Chords for Neil Diamond - Neil Diamond: The Making Of “Melody Road” Part 1

_ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Well, I think my life has _ changed [A] and _ headed [E] toward the sunshine and it's just where my
head is at at this point in my life and [B] it's heading in a very positive direction. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] That's what this album is [E] made up of, it's feelings about what my life is _ and kind of
how I've reached this point in [C] it. _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Melody Road, _
[Dm] I'm on with [C] you _ [Dm] all the way to [G] the end.
_ _ [C] I know every [G] song you lead me [F] to [C] is gonna [F] be my [G] friend.
Don [C] is one of the top producers in the world [Dm] and he's also [C] one of the top people [Dm] in the
world just as a human being.
[G] Jack Knife, I had never met him [C] before but we set up a meeting [G] at my studio [Dm] and he [G] was very good.
[C] Find me some words that [G] feel [F] just right.
[C] The music's gonna [G] come from [C] Melody Road.
_ _ Let's make a record.
Garrett, good luck, let's make a record.
There we go.
Okay? _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [C] It was very much a [F] team effort.
I'm [C] not sure I have worked with two [F] separate producers before.
[C] We were thrown in [F] completely unfamiliar waters by [C] working together.
Everything was new for all [F] of us, you know, working together.
[C] Some of the musicians [F] Jack and I knew, some of [G]
them I knew, they hadn't all played together.
There was a lot of _ risk involved.
We didn't [C] really know who to start with.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
But [C] the thing that made it a safe bet [F] is that Neil [Eb] is such a strong artist.
He's just amazing, man.
He's got an incredible _ presence and a really strong artistic point of view.
[D] _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ I'm still [D] amazed at the concept of a piece of [G] music.
When you unearth a song, it's a [D] stunning discovery to you, as though you [A] haven't done it before
hundreds of times.
But you still have the [D] same feeling each time it happens.
So [G] it's a miracle. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] I've been going through the lyrics and trying to think, _ is there a storyline that runs through this?
_ [D] The whole piece?
Yeah.
Don said, this is a concept and this is a very personal concept and I [G] think you should
be thinking of it like that.
And I didn't _ when [D] we first started.
[A] I haven't given that any thought.
I've just let it happen.
The whole experience of writing it.
Your life and [D] the songs are kind of inextricable.
_ [Am] And then it's really, I think it's about _ _ _ [Dm] meeting someone _ and having an affair or a marriage
or whatever and it falls apart [N]
and then learning from it and [Eb] finding something new that works.
That seems to [Dm] be the motif.
[C]
I'm pretty [Dm] clear that this is a journey.
And it's really [Am] very similar to the way he [Dm] presented it to us in [C] the Raws demo [B] form.
Think of it [C] as a [Dm] _ story arc, which I suspect you [C] already [Dm] have.
[C] I think you may be giving me too much credit.
I was just going alphabetically.
_ _ Is that true?
No. _
[F] _ _ _ _ [G] After living with him [C] for a while, I realized he was right and _ [G] we moved ahead on [C] that premise
that these [G] songs would tell a [C] story.
It has a beginning [G] and a middle.
And [C] one of the things that this [F] doesn't have, it doesn't [G] have an end.
It's an ongoing story, I think.
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_ _ [F] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _