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1. |
Beautiful Mess
03:18
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BEAUTIFUL MESS bpm 142
E
It's beautiful, the mess I made
A
I buried myself in the stains
C#m B
Pulled the pin on the grenade
(ADD Dave)
C#m B A B
Inside your mouth, inside my brain
But through it all you never quit
The days I miss and I admit
It’s nights when I don't want to live
You pick me up and sing me this
(ADD Keith & Nick)
C#m --------------
Song unspoken
B
Words you lost beneath the broken
A C#m B A
Branches on the path you paved
C#m
Heavy hearted
B A
When life started sooner than you thought
B E
A beautiful mess we make
(drop Nick)
E
Reach out to the better ones
A
who bring us back when we are done
C#m B
When darkness makes you feel alone
C#m B A B
Turn around, start running home
Twenty years is not enough
to smooth the edges that were rough
It all comes back in a rush
who fought for you, who fucked you up with
(add Nick)
C#m
Song unspoken
B
Words you lost beneath the broken
A C#m B A
Branches on the path you paved
C#m
Heavy hearted
B A
When life started sooner than you thought
C#m E (just keith)
It’s beautiful
G F# F E
Music turns back into noise
G F# F G A A
My head where I destroy
Inst. C#m B A B
F#m G#m A B(½)
C#m (just keith & sarah)
Song unspoken
B
Words you lost beneath the broken
A C#m B A
Branches on the path you paved
C#m
Heavy hearted
B A
When life started sooner than you thought
Coda:
E/G# A (2x)
Beautiful, beautiful (vocal end)
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2. |
Rosalind
03:39
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Rosalind by Sarah Donner (capo 6 & 8) bpm 130 PIANO
Eb/G Eb/Ab Bb/D Eb (a bunch of times)
Look at you both go, you stand on my shoulders And take away
Photo 51 with with the shadow You run away
When you see the scope, that is when you know What you can take away
Like my x-ray eyes, I see through your lies like DNA (Bb x2)
Bb Bb/D on 4 Eb (x2)
I won’t be your unknown.
For every chain I broke.
Bb/C Bb/D Eb Eb/F
Where do I fit it in? I am Rosalind
Eb/G Eb/Ab Bb/D Eb (a bunch of times)
Careless disregard, handouts hit me hard Its all the same
They ran out with fame, and never said my name I lost the game
Every test I take, every mess I make without acclaim
Sounds like history where the textbook left me, now you know my name (Bb x2)
Bb Bb/D Eb (x2)
I won’t be your unknown, no
Every chain that I broke.
Bb/C Bb/D Eb Eb/F
Where do I fit it? I am Rosalind
Bb Bbsus4 Ab Eb/G Bb
I know someday They will take away your crown
Bb Bbsus4 Ab Eb/G Bb Bbsus4 Bb Bbsus4
Til then there are women to break it down (INST of chorus chords)
Bb Bb/D Eb (x4)
I won’t be your unknown, (STOP) no
Every chain that I broke.
I won’t be your unknown, no
Every chain that I broke.
Bb/C Bb/D Eb
Here’s where I begin.
Bb/C Bb/D Eb Eb/F
Here’s where I fit in. I am Rosalind
Eb/G Eb/Ab Bb/D Eb (x4)
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3. |
Well Actually
03:07
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Well Actually bpm 92 (KEYBOARD C3 ROCK 6)
B F# G A# B
Did I ask you how to play this game
I did not, I don’t need you to explain
How to sing, how to to write this refrain
I’m the master of my own domain
I can throw back a beer, pwn an IPA
A
And I don’t need you to impregnate
D G D A A/C#
I don’t have to prove a damn thing to you
When your attitude mistakes me
For a woman who needs to be rescued
From myself, from your
D G D A/C#
Well actually
Is not what I need
Louder Sarah
On the road I know how to change a tire
On my own in the dark I can start a fire
If I don’t then I’ll ask for your advice
I’m a fan of Star Wars episode
Don’t explain the role of C3P0
I have built robots on my own
I don’t have to prove a damn thing to you
When your attitude mistakes me
For a woman who needs to be rescued
From myself, from your
D G D A/C#
Well actually
Is not what I need
D G Bm A
I’m here to be seen
So seriously
D G D A/C#
Well actually
Is not what I need
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4. |
Cassini
03:24
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CASSINI by Sarah Donner bpm 64 BOOGIE ORGAN 0783 on chorus
nick START
Em C Em C (3x)
My first flyby fourth of July in the year 2004
You need someone like me to go where no one’s gone before
No more moonbeams, no more pipe dreams I know how it’s going to end
Em C Em D/F# Cadd9 (hold)
I’ll go headstrong with a swan song to my final descent
G C Dsus
Back on the ground you sing my praises
G C Dsus
I know the course, I know what the day is
Em Cadd9 Dsus
To crash through the rings and burn up cuz space is (repeat last time)
Am7 G/B
Something you wanted to see
Cadd9 Dsus
Is this something you wanted to see? (End Cadd9 Nick on toms fade)
Em C Em C (3x)
Calculated, separated, my smile is up in the air
On the surface you are nervous, sending me up like a flare
You got smaller, well, I got stronger, I promise to put on a show
Em C Em D/F# Cadd9 (shorter)
Take my secrets in my weakness, I know how I want to go
G C Dsus
Back on the ground you sing my praises
G C Dsus
I know the course, I know what the day is
Em Cadd9 Dsus
To crash through the rings and burn up cuz space is (repeat last time)
Am7 G/B
Something you wanted to see
Cadd9 Dsus
Is this something you wanted to see?
