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IT RUNS THROUGH ME - TOM MISCH
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Chords by: Ignacio Mendez-Nunez
E-mail: ignacio.mendeznunez@gmail.com
Tuning: Standard
Repeats the same chords in this pattern
[Bm7]
[Am9] [D9] (ii, V)
[Gmaj7] (I)
[B/C#] [F#7#5]
His rhythm guitar player uses these voicings (based on Tiny Desk):
Bm7: x-2-x-2-2-2
Am9: 5-x-5-5-5-7 (easy to play with thumb)
D9: x-5-4-5-5-5
Gmaj7: 3-x-5-4-3-2 (easy to play with thumb)
B/C#: x-4-x-4-4-2 (I call this the Quincy Jones chord because he used it on so many MJ tracks)
F#7#5: 2-x-2-3-3-2
[Intro: Tom Misch]
N.C.
1, 2, 3, 4
[Verse 1: Tom Misch]
[Bm7]
I love the way it flows
[Am9] [D9]
I love the way it grows
[Gmaj7] [B/C#] [F#7#5]
There’s something in this sound that takes me far
[Bm7]
It’s like a special song
[Am9] [D9]
Can move my mood along
[Gmaj7] [B/C#] [F#7#5]
But I cannot say you’ll hear through my guitar
[Pre-Chorus 1: Tom Misch]
[Bm7]
She told me add a bassline
[Am9] [D9]
And everything will be alright
[Gmaj7]
She told me that the groove is mine
[B/C#] [F#7#5]
It will take us through the night
[Bm7]
And where I’ll go
[Am9] [D9]
Can’t explain I’ll never know
[Gmaj7] [B/C#] [F#7#5]
But it’s beautiful
[Chorus: Tom Misch]
[Bm7]
You can’t take this away from me
[Am9] [D9]
The way I hear the melody
[Gmaj7]
The waves bring clarity
[B/C#] [F#7#5]
Running through me
[Bm7]
You can’t take this away from me
[Am9] [D9]
The way I hear the melody
[Gmaj7]
The waves bring clarity
[B/C#] [F#7#5]
Running through me
[Verse 2: Tom Misch]
[Bm7]
I love the way it sings
[Am9] [D9]
All the joy that it brings
[Gmaj7] [B/C#] [F#7#5]
Remember skating down the road towards the park?
[Bm7]
I can never say no
[Am9] [D9]
You with that summer glow
[Gmaj7] [B/C#] [F#7#5]
The music gives me sun when winter starts
[Pre-Chorus 2: Tom Misch]
[Bm7]
She told me add a bassline
[Am9] [D9]
And everything will be alright
[Gmaj7]
She told me that the beat is mine
[B/C#] [F#7#5]
It will rock us through the night
[Bm7]
And where I’ll go
[Am9] [D9]
Can’t explain I’ll never know
[Gmaj7] [B/C#] [F#7#5]
But it’s beautiful
[Chorus: Tom Misch]
N.C. (only piano)
You can’t take this away from me (Oh)
The way I hear the melody
The waves bring clarity
Running through me
You can’t take this away from me (Oh)
The way I hear the melody
The waves bring clarity
Running through me
[Bridge: Tom Misch & Posdnuos]
[Bm7]
You can’t take this away from me
[Am9] [D9]
The way I hear the melody
[Gmaj7]
The waves bring clarity
[B/C#] [F#7#5]
Running through me
[Bm7]
You can’t take this away from me
[Am9] [D9]
The way I hear the melody
[Gmaj7]
The waves bring clarity
[B/C#] [F#7#5]
Running through me
[Verse 3: Posdnuos]
[Bm7]
Yo, I wear notes like coats
[Am9] ([D9])
Blues like doos, warm from the rhythm, soul that glues
[Gmaj7]
That bounce to my bones, that jazz in my spine
[B/C#] [F#7#5]
The hop is my home, rap is my grind
[Bm7] [Am9] ([D9])
I’m grindin’ on the backside of life, we dance
[Gmaj7]
She threw me a chance, her hands in my pants
[B/C#]
Actually, my pockets holdin’ me tight
[F#7#5]
Whispering a dream I could hold in the night
[Bm7]
Blood tight, a rhythm that’s throbbin’ my veins
[Am9] [D9]
Wake up and write it on a pad, the pains
[Gmaj7]
Like church, the organ will invite the tears
[B/C#] [F#7#5]
Like birth, I’m cryin’, let you know I’m here
[Bm7]
Held by the song that gave me a name
[Am9] ([D9])
Dressed by the verse that gave me a claim
[Gmaj7]
(There’s just a bass in the line) safe to inhale
[B/C#] [F#7#5]
And if you live well
[Bm7]
Belonger years in this state, you will be
[Am9] ([D9])
A timeless octave to play for the tree
[Gmaj7]
That’s rooted in every single nerve in me
[B/C#] [F#7#5]
The nerve of he who ignores the key
[Bm7]
And use it to open the minds that be free
[Am9] ([D9])
Whenever you’re hot head ignores you, you are free
[Gmaj7]
Beneath the clouds, you allowed to see, in clarity
[B/C#] [F#7#5]
Through harmony, someone harmin’ me?
[Bm7]
That won’t be done
[Am9] [D9]
I stand protected by the laws of fun
[Gmaj7]
I am perfected through the rhymes of Run
[B/C#] [F#7#5]
Walkin’ this way and leave the party stunned
[Bm7]
This music, it launched me
[Am9] [D9]
With no aim, I’ve landed with some plane
[Gmaj7]
Where I am I can’t explain or never know
[B/C#] [F#7#5]
But it’s beautiful so...
[Chorus: Tom Misch & Posdnuos]
[Bm7]
You can’t take this away from me
[Am9] [D9]
The way I hear the melody
[Gmaj7]
The waves bring clarity
[B/C#] [F#7#5]
Running through me
[Bm7]
You can’t take this away from me
[Am9] [D9]
The way I hear the melody
[Gmaj7]
The waves bring clarity
[B/C#] [F#7#5]
Running through me
