Tim Minchin - Quiet Chords

ntro
Gm , G# (x2)

Verse 1

Gm
Have you ever wondered, well I have.
               G#
About how when I say, say red, for example.
                  Gm
There's no way of knowing if red
Gm
Means the same thing in your head
   G#
As red means in my head. When someone says red

Verse2

  Gm                                          G#          
It's as if we are traveling at, almost the speed of light
G#
And we're holding a light
                      Gm
That light will still travel away from us
                      G#
At the full speed of light, which seems right in a way
                    Cm
What I'm trying to say, I'm not sure
                          C
But I wonder if inside my head
                                             C#
I'm not just a bit different from some of my friends

Eb                   
These answers that come into my mind unbidden
C#                                   C
These stories delivered to me fully written!
         C#                                      C
And when everyone shouts like they seem to like shouting
                             C#
The noise in my head is incredibly loud!
                                           C
And I just wish they'd stop, my Dad and my Mum.
                                               C#
And the telly and stories would stop just for once!
                                            Fm
And I'm sorry, I'm not quite explaining it right.
         Cm                                    C#
But this noise becomes anger and the anger is light
                                         Fm
And its burning inside me would usually fade.
             C#
But it isn't today!
                     Fm
And the heat and the shouting.
        C#
And my heart is pounding.
        Fm
And my eyes are burning
     Eb                                Eb
And suddenly everything, everything is...

 

Chorus

Fsus2 F
Quiet
     C             Bb
Like silence, but not really silent.
Bb
Just that still sort of quiet.
         Bb          F         C           Bb
Like the sound of a page being turned in a book.
      Dm       C            Bb
Or a pause in a walk in the woods.
Chorus
F      C
Quiet
     Bb
Like silence, but not really silent.
          F    C        Bb
Just that nice kind of quiet.
         Bb             F          C            Bb
Like the sound when you lie upside down in your bed.
         F             C             Bb
Just the sound of your heart in your head.
Pre- chorus
               Bb
And though the people around me.
      Bbm
Their mouths are still moving.
     F              Gm7
The words they are forming,
                C
Cannot reach me anymore!

Chorus 2

          F
And it is quiet.
         C
And I am warm.
          Bb
Like I've sailed.
                     F   C   Bb
Into the eye of the storm.
 
Outro:

Dm  C   Bb
End on F