Chords for Chris Isaak Shares Intimate Details of "Wicked Game" Music Video
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Bm
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Ab
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[Gb] [Bm] The world was on [A] fire, no one could [E] save me but you.
It's about [Ab] four in the morning and somebody calling and saying, I'm coming over to your
house and I thought, right after I said okay, I thought, I should never have allowed this
person to come over to my house.
I know what's going to happen.
And I wrote the song between the time I got off the phone and the person came over to visit.
It was just about what happens when you have strong attraction to people that aren't necessarily
good for you.
[Em] And I think it hit a nerve because I think a lot of us have strong attraction to people
that aren't necessarily good for us.
I was always very interested [B] in [G] the video [A] process and [E] actually Warner Brothers had wanted
to hire me to direct videos for other artists because I always came in with a lot of [Gbm] ideas.
[E] And I came into this one and I said, okay, well, what's our idea, our concept on it?
And you know, the concept on this [A] video is very simple.
You just, [Bm] nice lighting and you're singing this song to a girl and it's not like there's
a lot of tricks and a storyline in this.
But I felt really comfortable that Herb could, [Db] that he could make it something, [E] he could
take something simple like that and make it [Bb] beautiful.
[Abm] Helena is, well, [Em] she is beautiful.
She was, you know, of course beautiful when we saw her, but I thought she was really fantastic
because she's a great actress.
I mean, she [Bm] really, she put her, [A] she pretended to like me.
[Bm] I mean, we didn't know each other and I just, and I always feel like I have to explain to
people [E] it's a video, [A] give the girl credit.
Helena is a good [E] actress.
She wasn't having sex with me.
She wasn't my girlfriend.
But she put that energy on it so much so that people always come up to me, to this day,
guys will come up to me and they go, hey, you're the guy, who's the girl in the video?
I go, I know where they're going before they start, Helena Christensen, you know, I was
in it too, but that's who you want to know.
But people thought, you know, that we were really lovers and [A]
she was, she was a very
good actress, very beautiful woman.
And when you think of like a beautiful [E] supermodel, you think of people that are, you know, I
need another hour for my [D] hair or something like that.
Never.
[E] She was, she was, I never remember her holding up anything for any reason.
We were on the, and you know, and it looks romantic in the video, but in real life, we're
on a beach and they were throwing buckets of, if you look at her body, it has goose
bumps on it.
[B] And they were throwing buckets of cold seawater on us to [A] keep us wet.
And it was a little bit of a wind and she was freezing.
I mean, she was just shivering.
And when I'm holding her close to me, a lot of times I was just holding her and feeling
like, you poor thing, hold on to me.
It's like, you'd be warm at least.
We shot the whole video and afterwards, [B] [E] I remember they showed me the [G] rushes and stuff
and I, [Ab] and they said, we want your comments, you know, on the [A] editing and everything.
And I said, and [Abm] I had the stupidest comment.
People laugh at it, but it's actually my comment.
I said, I don't think, I love it.
I don't think they're going to play it.
And he said, why?
I said, I just don't think it's going to be sexy enough for them to play this.
Now people said it's a sexy video there, but you got to remember I'm in it.
[G] And so every time I was [A] in it and they were showing me, I was thinking, that's just boring and bad.
I said, can't you cut more of the girl in it and get rid of me more?
And he goes, you have to [Bm] sing the song.
Couldn't I be like a ghost in the background singing it?
But luckily I listened to, it was Herb Ritz that I listened to instead of my, my own fears
and it came out good.
He was really, really good with lighting.
[A]
[E] [Ab] You know, I mean, you know, you can have a photographer who has all the good ideas, but
if they don't get the right lighting and the right angles, you're not going to look good.
Herb Ritz was, you know, when he showed you a [Bm] shot that he took, you went, oh, [G] I didn't,
you know, he just knew where to turn people, the right angle, the [Bm] right time, the right lighting.
He was very good.
[A] There was [E] no one.
It's about [Ab] four in the morning and somebody calling and saying, I'm coming over to your
house and I thought, right after I said okay, I thought, I should never have allowed this
person to come over to my house.
I know what's going to happen.
And I wrote the song between the time I got off the phone and the person came over to visit.
It was just about what happens when you have strong attraction to people that aren't necessarily
good for you.
[Em] And I think it hit a nerve because I think a lot of us have strong attraction to people
that aren't necessarily good for us.
I was always very interested [B] in [G] the video [A] process and [E] actually Warner Brothers had wanted
to hire me to direct videos for other artists because I always came in with a lot of [Gbm] ideas.
[E] And I came into this one and I said, okay, well, what's our idea, our concept on it?
And you know, the concept on this [A] video is very simple.
You just, [Bm] nice lighting and you're singing this song to a girl and it's not like there's
a lot of tricks and a storyline in this.
But I felt really comfortable that Herb could, [Db] that he could make it something, [E] he could
take something simple like that and make it [Bb] beautiful.
[Abm] Helena is, well, [Em] she is beautiful.
She was, you know, of course beautiful when we saw her, but I thought she was really fantastic
because she's a great actress.
I mean, she [Bm] really, she put her, [A] she pretended to like me.
