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I Don't Know What It Is

Rufus Wainwright
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Chords in this song

Strum
D-DU-UDU
 
  1st & 2nd Verse:
 
 
 
 
  1st
 
  2nd
 
 
  Build-up:
 
 
  3rd & 4th Verse:
 both similar to 1st Verse
  Build-up:
 similar to previous
 similar to previous
 
 
  Musical Interlude:
 
 |  |  |  |  |
  5. Verse:
  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 +
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 similar to previous
 
 
 
 
  LYRICS
 I don't know what it is
 But you got to do it
 I don't know where to go
 But you got to be there
 I don't know where to fall
 But I know that it's comfortable where...
 I don't know where it is
 Putting all of my time in learning to care
 And a bucket of rhymes I threw up somewhere
 Want a locket of who made me lose my perfunctory view
 Of all that is around
 And of all that I do
 So I knock on the door
 Take a step that is new
 Never been here before
 Is there anyone else here too?
 In love with beauty
 Playing all of the games
 Who thinks three's company
 Is there anyone else who wears slightly mysterious bruises?
 I don't know what it is
 Take a looking around at friendly faces
 All declaring a war on far off places
 Is there anyone else who is through with complaining about what's done unto us
 So I knock on the door
 And I am on the train
 Going god knows where to
 To get me over
 To get me over
 Give me heaven or hell, Calais or Dover
 I was hoping the train was my big number
 Stopping in Santa Fe and the Atchison-Topeka
 Though I'm chugging along, put away by the crossing hand
 We'll be heading for Portland or Limbo or Lower Manhattan
 Find myself running around
 I don't know what it is so get me over
 I don't know what it is so get me over
 I don't know what it is so get me over
 To get me over
 You gotta do it
 You gotta be there

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Readable chord sheet for I Don't Know What It Is by Rufus Wainwright

[E]   [E]   [E]   [E]

 1st & 2nd Verse:
    [E]   [E]   [Bm7]   [Bm7]

  [Aadd9]   [A]   [E]   [F#]

  [B]   [Asus2]   [F#m] [C#]   [Abm] [Eb]

  [F#m7]   [F#m7]

 1st
  [Bsus4]   [B7]

 2nd
  [B/D#]   [Esus4]   [Bsus4]  [B7]

    [E]   [E7]   [F#m]   [Am]

 Build-up:
  [B/A]   [E/G#]   [B]   [E]

  [Am7]   [E7] [B]     [C]     [D]   [E]

 3rd & 4th Verse:
both similar to 1st Verse

 Build-up:
similar to previous

similar to previous

    [E]   [E7]

  [A]   [E/G#]   [F#m7]   [F#] [C#]

 Musical Interlude:
  [B]   [Asus2]   [F#m]   [Abm]

| [A] | [B] | [B/C#] | [B7-9] |

 5. Verse:
          1 + 2  + 3 +  4 +   1 +
  [E]   [E]   [F#m] [A]  [E] [G#]   [F#m]     [E]

  [A]   [E/G#]   [C#m7]   [F#]

  [B]   [Asus2]   [F#m]   [Abm]

  [A]   [B]   [C#m]

  [Eb7]   [Eb7]   [Eb7]

  [F#m7] [E]   [F#m7] [E]   [F#m7] [E]   [F#m7] [E]

  [Fmaj7]   [Fmaj7]

  [Bsus4]   [B7sus4]   [F#m] [B]   [Am]

  [Bsus4]   [B7sus4]   [F#m] [A]   [Am/C]

  [Bsus4]   [B7sus4]

similar to previous

  [Esus4]   [E]   [Bm7]   [Bm7]

  [Aadd9]   [A]   [E]   [F#] [E]

  [F/E]   [Fm] [E]   [Fm] [E]   [D/E]

  [A]       [E]   [B7] [E]   [Edim6]

 LYRICS
I don't know what it is
But you got to do it
I don't know where to go
But you got to be there
I don't know where to fall
But I know that it's comfortable where...
I don't know where it is

Putting all of my time in learning to care
And a bucket of rhymes I threw up somewhere
Want a locket of who made me lose my perfunctory view
Of all that is around
And of all that I do

So I knock on the door
Take a step that is new
Never been here before
Is there anyone else here too?

In love with beauty
Playing all of the games
Who thinks three's company
Is there anyone else who wears slightly mysterious bruises?
I don't know what it is

Take a looking around at friendly faces
All declaring a war on far off places
Is there anyone else who is through with complaining about what's done unto us

So I knock on the door
And I am on the train
Going god knows where to
To get me over
To get me over

Give me heaven or hell, Calais or Dover

I was hoping the train was my big number
Stopping in Santa Fe and the Atchison-Topeka
Though I'm chugging along, put away by the crossing hand
We'll be heading for Portland or Limbo or Lower Manhattan
Find myself running around

I don't know what it is so get me over
I don't know what it is so get me over
I don't know what it is so get me over
To get me over
You gotta do it
You gotta be there

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