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What Do You Hear In These Sounds

Dar Williams

Chord: Principal (acoustic and electric guitars)
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key: D
D G5 Em

[Verse 1]
  D                     G5              A
I don't go to therapy to find out if I'm a freak
  D                        G5              A
I go and I find the one and only answer every week
         D
And it's just me and all the memories to follow
     G5                             Em
Down any course that  fits within a fifty minute hour

[Verse 2]
      D                            G5                A
And we fathom all the mysteries, explicit and inherent
     D                   G5              A
When I hit a rut, she says to try the other parent
          D                    G5
And she's so kind, I think she wants to tell me something,
        Em                                           A
But she knows that its much better if I get it for myself and she says

[Chorus]
D                               G5            Em
Oooooooh, aaaaaaah, what do you hear in these sounds? And
D                              G5             Em
Oooooooh, aaaaaaah, what do you hear in these sounds?

[Verse 3]

        D                      G5               A
I say I hear a doubt, with the voice of true believing
               D                  G5                 A
And the promises to stay, and the footsteps that are leaving
               D          G5                A
And she says "Oh", I say "What?" - she says: "Exactly",
          G5                                                    Em
I say "What, you think I'm angry - Does that mean you think I'm angry?"

[Verse 4]
         D                                    G5                    A
She says "Look, you come here every week with jigsaw pieces of your past
       D                          G5                A
It’s all on little soundbytes and voices out of photographs
           D
And that's all yours, that's the guide, that's the map
            G5             Em              A
So tell me, where does the arrow point to? Who invented roses? and

[Chorus]
D                   G5                        Em
Oooooooh, aaaaaaah, what do you hear in these sounds?
D                   G5                        Em
Oooooooh, aaaaaaah, what do you hear in these sounds?

[Instrumental]
D

[Bridge]
      G5                         A
And when I talk about therapy, I know what people think
        G5                            A
That it only makes you selfish and in love with your shrink
       D           G5
But Oh how I loved everybody else
        Em                    A
When I finally got to talk so much about myself

[Verse 5]

       D            G5              A
And I wake up and I ask myself what state I'm in
       D                          G5       A
And I say well I'm lucky, cause I am like East Berlin
       D                   G5                A
I had this wall and what I knew of the free world
         G5                             Em                   A
Was that I could see their fireworks and I could hear their radio

[Verse 6]

        D                             G5            A
And I thought that if we met, I would only start confessing
          D                                   G5               A
And they'd know that I was scared, they would know that I was guessing
        D                  G5
But the wall came down and there they stood before me
           Em                                     A
With their stumbling and their mumbling and their calling out just like me, and

[Chorus 2, Outro]
D                       G5          Em         A
Oooooooh, aaaaaaah, The stories that nobody hears, and
D                         G5            Em           A
Oooooooh, aaaaaaah, and I collect these sounds in my ears, and

D                   G5            Em
Oooooooh, aaaaaaah, that's what I hear in these sounds, and
D                   G5                            Em
Oooooooh, aaaaaaah, that's what I hear in these, that's what I hear in these
D    G5   Em A             G G5 D G
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