A Letter to Elise Lyrics

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# A Letter to Elise
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#Fingerpicked intro
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B----------2-2-2-0h2-2-------
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G---------------------------- (Do this three times)
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D---------------------------- (then play the next line)
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B-0h2-3-3--3-3-3-3s2-----0---
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Oh Elise it doesn't matter what you say
I just can't stay here every yesterday
Like keep on acting out the same the way we act out
Every way to smile, forget, and make-believe we never needed
Any more than this, any more than this
Oh Elise it doesn't matter what you do
I know I'll never really get inside of you
To make your eyes catch fire the way they should
The way the blue could pull me in
If they only would, if they only would
At least I'd lose this sense of sensing something else
That hides away
From me and you there're worlds to part
With aching looks and breaking hearts
And all the prayers your hands can make
Oh I just take as much as you can throw
And then throw it all away
Oh I throw it all away
Like throwing faces at the sky
Like throwing arms round yesterday I stood and stared
Wide-eyed in front of you
And the face I saw looked back
The way I wanted to
But I just can't hold my tears away the way you do
Elise believe I never wanted this
I thought this time I'd keep all of my promises
I thought you were the girl always dreamed about
But I let the dream go, and the promises broke
And the make-believe ran out...
Oh elise it doesn't matter what you say
I just can't stay here every yesterday
Like keep on acting out the same
The way we act out
Every way to smile, forget,
And make-believe we never needed
Any more than this
Any more than this
And every time I try to pick it up
Like falling sand
As fast as I pick it up
It runs away through my clutching hands
But there's nothing else I can really do
There's nothing else
I can really do at all...
A Letter To Elise (tab)
/=slide h=hammeron
b(x)r=bend till it sounds like fret x and then release
ass
Acoustic twelve-string guitar
(since this is all on the A string, I will save space by not typing out a
full tab)
A---2-4-4-2-4-4-2-4---2-4---------|-------------%-------------|
Play these two parts once, then repeat and add these next two parts on top
Guitar
Xylophone sound (for guitar)
B----------2--2-2--0-2--2--|-------------%-------------|
Play all four patterns twice through; on the end of the second begin the
vocals ("Oh Elise it doesn't matter...")
Under the vocals, play the intro twelve-string pattern and this bass part:
Repeat these, then do the four intro patterns again twice through; then do
the second verse with only the second bass part. Go straight into the third
verse ("From me and you..."), adding the intro electric pattern on top.
At "Yesterday I stood and stared...", begin these two patterns:
ass
(one string only)
Guitar (with echo)
(two strings only)
Repeat these two patterns three times, then go to these patterns
at "Elise, believe I never wanted this..."
ass
Guitar
Repeat these four times; then begin the guitar solo
(continue playing the bridge bass line underneath 2 1/2 times through, then
last measure of intro bass pattern, followed by three times through intro
bass pattern, then 1 1/2 times through first verse bass pattern)
(add xylophone sound aprt over last four measures)
(tabbed using only the necessary strings)
B---0h2-3---3--3-3---2--0------0---|------------------------------|
G----4-4-6----6---4--6-------6--|--4--6--6b(7)r--6---6--|
Go into the fourth verse right at the end of the solo. Play all four intro
patterns underneath. After the verse is over continue with them twice more,
and end like this:
Acoustic twelve-string (hold for whole measure)