Chords for Dido discusses her new album, Still On My Mind

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[E] Still on my mind, just [C#m] felt like the right album title, just to say that, [D] you know, music's still on my mind and I miss it.
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[E] I never stop writing, [C#m] it's just sort of part of my life, sort of [D] part of how I see the world is through songs.
This [A] album was actually like a really, [E] really natural album to make.
I just started [C#m] really missing working with my brother and [D] so I called him up one morning and was literally like,
look I'd love to make another record but I only want to make it if it's with you.
[A] The whole record is very electronic [Bm] based, harking back to all the music that I love, because I just love dance music.
It's where I come from, [D] it's where I started, I was a backing vocalist with Faithless, I was singing on various dance tracks,
some of which I hope never come to light.
So even if a song is actually a sort of slow song, it might have like dance sounds on it.
But yeah, there's also just [F#m] some out and out [E] dance tracks on the album and Take You Home is one of them.
[C#m] It's an idea that was going round in my head for a long [D] time and just about how no one's really got it that sorted.
We look at [C#m] people and it's like, oh they seem to [C#] know what they're doing and I don't and I'm not sure [D] that many other people do.
Well some people do, not me. _
Some Kind of Love is actually some lyrics of Rollo's that I found and then just sat on the guitar writing the song
because I just thought they were beautiful and they're just telling a story.
What I love [A] about Rollo's lyrics is [D] they're just full of images and poetry and I always just see a film when _ I read his lyrics.
And [F#m] this to me [E] is like a sort of dusty old movie and [C#m] it's all quite nostalgic and you know, sort [D] of bittersweet, which a lot of the songs are.
My favourite song on the record sort of changes daily.
[A] I think [E] probably the one that is [C#m] maybe the most emotional to me is Have To [D] Stay, which is the last song on the album.
And that was actually the song that just started the [A] whole ball rolling for the album.
I sort of hadn't written [Bm] much that I thought was any good.
I'd written a lot of [F#m] songs after I had my son but I don't know, it just felt like my brain had sort of gone [A] elsewhere.
And then one day I just [Bm] thought, you know what, I'm just going to write a song about how I feel and [E] the love that [F#m] I have, you know, that unconditional love that you have [A] for a kid.
And then I'll just throw it away and we're [Bm] done.
You know, I've got it out of my system.
And anyway, I wrote this song Have To Stay, which I just love [A] and I'm proud of and it still moves me and he loves it too.
[D] Of all the things [Bm] in my life, you know, I just get so much sort of happiness from being a mum.
Musically, [F#m] it does a lot of things.
It actually has given me like [A] this huge confidence that I probably didn't have when [Bm] I was making records like No Angel or Life Away.
I often see where I wrote songs [F#m] or where I made albums when I think back at [A] them.
And then you sort of have a feeling like [Bm] No Angel was sort of made in my little flat at the time.
I really did not think [F#m] anyone would hear it.
No one thought anyone would hear it.
It's a bit of [A] an experiment.
It's a little bit fragile.
You know, [Bm] it's my first attempt at sort of making music like that.
And Life For Rent, [F#m] what I see is sort of why it takes [A] me back so much to the studio we were in, surrounded [Bm] by friends.
I'd just come back off tour.
There's a real sort of confidence to that record.
It's a much more sort of [F#m] coherent record in a way.
You know, there's a sound there that [A] sort of stayed.
Safe Trip Home is [Bm] a little, you know, it's a darker record.
It's a sadder record.
It was written at a time [F#m] where, you know, my dad had [A] passed away and I was feeling, [Bm] you know, pretty sort of knocked about by that.
And it's a sort of very emotional [B] record and [F#m] actually one that I decided not to tour because [A] there were some hard songs to sing on [Bm] there.
And then Girl Who Got Away is, I don't know, it's sort of like, it's a lighter [F#m] record.
And, you know, I had a [A] new baby and I was pregnant actually when I was [Bm] singing that whole record.
So I had this sort of lovely feeling when I listened to that record of like, [F#m] you know, my son was like there the whole [A] time while I was singing.
And actually [Bm] when I would sing the songs to him when he was out and a baby, you know, he recognized them.
It was so bizarre.
Like he sort of almost recognized a lot of those [C#] songs.
And so [F#m] that's what that album was.
And then this album just feels, just this sort of strength in it.
And it's sort of a confidence.
There's a happiness about it.
And it's sort of, you know, it's emotional as well.
_ The [A] things that I missed were singing the songs to people who really enjoy what you do.
Like I genuinely missed those moments.
But _ [C#] [E] now I've actually started [B] sort of singing them to people again.
You get that real rush [F#m] of excitement.
It's almost like I sort of forgot what [A] touring was for a [D] minute.
And [A] [Bm] now I'm remembering and it just feels like the most exciting [F#m] part of all this for me.
You know, that's the sort of new [A] exciting part.
_ [Bm] On the one hand, I really feel like I'm starting again.
And I've got all of that [G#] anticipation and excitement.
Real [F#m] enjoyment actually of sort of just [Am] starting again.
But with the confidence of, [Bm] you know, I've done [F#m] this and always loved [D] it.
Yeah, it just feels really fresh to me.
[A] And, [B] you know, I didn't mean to leave it quite as long without touring.
But in a funny [F#m] sort of way, it's made this point in my [A] life now, like beyond exciting. _ _ _
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