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/ Björk / I think the song is about Selma imagining herself in heaven.
/ New World / Her previously new world USA didn't quite live up to her expec-
/ Selmasongs / tations, so she now tries her luck in the next world. It could
/_____________/ actually also be about the new life she has granted her son.
Time: 4 / 4
Key: Eb major (3 flats)
Chords:
(it was quite hard to find any chords that sounded anything like the symphony
orchestra on the record, but this is my best solution to get the real sound)
---------4------------------------------------3-----
---4-----4-----4----4------8------4----6------4-----
---3-----4-----6----5------7------5----5------5-----
---5-----6-----5----6------8------5----3------6-----
---6-----6-----6----6------6------3----3------x-----
---------4----------4-------------------------4-----
Intro:
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Verse:
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Chorus:
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Interlude:
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2x Verse
Chorus
Interlude
Outro:
repeat | Eb | Abm | plenty of times, it would be impossible and
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Form (with the chords above the lyrics):
1st Verse:
Train-whistles, a sweet clementine
Blueberries, dancers in line
Cobwebs, a bakery sign
Ooh, a sweet clementine
Ooh, dancers in line, ooh
Chorus:
If living is seeing
I'm holding my breath
In wonder I wonder
What happens next?
A new world, a new day to...
see_________________________
2nd Verse:
I'm softly walking on air
Halfway to heaven from here
Sunlight unfolds in my hair
Ooh, I'm walking on air
Ooh, to heaven from here, ooh
- 23rd /April /07