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TABS - Oyster (1994)
(Discography)
Song Index:
Walk This World
Heal
Island
Throwing Fire At The Sun
Maybe An Angel
Sugar
Truth And Bone
Blue Black
Walking Higher
Light Years
Verona
Doubled Up
Home
Blind
Thanks to gerd, Cassander and rainman for their feedback and assistance.
WALK THIS WORLD - (discography)
by Heather Nova
Em EmMaj7 Em7 Em6 x2
Em EmMaj7 Em7 Em6
I slept beside the winter and the green is growing slow
Em EmMaj7 Em7 Em6
I watched you find the places hidden by the snow
C B7
I tripped into a valley that is blue till you can see
Em A Em
I want you to come and walk this world with me.
G C D Em
With the light in our eyes it's hard to see
G C D Em
Holding on and on till we believe.
G C D Em
With the light in our eyes it's hard to see
C B7
I'm not touched but I'm aching to be
Em A Em
I want you to come and walk this world with me
And I'm sucked in by the wonder and I'm fucked up by the lies
And I dig a hole to climb in and I get some wings to fly
And I think that I could love you cause you know how to be free
I want you to come and walk this world with me
With the light in our eyes it's hard to see
Holding on and on till we believe
With the light in our eyes it's hard to see
I'm not touched but I'm aching to be
I want you to come, I want you to come,
I want you to come, and walk this world with me
Em EmMaj7 Em7 Em6 x4
And it's burning in our fingers and it's burning on the road
And I like the way you're broken and I like you when you're old
And I see you in the garden and I feel you plant the seed
I want you to come and walk this world with me.
With the light in our eyes it's hard to see
Holding on and on till we believe
With the light in our eyes it's hard to see
Holding on and on till we believe
With the light in our eyes it's hard to see
A
Holding on and on till we believe
I'm not touched but I'm aching to be, dust to dust, yeah, dream to dream
I want you to come, I want you to come, I want you to come walk this world with me
Chords needed :
EmMaj7 : 021000
Em7 : 020000
Em6 : 042000
HEAL - (discography)
by Heather Nova
Intro :
Dm Bb C
E---------1-+--------6--------6--------6--------6-+--------8--------8--------8-------8-+ You can play
B----3------+---6--------6--------6--------6------+---8--------8--------8--------8-----+ the bold
G------2----+-----0--------0--------0--------0----+-----0--------0--------0--------8---+ numbers or
D-0---------+----------0--------0--------0---------+----------0--------0---------0------+ the ones in
A------------+----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------+ parentheses
E------------+-6-----------------(6)----------------+-8-----------------(8)----------------+ (Heather often
x4 x1 x1 changes)
Dm Bb C
Fall for me, my southern cross, my star
Dm Bb C
Shine for me when love has gone too far
Dm Bb C
I've got you belly-deep in me
Dm G Bb C
Just a little breath on the water now is all we need
Dm G Bb
Just a little strength in our hearts -
C Dm G Bb
Enough to heal
C Dm G Bb C
Enough to heal
Take me out can’t leave this love for dead
Hand to mouth we’re picking up the thread
I've got you belly-deep in me
Just a little breath on the water now is all we need
Just a little strength in our hearts -
Enough to heal
Enough to heal
Em Bb C
And the sea glistens (Chords)
Em Bb C
And the waves pull us in
Em Bb C
There's something rising up and up
Em Bb C
Will it heal
Just a little breath on the water now is all we need
Just a little strength in our hearts -
Enough to heal
Enough to heal
Just a little breath on the water now is all we need (picking)
Just a little strength in our hearts -
Enough to heal
Enough to heal
ISLAND - (discography)
by Heather Nova
Intro and verses’ picking :
Am C G x4
E-------------------+-----------+-----------+
B---0-----0-----1-+---1------+---0------+
G-----2-----2------+-----0---+------0---+
D-------2-----2----+-------2-+--------0-+
A-0-----------------+-3--------+----------+
E-------------------+-----------+-3--------+
Chorus picking :
Am G F
E-------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
B---1-----1--------+---0------0--------+---1-----1--------+
G-----2-----2---0-+------0------0---0-+-----2-----2---0-+
D-------2-----2----+--------0------0---+-------3-----3----+
A-0-----------------+---------------------+-------------------+
E--------------------+-3------------------+-1----------------+
Am C G Am C G
Am C G
There are parts of me he'll never know,
Am C G
My wild horses and my river beds,
Am C G Am C G
And in my throat voices he'll never hear
Am C G Am C G
He pulls at me like a cherry tree,
Am C G Am C G
And I can still move, but I don't speak about it.
