The Mist: lyrics and chords

This is pure 4/4, except maybe a few half bars. The demo tape opens with a sliding major 7 chord that starts on the 4th string (D string). This is a 4/2 inversion, so the Emaj7 is spelled as B,E,G#,D#. As you can hear, it slides around. It's not like I planned the intro for it. - Real intro: this is when it goes down to the 3rd fret. G minor in 6/4 inversion, sliding up a fret to become Ab diminished.

Actually, though it's masking the key, which is Eb. So, that's the next step...

Intro

||:Ebmaj7-Emaj7:|| Verse 1 Ebmaj7 I'm waiting here alone Emaj7 I'll smoke another cone Dmaj cluster [D,B,C#,E - top 4 strings]

Leave me on my own C# cluster [C#,D,B,D# - middle 4 strings .. A,D,G, B]

Unless you're gonna Bminor9 [B,D,A,C#] Phone me Ebminor9 now Chorus 1 Emaj7/B F# Falling into E

your eyes D Is too Dmaj9

Vivid Dbminor 9 to Gmaj7

Ignore Emaj7/B F# So why can't

E We be D Wild and free

Dmaj9 Be like Dbminor9 we were Gsus2 before? Emaj7/B F# Echoes calling Slowly falling Into Dmaj9 something Gmaj7sus2 more One of my things in this score is cutting out the 3 of the chord. That's an anti-jazz reaction, as that's how jazz defines chords (by root, 3rd, 7th, 9th, 11th, 13th etc.). Verse 2 Ebmaj7 You don't exist Emaj7 You're just the mist

Dmaj cluster [V1] But I have C# cluster [V1] never been kissed Bminor9

like that. Ebmaj7

You're too afraid Emaj7 Ab,B,D,G# [this in the book, not the recording]

Hiding in the shade: Dmaj cluster [V1] My heart

C# cluster [V1]

Wasn't made for

Bminor9 Ebminor9 this Chorus 2 Emaj7/B F# Falling into E

your eyes D Is too Dmaj9

Vivid Dbminor 9 to Gmaj7

Ignore Emaj7/B F# So why can't

E We be D Wild and free

Dmaj9 Be like Dbminor9 we were Gsus2 before? Emaj7/B F# Echoes flowing Gently growing Into Dmaj7/C# something Gmaj7sus2 more

Interlude -- that's just improvised; learn the style, show kids! The hook'll probably sound good down the octave, but I mean for those to be big bar chords walking backwards.

Verse 3 Ebmaj7 I'm waiting here alone Emaj7 I'll smoke another cone Dmaj cluster [V1]

Leave me on my own C# cluster [V1]

Unless you're gonna Bminor9 [V1] Phone me Ebminor9 now

Ebmaj7

You're too afraid Dmaj cluster [V1] My heart wasn't D - C# - B (bass only) made for this

G

You're just the B5sus2 (arpeggio) mist.