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I Know Tab

by Fiona Apple


This is a gorgeous song, played in 6/4 time, very slowly.
Forgive the funny spacing, I've tried to lay out the chords in correspondence
to the words.  You really have to hear the song to get it precise though.

Intro:

      

      



        
So be it I'm your crowbar

             
If that's what I am so far

                    
Until you get out of this mess

          
And I will pretend

                 
That I don't know of your sins

                      
Until you are ready to confess


               
But all the time, all the time

                   
I'll know, I'll know

           
And you can use my skin

       
To bury secrets in

                  
And I will settle you down

         
And at my own suggestion

      
I will ask no questions

                             
While I do my thing in the background

                
But all the time, all the time

                  
I'll know, I'll know


Bridge:

E   Am  (two measures each chord)

                       
Baby -- I can't help you out

                     
While she's still around

             
So for the time being

              
I'm being patient

            
And amidst this bitterness

               
If you'll just consider this

                    
Even if it don't make sense

              
All the time, give it time

                            
And when the crowd becomes your burden

                             
And you've early closed your curtain

                        
I'll wait by the backstage door

          
While you try to find

        
The lines to speak your mind

                           
And pry it open hoping for an encore

                            
And if it gets too late for me to wait

                                  
For you to find you love me, and tell me so

                      
It's ok, don't need to say it...


Outro - C  Fm  (six measures, ending on C)