Brandi Carlile – A Woman Oversees (Guitar)

D      D/C
(Oh-oh-oh)

D      Gm
(Oh-oh-oh)

D                     D/C
 One time, I went overseas

                        Bm
With a woman I know too deep

                               F
I live and breathe to hold her in

          G        D
I love to hear her speak

                    D/C
We went to people's parties

                           Bm
And we haunted her old hometown

                   Bb
We rambled into restaurants

C                       D
Tracking her old friends down

       D/C
(Oh-oh-oh)

G      Bb
(Oh-oh-oh)

D                        D/C
 They all knew the magic number

                        Bm
The weather, the kids, TV

                                F
But this is where she pulls the strings

    G                    D
And slips into someone's grief

                                D/C
She's all tarot cards and gypsy moves

                        Bm
She's on fire with listening

               Bb
No one sees it coming, no

    C              D                 D/C
The canary doesn't sing (Sing, sing, sing)

            Bm   Bb
She doesn't sing

      C         G
For a woman oversees (Sees)

Gm             D
  (A woman oversees)

                        D/C
I feel for them and not because

Bm                      Bb              F             G
  I'm sure they used to try and reach inside an empty room

D                            D/C
 But she doesn't make it easy  (No)

                           Bm
She hides behind her hair (Hair)

                  Bb
She asks too many questions

        C
And she cuts you off with care (Ah)

D                   D/C
 She reaches deep inside you like an open cookie jar (Ah)

Bm                         Bb
  And not because you're interesting

       C
But to mine your broken heart

D                     D/C
 For borrowed pain to hide behind

                    Bm
Divorce, disdain, disease

                                 Bb
And it ain't like she don't have her own

    C               D  D/C
But hers is hers to keep (Keep, keep, keep)

             Bm
It's hers to keep

Bb      C         G
  For a woman oversees

             Gm
(A woman oversees)

    Em             A                D        D/C         G
And in a chair sat right beside the puppeteer   sits me (Ha)

Em          A               D      D/C    G
Recognizing maybe that I've said too many things (Ha)

     Em             A                D      F#7    Bm A G  Gm
I've fallen prey to conversate, I've spoken her to sleep

D         D/C
 Even an eviction

                         Bm
Would be a mercy in that place

                F                  G              D
Wordlessness is cruel, and I can't wipe it off my face

                          D/C
I know I need compassion, Lord

                      Bm
I'm sure she needs it too

                        Bb
She won't even make excuses

           C               D  D/C
That would all be too much truth

              Bm
It's too much truth

Bb   C         D
  (A woman oversees)

                              D/C
When you're this far north of forty

                    Bm
The growing's up to you

                           F
Even if you grow away from me

        G
And I'd die to watch you bloom

D                    D/C
 I opened up my eyes one time

                G
When I went overseas

                            Gm
With a woman, no one really knows

                       D
But I live to hear her speak