Carpenter Mary Chapin

Carpenter Mary Chapin - Outside Looking In guitar tab

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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