Cracking Lyrics

To: jamesb@nevada.edu
Subject: /v/Suzanne.Vega/Cracking.tab
CRACKING (Suzanne Vega)
ctually in ; capo up four frets.
single note
It's a one time thing, it just happens a lot
Walk with me and we will see what we have got
Ahhhhhhh... Ahhhhhhh...
My footsteps are ticking, like water dripping from a tree
Walking a hairline, and stepping very carefully
Ahhhhhhh... Ahhhhhhh...
single note
Ahhhhhhh...
My heart is broken; it's worn out at the knees
Hearing muffled, seeing blind, soon it will hit the deep freeze
Ahhhhhhh...
And something is cracking, I don't know where
Ice on the sidewalk, brittle branches in the air
The sun is blinding, dizzy golden, dancing green
single note
Csus2 G/B G5 F#
Through the park in the afternoon, wondering where the hell
I have been
single note
Ah ha haaaaa...
INTRO AND VERSE:
Most of the verse just uses the first four measures of tab.
[Note that whenever the G5 measure comes before the Em7-A7 part,
there is also an A bass note in the second half of the measure.]
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single note
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"THE SUN IS BLINDING...":
E ------------------------|-------------------------------------------------| The quick notes there
B ---------3-----------3--|---------3-----------3--| are actually 16-------|th-note
G ---0-----------0--------|---0-----------0--------| triplets; the "03-----|s
D --0-----0-----0-----0---|--0-----0-----0-----0---| and "02"s are hammer--|
A 03----03----03----03----|02----02----02----02-----------------------------| ons, obviously. Good
E ------------------------|------------------------| luck. You can subs---|
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..sun is blind - ing,
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dizzy, gol - den, danc - ing green
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Through the park in the af - ter - noon,
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wondering where the hell I have been...