Brandi Carlile – Returning To Myself (Guitar)

Capo 2
Key
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Versions (2)

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Chords

FACFCF All chords relative to the capo. Hint: for a gentler tuning on the guitar, you can tune the guitar to EAbBEBE and do capo 3. F 000000 C/F 077000 Dm7/F 055000
Fmaj7 034000
G7/F 02200
For the chorus, she frets the lowest string of the chords as well. And instead of playing an open F chord, she slides up and plays F on the 12th fret, so: Chords for the chorus: F* 12 12 12 0 0 0 C* 777000 Dm7* 555000 [Verse 1]
F
Is there some freewheeling watcher

C/F
Shooting marbles in the sky?

Dm7/F                   Fmaj7
Holding your ears between their fingers

                G7/F            Dm7/F
Watching it burn 'til the fire dies

F
Why is it heroic to untether?

C/F
How is alone some Holy Grail?

Dm7/F                             Fmaj7
And if we really come and go unknown

                Dm7/F
Couldn't I find myself in jail?
[Chorus]
C*              F*
Oh, keeper how I love you

 Dm7*                  F*
I love you and you and you

C*              Dm7*            Fmaj7   Dm7*
And returning to myself is such a lonely thing to do

                          F
But, it's the only thing to do
[Verse 2]
F
Is it evolving, turning inward?

C/F
Oh, what an easy way to be

Dm7/F                   Fmaj7
Only kneeling at the altar of

        Dm7/F
The great and mighty me

F
Let me break myself apart

C/F
Instead and scatter to my birds

Dm7/F                   Fmaj7
Like a burial at sea

Dm7/F
To be the gospel without words
[Chorus]
C*              F*
Oh, my darlings how I love you

 Dm7*           F*
I love you and you and you

C*              Dm7*                    G4       Dm7
And returning to myself is such a lonely thing to do

                           F
But, it's the only thing to do
[Verse 3]
F
There is no honour in the pilgrimage

C/F
Until a soul returns

Dm7/F
To hold another's hand
N.C. And then, and only then, it learns
F
That life is like a stone

C/F
Only skipping for a time

Dm7/F
Oh, it never really holds its own

Dm7/F
It'll never see the other side
[Chorus]
C*              F*
And I was born to love you

 Dm7*           F*
I love you and you and you

C*                      Dm7*            Fmaj7   Dm7*
And returning to myself is such a lonely thing to do

C*                      Dm7*
Returning to myself is just returning me to you

                F
That's the only thing I wanna do