Misc Musicals – Closer Than Ever - Patterns (Guitar)

E(add9)                         E(add9)/D
Patterns in my life that I trace every day

Cmaj9                       B9sus
Patterns as I say the things I always say

E(add9)           Em         E(add9)/D
Patterns in the ceiling as I lie awake

Cmaj9                           B9sus
Why are patterns haunting every move I make?

     Am7   D7sus  D7     Bm7  Em7
Just look: here I am on cue again

   Cm    D7sus  D7      Bm7  Em7
Up—set, feeling torn in two again

  Fmaj7/G      G/F   Em7  C/E    Bm/D   Cmaj7
Afraid, saying I'm o—kay, making little jokes,

Am/C         B7sus
Till I run a—way, again

           Dm7  G7           Em7    Am7
And yet to—day, I am not the same

          Dm7  G7                Em7   Am7
I feel my life slipping from its frame

Gbm7(b5)                 Bm7      B7(#9)  Em
Strange feelings rise, feelings with no name

            Bm/D           Cmaj7      Bm7
And I can't face them so I shake them hard,

Cmaj7     Bm7     Cmaj7     Bm7   Am7 B7sus
Fold them up, and tuck them safely a-way, again

E(add9)         Em            E(add9)/D
Patterns that begin as I walk through a door

Cmaj9                            B9sus
Patterns in the curtains and the kitchen floor

E(add9)         Em               E(add9)/D
Patterns in the day's routines I must arrange

Cmaj9                            B9sus
Patterns in the ways I try . . . but never change.

     Am7   D7sus  D7       Bm7    Em7
Just look, as I'm thrown a curve again

  Cm    D7sus  D7      Bm7    Em7
I leap, then I lose my nerve again

  Fmaj7/G      G/F   Em7     C/E    Bm/D   Am/C
In tears, running home I go, secret-ly relieved

Am/C             B7sus
Safe with what I know, again

           Dm7  G7           Em7    Am7
And yet I know, I am not the same

          Dm7      G7              Em7   Am7
Inside my heart is something I can tame

       Gbm7(b5) Bm7      B7(#9) Em
I feel my mind bursting into flame,

            Bm/D           Cmaj7      Bm7
And I must change or else I'll break apart,

   Cmaj7   Bm7      Cmaj7  Bm7   Am7 Bsus
Or break a-way, and end up having to start, again.

E(add9)                            Emaj7
Patterns through the day I seem to use

   E
To give my life a shape

E7       E
Patterns through the house that give me

E6      E
Comfort when I need escape

E+       E
Patterns that lead me nowhere

      E(add9)
at all.