Closer To Fine - The Indigo Girls (SOS Version please don't change)
Intro -x2-: | F/C | G7sus4 | Bbadd9 Csus4
Verse:
F/C G7sus4 Bbadd9 Csus4
I'm trying to tell you something about my life
F/C G7sus4 Bbadd9 Csus4
Maybe give me insight between black and white
C Bb
and the best thing you've ever done for me
C Bb
is to help me take my life less seriously
F/C G7sus4 Bbadd9 Csus4
It's only life after all
F/C G7sus4 Bbadd9 Csus4
Well, darkness has a hunger that's insatiable
F/C G7sus4 Bbadd9 Csus4
and lightness has a call that's hard to hear
C Bb
and I wrap my fear around me like a blanket
C Bb
I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it
F Bb F
I'm crawling on your shores
Chorus:
C Bb F
I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
C Bb F
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountains
C Bb
There's more than one answer to these questions
F
pointing me in a crooked line
C Bb
and the less I seek my source for some definitive [STOP STRUM]
F/C G7sus4 Bbadd9
The closer I am to fine
F/C G7sus4 Bbadd9 Csus4
The closer I am to fine
Verse:
F/C G7sus4 Bbadd9 Csus4
I went to see the doctor of philosophy
F/C G7sus4 Bbadd9 Csus4
With a poster of Rasputin and a beard down to his knee
C Bb F
He never did marry or see a B-grade movie
C Bb F
He graded my performance, he said he could see through me
F C Bb
I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind, got my paper
F
And I was free
Chorus:
Interlude: | C | Bb | C | Bb |
Bridge:
F/C G7sus4 Bbadd9 Csus4
I stopped by the bar at 3 a.m.
F/C G7sus4 Bbadd9 Csus4
To seek solace in a bottle or possibly a friend
C Bb F
I woke up with a headache like my head against a board
C Bb
Twice as cloudy as I'd been the night before
F
I went in seeking clarity
Chorus:
C Bb F
I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
C Bb F
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountains
C Bb F
We go to the doctor, we go to the mountains
C Bb F
We look to the children, we drink from the fountains
C Bb F
We go to the bible, we go through the workout
C Bb F
We read up on revival and we [single strum] stand up for the [single strum] lookout
C Bb
There's more than one answer to these questions
F
pointing me in a crooked line
C Bb
and the less I seek my source for some definitive [PAUSE]
F/C G7sus4 Bbadd9
The closer I am to fine
F/C G7sus4 Bbadd9
The closer I am to fine
F/C G7sus4 Bbadd9 Csus4
The closer I am to fine
F/C
[single strum]