I've wanted to play this song for years! Ellis does some funky tuning and an
combination between finger-picking and strumming.
I'm not 100% sure about this, but it sounds pretty close. Feel free to use if
you're like me and just want to play and sing this awesome song.
Capo 1st Fret
Intro
Em Fmaj7 C9 X4
C G Am Em Fmaj7 C G Fmaj7
C
She fell to the mattress
G
With the grace of an actress
Am Em Fmaj7
You're falling like a thief from a roof.
C G
She's asking for proof , "are you staying? "
Fmaj7
Outside you hear mission bells.
C G Am
Welcome to maria's beautiful mess
Em Fmaj7 C
In a cluttered apartment on the west side.
G
She pulls the blinds while,
Fmaj7
You watch how her dress falls round her .
Chorus
Am C9
And the world slows, a clock shows
G Dsus
A wrinkle in the flow of time
Am C9
And she steps close, her eyes glow,
G Dsus
Lips pop open like a bottle of wine
Am
And she loves like it's thirst
C9
Like she's never been hurt,
G Dsus
She dances just like nobody's watching.
Am C9
Is this love? is this cursed?
G
It feels like the first time falling
Dsus
Nobody's watching,
Am C9
nobody's watching,
G Dsus
Nobody's watching,
Am
Woooo hooooooo hoooooooooo
C9
Woooo hooooooo hoooooooooo
G
Wooooo hooooooooo eeeeeeeeee
Dsus
Heeeeeeeeeeee heeeeeeee
Em Fmaj7 C9 X2
C
Now she puts on some music,
G
She asks you to choose it
Am Em Fmaj7
You sang her back a gershwin line.
C G
Now ella is singing holy, soulfully
Fmaj7
Bringing up better times
C
And beneath the tunes,
G Am
She's smiling on an unmade bed
Em Fmaj7 C
She says, "what's in the middle that scares you,
G
Does it dare you
Fmaj7
To take a moment and just slow down? "
Chorus
Pull the curtains all down
On the prince or a clown,
She's smiling like the mona lisa.
You could conquer this town.
If your feet touched the ground,
But you're falling boy
I know, I see you
I see you, I see, I see,
I see you
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