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Thread #22858   Message #254502
Posted By: Callie
09-Jul-00 - 09:45 AM
Thread Name: Divorce Music (songs)
Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: CALLING ALL ANGELS (Jean Siberry)
NOT SURE HOW THE FORMATTING IS GOING TO GO, BUT TRY THIS! --Callie (with apologies to bflat - this is really off the topic. Hope you find the song somewhere and are able to enjoy it!)

The recording is in G, so you can play along with it with the following chords. It's hard to hear - without spending a few hours on it, it's hard to pin it down exactly, and the synth in the back I think is deliberately murky. There are lots of long passages where the chord doesn't exactly change from G, but there are lots of sus4 and Em with a G in the bass thrown in. Muck around with it!

Calling All Angels
instrumental bit is mainly G then Gsus4 and back to G in a 6/8 feel

I reckon you could play around with singing over this riff, but on the recording it sounds as though the chords do change once you get to the verse, as follows (approx):

G C
A man is placed upon the stairs


A baby cries and high above

G
You can hear the church bells start to ring.

C G
And the heaviness, the heaviness of it settles in. (Somewhere you can hear a voice sing...)

C D
Then it's one foot, then the other

C
as you step out on the road, ah,

G to G sus riff
step out on the road.

C D
And it's how long and how far and how many times

D
Oh, before it's too late?


C G
Calling all angels, calling all angels,

D G
Walk me through this world, don't leave me alone

C Em
Calling all angels, calling all angels,

D C
We're trying, we're hoping,

D G
but we're not sure how this goes.


D
Ah, every day you gaze upon

C G
the sunset with such dark intensity.

Gsus
Why, it's almost as if, if you could only crack the code

you'd finally understand

what this all means

C D
Ah, but if you could, do you think you would

trade it all, all the pain and suffering?

C D
Ah, but then you would have missed

C
the beauty of the light upon this earth

D D G
and the sweetness of the evening.

Calling all angels, calling all angels
Walk me through this world, don't leave me alone
Calling all angels, calling all angels
We're trying, we're hoping,
but we're not sure how this goes.

Repeat: Calling all angels, calling all angels
Walk me through this world, don't leave me alone
Calling all angels, calling all angels
We're trying, we're hoping,
We're hurting, we're loving, we're crying, we're calling
'cause we're not sure how this goes...