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)