Am C G Am C G
Pretend I'm crazy, pretend I'm dead.
Am C G Am C G
He's to scared to hit me now, he'll bring flowers instead.
Am G Am G
I need an island, somewhere to sink a stone
Am G F G
I need an island, somewhere to bury you,+
Am C G Am C G
Somewhere to go
And the dogwoods shimmer in October sun,
« Oh sweet thing » he sings to me,
« You're the only one »
Am G Am G
I need an island, somewhere to sink a stone
Am G F G
I need an island, somewhere to bury you, somewhere
Am G Am G
I need an island, somewhere to sink a stone
Am G F G
I need an island, somewhere to bury you,+
F
Somewhere to go
And I don't know why I can't tell my sister, (chords)
He spat in my face again, and I don't want to die here.
You know that dream when your feet won't move,
You want to come but your body won't let you.
He steals it from me, he steals it from me
It shines like sweat, like jewels
Like something that has died to soon.
He fucks with the beauty
A kiss, a kick, a kiss, a kick, a kiss kiss kick
He steals it from me.
It's out of my hands again.
Am G Am G
I need an island, somewhere to sink a stone (picking)
Am G F G
I need an island, somewhere to bury you, somewhere
Am G Am G
I need an island, somewhere to sink a stone
Am G F G
I need an island, somewhere to bury you, somewhere Picking
Am G F G
To go
Am G F G
To go
Am G F G x6
Am ~
THROWING FIRE AT THE SUN - (discography)
by Heather Nova
On tour, Heather sometimes play the songs in Em instead of Fm.
Fm ad lib.
Fm C
I think of Venus sinking down into the sea
Fm C
And what it is to be alone and have nothing
Fm C
I don't know why you want to leave this space between
Fm C
Is it easier to be alone and have nothing ?
Bbm Fm
You and me and everyone
Bbm Fm ~
Throwing fire at the sun
I put my hands up, lay my weapons down
I know that I was stupid, I was wrong
Bbm Fm
You and me and everyone
Bbm
Throwing fire
C
If I listen there's something deeper that speaks
If we reach out maybe we could make a little peace
Bbm Fm
You and me and everyone
Bbm Fm ~
Throwing fire at the sun
Remember stealing oranges and how they bled
And you're the one who showed me how to touch myself
Bbm Fm
You and me and everyone
Bbm Fm
Throwing fire at the sun
Bbm Fm
Blood is a river, ties you to me
Bbm Fm
Blood is a river, ties everyone
Bbm Fm
Blood is a river, ties you to me
Bbm Fm
Blood ties everyone.
Bbm Fm
Ties everyone
Bbm
Ties everyone x2
Fm Bbm ad lib.
End : Fm.