Am7 G/B Cadd9
One last flyby with my head high through the atmosphere
Am7 G/B Cadd9 Dsus
It’s worth it, you deserve it, you waited twenty years (drop beat 1 of chorus)
G C Dsus
Back on the ground you sing my praises
G C Dsus
I know the course, I know what the day is
Em Cadd9 Dsus
To crash through the rings and burn up cuz space is
G C Dsus
Back on the ground you sing my praises
G C Dsus
I know the course, I know what the day is
Em Cadd9 Dsus
To crash through the rings and burn up cuz space is
Am7 G/B
Something you wanted to see
Cadd9
Is this something you wanted to see?
Nick ends toms
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5. |
Better Part of Me
03:31
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BETTER PART OF ME bpm 140 K&N start 0200 PLS Pad 4 /DOUBLE I DONT NEED/SYN 0920
E C#m A
She said you’re better than this, I thought you don’t know the rest
B E
I’m not one to to say all things I should
E C#m A
You act like we’ll be ok, but I don’t have time to waste
B A B
Around and hope that pieces fall into place
C#m B A B E
Like Holy Jesus Christ it’s not a miracle I need
E C#m A
I know I’m not easy to move, and that isn’t easy on you
B A B
I promise I am trying my best to prove
E C#m A
That said it’s not hard to see, you are the better part of me
B
the better part of me
C#m
the better part of me
A
the better part of me
E B C# C#/D#
A
I don’t need deserts to walk the sea
B
I need waters that rise to recede
C#m B
I don’t need anything taking me higher
A
I don’t need broken hearts making me sing
B
I need words that make skeptics believe
C#m B
I don’t need every sunrise to be brighter
E C#m A
I know I’m not easy to move, and that isn’t easy on you
B A B
I promise I am trying my best to prove
E C#m A
That said it’s not hard to see, you are the better part of me
The better part of me (E/ B/ C# / C#/D# x2) E F#m G#m A E)
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6. |
The Song That Got Away
03:35
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The Song That Almost Got Away by Sarah Donner
Capo 3 bpm 230
E (G)
Maybe I got lost here, I just left my voice
Baby you should stay here, baby it’s your choice
A E (G)
I’m not in love, but I want you to know
B A (stop) E (G)
That I’ll be here when you come or go
I have been pacing across an empty hall
It’s not a race if no one shows up at all
It’s not a race but I still want to win
So I’ll be here if you decide to let me in
C#m B A B
Oh I was always running from all things I couldn’t say
C#m B A B
Oh you just keep me humming the song that almost got away
Plus 4 bars keith
E
Sifting through the ashes, knocking at your door
Waiting for an answer just like I did before
I’m not in love, but I’m not far out
I could be there, set me loose and let me out
C#m B A B
Oh I was always running from all things I couldn’t say
C#m B A B (no stop)
Oh you just keep me humming the song that almost got away
C#m B A B
Plus 8 bars Keith
E CRESCENDO
Breaking up the background, slowly letting go
No one’s keeping track of online radio
I’m not in love, my brain tells me so
I can’t be here when the heart wants to go go go go go
C#m B A B
C#m B A B
Oh I was always running from all things I couldn’t say
C#m B A B
Oh you just keep me humming the song that almost got away
C#m B A B
16 bars End E end on 9 ring out… ***nick cue keith 4 bars before***
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7. |
Squirrel Heart
03:11
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SQUIRREL HEART by Sarah Donner cut capo 2 bpm 90
E E/G# A
Tell me to be patient well, I just want truth
I’m full of inconsistencies in what I say and do
I could take your burdens if you could just take mine
F#m G#m A B E
We’re passing ships, a failed eclipse, always misaligned
B A
Life finds a way, I heard Ian Malcolm say
B
But love breaks hearts and gets off track
A
Love calls for you and then turns its back
E A
Tell me what you want to do, I opened up and you fell through
B A
Life charges on and lions roar, can you hear me?
