Sound of Water/Change Your Mind - Sarah Slean
The Baroness (2008)
Transcribed by Kristilyn
Ab Cm Ab Cm
Fm
Just to hear the sound of water
Just to put the fire on ice
Bbm
I'm lying down in the shower
Cm
Oh mercy, loosen the vice
Fm
Sometimes the sword is so heavy
and the pain has a ravenous mouth
Bbm
In the pits of my own making
Cm
Sometimes I don't think I'll ever get out
Ab Cm Ab Cm
Fm
All the world stroking their comas
and the madmen making the news
Bbm
Bent over like a beggar
Cm
I was saying, "It's no use!"
Fm
This ain't the world for intelligent women
Unless you like swimming in your own dark sea
Bbm
These are times for urgent rhymes
Cm
But where the poetry?
Ab Cm Ab Cm
Ab
When the light
Cm Ab
The light is hard to find
Cm
and you're walking blind
Bbm Eb
You only need to change your mind
Fm (notes are something like, Ab C Db D Db C (x3) - Db C Bb Ab G)
Your mind
Fm
Wide awake and hope-infected
I became the glittering queen
Bbm
Every light in my direction
Cm
was a bright magnificent green
Fm
Adorned with invisible riches
I saw my stitches glowing so bright
Bbm
No the burden was not heavy,
Cm
for the master it was light
Ab Cm Ab Cm
Ab
When the light
Cm Ab
The light is hard to find
Cm
and you're walking blind
Bbm Eb
You only need to change your mind
Bbm Ab Eb
You only need to change your mind, your ...
(OK ... here's what I hear ... Fm with the keys C-F-Gb-G, Ab with the keys C-F-G-Ab, Cb
with the keys C-F-G-Ab, something like Ab, then Eb, repeat the first part - the Fm, Ab, Cb,
and then she pretty much builds on the C7 chord)
Ab Cm Ab Cm
Ab
When the light
Cm Ab
The light is hard to find
Cm Ab Cm Ab Cm
and you're walking, walking blind
Ab
The light
Cm Ab
The light is hard to find
Cm
and you're walking blind
Bbm Eb
You only need to change your mind
Bbm Ab Eb
You only need to change your mind
Fm (notes are something like, Ab C Db D Db C (x3) - Db C Bb Ab G)
Your mind