MAYBE AN ANGEL - (discography)
by Heather Nova
Asus2 F#m F Asus2
E--------------------+----------------------+--------------------+----------------------+ Intro : x2
B----------0--------+-----------0----------+----------0--------+------------0--------+ Transitions : x1
G-----2--------2---+------2---------2----+-----2--------2---+------2---------2----+
D---2---2---2---2-+----4---4----4---4-+---3---3---3---3-+----2---2----2---2-+
A-0------------------+----------------------+--------------------+-0-------------------+
E--------------------+-2--------------------+-1-----------------+----------------------+
Asus2 F#m F A
I put my hands where your wings should be,
Asus2 F#m F A
I put my feet where the earth should be
Bm C#m
And I can't see very far
Bm C#m
And when you said that you were dead I hung on
A F#m
Something I feel
Bm D G
You are an angel or maybe you could've been
A F#m
Something out here
Bm D G A F#m F A
You are an angel or maybe you could've been
I've got this light hangs over me
I've got this fear cuts into me
And I can't see very far
And when you said that you were dead I hung on
Something I feel
You are an angel or maybe you could've been
Something out here
Bm D G A F#m F A A F#m F A
You are an angel or maybe you could've been
See how they run
And nobody said you would go
See how they fall
And I can't see very far
And when you said you were dead I hung on
Something I feel
You are an angel or maybe you could've been
Something out here
Bm D G A
You are an angel or maybe you could've been
A F#m Bm D G
See how they run
A F#m
See how they run
Bm D G
All the same, all the same
A F#m Bm D G A ~
Something I feel, you are an angel.
SUGAR - (discography)
by Heather Nova
Acoustic part
* Dm * Em/D x2
E------1-----3-----+------3-----5-----+
B-------------------+--------------------+
G---2---2-------2-+---4---4-------4-+
D-0-------0---0---+-0-------0---0---+
A-------------------+--------------------+
E-------------------+--------------------+ Em/D : XX0453
On the Vermont Transit Bus I leaned my arm into a little chink of sun,
going somewhere older than I was, strapped into something tight, keeping me small.
I dug into you like rock climbing ; too scared of going up, too scared of coming down, too scared of rockface.
I should've split my sides or spilled my guts or hit you or something, but I was good.
And your father's little pancakes so round and perfect and me sitting up too straight, laughing in wrong places,
kissing you, kissing up, kissing too soon...
(Chords. Let them ring : )
Dm G Dm G
When the cock crows
Dm G Dm G
When the morning comes where will I go ?
Dm G Dm G
When the cock crows
Dm G Dm G
When the move is gone where will I go ?
Electric part
Dsus2
E------------0------+ x4
B------3-------3----+
G---2---2--------2-+
D-0-------0--------+
(Chords : )
Dsus2 x4
And when you got me pregnant I stopped the party and I stopped the typewriter
and I stopped your dumb ball game in the red barn and I stopped your father and bled instead.
And I felt the lie - something sticky on the inside ; a bitter wind in my throat, stopping me wanting,
in my stomach, in my head and you said
Dm
Sugar, sugar, you couldn't come, come
Sugar, sugar, without your mother, mother
Sugar, sugar, you couldn't taste it
Sugar, sugar, in my throat.
(Let the chords ring : )
When the cock crows
When the morning comes where will I go ?
When the cock crows
When the love is gone where will I go ?
Dsus2
E------------0------+ x4
B------3-------3----+
G---2---2--------2-+
D-0-------0--------+
(Chords : )
Dm Em/D x4
Sugar, sugar, you couldn't come, come
Sugar, sugar, without your mother, mother
Sugar, sugar, you couldn't taste it
Sugar, sugar, in my throat
Dm
You, you couldn't, you couldn't taste it,
Yeah, yeah, you couldn't taste it
When the cock crows
When the morning comes where will I go ?
When the cock crows
When the love is gone where will I go ?
Dm G x7
Dm ~
TRUTH AND BONE - (discography)
by Heather Nova
Intro : D
D A Bm G D
Sometime I can feel you breathing into me
D A Bm G D
And these hands I can feel them tugging at my sleeve
A Em D
I move through the day in the rhythms that I've known.
D A Em G D
I've got this crazy dream of stripping down to truth and bone
D A Em G
All of it, all of it, all of it stripped down
D A Em G D
All of it, all of it, all of it, to truth and bone
My mouth is full of secrets I'm too afraid to tell
My body's full of longing for you to know me well
A Em D
I move through the day in the rhythms that I've known.
