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Black admits that the album's mood (and certainly its title) might have been flavored by his forays into therapy. "You get all emotional and everything," he says, "talking about your feelings and all that [laughs]. My wife had been trying to get me to go down this road of being a little more direct for some years. So I had to go find something to make me cry, some artificial thing. 'Why don't you get a sad movie,' [my therapist] said. Are you kidding me? I laugh at people that cry at films. Having said that, I got into this Elliott Smith record that I discovered through The Royal Tenenbaums. I can pop on "Needle in the Hay," just thirty seconds and I'll be bawling like a baby."
elliot smith
needle in the hay (corrected)
album: elliot smith
Intro: F5 C5 E5 A5 F5 A5
Pt.1 |-------------------------------------| Pt.2 |------------------|
|--5-5-5-5----------------------------| |-5-5-5-5----------|
|--5-5-5-5--5-5-5-5-----------2-2-2-2-| |-5-3-5-5--2-2-2-2-|
|--3-3-3-3--5-5-5-5--2-2-2-2--2-2-2-2-| |-3-3-3-3--2-2-2-2-|
|-----------3-3-3-3--2-2-2-2--0-0-0-0-| |----------0-0-0-0-|
|--------------------0-0-0-0----------| |------------------|
Play Pt.1 3x's Play Pt.2 2x's
Pt.3 A5 C5 F5 A5 Play 2x's
Background playing
|---------| |---------|
|---------| |---------|
|-0-0-1-2-| |-0-0-1-2-|
|---------| |---------|
|---------| |---------|
|---------| |---------|
A5 C5 F5 A5
Vs.1
F5 A5 F5 C5 E5 A5
Your hand on his arm, haystack charm around your neck
F5 A5 F5 C5 E5 A5
Strung out and thin, calling some friend trying to cash some check
F5 A5 F5 E5 A5
He's acting dumb, that's what you've come to expect
Chorus
A5 C5
Needle in the hay
F5 A5
Needle in the hay
A5 C5
Needle in the hay
F5 A5
Needle in the hay
F5 A5 F5 C5 E5 A5 Play 2x's
Vs.2
He's wearing your clothes, head down to toes a reaction to you
You say you know what he did, but you idiot kid you don't have a
clue
Sometimes you just get caught in the eye, you're pulling him
through
Chorus
Middle 8
Fmaj7 Am Fmaj7 C E
Fmaj7 G E Am Fmaj7
A5
Vs.3
Now on the bus, nearly touching this dirty retreat
Faling out, sixth and Powell, a dead sweat in my teeth
Gonna walk walk walk, four more blocks plus the one in my brain
Vs.4
Down downstairs, to the man he's gonna make it all OK
I can't beat myself, I can't beat myself, and I don't wanna talk
I'm taking the cure, so I can be quiet
F
Wherever I want
G E Am F
So leave me alone, you ought to be proud that I'm getting good
A5
marks
Chorus 2x's
Ending: Fmaj7 Am Fmaj7 C E Am Play 2x's
Fmaj7 Am Fmaj7 C E F
F G E Am Fmaj7 E FIntro correction.
Pt.1 |-------------------------------------| Pt.2 |------------------|
|-------------------------------------| |------------------|
|--0-0-0-0----------------------------| |-0-0-0-0----------|
|--3-3-3-3--2-2-2-2-----------2-2-2-2-| |-3-3-3-3--2-2-2-2-|
|-----------3-3-3-3--2-2-2-2--0-0-0-0-| |----------0-0-0-0-|
|--------------------0-0-0-0----------| |------------------|
instead of:
Pt.1 |-------------------------------------| Pt.2 |------------------|
|--5-5-5-5----------------------------| |-5-5-5-5----------|
|--5-5-5-5--5-5-5-5-----------2-2-2-2-| |-5-3-5-5--2-2-2-2-|
|--3-3-3-3--5-5-5-5--2-2-2-2--2-2-2-2-| |-3-3-3-3--2-2-2-2-|
|-----------3-3-3-3--2-2-2-2--0-0-0-0-| |----------0-0-0-0-|
|--------------------0-0-0-0----------| |------------------|
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Posted - 10/22/2003 : 20:13:58
