Aadd5# x03200
Asus4 x02230
A    x02220
Cadd2 x32033
G 320033
Gsus2 3x0233

intro: same as the beginning of the verse.

lyrics + chords
---------------
   Asus2
If I had met you on some journey
Aadd5#
Where would we be now?
   Asus2
If we had met on some east bound train
Aadd5#
Through some black sleeping town

Asus4 A
Would you have worn your silken robes
     Asus4   A
All made of royal blue?
      Cadd2 G Gsus2
Would I have dressed in smoke and fire
G
For you to see through? Ah...

   Asus2
If we had met in a darkened room
      Aadd5#
Where people do not stay
     Asus2
But shadows touch and pass right through
    Aadd5#
And never see the day

       Asus4     A
Would you have taken me upstairs
     Asus4   A
And turned the lamplight low?
      Cadd2       G
Would I have shown my secret self
Gsus2 G
And disappeared like the snow? Ah...

    Asus2
Oh, I could have played your little girl
  Aadd5#
Or I could have played your wife
Asus2
I could have played your mistress
Aadd5#
Running danger down through your life

Asus4   A
I could have played your lady fair
     Asus4       A
All dressed in lace like the foam from the sea
Cadd2 G
I could have been your woman of the road
    Gsus2      G
As long as you did not come back home to me. Ah...

    Asus2
But as it is, we live in the city
Aadd5#
And everything stays in place
   Asus2
Instead we meet on the open sidewalk
Aadd5#
And it's well I know your face

    Asus4       A
We talk and talk, we tell the truth
      Asus4       A
There are no shadows here
      Cadd2          G
But when I look into your eyes
   Gsus2    G
I wonder what might have been here

   Asus4 A
Becuase if I had met you on some journey
  Asus4   A
Where would we be now?

('chorus' chords continue to the end of the solo)

The queen & the soldier

Am   Am   Fsus9   Fsus9   Csus9    Gsus4/B   Csus9   G
[intro]
Am   Am   Fsus9   Fsus9   Csus9    Gsus4/B   Csus9   Csus9
[intro]

    Am           Am         Fsus9           Fsus9
The soldier came knocking upon the queen's door
          Csus9    Gsus4/B      Csus9  G
He said, "I am not fighting for you anymore"
        Am               Am           Fsus9        Fsus9
And the queen knew she'd seen his face someplace before
     Csus2     Gsus4/B   Csus9  Csus9
And slowly she let him inside

          Am                Am        Fsus9         Fsus9
He said, "I've watched your palace up here on the hill
         Csus9              Gsus4/B   Csus9       G
And I've wondered who's the woman for whom we all kill
         Am        Am                  Fsus9           Fsus9
But I am leaving tomorrow, and you can do what you will
     Csus2      Gsus4/B   Csus9  Csus9
Only first I am asking you why"

Fsus9      Fsus9       C/E         C/E
  Down the long narrow hall he was led
D7sus4   D7sus4        D7         Dm7
Into her room with her tapestries red
    Am        Am            Fsus9            Fsus9
And she never once took the crown from her head
Csus9         Gsus4/B      Csus9  Csus9  Csus9  Csus9
She asked him there to sit down

He said, "I see you now and you are so very young
But I've seen more battles lost than I have battles won
And I've got this intuition says it's all for your fun
And now will you tell me why?"

Well the young queen, she fixed him with an arrogant eye
She said, "You won't understand, and you may as well not try"
But her face was a child's, and he thought she would cry
But she closed herself up like a fan

And she said, "I have swallowed a secret burning thread
It cuts me inside and often I've bled"
And he laid his hand then on the top of her head
Csus9         Gsus4/B      Csus9  Csus9
And he bowed her down to the ground

Fsus9   Fsus9   C/E     C/E     D7sus4   D7sus4    D7      Dm7
["Oooooh" and instrumental]
Am      Am      Fsus9   Fsus9   Csus9    Gsus4/B   Csus9   Csus9
["Oooooh" and instrumental]

"Tell me how hungry are you, how weak you must feel
As you are living here alone and you are never revealed
But I won't march again on your battlefield"
And he took her to the window to see

And the sun it was gold, though the sky it was grey
And she wanted more than she ever could say
But she knew how it frightened her and she turned away
And would not look at his face again

He said, "I want to live as an honest man
To get all I deserve and to give all I can
And to love a young woman whom I don't understand
Your highness, your ways are very strange"

But the crown, it had fallen, and she thought she would break
And she stood there ashamed of the way her heart ached
And she took him to the doorstep and she asked him to wait
She would only be a moment inside

Am         Am           Fsus2     Fsus2
Out in the distance her order was heard
        C5          Gsus4/B      C5              G
And the soldier was killed still waiting for her word
              Am            Am                Fsus9           Fsus9
And while the queen went on strangling in the solitude she preferred
    C5    Gsus4/B    C5   Gsus4/B
The battle continued on


Fsus9   Fsus9   C/E     C/E     D7sus4   D7sus4    D7      Dm7
["Oooooh" and instrumental]
Am      Am      Fsus9   Fsus9   Csus9    Gsus4/B   Csus9   Csus9
["Oooooh" and instrumental]

Csus9   Csus9
[repeat and fade]

Knight moves

tabbed by Yuval Mishory ([email protected])
modified by Bambi Kill ([email protected])

capo 2nd fret

chords used:
Bm x02210
D  x32000
G 1330xx
A 3200xx

notes: play the chords sharply during the verses, arppegiate during
the chorus. in intro, am is played first as x00000 then hit on to x02210.

lyrics + chords:
----------------
Bm D
Watch while the queen
   G A
In one false move
Bm D    G   A
Turns herself into a pawn

Bm       D
Sleepy and shaken
    G        A
And watching while the blurry night
Bm      D G A
Turns into a very clear dawn

chorus
------
    Bm       D
Do you love any, do you love none
    G A
Do you love many, can you love one
    Bm D    G     A
Do you love me?

    Bm       D
Do you love any, do you love none
    G A
Do you love twenty, can you love one
    Bm D    G     A
Do you love me?

One false move
And a secret prophecy
Well, if you hold it against her,
First hold it up and see

That it's one side stone
One side fire
Standing alone among all men's desire
(they want to know)

chorus

And if you wonder
What I am doing
As I am heading
For the sink

I am spitting out
All the bitterness along with half
Of my last drink

I am thinking
Of your woman
Who is crying
In the hall

It's like drinking gasoline
To quench a thirst
Until there's nothing
There left at all

chorus

"Walk on her blind side"
Was the answer to the joke
It's said there isn't a political bone
In her body

Well she would rather
Be a riddle but she keeps
Challenging the future
With a profound lack of history

chorus

And watch while the queen
In one false move
Turns herself into a pawn

Sleepy and shaken
And watching while the blurry night
Turns into a very clear dawn

Do you love me?
Do you love me?
Do you love me?
Do you love me?
...

Chords formatting done by yours truly.

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