Tim Minchin - Quiet - Matilda The Musical Chords

[Intro]

Gm Ab Gm Ab


[Verse 1]

Gm              
Have you ever wondered, well I have.
                Ab
About how when I say, say red, for example.
                Gm
There's no way of knowing if red means the same thing in your head
Ab              
As red means in my head. When someone says red
Gm                                              Ab
And how if we are travelling at, almost the speed of light, and we're holding a light
Gm
That light will still travel away from us
                Ab
At the full speed of light, which seems right in a way
                Cm
What I'm trying to say, I'm not sure
                A
But I wonder if inside my head
                                        Bb
I'm not just a bit different from some of my friends
                        G                       C
These answers that come into my mind unbidden
                A                    Dm
These stories delivered to me fully written!
                                                Eb
And when everyone shouts like they seem to like shouting
                                Dm
The noise in my head is incredibly loud!
                                        Eb
And I just wish they'd stop, my Dad and my Mum.
                                        C
And the telly and stories would stop just for once!
                                           Em
And I'm sorry, I'm not quite explaining it right.
                                              Db
But this noise becomes anger and the anger is light
                                        Fm
And its burning inside me would usually fade, but it isn't today!
                        Db
And the heat and the shouting, and my heart is pounding,
                Eb
And my eyes are burning, and suddenly everything, everything is...


[Chorus]

F               Am
Quiet
                               F                Gm
Like silence, but not really silent.
                        Bb
Just that still sort of quiet.
                       F        Am              Bb
Like the sound of a page being turned in a book.
        Dm      Am7             Bb
Or a pause in a walk in the woods.

F               Am
Quiet
                                F               Gm
Like silence, but not really silent.
                        Bb
Just that nice kind of quiet.
                        F       Am              Bb
Like the sound when you lie upside down in your bed.
        Dm              Am7             Bb
Just the sound of your heart in your head.

(pause)

                Bb
And though the people around me.
                      Bm                A7
Their mouths are still moving.
                        Eb              Gm  Bb
The words they are forming,
                        C    C7
Cannot reach me anymore!

        F
And it is quiet.
        Am
And I am warm.
           Dm           Am7             Bb
Like I've sailed.
F    Am     Bb
            Into the eye of the storm.
Dm      Am7             Bb