[Bm] I mean, we didn't know each other and I just, and I always feel like I have to explain to
people [E] it's a video, [A] give the girl credit.
Helena is a good [E] actress.
She wasn't having sex with me.
She wasn't my girlfriend.
But she put that energy on it so much so that people always come up to me, to this day,
guys will come up to me and they go, hey, you're the guy, who's the girl in the video?
I go, I know where they're going before they start, Helena Christensen, you know, I was
in it too, but that's who you want to know.
But people thought, you know, that we were really lovers and [A]
she was, she was a very
good actress, very beautiful woman.
And when you think of like a beautiful [E] supermodel, you think of people that are, you know, I
need another hour for my [D] hair or something like that.
Never.
[E] She was, she was, I never remember her holding up anything for any reason.
We were on the, and you know, and it looks romantic in the video, but in real life, we're
on a beach and they were throwing buckets of, if you look at her body, it has goose
bumps on it.
[B] And they were throwing buckets of cold seawater on us to [A] keep us wet.
And it was a little bit of a wind and she was freezing.
I mean, she was just shivering.
And when I'm holding her close to me, a lot of times I was just holding her and feeling
like, you poor thing, hold on to me.
It's like, you'd be warm at least.
We shot the whole video and afterwards, [B] [E] I remember they showed me the [G] rushes and stuff
and I, [Ab] and they said, we want your comments, you know, on the [A] editing and everything.
And I said, and [Abm] I had the stupidest comment.
People laugh at it, but it's actually my comment.
I said, I don't think, I love it.
I don't think they're going to play it.
And he said, why?
I said, I just don't think it's going to be sexy enough for them to play this.
Now people said it's a sexy video there, but you got to remember I'm in it.
[G] And so every time I was [A] in it and they were showing me, I was thinking, that's just boring and bad.
I said, can't you cut more of the girl in it and get rid of me more?
And he goes, you have to [Bm] sing the song.
Couldn't I be like a ghost in the background singing it?
But luckily I listened to, it was Herb Ritz that I listened to instead of my, my own fears
and it came out good.
He was really, really good with lighting.
[A]
[E] [Ab] You know, I mean, you know, you can have a photographer who has all the good ideas, but
if they don't get the right lighting and the right angles, you're not going to look good.
Herb Ritz was, you know, when he showed you a [Bm] shot that he took, you went, oh, [G] I didn't,
you know, he just knew where to turn people, the right angle, the [Bm] right time, the right lighting.
He was very good.
[A] There was [E] no one.
Key:
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E
Bm
G
Ab
A
E
Bm
[Gb] _ _ _ _ [Bm] The world was on [A] fire, no one could [E] save me but you.
It's about [Ab] four in the morning and somebody calling and saying, I'm coming over to your
house and I thought, right after I said okay, I thought, I should never have allowed this
person to come over to my house.
I know what's going to happen.
And I wrote the song between the time I got off the phone and the person came over to visit.
It was just about what happens when you have strong attraction to people that aren't necessarily
good for you.
[Em] And I think it hit a nerve because I think a lot of us have strong attraction to people
that aren't necessarily good for us.
I was always very interested [B] in [G] the video [A] process and [E] actually Warner Brothers had wanted
to hire me to direct videos for other artists because I always came in with a lot of [Gbm] ideas.
[E] And I came into this one and I said, okay, well, what's our idea, our concept on it?
And you know, the concept on this [A] video is very simple.
You just, _ [Bm] nice lighting and you're singing this song to a girl and it's not like there's
a lot of tricks and a storyline in this.
But I felt really comfortable that Herb could, [Db] that he could make it something, [E] he could
take something simple like that and make it [Bb] beautiful.
[Abm] Helena is, well, [Em] she is beautiful.
She was, you know, of course beautiful when we saw her, but I thought she was really fantastic
because she's a great actress.
I mean, she [Bm] really, she put her, [A] she pretended to like me.
_ [Bm] I mean, we didn't know each other and I just, and I always feel like I have to explain to
people [E] it's a video, [A] give the girl credit.
Helena is a good [E] actress.
She wasn't having sex with me.
She wasn't my girlfriend.
_ But she put that energy on it so much so that people always come up to me, to this day,
guys will come up to me and they go, hey, you're the guy, who's the girl in the video?
I go, I know where they're going before they start, Helena Christensen, you know, I was
in it too, but that's who you want to know.
But people thought, you know, that we were really lovers and [A]
she was, she was a very
good actress, very beautiful woman.
And when you think of like a beautiful [E] supermodel, you think of people that are, _ you know, I
need another hour for my [D] hair or something like that.
Never.
[E] She was, she was, I never remember her holding up anything for any reason.
We were on the, and you know, and it looks romantic in the video, but in real life, we're
on a beach and they were throwing buckets of, if you look at her body, it has goose
bumps on it.
[B] And they were throwing buckets of cold seawater on us to [A] keep us wet.
And it was a little bit of a wind and she was freezing.
I mean, she was just shivering.
And when I'm holding her close to me, a lot of times I was just holding her and feeling
like, you poor thing, hold on to me.
