Tablature outside looking in - Mary Chapin Carpenter

          



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  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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 Outside looking in, de Mary chapin carpenter 

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