Tell me to be patient, I just want truth
I’m full of inconsistencies in what I say and do
I could take your burdens if you could just take mine
We’re passing ships, a failed eclipse, always misaligned SHORT
My squirrel heart, it beats fast and it beats hard
Buries joy and chases stars
Runs back and forth from where you are
She gathers things that she can save to bring back on the darkest days
Waits for wind so she can soar, can you hear me? SHORT
Tell me to be patient well, I just want truth
I’m full of inconsistencies in what I say and do
I could take your burdens if you could just take mine
We’re passing ships, a failed eclipse, always misaligned
C E C E C B
Welcome to my better days, see how I changed, I have changed
Tell me to be patient well (COME IN BAND) , I want to know the truth
I know the inconsistencies in what you say and do
I could take your burdens if you could just take mine
F#m G#m A B
We’re passing ships, a failed eclipse, meetings missed, a story twist,
F#m G#m A B E
That stolen kiss, mixed messages Misaligned
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8. |
Royal Blue
03:42
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Royal Blue by Sarah Donner bpm 122
G C G D
Covered in the signs of myself
Feeling farther from a day in June
Hear the ringing of a bell that haunts me
Another hour that I push through
I’m with you
In the water where the bridge is sinking
Where city gets the best of me
Stick together like the bonds that made us
We are brighter than the brightest sea-
I’m with you
I’m royal blue
Em C Em D
Are you chasing gods you’ll never find?
Em C G
When I love you, when I’m on your side
D
When you don’t believe it
G C G D
And it’s never gonna be just perfect
And you’ll never be satisfied
But a wandering heart sees more
Than one who stays inside -
I’m with you
I’m royal blue
Em C Em D
Are you chasing gods you’ll never find?
Em C G D
When I love you, When I’m on your side
Em C G D
Every color, every spot, and stripe
Em C D
Has its order and has its space to shine
bridge
C D Em D (x4) inst.
Em C Em D
Are you chasing gods you’ll never--find?
Em C G D
When I love you, BR When I’m on your side
Em C G D
Every color, every spot, and stripe
Em C D
Has its order, has its space to shine
G C G D
I’m with you
(Dave drops) I’m royal blue
Nick drops
Keith
End
STRINGS SYTH JP8SRTING 0005
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Dungeons & Dave STRINGS LUSH 0585
By Sarah Donner bpm 136
Nick starts
E B
Friday night, sitting at the table
C#m B A B
All your friends with facial hair are here
They’ve got dice that are so expensive
Like really expensive, who spends that much on dice?
F#m G#m A B (x2)
You invite, me to your party
Suddenly I have to fold laundry
C#m B A E
I won’t play Dungeons & Dragons
C#m A B
It’s not gonna happen, not tonight
It looks hard, you’ve gotta do math and
Use your imagineaaaation
I don’t get, why you sit for hours
On a game that no one wins (STOP) (bass lead in?) in the end
And you set up a guy named Dave
Behind a cardboard wall and you call him DM
F#m G#m A B (x2)
Games are work when they’re so demanding
Can’t we play Catan?
C#m B A E
I won’t play Dungeons & Dragons
C#m A B
It’s not gonna happen, not tonight
It looks hard, you’ve gotta do math and
Use your imagineaaaation
C#m B A B
Maybe its me and my commitment issues
I’ll disappoint you
Maybe it’s me and my fear of confrontation
When every die you (ROLL) roll, turns into a fight
(Shhhhhhhh no NICK) STRINGS
F#m G#m A B
Floating Disk & Basilisk
Feather Fall, Prismatic Wall
Manticore & Minotaur
Nightmare Owlbear
Paladin Barbarian
Cleric priest Unholy beast
Dragon born Valhalla horn
Hail of thorns & Unicorn
C#m B A E
I won’t play Dungeons & Dragons
C#m A STOP B
It’s not gonna happen, not tonight
It looks hard, you’ve gotta do math and
Use your imagineaaaation
I won’t be your halfling assassin
It’s not gonna happen, not tonight
Not tonight
Not tonight
Not tonight
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10. |
Underneath
02:59
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Underneath by Sarah Donner bmp 88
C#m7 G#7 A B B#
Now are you satisfied, you got the best of me
Like it was my first time falling down to my broken knees
So if you sit right here, here’s how it’s gonna go
C#m7 G#7 A B
Keep on searching words and verses for secrets you could know
F#7 G#7
Could know (*groove changes*)
A E C#m A B
What’s (Down) inside of me, inside this sinking feeling
A E C#m B
Blue bleeds into green and out of my hands
A E C#m B
Watch the silver screen count down to the deepest
A E
Where’s the person, where’s the person last time x2)
D A A E (repeat last time D A A E)
I used to be down underneath
C#m7 G#7 A B B# C#m7
I never thought I’d see the trappings left behind
Of ancient memories Buried in a restless mind
Don’t underestimate the damage I exposed
C#m7 G#7 A B
With hearts in boxes and bottle rockets, they fall fast and explode
F#7 G#7
They explode
CHORUS
BRIDGE (Slowly)
C#m7 G#7 A B
Your cells are beautiful, together they combine
C#m7 G#7 A
To make the best of you perfectly
F#7 G#7 F#7 G#7
Align
Chorus 1x NOTES: xfade edits on 2:44 HH, OH
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11. |
The Shallows
03:36
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The Shallows by Sarah Donner CAPO 2 bmp 90
A A/G A/F# E (B B/A B/G# F#)
In the shallow
Where you follow
The shadow of your family
The patterns of a tragedy
D (E) D (E) F#m (G#m) F#m (G#m) E (F#)
Slowing down (break on 4)
Going under
Where you wander
No two scars are the same
On your back you wear your name
It’s your crown (break on 1) half measure
D A E (E B F#)
If we had a little more time
D A E (E B F#)
If I finish this bottle of wine
G (A)
I’ll join you in the shallows
We’ll do better
Get our shit together
Warmer water takes your place
You disappear without a trace
From the sound
D A E (E B F#)
If we had a little more time
D A E (E B F#)
If I finish this bottle of wine
G (F#)
I’ll join you in the shallows
E (building) (F#) drums??
