Chords for Mad Season - Above (Mini Documentary)

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The project came [Eb] together [Ab] when I [D] was in Minneapolis [Gbm] with our bass player Baker.
I [A] was in rehab and [Am] just called up Lane.
[E] Baker's been a huge fan of Lane's and I've known Lane for about 10 years.
Called up Barrett and we got together and rehearsed and things just [F] started happening.
I was in bed [A] and he came in and woke me up and said,
you want to play a show in three days with [Am] these guys?
I said, [F] yeah, sure.
And [E] when are we going to [A] practice?
And he said, well, we'll practice the night before.
We got together and jammed and it was like, oh, this is kind of cool.
And then [Dm] it always seemed kind [E] of cool.
And then [A] now it's turned into something a lot more special [G] than I realized.
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The river of _ [A] _ deceit pulls [G] down. _ _ _ _ _
[C] Oh, _ _ [G] _ the only [Am] direction it goes [G] down.
I was resigned to [Bm] never [F] do anything with it again.
And I [G] just kind of put it on the back shelf and forgot about it.
But then he would come back [C] up occasionally and go, oh, yeah, that was cool.
We should do something.
I think what sparked it for both of us is that we [G] re [Em]-listened to those tracks
and realized, wow, this was a really great band
[Gm] and [F] probably we should [C] find a way for the rest [G] of the world to hear this.
_ [F] This song is called Long Gone Day.
Mr.
Mark Lanigan.
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[D] _ _ _ _ [E] So much love [D] started to drown the river of deceit.
We [D] had a bunch of stuff that was left [Am] over from the first record,
[Em] like a whole section of [D] maybe 13 odd ideas [E]
that [E] never came to fruition.
And I actually have three of those songs with our friend Mark Lanigan singing on top of them,
which is [D] a giant bonus.
Well, [E] God knows I'm gone, _ _ [Bb] _ [A] no sleep.
[B] _ [Bb] Your [E] countenance falling, [Bb] sir, [B] _ white as [A] a sheet.
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_ Your face in [A] a rain-grown [Bb] boulder.
[B] I talked with him and I [Am] said, hey, Mike [Bb] and I want [B] to do a [Am] proper reissue of the [Bbm] Mad Season [B] album
and the More [Bb] Theater DVD and really do a nice [B] package.
And so it just became clear [A] that those three [B] songs go with the box set
because they're directly connected.
[D] Baker played bass.
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it was clearly a part of that version of the [D] band.
This is like _ the [Gb] greatest musical present to my ears that I [Bm] have heard.
Because A, I never thought anything was going to happen with it.
B, I love how Mark Lanigan sings.
And [B] Mark is a really good lyricist.
And when you hear the lyrics that he wrote for those three songs,
people will hear the connection to that first Mad Season record.
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_ [E] _ _ _ [Gb] I think the More Theater, it's [A] one of those classic music venues.
[Ab] It's smaller than the [E] Paramount.
I think it holds close to 1,000 people, you know, like full capacity.
[Gb] And it felt [E] that way amongst everybody in the band.
We just really bottled the lightning that night.
And I remember the [Bb] moment we walked out on stage, it was, they were just [N] roaring.
This is the most awesome crowd.
It was really loud.
But so many people have tried to find that, and it just [E] wasn't available. _
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_ _ _ _ [Bm] _ Even though the themes on the [Gb] Mad Season record might be dark,
it's a dark beauty is what it is.
And people connect with that because everybody has walked through darkness
at some point.
It's part of being a human being.
But you don't understand [B] the quality of light or the preciousness [E] of it
unless you've spent time in the darkness.
And somehow Lane was able to _ _ conjure that in his lyrics and in his voice.
And we all were able to express that in the way that we played together.
_ And that's why the Mad Season record has this dark beauty to it.
It's a very heavy record, but it's also, ultimately,
I think it's about ascension _ and upward movement. _ _ _ _ _
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