This Could Be My Year

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Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 22:26:39 -0400
From: Daniel Pike 

 
Subject: s/semisonic/this_could_be_my_year.crd

"This Could Be My Year" (words and music my Jacob Slichter)
Semisonic
from the album "Feeling Strangely Fine"  (MCAD/11733)
Transcribed by Daniel Pike (dpike0@gtc.georgetown.ky.us)

Intro: 
 D* 
 A* 
 Em 
 G (4x)
* Mess around with lifting your finger off the second fret of the first string
on D and the second fret of the fifth string on A and playing them open
until you get the rhythm the way it is on the recording.  This only
happens in the intro, though.
Verse:


 D                     
 A
Thursday's crush is a Friday night rush
      
 Em             
 G
And a Monday morning cry
         
 A                     
 G
It's the tail that you keep chasing
       
 A               
 G
And it gets away every time

 D                       
 A
New Year's Eve and it's hard to believe
        
 Em              
 G
Another Zodiac's gone around
          
 A                        
 G
While you drank yourself high on hoping
                
 A                      
 G
And watched the ceiling spin from the ground

Pre-chorus:


 F#
Counting down from ten it's time
       
 Bm
To make your annual prayer

 F#
Secret Santa in the sky
     
 Bm                
 E
When will I get my share

Chorus:

         
 Em             
 D
Then you tell yourself
         
 A              
 E
What you want to hear
          
 Em              
 G
Cause you have to believe
          
 A          
 D 
 A 
 Em 
 G
This will be my year
                
 D    
 A 
 Em 
 G
This will be my year

Verse:


 D                            
 A   
Pound your fist and cross it off your list
        
 Em                      
 G
But you know you're not that strong
         
 A                     
 G   
When the man at the stop light catches you
          
 A                      
 G
Singing along to a brand new song

Well maybe it's

 D                      
 A
Trash or the overnight smash that brings your 

 Em                            
 G
Ship crashing through the wall
           
 A                        
 G
So you can make your grand departure
       
 A                       
 G
>From a world getting way too small

Pre-chorus:


 F#
One wheel in the ditch another

 Bm
Spinning in the air

 F#
Put your pedal down to the floorboard but you're not 

 Bm               
 E
Getting anywhere

Chorus:

         
 Em             
 D
Then you tell yourself
         
 A              
 E
What you want to hear
          
 Em              
 G
Cause you have to believe
          
 A          
 D 
 A 
 Em 
 G
This will be my year
                
 D    
 A 
 Em 
 G
This will be my year
                
 D    
 A 
 Em 
 G
This will be my year
                
 D    
 A 
 Em 
 G
This will be my year

Outro: 
 D 
 A 
 Em 
 G until end.