Chords for Clint Tunes: Nobody's Home - Clint Black

_ _ _ _ _ Where I was working with Dick the drummer and Hayden on some other gigs, we hit it off good.
[C] We jived musically.
Hayden had met Clint on another one of these little gigs.
Hayden and Dick had a little studio set up, so they started doing some demos.
Nobody's Home was the first song that Hayden and I demoed.
It was one that I wrote in a fever.
I was really sick.
I was barely able to get out of bed.
I stopped off at my desk, which was right by the bed, and [G] I would write these ideas
down on a piece of paper, which would be almost a complete version of the lyrics to Nobody's Home.
[E] All of this stuff somehow came [Bm] out of that [C#] fever, which [F#] is fitting since, you know, for
me the lights were barely on, but definitely nobody was home.
Clint played me the demos that they had been working on, and I immediately said, this is
some good stuff.
Clint had a great voice.
It was good commercial country music.
Ten of the demos, probably nine of them, ended up on the first album, which is pretty amazing.
The [D] idea for the [G] hook _ _ [D#] came from something that Albert Einstein said.
Most people only utilize about 10% of their brain's full capacity.
I share that story with the audience that, you know, when I heard that, I thought to
myself, _ [A#] what [B] about that other 80%? _
[Bm] _ _ _ [D] Really makes a thinker think. _
_ [E] _ _ [A] Nobody's Home.
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_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [A] I still comb my hair the [G] same, still like the same [D] cologne.
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I still drive that pickup truck [G] down the same old bank [A] still _ home.
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Since you left, I've been on the road.
Everybody _ _ [G] says I'm not the guy [Gm] _ they've known.
The lights [A] are _ on, [G] but _ [D] nobody's home. _ _ _ _ _ _
Cup of coffee in the morning, _ [G] _
it's just food [D] for the brain. _ _
I've been numb since our last [E] goodbyes.
I haven't felt [A] a thing.
[Bm] But [D] now there's pains in my head and pains in my chest.
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I think I'm losing [G#] my hair.
[D] I'm a half a [C#m] man with [Bm] half a [G] mind.
I think you [D] didn't care.
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I still comb my hair the [G] same, still like the same [D] cologne.
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I still drive that pickup truck [G] down the same old bank [A] still home.
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Since you left, everybody _ [G] says I'm not the guy [Gm] they've known.
The lights [A] are _ _ [G] on, but _ [D] nobody's home.
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Since you left, _ everybody [G] says I'm not the guy [Gm] they've known.
The lights [A]
are on, [G] but _ [Bm] nobody's home.
_ [G] _ The lights [A] are _ _ [G] on, but _ [D] nobody's home. _ _ _ _ _ _
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My part was perfect.
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_ _ [E] It was the first song we finished demoing.
And what I thought would lead to finding a manager.
Really, he's one of the few guys that I worked with that actually [D#] had a game plan
as [F] far as getting to where he wanted to get.
I worked [D#] with a lot of great musicians, great singers, but [A] nobody really had [F#] a plan.
I took it to this record promoter I knew and asked him to help me find a [G] manager.
And he did.
Just based off of that one demo, I had his interest and went on to Nashville to meet with the record company.
Still enjoying all the music.
It's really kind of surprising, but we dig in there every night.
And everybody reaches down there and pulls it out with some good feeling.
You'd think that we'd get bored playing Killin' Time for the 150,000th time.
But it always feels good.
It always feels fresh.
I think having a different environment, [G] different venues, different audiences, helps out a lot.
We're all happy and enjoy [E] working with each other.
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[A] Spend all my [E] time making time [B] to work on my [C#m] facility line.
Trying to [E] find one more [F#m] minute, squeeze one more [A] thing in it.
On track [E] for heart attack, [B] if I don't do some [C#m] kicking back.
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Now I think it's high [B] time I make a little more