Jeff Buckley – I Know Its Over (Guitar)

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Chords

Here's the chords for this great cover of I Know It's Over by The Smiths. Sounds great with a Telecaster set on the neck pick-up with some tasty reverb. Chords you need to know: G Em C D Bm (all open chords apart from Bm) [Intro]
      G                                       Em
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head

          G                                 Em
And as I climb into an empty bed - oh well, enough said

             C             D         C                         D
I know it's over, still I cling, I don't know where else I can go

C                          D
Over and over.....
[Verse 1]
      G                                        Em      C  D
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head

         G                                                Em
See the sea wants to take me, the knife wants to slit me
Do you think you can help me
C     D     G                                                   Em
Sad veiled bride please be happy - handsome groom give her room

C     D        G
Loud loutish lover treat her kindly though she needs you

 Em                     C  D                C               D
More than she loves you   - and I know it's over - still I cling

   C                           D             C       D
I don't know where else I can go - over and over.....
[Hook]
             G                 C          D                  C   D   Em
I know it's over and it never really began but in my heart it was so real

                      D      C  D
And she even spoke to me and said
[Verse 2]
 G                                             Em           C  D
"If you're so funny, then why are you on your own tonight?"

 G                                                Em            C  D
"And if you're so clever then why are you on your own tonight?"

 G                                                            Em         C  D
"And if you're so very entertaining then why are you on your own tonight?"

 G                                                           Em           
"And if you're so very good looking, then why do you sleep alone tonight?"

C  D           G
I know - 'cos tonight is just like any other night - that's why you're on

      Em
your own tonight
[Verse 3]
           G                                Em                           C
With your triumphs and your charms - while they're in each other's arms

D                C                     D               C
It's so easy to laugh it's so easy to hate, it takes strength to be gentle

      D             C          D
and kind - over and over....

                 G                     C              D         
It's so easy to laugh it's so easy to hate, it takes guts to be gentle and

Em              C        D
kind - over and over....
[Outro]
        G            C  D              Bm               C          D
Love is natural and real - but not for you my love not tonight my love

        G            C  D       C       D       Em     C     D
Love is natural and real - but not for such as you and I my love

    G          C     D      Bm   C    D
Oh mother... etc.
G C D Em D C D etc.