Lyrics and chords

Here are the most-requested lyrics and chords from some of my songs. Enjoy!

Indigo

If I mattered to you
Bb F
Then all I would see is indigo
Gm Eb
Nothing else I could do
Bb F
Could ever make you more dear to me and so
Gm Eb
Every green every blue
Bb F
Every red orange and ultramarine
Gm BbAug/F# Bb/F
I’ve seen
Bb4/E
Would go indigo for you
F

Every time that I look
Deep inside me the colour’s all I see
And my mind is a book
Rainbow painted a story about me
Photographs that I took
That were once black and white would now be free
To be
In shades of indigo for you

Orange, yellow, green and malachite
Octarine, light plum and eggshell white
International Klein Blue, maroon
Azure, magenta, midnight blue
Harlequin and helitrope,
Tea, tan, turquoise, teal and taupe
Amaranth and Ivory
Cosmic latte, tangerine

If I mattered to you
Then all I would see is indigo
Nothing else I could do
Could ever make you more dear to me and so
Every green every blue
Every pink, black, white, grey, yellow, mauve and cerise
Beige and ultramarine
I’ve seen
Would go indigo for you

Mixtape

F C G

I don’t know if maybe you thought my attention span
F C
Lacked what it needed to
G
Listen to you tell me all that you wanted to
F C
Say your CD arrived
G
Yesterday morning, I’ve listened to it seven
F C
Times since I opened it
G

How do you feel the way I do
G Am G

F C G

Effortless production, guitar tracks and bass in your voice
Is a beautiful
Way to say everything words couldn’t say on their own
A few seconds of
Your left hand shaking, the sounds of the fretboard, I know
It was hard but I’d

Love you to feel the way I do

Seventy million times I have listened to you
Put your love into
Words, finely structuring everything you wanted to
It’s a funny thing
Every day my ears and your mouth are never apart
And you know
If a car came from nowhere I’d die with the sun in my heart.

Why I Shouldn’t Have Let You In

You told me seize the day
Bb

And then I really thought you cared
Ab                          Eb

And I tried to face my fears
Bb
But then I just got really scared
Ab                     Eb
And even the fluffiest of silver clouds
Cm
Are made of freezing wetness
Eb
And you tell me life’s a bitch
Cm

But I don’t think you really get this
G                              G7

And I wish that I’d not let you in any more
Ab                      G                   Cm
And I wish that I’d been a bit fussier about the kind of people I let through the door
Ab                      G                Cm

If I’d hesitated, I might have been fated
Ab    G                  Cm                          Eb    F
To live my own life without you.
Ab                     G                        Cm

I never really meant to share achronologically
N.C.                                        Cm
The little things that made me me
G
I never thought I’d have to
Ab
Quantify them day by day
Eb                                        G7

(repeat for next bit)

I never really felt the need to take my two or three
Neuroses then talk openly
About them and then brutally
Dissect them on a tray,

(back to previous ‘and I wish’ chords)

And I’m glad that you’re not telling me what to do
And I wish that I’d not spent the time illuminating up the past with little tales of who
Had nurtured me naturally from the womb
Through to now, my own life, without you.

You told me sieze the day
And then I really thought you cared
And I tried to face my fears
But then I just got really scared
And even the fluffiest of silver clouds
Are made of freezing wetness
And you tell me life’s a bitch
But I don’t think you really get this

And I wish that I’d not let you in any more
And I wish that I’d been a bit fussier about the kind of people I let through the door
If I’d hesitated, I might have been fated
To life my own life without you.