What Do You Hear In These Sounds Chords by Dar Williams

[D] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [G] _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ I [D] don't go to therapy [G] to find out if [A] I'm free.
[D] I go and I find [G] the one and only answer [A] every week.
And [D] it's just me and all [Bm] the memories, the spots, all down [G] any part that [D] fits within
a [Em] 50-minute hour.
And [D] we gather all the mysteries, [G] explicit and inherent.
[A] When [D] I hit a rut, she says [G] to try the other parent.
[A] And [D] she's so kind.
[Bm] I think she wants to tell me something.
She [G] knows that it's [D] much better if I [G] get it for [A] myself.
And she [D] says,
Ooh, _ [Bm] [A] what [D] _ _
do you hear [Em] in these sounds? _
[D] And, Ooh, _ [Bm] _ _ _
what do you hear in [G] these sounds?
[A] _
[D] I say I hear it now, with [G] the voice of two believing, [A]
[D] the promises to stay, and [G] the footsteps
that [A] are leaving.
And [D] she says,
Oh, [A] I [Bm] say what?
She says exactly.
I [Em] say what?
You think [D] I'm angry?
Does that mean you think I'm angry?
She says,
Look, you come here every week [G] with jigsaw [A] pieces of your past.
[D] It's all on little sound bites [G] and voices [D] of photographs.
And that's all [Bm] yours.
That's the guide.
That's the map.
So [G] tell me, where does [D] the arrow point [Em] to?
Her invented [A] roses.
[D] And I,
Ooh, _ [Bm] what _ _ _ do you hear in [Em] these sounds? _
[D] And, Ooh, _ _ [G] _ [Bm] _ _
what do you hear in [Em] these [G] sounds? _
[Bm] _ _ _ Laughter _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ at me, [A] I know what people think, [Em] that it only makes you selfish [A] and love in your string.
[Bm] But oh, how I loved [G] everybody else, when I finally got the talk, [A] all the notes about _ _
my past.
_ _ _ [D] And I wake up, [G] and I ask [A] myself what state I'm in.
[D] And I say, well, I'm lucky, [G] because I am [A] lucky.
East Berlin, [D] I had this wall.
And [B] what I knew of [Bm] the free world [G] was that I could [D] see their fireworks, [Em] and I could [A] hear the radio.
[D] And I thought that if we met, [G] I would only [A] start confessing.
[D] And they'd know that I was scared.
[G] They would know that I [A] was guessing.
[D] But the wall came down, and it [Bm] stood there, and it stood before me.
[G] And they're stumbling, [D] and they're moving, and [Em] they're coming [A] in, just like [D] me.
And, Ooh, _ [Bm] _ _ _ the stories that [Em] nobody hears.
_ [D] And I, _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [G] I like the [Bm] sound in my [Em] ears.
_ [D] Ooh, _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ that's what I hear in [Em] these, that's what I [A] hear in these [D] sounds.
Hey, _ [Bm] _ _ _ yeah. _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ [A] _ [D] _ _
_ _ [Bm] That's _ _ _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _
what I hear, [Em] _ [D] I hear in these sounds.
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