VERSION: Edited
Getting Started - by UkeleleUnity
To learn Dawes - Things Happen chords with lyrics, centre your learning around these crucial chords: C, Bm, G, C, Em, E, Bm. For a smooth transition, initiate your practice at 39 BPM and gradually match the song's pace of 80 BPM. Align the capo with your vocal depth and chord choice, bearing in mind the song's original key: G.
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Em _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
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G _ _ _ .
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C _ _ _
Em _
Bm _ .
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G _ _
C _ _ _
Em _
Bm _ .
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G I could go
C on talking
Em or I
Bm could stop.
G D Bring out
C each memory till I get every
Bm drop.
G _ Sift through
C the details
Em of the others
Bm.
involved.
G The true crime would
C be thinking it's just one
E person's
Bm fault.
G Like
D an
C honest signature on
Em a fake
Bm ID.
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G D Like the guilty
C conscience of
Em the innocent
Bm plain.
G _
Bm You can just
Em ignore it, put it out of
Bm mind.
But ain't
G it funny
D how
C the past won't ever let
Bm something light.
G Let's make a list
Bm of all
C the things the world
Em has put you
Bm through.
Let's raise
G a glass to all the
C people you're
Em not speaking
Bm to.
I don't
G know what else
C you wanted me
Em to say to
Bm you.
Things
G happen,
C that's all they ever
E do.
_
Bm _ .
_ In a different
C time, _
Em on a different
G floor.
I
Bm might mourn
C the loss of who
Em I'm not anymore.
Bm _ .
G _ So I'm driving
Em off to Oakland for a good
D look back.
G D And a few
Em revisions to my plan of
D attack.
F#m Let's make
G a list of
C all the things the world has
E put you
Bm through.
Let's
G raise a glass to
C all the people you're not speaking
Bm to.
I
G don't know what
C else you wanted me to say
Bm to you.
Things happen,
C that's all they ever do.
E Bm I _
G think
C I'll see Lili, see
D where she stands.
G I can't help
C how I feel, I don't think
D anyone can.
G _
C Sometimes we're lovers, _
D sometimes we're friends.
G Behold the
C magnetism between two
D dead ends.
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G Let's make a list
D of all
C the things the world has put
E you
Bm through.
G Let's raise a glass
D to all
C the people you're not speaking
Em Bm to.
Em I don't know
D what else
C you wanted me to
Em say to
D you.
Things
Em happen,
D C that's all they ever do.
Em _
D G Let's make a
Bm list of
Em all the things the world has put you
Bm through.
Let's
G raise a glass to
C all the people you're not speaking
Bm to.
I
G don't know what
C else you wanted me to
E say
Bm to you.
G Things happen,
C that's all they ever do.
Em _
Bm That's all
G they ever do.
C That's all they ever
Em do.
G That's all they ever do.
C _ _ _
Em _ _
D _ _ _ _ _ .
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N _ _ .