I Was Brought To My Senses - by Sting
Written, arranged and composed by Sting (c) 1996 A&M Records, Inc.
Transcribed by Harold Noriega
I Was Brought To My Senses - transcribed by Harold Noriega
Am7 D+1open
Alone with my thoughts this evening
Am7 D+1o
I walked on the banks of Tyne
Am7 D+1o
I wondered how I could win you
Csus G+2-3 D+1o
Or if I could make you mine
Csus G+2-3 D+1o
Or if I could make you mine
Am7 D+1o
The wind it was so insistent
Am7 D+1o
With tales of a story south
Am7 D+10
But when I spied two birds in a sycamore tree
Csus G+2-3 D+1o
There came a dryness in my mouth
Csus G+2-3 D+1o
Came a dryness in my mouth
Am7 D+1o
For then without rhyme or reason
Am7 D+1o
The two birds did rise up to fly
Am7 D+1o
And where the two birds were flying
Csus G+2-3 D+1o
I swear I saw you and I
Csus G+2-3 D+1o
I swear I saw you and I
Introduction:
D+1o D/F# G+2/3 A Asus A Bm7 D/F# Bm7 A Asus A
G+2/3 G/B Csus2/3 Dsus Em Bm7 Csus2/3 Dsus
G+2/3 Bm7+1/3
I walked out this morning
Csus2/3
It was like a veil had been removed
Dsus
From before my eyes
Em
For the first time I saw
Bm7
The work of Heaven
Csus2/3
In the line where the hills had been
Dsus
Married to the sky
G+2/3 Bm7+1/3 Csus1/3 Dsus
And all around me every blade of singing grass
B7+1/3-1/2 Em+1/3-off
Was calling out your name and
Csus2/3 Dsus
That our love would always last
G+2/3 Bm7+1/3
And inside every turning leaf
Csus2/3 Dsus
Is the pattern of an older tree
Em Bm7
The shape of our future
Csus2/3 Dsus
The shape of all our history
G+2/3 Bm7+1/3
And out of the confusion
Csus2/3 Dsus
Where the river meets the sea
B7+1/3-1/2 Em+1/3-off
Came things I’d never seen
Csus2/3 Dsus
Things I’d never seen
Refrain:
(* All chords throughout the refrain are barred)
* Em7 Dm7 Cmaj7 B7
I was brought to my senses
Em7 Dm7 Cmaj7 B7
I was blind but now that I can see
Em7 Dm7 F#7#9 B7
Every sign--post in na----ture
Dim7 Dim4 G+2/3
Said you be---long to me
Bm7+1/3
I know it’s true
Csus2/3 Dsus
It’s written in a sky as blue
Em Bm7
As blue as your eyes
Csus2/3 Dsus
As blue as your eyes
G+2/3 Bm7+1/3
If nature’s red in tooth and claw
Csus2/3 Dsus
Like winter’s freeze and summer’s thaw
B7+1/3-1/2 Em+1/3
The wounds she gave me
Csus2/3 Dsus
Were the wounds that would heal me
G+2/3 Bm7+1/3
And we’d be like the moon and sun
Csus2/3 Dsus
And when our courtly dance had run
Em Bm7
Its course across the sky
Csus2/3 Dsus
Then to-gether we would lie
G+2/3 Bm7+1/3
And out of the confusion
Csus2/3 Dsus
Where the river meets the sea
B7+1/3-1/2 Em+1/3
Something new would arrive
Csus2/3 Dsus
Something better would arrive
(* All chords throughout the refrain are barred)
* Em7 Dm7 Cmaj7 B7
I was brought to my senses
Em7 Dm7 Cmaj7 B7
I was blind but now that I can see
Em7 Dm7 F#7#9 B7
Every sign--post in na----ture
Dim7 Dim4 Dim1 Ab Em7
Said you be---long to me
Repeat to the end . . .
Chords:
Am7: 003010
D+1 open 000230
Csus 032030
G+2/3 320033
D/F# 200230
A 002220
Asus 002230
Bm7 020230
G/B 020033
Bm7+1/3 020233
Csus2/3 032033
Dsus 000233
Em 002030
B7+1/3-1/2 001033
Em+1/3 off 002033
Refrain:
Em7 079787
Dm7 057560
Cmaj7 046560
B7 035050
F#9# 004355
Dim7 078780
Dim4 045450
Dim1 012120
Ab 001010
Em 022000
(Special thanks to Martin Nickel for such a great Web Site and to Sting for continuing to
create such great music! Harold)