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Least Complicated
Indigo
Girls
Capo 2
Intro: / G – G/C - / G - - - / (x2)
G (½) G/C (½) G
I sit two stories above the street
G (½) G/C
(½) G
It’s awful quiet here since love fell asleep
Am(½) G/B (½)
There’s life down below me though
C (½) D
(½) G
(½) G/C (½) G
The kids are walking home from school
G (½) G/C (½) G
Some long ago when we were taught
G (½) G/C (½) G
That for whatever kind of puzzle you got
Am(½) G/B (½)
You just stick the right formula in
C (½) D (½) G (½) G/C (½) G
A solution for every fool
Chorus 1:
D
C
I remember the time when I came so close to you
G Am7
Sent me skipping my class and running from school
C
D (hold)
And I bought you that ring cause I never was cool
G (½) D (½) C
What makes me think I could start clean-slated
D
(hold)
The hardest to learn was the least complicated
/ G – C/G - / G - - - / (x2)
G (½) G/C (½) G
So I just sit up in the house and resist
G (½) G/C (½) G
And not be seen until I cease to exist
Am(½) G/B (½)
A kind of conscientious objection
C
(½) D (½) G (½) G/C (½) G
A kind of dodging the draft
G (½) G/C
(½) G
The boy and girl are holding hands on the street
G (½) G/C (½) G
And I don’t want to but I think you just wait
Am(½) G/B (½)
It’s more than just eye to eye
C (½) D (½) G (½) G/C (½) G
Learn the things I could never apply
Chorus 2:
D
C
I remember the time when I came so close with you
G Am7
I let everything go it seemed the only truth
C D (hold)
And I bought you that ring, it seemed the thing to do
G (½) D (½) C
What makes me think I could start clean-slated
D
(hold)
The hardest to learn was the least complicated
G (½) D (½) C
So what makes me think I could start clean-slated
D G
The hardest to learn was the least complicated
Bridge:
Am7 Em7
I’m just a mirror of a mirror myself
C (½) D (½) G
All the things that I do
Em Bm
And the next time I fall I’m gonna have to recall
C (½) C/B (½) Am7 (½)
C/G
(½) D (½) Dsus4 (½)
D
It’s isn’t love it’s only some - thing new
G (½) G/C (½) G
I sit two stories above the street
G (½) G/C (½) G
It’s awful quiet here since love fell asleep
Am (½) G/B (½)
There’s life down below me though
C (½) D
(½) G (½) G/C (½) G
The kids are walking home from school
Chorus
3:
D C
I remember the time when I came so close to you
G Am7
Sent me skipping my class and running from school
C D (hold)
And I bought you that ring cause I never was cool
G (½) D (½) C
What makes me think I could start clean-slated
D G
The hardest to learn was the least complicated
G (½) D (½) C
So what makes me think I could start clean-slated
D (hold) G (½) G/C (½) G
The hardest to learn was the least complicated
G (½) G/C (½) G
Least complicated
G (hold)
Least complicated
This file is the author's own work and represents his interpretation of this song. It's intended solely for private study, scholarship or research.
