Painted From Memory

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. In The Darkest Place Toledo I Still Have That Other Girl This House Is Empty Now Tears At The Birthday Party Such Unlikely Lovers My Thief The Long Division Painted From Memory The Sweetest Punch What's Her Name Today? God Give Me Strength

All songs tabbed by Kevin Brunkhorst <KB305@aol.com>, except God Give Me Strength.

In The Darkest Place

Am Em In the darkest place F I know Dm That is where you'll find me F Dm Even though you didn't have to remind me Dm9 I shut out the lights Dm9 G/D Your eyes adjust Dm9 G/D Cmaj7 G/B They'll never be the same Dm You know I love you so G/D G/A Lets start again Am Em Since you put me down F It seems Dm I've been very gloomy F Dm You may laugh, but pretty girls look right through me Dm G/D They don't sense the faintest glimmering Dm G/D That is the torch I bear Dm G/D G/A (f# d f# e d b) There's light enough for me to find my way Am Am(maj7) But I only have to tell myself that by now You could be with someone else F/A

Is there light beneath your door and G Laughter from within? Dm G/B Do your friends come around Dm G/D Saying, "Try to find another lover"? Dm Bm7b5 He won't love you like I do Bbmaj7#11 .... In the darkest place I'm lost I have abandoned every hope Maybe you'll understand I must Shut out the light Your eyes adjust They'll never be the same You know I love you so Lets start again Do your friends come around Saying, "Try to find another lover"? He won't love you like I do A E/G# Dmaj7/F# In the darkest place A E/G# Dmaj7/F# That is where you'll find me In the darkest place That is where you'll find me
Toledo

G6

F#m

G6 F#m Bm All through the night you telephoned C I saw the light blinking red A Beside the cradle G6 F#m Bm But you don't know how far I've gone C Now I must live with the lie A That I made E C#m G#m F#m B/A G#m But if I call, I know I won't have to say it E C#m G#m F#m B/A G#m G#dim You'll hear my voice - something is bound to betray it A But do people living in Toledo F#m Know that their name hasn't travelled very well? D

And does anybody in Ohio Bm Dream of that Spanish citadel? A But it's no use saying that I love you F#m And how that girl really didn't mean a thing to me D For if anyone should look into your eyes Bm It's not forgiveness that they're gonna see A F#m Dm6 You hear her voice - "How could you do that?" You hear her voice - "How could you do that?" So I walked outside in the bright Sunshine and lovers pass by Smiling and joking But they don't know the fool I was Why should they care what was lost What was broken? But if I call, I know I won't have to say it You'll hear my voice - something is bound to betray it But do people living in Toledo Know that their name hasn't travelled very well? And does anybody in Ohio Dream of that Spanish citadel? But it's no use saying that I love you And how that girl really didn't mean a thing to me For if anyone should look into your eyes It's not forgiveness that they're gonna see But do people living in Toledo Know that their name hasn't travelled very well? And does anybody in Ohio Dream of that Spanish citadel? But we still have Florence, Alabama We don't have Paris, and we don't have Rome
I Still Have That Other Girl

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F Dm I have to say that we should finish it now Bb Am Gm Bb/C F Before we weaken 'cause we already know this is wrong F Dm I could give in, sometimes I think that I will Dm Am E7 Am Despite the temptation I try to be very strong Bbmaj7 Gm7 In my reluctance seems a surprise Ebmaj7 C7sus4 C7 It's not 'cause I don't want you Gm But I just Am/G Gm7

Know I must... hesitate Bbmaj7 Am Because I still have that other girl Dm9 In my head Gm7 C7sus F I still have that other girl in my head F Db F Db Bb There may be ugly rumors that A7 Dm I have been lying Bb There may be angry tears, but A7 Dm They're never worth the crying Gm That is why Am/G Gm7 Sometimes I... hesitate Bmaj7 Bbm Because I still have that other girl Ebm In my head Abm7 Db7sus Gb I still have that other girl in my head I still have that other girl in my head Gb D Gb

