Sufjan Stevens – Murder And Crime (Guitar)

Capo 7
Key
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Versions (3)

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Chords

Chords used: Em : 022003 Cmaj7 : x32000 D : xx0232 Asus2 : x02200 C : x32010 Bm7 : x2023x Am : x02210 A7 : x02020 G : 320033 Fingerpicking pattern example (basically works for whole song):
 |1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |
 |Em              |Asus2           |Bm7             |A7              |
E|---3---3---3---3|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B|----------------|---0---0---0---0|---3---3---3---3|---2---2---2---2|
G|--0---0---0---0-|--2---2---2---2-|--2---2---2---2-|--0---0---0---0-|
D|-2---2---2---2--|-2---2---2---2--|-0---0---0---0--|-2---2---2---2--|
A|----------------|0---0---0---0---|2---2---2---2---|0---0---0---0---|
E|0---0---0---0---|----------------|----------------|----------------|
Note that the timing changes from 4/4 during the last chord in the chorus (C) with a single additional bar of 2/4 Em Asus2 Bm7 A7 [Verse 1]
Em                Asus2
Evidence known so long

   Bm7                A7
Oh god, I'm lost in my wrongs

Em                    Asus2
Everything froze like stone

         Bm7                     A7     C
Saw your heart couldn't take much more
[Chorus]
Am              Em            D
My boy, I don't know why this life

      C           G           Bm7         C
Is so cruel and unkind but it weighs on my heart

Am              Em            D
All joys were taken from your eyes

       C          G       Bm7       C
As the law would abide in murder and crime

Am                Em       D
Hard lines as the fossil defines

         C          G        Bm7          C
It's own shadow in lime and reveals how it dies
Em Cmaj7 Bm7 A7 [Verse 2]
Em                                   Cmaj7
If anything goes, then everything's flawed

      Bm7                        A7
Oh my love, what the violence has caused

Em                        Cmaj7
Malevolence flowed from beyond

       Bm7                   A7     C
And my heart cannot take much more
[Chorus]
Am          Em           D
Oh joy I'm afraid of the light

       C           G           Bm7     C
As the jewel of my mind begins to fall apart

Am                      Em         D
Do not destroy what has taken it's time

       C           G       Bm7       C
As the lord would abide in murder and crime
[Chorus]
Am                  Em            D
Oh my love, I don't know why this life

      C           G           Bm7         C
Is so cruel and unkind but it weighs on my heart

Am     G            Em     D
Fading lines as the fossil denies

         C             G          Bm7        C
It's own shadow in the time to conceal how it died
[Verse 3]
Em                    Cmaj7
Evidence known, march on

   Bm7                 A7
Oh god, I'm lost in the antiphon

Em                                         Cmaj7
Where does everything go when everything's gone?

       Bm7                    A7       C
For my heart cannot break much more