Sting – I Was Brought To My Senses (Guitar Intro)

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Part A: Slow 6/8 [Verse 1]
 Am                         D5         Am                     D5
Alone with my thoughts this evening, I walked on the banks of Tyne

  Am                   D5          Am                  D5
I wondered how I could win you, or if I could make you mine,

   Am                  D5
or if I could make you mine
[Verse 2]
    Am               D5            Am               D5
The wind it was so insistent, with tales of a story south

       Am                   D5                    Am            D5
When I spied two birds in a sycamore tree, came a dryness in my mouth,

       Am            D5
came a dryness in my mouth
[Verse 3]
    Am                    D5          Am                   D5
For then without rhyme or reason, two birds did rise up to fly

    Am                       D5        Am                  D5
And where the two birds were flying, I swear I saw you and I,

  Am                  D5
I swear I saw you and I
Part B: 132 bpm 7/4 [Intro]
  Dadd9      D/F#       G          A   Asus4 A   Bm         F#m        Bm         A   Asus4 A
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  G          G/B        C          D   Dsus4 D   Em         Gmaj7/B    Cadd9      D   Dsus4 D
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[Verse 1]
G                   G/B                       C                            D         Dsus4 D
  I walked out this morning,    it was like a veil had been removed from before my eyes

Em                              Gmaj7/B                 Cadd9                                D       Dsus4 D
   For the first time I saw the work of heaven, and the line where the hills had been married to the sky

G                G/B         C                   D     Dsus4 D
  And all around me,    every blade of singing grass,

    B7#5/D#                Em                 Cadd9              D    Dsus4 D
was calling out your name,       and that our love would always last

G                      G/B                 C                       D    Dsus4 D
   And inside every turning leaf,    is the pattern of an older tree

Em                      Gmaj7/B        Cadd9               D    Dsus4 D
   The shape of all our future,    the shape of all our history

G                     G/B                C                 D    Dsus4 D
  And out of the confusion,    where the river meets the sea,

     B7#5/D#               Em     Cadd9             D
came things I’d never seen,       things I’d never seen
[Chorus 1]
Dsus4  D   Em9      Dm9       Cmaj9   B7#5   B7  Em9    Dm9              Cmaj9   B7#5
I      was brought,     to my senses,      I was blind,     but now that I  can  see

   B7 Em9    Dm9         F#7#5#9  B7#5  B7   C9add13   A9add13
Ev'ry sign -     post in na   -   ture, said you...    be -
[Verse 2]
  G             G/B                     C                  D    Dsus4 D
- long to me, I know it’s true,    it’s written in a sky as blue

   Em                 Gmaj7/B    Cadd9          D    Dsus4 D
As blue as your eyes,         as blue as your eyes

   G                        G/B            C                           D    Dsus4 D
If nature’s red in tooth and claw,    like winter’s freeze and summer’s thaw

B7#5/D#                        Em           Cadd9                   D    Dsus4 D
        The wounds she gave me,    were the wounds that would heal me

    G                     G/B             C                 D    Dsus4 D
And we’d be like the moon and sun,    and when our courtly dance had run

    Em                  Gmaj7/B        Cadd9             D    Dsus4 D
Its course across the sky,      then together we would lie

G                     G/B                C                 D    Dsus4 D
  And out of the confusion,    where the river meets the sea

          B7#5/D#           Em          Cadd9            D    Dsus4 D
Something new would arrive,    something better would arrive
[Chorus 2]
Dsus4  D   Em9      Dm9       Cmaj9   B7#5   B7  Em9    Dm9              Cmaj9   B7#5
I      was brought,     to my senses,      I was blind,     but now that I  can  see

   B7 Em9    Dm9         F#7#5#9  B7#5  B7   C9add13  A9add13   F#9add13   F9add13
Ev'ry sign -     post in na   -   ture, said you...   be   -    long       to     (me)
[Chorus 3] Vocals + Saxophone
      Em9      Dm9       Cmaj9   B7#5   B7  Em9    Dm9              Cmaj9   B7#5
I was brought,     to my senses,      I was blind,     but now that I  can  see

   B7 Em9    Dm9         F#7#5#9  B7#5  B7   C9add13  A9add13   F#9add13   F9add13
Ev'ry sign -     post in na   -   ture, said you...   be   -    long       to
[Solo]
  Em9        Dm9        Cmaj9      B7#5   B7  Em9        Dm9        Cmaj9      B7#5   B7
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me
  Em9        Dm9        F#7#5#9    B7#5   B7  C9add13    A9add13    F#9add13   F9add13
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[Outro]
      Em9      Dm9       Cmaj9   B7#5   B7  Em9    Dm9              Cmaj9   B7#5
I was brought,     to my senses,      I was blind,     but now that I  can  see

   B7 Em9    Dm9         F#7#5#9  B7#5  B7   C9add13  A9add13   F#9add13   F9add13   Em9
Ev'ry sign -     post in na   -   ture, said you...   be   -    long       to        me