Misc Musicals – The Bands Visit - Something Different (Guitar)

          C7
Is this a hymn?

F#7         Bm
   Is this a love song?

          C7           F#7
Something ancient by a poet

      Bm7
Maybe Hafiz, maybe Rumi?

      Em7           A9         F#/A#            Bm
Is he singing about two hearts searching in the darkness?

G(add2)                  F#7sus
   Or is he singing about fishing?

F#7             C7  F#            Bm
   The tune seems sad, but are the words sad?

          C
What's he saying?

      F#7
Is he praying?

    Bm
And why do the words get to me?

      Em7           F#               Bm
Is he lonely? Maybe reaching out for someone?

E         F         F#7               Bm
  Look at me. Maybe I'm the one who's fishing

B        Em7        A9        D(add2)      G(add2)
   Every day you stare to the west, to the south

        C#7b5/E#    F#7    Bm           B
You can see for miles, but things never change

     Em7           A9    Dmaj7         G(add2)
Then honey in your ears, spice in your mouth

Cmaj9                          F#7sus             F#7
Nothing's as surprising as the taste of something strange

    Cmaj7         F#5
And here's this man

             B5
Right here beside me

        C9               F#
Kind of deep and kind of cute

       G               Gmaj7
In his Sergeant Pepper suit

          Em
Is this my sheikh?

A9            D F  F#  G
   Is this my Omar Sharif?

        C7        F#7       B5
Well, I know it's something different

A  F#m6  F#m  G#/B#  C#  D(add#4)   Dmaj7
[They sing together]

G#        D7     G#             C#m
   Who is this man right here beside me?

D            G#7             C#m
Closer by an inch or two, my cheek would touch his ear

           F#m7    G#             C#m         F#
What is he thinking? What does he wish for?

G7       G#7           C#m
   Is he singing about wishing?

C#           F#m7     B9    E(add2)  A(add2)
   Something new I've never seen before

              Eb/G    G#7          C#m         C#
Through these walls I build, these gates I protect

          F#m7         B9           Emaj7       Amaj7
Something new I didn't notice I was hoping for

Dmaj13        D#7b9        G#7sus             G#7        N.C.
Nothing is as beautiful as something that you don't expect

              Dmaj7
Look at those hands

G#5              C#5
   Those are not young hands

         D9                 G#
But they move like they are swimming through the music

            Amaj7
Through the music

      F#m               B9
And I don't know what I feel

      E          G#     A
And I don't know what I know

      D7        G#7            C#5
All I know is I feel something different

            G#9            C#5
He makes me feel something different