Carpenter Mary Chapin

Carpenter Mary Chapin - Outside Looking In guitar chord

OUTSIDE LOOKING IN (Mary Chapin Carpenter)

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[Actually in A; capo 2.]

[I'm unsure about the pre-chorus and bridge, where I've written

F/A F/A Am Am.  It might in fact be Am Am F/A F/A.  Frankly, it

sounds okay either way.  See which sounds best for you.]

G  F  Am  Am    G  F  Am  Am

[intro]

     G               D/F#   C/E               C

Everywhere I see the signs, pointing one direction

        G                 D/F#   C/E               C

No more twists or crooked turns, leaving room for doubt

        G                D/F#     C/E             C

Where I used to take the time for quiet and reflection

      G             D/F#     C/E           C

Now I only hear the noise of what I am without

           G                G           C(9)/G             C(9)/G

I see them walking hand in hand, and my eyes just want to linger

         G               G     C(9)/G                C(9)/G

On those golden wedding bands, wrapped around their fingers

       F/A          F/A    Am             Am

By the time I turn away, I feel it once again

              G                D/F#   Am7           C

I'm back in this familiar place, outside looking in

G  D/F#  Am7  C

[instrumental]

Baby, all the tears between us couldn't fill the spaces

And all the word we grasped at, they just fell away

I kept waiting on forgiveness to fix the broken places

But nothing even like it ever came my way

And tonight I drove around, and the street came up before me

I took a turn and then I found this old house coming toward me

I heard the sound a heart must make when a memory's caving in

Oh baby, what a hungry place, outside looking in

G  F  Am  Am    G  F  Am  Am

[instrumental]

         G               G         C(9)/G          C(9)/G

It's the hardest kind of need that never knows a reason

       G             G              C(9)/G             C(9)/G

Are we such a lonely breed, or just born in a lonely season

      F/A               F/A                Am           Am

Baby, it's all in the eyes, it's where the reckoning begins

              F/A            F/A                Am                Am

It's where we linger like a sigh, it's where we long to be pulled in

              F/A              F/A        Am           Am(?)

It's where we learn to say goodbye without saying anything

          G                D/F#       Am7      C

Standing on the borderline, outside looking in

G  D/F#  Am7  C    G  D/F#  Am7  C

[instrumental; repeat and fade]

- Adam Schneider, schneider@pobox.com

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