It's like, you'd be warm at least.
We shot the whole video and afterwards, [B] [E] I remember they showed me the [G] rushes and stuff
and I, [Ab] and they said, we want your comments, you know, on the [A] editing and everything.
And I said, and [Abm] I had the stupidest comment.
People laugh at it, but it's actually my comment.
I said, I don't think, I love it.
I don't think they're going to play it.
And he said, why?
I said, I just don't think it's going to be sexy enough for them to play this.
Now people said it's a sexy video there, but you got to remember I'm in it.
[G] And so every time I was [A] in it and they were showing me, I was thinking, that's just boring and bad.
I said, can't you cut more of the girl in it and get rid of me more?
And he goes, you have to [Bm] sing the song.
_ Couldn't I be like a ghost in the background singing it?
But luckily I listened to, it was Herb Ritz that I listened to instead of my, my own fears
and it came out good.
He was really, really good with lighting.
[A] _
[E] [Ab] You know, I mean, you know, you can have a photographer who has all the good ideas, but
if they don't get the right lighting and the right angles, you're not going to look good.
Herb Ritz was, you know, when he showed you a [Bm] shot that he took, you went, oh, [G] I didn't,
you know, he just knew where to turn people, the right angle, the [Bm] right time, the right lighting.
He was very good.
_ [A] There _ was [E] no one. _ _ _ _
It's about [Ab] four in the morning and somebody calling and saying, I'm coming over to your
house and I thought, right after I said okay, I thought, I should never have allowed this
person to come over to my house.
I know what's going to happen.
And I wrote the song between the time I got off the phone and the person came over to visit.
It was just about what happens when you have strong attraction to people that aren't necessarily
good for you.
[Em] And I think it hit a nerve because I think a lot of us have strong attraction to people
that aren't necessarily good for us.
I was always very interested [B] in [G] the video [A] process and [E] actually Warner Brothers had wanted
to hire me to direct videos for other artists because I always came in with a lot of [Gbm] ideas.
[E] And I came into this one and I said, okay, well, what's our idea, our concept on it?
And you know, the concept on this [A] video is very simple.
You just, _ [Bm] nice lighting and you're singing this song to a girl and it's not like there's
a lot of tricks and a storyline in this.
But I felt really comfortable that Herb could, [Db] that he could make it something, [E] he could
take something simple like that and make it [Bb] beautiful.
[Abm] Helena is, well, [Em] she is beautiful.
She was, you know, of course beautiful when we saw her, but I thought she was really fantastic
because she's a great actress.
I mean, she [Bm] really, she put her, [A] she pretended to like me.
_ [Bm] I mean, we didn't know each other and I just, and I always feel like I have to explain to
people [E] it's a video, [A] give the girl credit.
Helena is a good [E] actress.
She wasn't having sex with me.
She wasn't my girlfriend.
_ But she put that energy on it so much so that people always come up to me, to this day,
guys will come up to me and they go, hey, you're the guy, who's the girl in the video?
I go, I know where they're going before they start, Helena Christensen, you know, I was
in it too, but that's who you want to know.
But people thought, you know, that we were really lovers and [A]
she was, she was a very
good actress, very beautiful woman.
And when you think of like a beautiful [E] supermodel, you think of people that are, _ you know, I
need another hour for my [D] hair or something like that.
Never.
[E] She was, she was, I never remember her holding up anything for any reason.
We were on the, and you know, and it looks romantic in the video, but in real life, we're
on a beach and they were throwing buckets of, if you look at her body, it has goose
bumps on it.
[B] And they were throwing buckets of cold seawater on us to [A] keep us wet.
And it was a little bit of a wind and she was freezing.
I mean, she was just shivering.
And when I'm holding her close to me, a lot of times I was just holding her and feeling
like, you poor thing, hold on to me.
It's like, you'd be warm at least.
We shot the whole video and afterwards, [B] [E] I remember they showed me the [G] rushes and stuff
and I, [Ab] and they said, we want your comments, you know, on the [A] editing and everything.
And I said, and [Abm] I had the stupidest comment.
People laugh at it, but it's actually my comment.
I said, I don't think, I love it.
I don't think they're going to play it.
And he said, why?
I said, I just don't think it's going to be sexy enough for them to play this.
Now people said it's a sexy video there, but you got to remember I'm in it.
[G] And so every time I was [A] in it and they were showing me, I was thinking, that's just boring and bad.
I said, can't you cut more of the girl in it and get rid of me more?
And he goes, you have to [Bm] sing the song.
_ Couldn't I be like a ghost in the background singing it?
But luckily I listened to, it was Herb Ritz that I listened to instead of my, my own fears
and it came out good.
He was really, really good with lighting.
[A] _
[E] [Ab] You know, I mean, you know, you can have a photographer who has all the good ideas, but
if they don't get the right lighting and the right angles, you're not going to look good.
Herb Ritz was, you know, when he showed you a [Bm] shot that he took, you went, oh, [G] I didn't,
you know, he just knew where to turn people, the right angle, the [Bm] right time, the right lighting.
He was very good.
_ [A] There _ was [E] no one. _ _ _ _