This House Is Empty Now

Cm7 Eb/F These rooms play tricks upon you Dsus4 D/C Gm9/Bb Remember when they were always filled with laughter? Cm7 Eb/F But now they're quite deserted Dsus4 D/C Gm9/Bb They seem to just echo voices raised in anger Ebmaj7 Maybe you will see my face Cm9 Fsus F Reflected there on the pane F E Ebmaj7 In the window of our poor Cm9 Forlorn and broken home Eb/F F Bbmaj7/D Still this house is empty now Eb/F There's nothing I can do F Bbmaj7/D D7 To make you want to stay (b9) So tell me how Gm9/Bb Am I supposed to live without you? These walls were lined with pictures

Remember the glass we charged in celebration? But now I fill my life up With all that I can to deaden this sensation Do you recognize the face Fixed in that fine silver frame Were you really so unhappy then? You never said So this house is empty now There's nothing I can do To make you want to stay So tell me how Am I supposed to live without you? Cm9 Eb/F Bbmaj7/D Oh, if I could just become forgetful D7 Gm7 When night seems endless Gm7/F Em7b5 Does the extinguished candle care G/A About the darkness? It's funny how my mem'ry Will bring you so close then make you disappear Meanwhile all our friends must choose Who they will favour, who they will lose Hang the garland high or close the door And throw away the key This house is empty now There's no one living here You have to care about This house is empty now There's nothing I can do To make you want to stay So tell me how Am I supposed to live without you? This house is empty now There's no one living here You have to care about This house is empty now There's nothing I can do To make you want to stay So tell me how Am I supposed to live without you?
Tears At The Birthday Party

Fmaj7/G

Adim7

Am7 Fmaj7/A Think back now when we were young Em7/A There were always tears at the birthday party Dm7 Dm6 You know how children can be C6 So cruel

G That's how it starts, but C Bb/C What if we never learn how to behave? Fmaj7 Em Dm I did something, and you never forgave me F/G I never thought that it could be like this C Bb/C But now I see F/C Fm6/C I see you share your cake with him G Fmaj7/G Unwrapping presents that I should have sent G What can I do? Adim7 Must I watch you? Bbmaj7 Fmaj7 Close the door, dim the lights, blow out the candles Dm9 So Happy Birthday again G#dim7 Am7 Fmaj7/A And it's the same every year Em7/A Seems that I remember it as something more, but Dm9 Dm6 You know how children can grow Cmaj7 So strange G/B I still adore you What if we never learn from our mistakes? But then, you'll never know how my heart aches I never thought that it would be like this But now I see I see you share your cake with him Unwrapping presents that I should have sent What can I do? Must I watch you? Close the door, dim the lights, blow out the candles So Happy Birthday again Close the door, dim the lights, blow out the candles So Happy Birthday again One day I know he'll forget To pay you the compliments you're after You'll hang your sad, aching head Behind a brittle smile or a shrill of laughter What if we only get what we deserve? Somehow I couldn't quite summon the nerve Upon each anniversary Then do you ever think of me? Unwrapping presents that I should have sent What can I do? Must I watch you?

Close the door, dim the So Happy Birthday again Close the door, dim the So Happy Birthday again Close the door, dim the So Happy Birthday again Close the door, dim the So Happy Birthday again
Such Unlikely Lovers

lights, blow out the candles lights, blow out the candles lights, blow out the candles lights, blow out the candles

Gsus Gsus

G G

Fsus Fsus

Cm7 F7 On a hot city day Cm7 F#m7 When your white shirt turns to grey Bm9 That's when she'll arrive Cm7 F7 When you look how you feel Cm7 F#m7 Someone steps upon your heel Bm9 That's when she will come Gmaj7 Listen now Em7 I'm not saying that there will be violins A F#m7 D#m7 But don't be surprised if they appear Gmaj7 Playing in some doorway Em7 Still I can't believe that this is happening Cmaj7#11 (D/C) We're such unlikely lovers Gmaj7 F#m7sus4 Though no one seems to notice as they hurry by Gmaj7 F#m7sus4 Ask me what I'm thinking, and I won't deny it C/D D/E Can you believe it's happening? C/D Can you believe it's happening? There were no magic spells You can keep the flowers and bells They just don't seem right Can it actually be? Me and you and you and me Though we're like day and night Listen now I'm not saying that there will be violins But don't be surprised if they appear Playing in some doorway Still I can't believe that this is happening We're such unlikely lovers

