Vega - Straight Lines guitar tab

STRAIGHT LINES (Suzanne Vega)

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[It was next-to-impossible to accurately depict the timing, but it should be

obvious if you've heard the song. Ds4 is actually Dsus4, and Ds9 is Dsus9.]

D D - Ds4 D Ds9 - D - Ds4

[intro]

D Ds9 - D - Ds4 D Ds9 - D - Ds4

[intro]

Ds9 - D - Ds4 Ds9 - D - Ds4

There's a sound across the alley

Ds9 - D - Ds4 Ds9 - D - Ds4

Of cold metal touching skin

D Ds9 - D - Ds4 D Ds9 - D - Ds4

And you can see if you look in her window

D Ds9 - D - Ds4 D Ds9 - D - Ds4

That she has gone and cut her hair again

D Ds9 - D - Ds4 D Ds9 - D - Ds4

In straight lines

D Ds9 - D - Ds4 D Ds9 - D - Ds4

Straaaaaight lines

Eb F

Those soft golden lights in the morning

Eb F

Are now on her wooden floor

Eb F

The wind has swept them through the apartment, she won't need them

Gm F Eb Ds4

Anymore, anymore, anymore

She's cut down on her lovers

Though she still dreams of them at night

She's growing straight lines where once were flowers

She is streamlined, she is taking the shade down from the light

To see the straight lines

Straaaaaight lines

She wants to cut through the circles

That she has lived in before

She wants to finally kill the delusions, she won't need them

Anymore, anymore, anymore

There's a sound across the alley

Of cold metal too close to the bone

And you can see if you look in her window

The face of a woman finally alone

Behind straight lines

Straaaaaight lines

Behind straight lines

Straaaaaight lines

[End on Dsus4.]

- Adam Schneider, schn0170@maroon.tc.umn.edu