We’ll do better, get it together
D A E (E B F#)
If we had a little more time
D A E (E B F#)
If I finish this bottle of wine
D A E (E B F#)
If we had a little more time
D A E (E B F#)
Break the clouds of a darkening sky
D F#m E (E G#m F#)
If I fought to keep you alive
G (A) D/F# (E/G#) A (B)
I’ll join you in the shallows, join you in the shallows
WATERY??
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12. |
Lifetime
04:03
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Lifetime by Sarah Donner
DADDAD capo 2
You came in for just a minute, long enough to fall in love
Holding onto the thread thrown to you, long enough to give us hope
Rumours linger like a heart beats, On the verge of breaking down
And they fade out like a sun Sets in the underground
I’ll save you all my speeches/ This time it’s up to you
The hardest part is when a heart is only passing through
I hear them counting hours/ From towers in the sky
You get what everybody gets, You get a lifetime
In the north everyone is colder, wrap ourselves with our work
We are frozen in October, wrap ourselves in the dark , oooo,
I’ll save you all my speeches/ This time it’s up to you
The hardest part is when a heart is only passing through
I hear them counting hours/ From towers in the sky
You get what everybody gets, You get a lifetime
And now I have a garden, I made it just for you
I cannot wait to see you make it bloom
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13. |
The Backyard
03:47
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The Backyard by Sarah Donner bmp 98
G G/B C
Gone is the song, the one that got away
G G/B C
Wrong I was wrong to think that someday
G/C# G/C
I’d be free
G G/B C
Right, you were right the world is not enough
G G/B C
Hind is the sight that I have to live up
G/C# G/D G/D# G/E F2
To just to breathe
C C/D G2 G2/A
I hope the world keeps spinning for you
C C/D G2 G2/A
I know you’ll never understand why
C C/D G2 G2/A
I won’t give out all my answers to the
G/Bb C2 C2/D
Questions you find buried in the backyard
G G/B C
Of mine
G G/B C
Wait I can wait, the stars are coming for you
G G/B C
Get out of the way, they burn up in your bedroom
G/C# G/D
They burn out like people who never say no
G/D# G/E
Like fires left burning out in the snow
F
Like me in a crowd and nowhere to go
C C/D G2 G2/A
C C/D G2 G2/A
I hope the world keeps spinning for you
C C/D G2 G2/A
I know you’ll never understand why
C C/D G2 G2/A
I won’t give out all my answers to the
G/Bb C2 C2/D
Questions you find buried in the backyard
G G/B C
Of mine
C C/D G2 G2/A
Painted poems mark the spot
On the places I forgot
C G/B Am G/B
Back in the closet Under my clothes
C G/B Am G/B
Folded so neatly like secrets I know
C G/B F/Bb
I’ve got it down to the science
Fsus/Bb /C /D /Eb
This not letting go
C C/D G2 G2/A triplet
C C/D G2 G2/A
I hope the world keeps spinning for you
C C/D G2 G2/A
I know you’ll never understand why
C C/D G2 G2/A
I won’t give out all my answers to the
G/Bb C2 C2/D
Questions you find buried in the backyard
G G/B C
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Sarah Donner Massachusetts
Sarah Donner is an indie folkpop star who has embraced her inner catlady. "The Motherf**cking Pterodactyl Song" which was co- written with The Oatmeal catapulted Sarah into weblebrity status with over two million views on YouTube. After stretching her legs with musical theatre, she picked up a guitar, abandoned her classical roots, and started rocking out (with fantastic breath support). ... more
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