CLOSER TO FINE (Emily Saliers) ------------------------------
This song isn't too hard to play, but it sounds pretty impressive once you've got it down. I sort of learned to play the guitar on this song. I've written the chords down according to the way Amy & Emily play the song, as best as I can figure out from watching TV and stuff. If you're not quite up to playing D11's or four-fingered C's yet, you can play the D11's as D(9) or even D, and you can play the C's as x32010, but it won't sound as good. I'd recommend learning the full C (332010) anyway if you don't already know it, because it's a nice chord to know; once you know it, sliding between it and D11 (554030) is really easy. On the full-measure C chords, hammer-on and pull-off with your middle finger on the D string, so that the chord alternates between C and C(9).
The song is actually in A, so capo at the 2nd fret.
Here's the approximate tab for the introduction, and the part that you play through the first part of the verses (but when you actually play it, it's hard to just hit the single note at the beginning of each chord; usually you hit two or three strings):
Each chord represents half of a measure, except the "Ds,D,D9,D" thing, which is half a measure total, and "G - D", which is also half a measure total. "D9" really means D(9), and "Ds" is Dsus. "n.c." means "no chord."
G6/ADs,D,D9,D I'm trying to tell you something 'bout my life G6/ADs,D,D9,D Maybe give me insight between black and white
And the best thing you've ever done for me G6/A Is to help me take my life less seriously; it's only life after all Ds,D,D9,D [instrumental]
G6/ADs,D,D9,D Well darkness has a hunger that's insatiable G6/ADs,D,D9,D And lightness has a call that's hard to hear
I wrapped my fear around me like a blanket - I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it; I'm crawling on your shore
I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain
There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line D11 D11 C [stop] n.c. And the less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I G6/AG6/ADs,D,D9,D am to fine, The closer I am to fine
G6/ADs,D,D9,D I went to see the doctor of philosophy G6/A With a poster of Rasputin and a beard down to his knee
He never did marry or see a B grade movie
He graded my performance, he said he could see through me - I spent 4 years prostrate to the higher mind, got my paper and I was free
I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to children, I drank from the fountain
There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line D11 D11 C [stop] n.c. And the less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I G6/AG6/ADs,D,D9,D am to fine, The closer I am to fine
[whistle]
G6/ADs,D,D9,D I stopped by the bar at 3 A.M. G6/A To seek solace in a bottle or possibly a friend
And I woke up with a headache like my head against a board
Twice as cloudy as I'd been the night before, and I went in seeking clarity
I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to children, I drank from the fountain
We go to the doctor, we go to the mountains
We look to the children, we drink from the fountain
We go to the bible, we go through the workout D D C(9) [stop] G [stop] We read up on revival, we stand up for the lookout
There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line D11 D11 C n.c. And the less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I G6/AG6/A am to fine, The closer I am to fine The closer I G G6/A C(9) Ds,D,D9,D G. am to fine
CHORDS: G = 320033 G6/A = x02033 C(9) = x32033 or x32030 or 330010 D = x00232 Dsus = x00233 D(9)= x00230 = 332010 = 554030
