Chords for Annie Lennox and Herbie Hancock - from ‘Possibilities’ (2005)

_ [Ab] _ _ [Db] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Abm] _
_ [Gb] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _
_ [Gb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [G] They have [Bm] been changes in [B] my music.
I would say that my [Ab] music [Bb] has gotten broader.
And for me, it's [Eb] like expanding [C] the colors that I can [Bm] choose from [Ab] for expression. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Cm] Long _ white arms, losing [C] their strength and form.
Sixty year [Ab] man on twenty [Bb] year old [Cm] skin. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Skeleton, your [C] eyes have lost their warmth.
Look to your [Eb] father for some [C] support.
_ _ _ _ I wanted to bring [Eb] something [Abm] to Annie.
So [Eb] I asked Paula Cole if she had some things that maybe I [Ab] could show to Annie.
And [Eb] she told me that Annie was like probably the major influence on her musically and as a singer.
Anyway, I [Ab] sent some things to Annie and one piece in particular [Eb] she really loved which [Ab] was called Hush Hush Hush.
_ _ [B] _ _ [Gb] Hush [Db] hush _ _ [B] _ [Gb] hush.
[Db] _ _
[Am] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ Because I go like this, I go hush hush hush.
And then we get your chord change.
Hush hush hush.
Right.
[Fm] Yeah. _
_ _ Okay.
_ [C] _ _ [Cm] _
_ [C] Cruel joke, waited so [C] long to show.
All that you [Db] _ wanted _ _ wasn't [C] a [Cm] girl. _ _
[C] What about, what is this line, the one that you wanted wasn't a girl?
You mean his father wanted [G] a girl?
That's why this line, look to your father for [Ab] some support.
Because that's the one I never quite understood.
_ [Eb] Peace, [Ab] peace, peace.
[Cm] May you [Bb] love [Ab] me every day.
_ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _
_ Hey Herbie.
Yeah, yeah, I'm here.
[N]
You know I just had an idea just to do.
_ I'll see you next time.
_ _ _ Wake up tomorrow.
But it can be in the background, you know, it doesn't have to be too strong.
I love [Ab] it, I love it.
Okay.
_ _ [D] _ Oh, [Dm] maybe next [A] time you'll [Bb] be Henry [Eb] VIII. _
_ [D] Wake up _ [G] [Am] tomorrow, [Bb] Alexander _ _ [Gm] the Great.
[Bb] But you know, that's [C] odd, isn't it?
[D] The male [Am] _ personas [Bb] that, you know, you'll come [Eb] back as.
Men [C] men, manly [D] men.
Right, right.
You know, [A] Henry VIII, pretty manly [Gm] man apparently.
Right, right.
[C] Alexander the Great, maybe you.
[F] That's a funny little twist. _
[Eb] Hush, [Eb] hush, _ hush.
[C] _ [Bb] _ _
[Ab] _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] Hush, hush, [Ab] _ [C] hush.
I [Bb] think the [Ab] daughter is realizing the father has this [F] profound disappointment in her life.
Which [Cm] he's in basic [Bb] denial.
Because [Abm] he's going hush, you know, [Eb] I am the dead, hush, don't worry.
Oh.
[Ab] _ _ _
That makes the most sense.
Harvey, listen, [Cm] as the leader, as our [Bb] leader, [Eb] put that call in.
I [Fm] actually have Harvey [Eb] here and he wants to ask you a question if it's not a [Ab] bad time for you.
[Bb]
Okay.
[Ab] _ _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _
[F] _ [Fm] Hi, Ryan, how are you?
_ _ Great.
[Ab] _ _ We've been [E] doing hush, hush, hush with Annie.
[Gb] Everybody's been [B] speculating as to [E] what, you know, the [Abm] true meaning of the [E] song is.
How many interpretations?
_ [Gb] Six, seven, eight.
Right, six, seven or eight different interpretations.
_ And we want to know for sure, right?
[E] _ Here's Annie.
[B] Here's Paul.
_ That phone call [Gb] was like a lightning bolt in my life.
I'll [B] always remember that phone call.
I love them both so much and when I spoke to Annie on the phone, [Ab] she said,
Yeah, I guess you tried to meet me at one of my shows in Australia.
And I said, Annie, you don't understand, [G] I've been to every show [Abm] of yours, you know, starting from [Ab] 1983, the Sweet Dreams Tour.
Oh, it's such [Eb] a wonderful [Ab] song.
I love [Cm] this song.
It's very [Bb] haunting.
[Ab] We've all been so intrigued by it, because we were, [Eb] especially me, [Ab] desperate to know exactly what the [Bb] story is behind [Ab] it.
We're just trying to piece it together.
That's why I was saying all along, [C] Herbie, you've got to call her and find out really what this is about.
Oh, there's [G] _ _ _ [Dm] a new _ [Eb] life again.
[D] Oh, maybe [F] next time [Gm] we'll be given [C] a chance.
_ _ _ [Ab] Lyrically, it's [Eb] complicated, but [Ab] chordally, it's different.
It's [Cm] not the normal.
And [Bb] especially at the end, [Ab] it goes into this cycle of [Eb] major seven chords that almost feels like, [Cm] I mean, the song, as it's [Ab] revealed,
is about a young man dying of AIDS.
It's about a young man dying of AIDS.
[C] That's what it is.
[Bb] We never got [Ab] that.
And her_
_ Oh, it's about [Ab] somebody that you really knew.
I wanted [Eb] to write about that because a friend of mine died from AIDS.
[Cm] But it's such a heavy, [Ab] big subject, [B] and how do you sing about [Ebm] such a thing without it [Ab] becoming _ [Abm] morose or [B] banal?
[Eb] I _ [B] had to do it in a way that was _ _ [Ab] tender.
[Db] _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _ [E] _
His [Db] relationship with his father was never [Dbm] _ [E] right.
Finally, [Gb] as he's dying, [C] _ _ [Gm] _ stumbling [G] through trying _ [E] to [Abm] _ _ [Eb] _ _
[Db] finally_
Actually, now we know what it is.
It does give it a hell of a_ Oh, yeah.
A hell of a context.
[C] All [Bb] _ your life, [Gm] you [Fm] kept it hidden _ inside.
Now when [Ab] you step, you _ stumble, [Cm] you die.
_ _ _ _ [Fm] _ [Eb] Hush, hush, hush, [C] says your _ [Bb] _ [Ab] daddy's hush.
[Fm] _ [F] Hush, hush, _ hush.
_ [Bb] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
[B] _ _ Hush, [Gb] hush, _ [Ab] hush.
_ [B] _ _ [Gb] _ _ [Db] _ _ [B] _
Hush, hush.
[Gb] _ _ [Db] _ _ [B] _ _
_ [Db] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
[Ebm] _ _ [Db] _ [B] This is a record without borders.
[Eb] It'll be like a [B] tapestry [Eb] that's woven with many,