Chords for Maria McKee Interview

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_ _ _ [G] _ Singer and songwriter [B] Maria McKee has been hearing the sound [Bb] of applause since she was a teenager.
She was signed to a recording contract when she was [Eb] just 18 years old,
and she joined the band Lone Justice shortly [Gm] thereafter for an intense, hype-filled ride
that garnered [B] lots of praise, but just two albums.
She released her own solo album in 1989, and then in June of this year, she released You Got a Sin to Be Saved.
Her current band is three-quarters of the original Lone Justice lineup, [E] because as she says,
[A] they're my pals. _
[D] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ Oh, I was [D] so happy then.
[A] _ I've [D] been so lonely _ [G] _ [Gbm] since I've been [Em] away.
_ [A] Isn't someone in the wilderness?
Is [Cm] he trying to get attention?
No?
Oh, sorry.
He's always trying to get attention.
That's Bruce Brody.
I know.
Hey, Bruce.
[Bb] Walk into the light for a minute.
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What are you chilling on?
Oh, yeah?
[G] Share them, share them.
_ [D] How come you two still creatively hang out together?
What [Gb] makes it work for both of you so [G] well?
Oh, God.
Just the right balance of everything, really.
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_ [G] _ _ Do you have a fight?
What [D] is it?
_ You don't understand.
The other band members run in [D] mortal fear.
It's so scary.
It's like an old married couple nattering at each other constantly.
I think we've figured it out.
It's more like brother and sister.
_ _ _ We used to, like, get violent with each other.
I would hit him with my purse in the middle of the street,
in the middle of the [B] rain in the street in Dublin.
[E] I remember one time.
How could you get that?
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I [C] don't know.
_ _ _ Do you get away with a lot [Gbm] because you're the front person?
[A] Does anyone ever call you out?
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Oh, yes.
No.
I [E] make it a _ practice to surround myself with people _ [D] who_ No, yes.
Yeah, I don't.
_ [E] My really, really good friends will always [Dm] be totally honest with me.
Like my friend Orla back in Ireland.
If I come off the road, because we live together,
_ and I start to throw attitude around with her, I'm telling her, she's like,
I don't care who's been wiping your ass while you've been on tour, [D] but when you're here in the house with me,
you don't behave that way.
I'm not going to let you get away with it.
Do you know what I mean?
It's like _ totally, even [Gb] though she totally adores me, [Dm] she mothers me to an extent,
she will [Gb] not let me play [Eb] for her, no.
Ever.
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What [Bb] about the Days of Thunder song in that particular video?
That [Bm] was a pleasant surprise.
I mean_
Did you even like the song [Bb] to start with?
No, I loved the song.
I [Ab] wouldn't sing a song I didn't like.
You rewrote it, didn't you?
Yeah.
Oh, right.
Oh, [A] yeah.
No, the lyrics were ridiculous.
[D] Secret fire, take me higher, my song, secret fire.
I mean, it was just embarrassing.
I said, I'm not singing [B] those lyrics.
There's just no way.
And they're like, well, the movie company [N] loved the lyrics.
And I'm like, well, then get shared a scene because I'm not going to do it.
I'm like, there's just no way I'm going to sing those lyrics. _ _ _
So they said, and I love Cher, but she would sing that.
I wouldn't.
But I had no idea _ that people would even want to hear it, let alone,
I mean, it was like number one single in Britain for four weeks, which was really strange.
And I like went on top of the pops and sang it and they kept playing it week after week.
And all of a sudden I was in the [B] tabloids and everything and it was like a [Dbm] pop song.
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I won't do [A] you any harm.
My thoughts is cancer.
My [Dbm] body _ won't.
_ [B] Melt your hair.
Put my cool hands [A] on your face.
Let [Am] me kiss your tears [E] away.
You got to sin to get saved.
Is that sin in the conventional [D] Christian sense or is that sin in the experience sense?
Yes and no.
I mean, I think to take a word like sin and sort of demystify it and take it out of religious terms,
you know, is kind of what I'm trying to do here.
I mean, it's just basically for me, that title is more a human, a human term.
And, you know, we're sort of all on the same [Bb] path looking for something.
And there's different [G] stages of faith and different [Bb] stages of truth.
I [Eb] know.
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[Bb] the good sharp piece [Gm] is hard [Eb] to find.
A good honor.
[Bb] The [F] lesson learned.
When you write a song like you did for Fergal Sharky and they [N] cover it and it becomes a number one hit.
Is that success as sweet as it is when it's a number one hit as a performer? _
_ That success was sweet for me.
And I'll tell you why.
I was 21 when that song became a hit [Gb] and I made so much money.
You can't even imagine how [D] much money I made.
I was 21 years old and I spent it all in like two years.
I spent it all.
It was like gone.
I lived in New York.
I like traveled.
I bought clothes.
I bought furniture.
I was like insane.
I was ridiculous.
I was [N] 21 years old, you know, and I mean, like I wrote that song when I was 18.
_ And somebody got a hold of it and it was like this big hit and it was hysterical.
I just, you know, but I don't regret it because it was fun.
And I lived my [E] early 20s.
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_ _ _ [Abm] _ _ [Db] I just want to tell you one more [A] thing that I thought you might be interested in.
[Gm] I don't know if you've ever heard this before, but you know how you said you got to sin.
The idea of sin is like making mistakes and everything.
In the Greek, sin actually means to miss the mark.
Yeah.
Yeah.
[G] That's what it means, basically.
And, you know, _ [N] what I believe, it's me.
It's kind of that.
_ You know, it's not some evil thing that you're going to burn in hell for.
It's more human than that.
And I don't even mean it literally in that title.
For me, it's just more human.
You got to miss the mark to learn how to hit the mark.
Yeah, exactly.
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