D A Em G D
I've got this crazy dream of stripping down to truth and bone
D A Em G
All of it, all of it, all of it stripped down
D A Em G D
All of it, all of it, all of it, to truth and bone
A Em G
All of it, all of it, all… is stripped down
D A Em G
All of it, all of it all... to truth and bone
D A Bm
I think of sinking in way over my shoulders
G D
Let the water, the water take me in and I
A
Need you to cut through to where I'm hidden,
Bm G D
I'm awkward and I'm too polite I want
A Bm
Two stars for arms like Orion I could
G D
Breathe in, breathe in breathe out
A Bm G
If I could only lose myself, I would lose my, myself in you
A Em D
I move through the day in the rhythms that I've known.
D A Em G D
I've got this crazy dream of stripping down to truth and bone
D A Em G
All of it, all of it, all of it stripped down
D A Em G D
All of it, all of it, all of it, to truth and bone
A Em G
All of it, all of it, all… stripped down
D A Em G
All of it, all of it all... to truth and bone
D A Em G
All of it, oh, all of it all... stripped down
D A Em G
All of it, oh, all of it all... to truth and bone
D A Em G D
All of it, all of it... where are you ?
D A Em G D ~
All of it, all of it, yeah… to truth and bone.
BLUE BLACK - (discography)
by Heather Nova
Eat your words, eat your heart out
Eat your words, eat your heart out
D C x2
D C D C
There's not much left, just my red dress
Bm Em A
Just this feeling that I got
D C D C
You made me a victim in your Christmas kitchen
Bm Em A
It's my memory it's your loss
D F#m G
Blue black, maybe you got something
A
But the flowers grew back
D C x4
And was it familiar when you touched my sister
God, I don't think there's a word for that
D F#m G
Blue black, maybe you got something
F#m G
Maybe you got something
A
But the flowers grew back
D C x4
I gave it away, whore for a day
It's so ugly, I'm still breathing
But you never got my virgin heart
It stayed locked up, it's still beating
D F#m G
Blue black, maybe you got something
F#m G
Maybe you got something
A
But the flowers grew back
D C x4
D C D C
Eat your words, eat your hat
D C D C
Eat your words, eat your heart out
D C x2 on Oyster, x4 or x8 on tour
D C
I never felt so clean, you did the sin supreme
D C
You never had a clue, you can't take it with you
D C
I never felt so clean, you did the sin supreme
D C D C D ~
You never had a clue, you can't take it with you, you can’t take it with you
WALKING HIGHER - (discography)
by Heather Nova
Intro and verses's picking :
Em Dsus2 Csus2
E----0-----0---+---0------0---+--------------+----------------+
B------0-----0-+-----0------3-+---3-----3---+----3-----3---+
G--------0-----+--------0------+-----0-----2-+------0-----0-+
D---------------+-0-------------+-------2------+--------2------+
A-2------------+----------------+-3------------+-3-------------+
E---------------+----------------+---------------+---------------+
Em Dsus2 Csus2 x2
Em Dsus2 Csus2
I carry you with me
Em Dsus2 Csus2
A ghost inside
Em Dsus2 Csus2
And in these shattered arms
Em Dsus2 Csus2
You're still alive
I carry you with me,
A holy shrine
And dogs and angels follow
Right behind
G D Csus2 G D Csus2
And could I be walking higher
G D Csus2 G D Csus2
Could I be right beside her ?
The bones they buried
Will feed the trees
But every word you ever spoke
Is still in me
And could I be walking higher
Could I be right beside her ?
And I will feel for you in the music (verses' chords)
And I will send that river home
And I will cry for you sometimes
When the night is down
And I raise my head up to the mountains,
Talk to the birds and I fly
Em ~ Dsus2
'Cause the spirit lives on when the body dies…
And could I be walking higher
Could I be right beside her ?
