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
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...