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They Werent There Tab

by Missy Higgins


This is a beautiful song, and these chords sound great acoustically or on a clean 
guitar.  They can be picked or strummed to add effect as the song goes on.  It is in regular 
no capo.

Chords:
 – X-2-4-4-4-2---|
 – 3-5-5-3-3-3-|
 – 0-2-2-1-0-0---|
 - 2-4-4-3-2-2--|


Intro – , , , 


You breathed infinity into my world

and time was lost up in a cloud and in a whirl.
                                                                    
                
We dug a hole in the cool grey earth and lay there for the night.
                             
Then you said, "wait for me we'll fly the wind,
                                                         
              
we'll grow old and you'll be stronger without him" but oh,
                                               
now my world is at your feet. I was lost and I was found,
                  
but I was alive and now I've drowned.
                                       
So now I will be waiting for the world to hear my song
                        		 , 
so they can tell me I was wrong...
                           
But they weren't there beneath your stare,
                             
and they weren't stripped 'till they were bare of
                                                         
any bindings from the world outside that room.
 		
And they weren't taken by the hand
		
and led through fields of naked land
	     				
where any pre-conceived ideas were blown away...
            
so I couldn't say "no".

, , , 

       				
You sighed and I was lost in you, weeks could've past for all I knew.
					
You were the blanket of the over-world and so I couldn't say,
			          	         
I wouldn't say "no". But they all said, "you're too young to even know,
					
just don't let it grow and you'll be stronger without him"
     					  
but oh, now, my world is at your feet. I was lost and I was found,

	   
but I was alive and now I've drowned.
		                    
So now I will be waiting for the world to hear my song
	     			, 
so they can tell me I was wrong...

                           
But they weren't there beneath your stare,
                             
and they weren't stripped 'till they were bare of
                                                         
any bindings from the world outside that room.
 		
And they weren't taken by the hand
		
and led through fields of naked land
	     				
where any pre-conceived ideas were blown away...
                           
But they weren't there beneath your stare,
                             
and they weren't stripped 'till they were bare of
                                                         
any bindings from the world outside that room.
 		
And they weren't taken by the hand
		
and led through fields of naked land
	     				
where any pre-conceived ideas were blown away...
            
so I couldn't say "no".