G D Csus2 G D Csus2
Could I be walking higher
G D Csus2 G~ D~ Csus2~
Could I be walking higher
LIGHT YEARS - (discography)
by HEather Nova
Bb
Dm A•
You found me
Dm Bb A
D r i f t i n g
Dm A•
Big motion like a bird
Dm Bb A
Strangest song I ever heard
F A A*
Now, now that you’re here
Bb Gm A|| Dm
Stay with me light years
Gm A|| Dm Gm A|| Dm Gm A|| Dm
Light years, light years
No paper, no ring
In the trees where frogs sing
I brought lilies for you
Think of all the things we’re gonna do
Now, now that you’re here
Dm Gm A||
Stay with me light years
F A
I give you a thousand hours
F A
Making love in the tall sunflowers
F A
I give you a thousand feet
F A
Down where the water’s deep
Dm Dsus2 Dm Asus4 A x2 (don’t play barred chords here)
Dm DmMaj7 Dm Maj7 Asus4 A Asus4 A
Sleepy storm, sleepy head
Limb for limb on my bed
Now, now that you’re here
Stay with me light years
Light years, light years
Dm Gm A|| Dm fin
Light years, light years
Gm A|| Dmx3
Gm A|| Dm Gm A|| Dm
Stay here with me, stay here with me
Gm A|| Dm Gm A|| Dm Gm A|| Dm Gm A|| Dm x5
Stay with, stay, stay, stay
Gm A||
Bb
A• : X77655 (or 577655) (you can replace it all by usual A chord)
A* : A ~ A/Bb (002320)
A|| : 577655 (barred)
VERONA - (discography)
by Heather Nova
Intro :
C B7 Em (live) C B7 Em (studio)
E-----------+-----------+--------------------+ or +----------+-----------+------------------+
B------1---+------0----+------0-------0----+ or +-1-----1-+-0---0----+------------------+
G---0---0-+---------2--+---0---0---0---0-+ or +------0---+--------2-+-0--------0------+
D----------+----1-------+-------------------+ or +----2-----+---1------+------2-------2--+
A-3--------+-2---------+-------------------+ or +-----------+-----------+---2---2---2--2-+
E-----------+-----------+-3--------3-------+ or +-----------+-----------+------------------+
C B7 Em
It gets inside you like the sun,
C B7 Em
It makes you wet just like the rain,
C B7 Em
It makes you sound so sentimental,
C B7 Em
It's a lovely kind of pain
E C A
I used to dream
E C A
I used to dream about Verona
E C A
I used to dream
E C A A
I used to dream about Verona
And if there ever was an earthquake
I'd go down in the earth with you
And if there ever was an avalanche
I'd landslide down with you
I used to dream,
I used to dream about Verona.
I used to dream, dream
I used to lean over the side of the boat
And get hypnotized by the water
C B7 Em x4
C B7 C B7
It's up in the trees it's up to me,
C B7 C B7 B7
It's out of the blue, out to you
I used to dream,
I used to dream about Verona.
I used to dream, dream
I used to dream about Verona.
E C A E C A E C A
Yeah Romeo you are priceless, lifeless skipping star to scar to star
E C A E C A E C A
I used to dream dream… slipping, slipping, slipping from me I used to dream, dream
E C A
Burning, breathing, sleeping, in me.