D/E

Though no one seems to notice as they hurry by Ask me what I'm feeling, and I won't deny it Can you believe it's happening? I am bewildered Can you believe it's happening? Somebody help me Can you believe it's happening?
My Thief

Em9 Am9 When I go to sleep, you become my thief Dsus G Why don't you steal what you can keep? Bm7 But you won't let me be Am7 You break into my dreams Dsus And every day seems different Em9 Am9 Sometimes I pretend you'll come back again Dsus G And you'll console the heart you stole Bm7 Have pity on the man Am7 Who knows that you have gone Dsus D Dsus And has begun to break down E C#m9 I feel almost possessed G#m7 Am7 So long as I don't lose this glorious distress then E C#m7 You can take all I have left G#m7 I know it's over F#m7 If you can't be my lover NC Be my thief I'm so drowsy now, I'll unlock the door What fades in time will hurt much more So here's that happy scene Where you come back to me It's only found in fiction I feel almost possessed So long as I don't lose this glorious distress then You can take all I have left I know it's over If you can't be my lover Be my thief Em9 "I didn't lead you on, Am9 But there will always be Dsus G

A little larceny in everyone Em9 So hush and don't you cry Am9 I'm trying to be kind Dsus Because I have a perfect alibi"
The Long Division

Fm7 Did somebody try to catch your eye Ab/Bb Eb/G Db/Eb And almost change your sad expression? Fm7 Did somebody's hand linger too long? Ab/Bb Eb/G Db/Eb Must I now make my confession? Abmaj7 But you'll never know Eb/G What suspicion is Gsus4 G7 Cm7 Until you lie awake Gm7 And every night you ask yourself Cm7 Gm7 G7 "What am I to do?" Cm7 Gm7 Can it be so hard to calculate? Cm7 Gm7 When three goes into two Bb/C C7 There's nothing left over How's it gonna feel? This time it's real It's not a temporary fracture This is what you get, the stage is set For you and your attempted rapture Is he gonna smile That indulgent smile When you come running home? And every night you ask yourself, "What am I to do?" Can it be so hard to calculate? When three goes into two There's nothing left over What am I gonna say? You turn away And you leave me here despairing What am I going to do? I look at you You seem to be so long past caring Did somebody say, "Can we still be friends?" Only to find out now that it's a joke So ask yourself, "What am I to do?" Can it be so hard to calculate? When three goes into two

There's nothing left over Abmaj7 Did somebody say, Eb/G "Can we still be friends?" Abmaj7 Did somebody say, Eb/G "Can we still be friends?" Did somebody say, "Can we still be friends?" Did somebody say, "Can we still be friends?" Did somebody say, "Can we still be friends?" Did somebody say, "Can we still be friends?"
Painted From Memory

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Fm7 Fm7

Bbm7 Bbm7

Ebm7 Gm7b5

Gb/Ab Ab/Gb Gbdim7

Db Cbmaj7 Such a picture of loveliness Gb/Bb Ab Db Didn't you notice the resemblance? Db Eb/G Adim7 Doesn't it look like she could speak? Db Db9/F Ebdim7 Those eyes I tried to capture Gm7b5 Cdim7 Db/Ab They are lost to me now forever Gb/Bb Cb9 Fm7 Bbm7 Ebm7 They smile for someone else Fm7 Bbm7 Gm7b5 Gbdim7 Funny, how looks can be decei ving Fm7 Bbm7 But she's not easily Ebm7 Gb/Ab Ab Painted from mem ory You'd think that I would know by now Those eyes I tried to capture They are lost to me now forever They smile for someone else And so this had to be Painted from memory She She But She is gone, and I must accept it is lost to me now I can't look away just yet though smiles for someone else

Gb/Ab

And so this had to be Painted from memory Funny, now I can see

How looks can be deceiving And so this had to be Painted from memory Funny, now I can see How looks can be deceiving
The Sweetest Punch

G G

Bbmaj9 Bbmaj9

G Bm7 Em9 You only saw red Am7 Am7/G D/F# After I said, "How can we continue?" G Bm7 Hidden from your view Em9 Am7 Am7/G F#m7b5 B7 In the blue corner that I painted myself into Em G Then we started to fight C D/E And it changed everything Here's the ring F#/E You dropped the band, I can't understand it Bm/D Not after all we've been through F#/E Words start to fly, my glass jaw and I Bm/D Will find one to walk right into C You knocked me out Am7 It was the sweetest punch G The bell goes... G Cmaj7 I can hear it ringing, but I didn't see it coming Em7 We all say things we don't mean Am7 Dsus You can't take it back G Cmaj7 Now the room is spinning, but was I the last to notice? Em7 I can see I'll never win Am7 Dsus So if you're going Then you better go to him G Then you better go to him I only saw stars I dropped my guard, and that's how it ended What was I to do In the blue corner where I seemed to hang suspended?

Then with seconds to go You delivered the blow Here I go You dropped the band, I can't understand it Not after all we've been through Words start to fly, my glass jaw and I Will find one to walk right into You knocked me out It was the sweetest punch The bell goes... I can hear it ringing, but I didn't see it coming We all say things we don't mean You can't take it back Now the room is spinning, but was I the last to notice? I can see I'll never win So if you're going Then you better go to him Then you better go to him
What's Her Name Today?

Dm7 What's her name today? Fmaj9/6 What's her name today? Em7 She could be anyone Gm7/C I might have known you'd leave her crying Dm7 What's her name again? Fmaj9/6 You should be ashamed Em7 How could you treat her so unspeakably? Gm7/C Am7 Or did you think she was a different girl? Bbmaj7 C For as the radio played in the bedroom wall Dm7 What was that name you called her? Ab Fm7 Gb Was she the one who took away your pride Ebm7 And your reason? Ab Fm7 Oh, why did you decide that Cm7 Fm7 You'd punish any girl you meet Cm7 Csus4 C7 To try and make that feeling go away? What's her name today? What's her name today? Is her hair hanging down? Or maybe it's fixed with a ribbon Are her eyes still blue?

Should she trust in you? Because it's a lonely world She wants to believe for a while in all the things you say But as the radio played in the bedroom wall What was that name you called her? Isn't her smile reminiscent of someone else? Well, is it or isn't it? Oh, why did you decide that You'd punish any girl you meet To try and make that feeling go away? What's her name Is she going to So you can ruin And soon she'll today? stay her? be twisted in chiffon

Dress her like a doll String her like a pearl She hears peals of bells, but it's hard to tell Now that she's hung up like a chandelier Fm What's her name? What's her name? Ab Db What's her name today?
God Give Me Strength

Tabbed by John Lewitt <emplex@istar.ca> Notes: strong in the in the Intro: This song is ideally suited to the piano, but a voice can carry it on the guitar. The 'Asus' chords bridge are more of a counter point, they are used song but not as the base of the song. Gm9 D (4x)

Bm G D Now I have nothing, so God give me strength C#m7 C#m F#m7 'Cause I'm weak in her [his] wake C#m F#m F#7 And if I'm strong I might still break Bm A G And I don't have anything to share Bm E A That I won't throw away into the air G That G This Em [He] Em [He] A song is sung out A bell is rung out F#m A She was the light that I'd bless F#m A She took my last chance at happiness

Gm7 Bm Gm9 Em D So God give me strength, God give me strength (second verse same as first)

Em

I can't hold onto [him] her, God give me strength When the phone doesn't ring And I'm lost in imagining Everything that kind of love is worth As I tumble back down to the earth That song is sung out This bell is rung out [He] She was the light that I'd bless [He] She took my last chance at happiness So God give me strength, Gm9 Em D G Em God if [he'd] she'd grant me [his] her indulgence and decline (e, f#, g#) Asus4 A Asus2 I might as well wipe [him] her from my memory (e, f#, g#) Asus4 A Asus2 Fracture the spell as [he] she becomes my enemy Bm E A Maybe I was washed out like a lip-print on his shirt Bm E A See, I'm only human, I want him to hurt Asus4 A A7 I want him, I want him to hurt [instrumental - repeat structure of first verse, these last two lines are picked up as you reach the end of the verse)] Since I lost the power to pretend That there could ever be a happy ending That song is sung out This bell is rung out [He] She was the light that I'd bless [He] She took my last chance at happiness So God give me strength, God give me strength Gm D

Wipe her from my life... I might as well... God give me strength... God give me strength... I might as well