E C A
I used to lean over the side of the boat and get hypnotized by the water
E C A E C A
Slipping, slipping, slipping, from me Burning, burning, breathing, sleeping in me
DOUBLED UP - (discography)
by Heather Nova
D Dsus4 A D Dsus4 A
I saw a mountain from higher a - - - bove
D Dsus4 A D Dsus4 A
I held your hand and I was doubled up in love
G A D Bm
Big sky above me, a river inside me
G A D Dsus4 Dsus4 D Dsus2
And I'm doubled up in love
You're watching your step but you fall as you're walking
You take it in stride but still you fall as you're walking
Big sky above me, a river inside me
G A F#m
And I'm doubled up in love
Bm
Feels good it feels like poetry
Don't ask me to explain it just
F#m G A
Feels good, like poetry,
D Dsus4 Dsus4 D Dsus2
I'm doubled up again
Look at the sky, lift off like an aeroplane,
Watch the ground come up to meet you
Sky above me, a river inside me
G A F#m
And I'm doubled up in love
Feels good, it feels like poetry, don't ask me to explain it just
Feels good, like poetry, I'm doubled up again Bm A Bm G A Bm A
Big sky above me, a river inside me
G A F#m
And I'm doubled up in love
Feels good, it feels like poetry, don't ask me to explain it just
Bm
Feels good, like poetry, I'm doubled up again
Big sky above me, a river inside me
G A D Bm
Sky above me, a river inside me
G A D ~
And I'm doubled up in love
Home
by Heather Nova
Chords picking :
Dm F G Bb
E--------1------+-----1-+---------3------+-------1------+
B------3---3---+---1----+------3---3----+-----3---3---+
G---2--------2-+--------+----0--------0-+---3--------3-+
D-0-------------+--------+----------------+---------------+
A----------------+-3------+-2-------------+-1------------+
E----------------+--------+----------------+---------------+
Dm F G Bb
Take me home (picking)
Dm F G Bb
Send me on a ship
Dm F G Bb
My life leaves me
Dm F G Bb
Homesick
Dm F G Bb (chords)
Home
Dm F G Bb
I forget myself
Dm F G Bb
Home
Dm F G G Bb
I can't let myself, let myself go
Miss my baby bones
I know the way they felt
I've been aching
For mother's milk
Home
I forget myself
Home
F
I can't let myself, let myself go
F G
And I wanna be only bereft
Bb C
And I wanna get smartest in my heart
F G
Somebody to cut what I can't chew
Bb C
Fill me up like it fills the room
F G Bb C x2
C
Got my big girl
Body and shoes
Sometimes lately
Its hard to choose
Home (can't let myself go)
I forget myself
Home (can't let myself go)
I can't let myself… go
Home (can't let myself go)
I forget myself
Home (can't let myself go)
Dm F
I can't let myself
G Bb A A Dm ~
Let myself, let myself, let myself, let myself go
BLIND
by Heather Nova
B
B E
I've been searching for the answers
B E
I've been diving in the sea
B E
I've been haunted by the shadows
B E
Of what we could have been
B E
And it’s not that I'm broken
B E
And it isn't that I bleed
B E
But when you pulled the stars from the heavens
B E
It got so hard to see
F# E
And where would I put my hands now ?
B F# A E
Its over now, we had our time
B F# A E
Its over now, we had our time
F# A
But you leave me, blind
F# A
Will you leave me, blind
Dove for the treasures
We went deep down for the pearls
And we could have cracked it open
Yeah, it could have been so good
F# E
And where would I put my hands now ?
B F# A E
Its over now, we had our time
B F# A E
Its over now, we had our time
B F# A E
I feel this pain, I know I'm alive, if love is wrong, then I'm doing time
B F# A E
If feel myself, small like a child, my love has gone, how I will survive
B F# A E
It's everywhere, it's in the trees, all those stars and I can't see
B F# A A E
I'm blind, I'm blind, I'm blind
And how will you think of us
A crease along your hand
Lying at these temple doors
Beautiful and sad
And where would I put my hands now ?
Its over now, we had our time
And where would I put my hands now ?
Its over now, we had our time
But you leave me, blind
Will you leave me, blind
E F#
Its in the trees
A F# F#sus4
All those stars and I can't see
A E F# A
Oh, you leave me, leave, you leave me, blind, blind
E F# A
Ooh, you leave me, leave me, its in the trees
F# A E F# (fade out)
You leave me, leave me blind
F# : X44322
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