Chords for Making 'The Poison Tree' with Moby & Inyang Bassey

He [E] is a man _
_ _ I am a man
Hi, I'm Moby, and we're backstage here
at the Angel Orensen Center, and my friend Yang and I
made a song called The Poison Tree,
and the way it came about was kind of strange,
so I wanted to show you the strange way
that The Poison Tree came into existence.
So the song is in E major, _ and normally you just play
in E major with that chord, like_
_ _ So I thought we'd play just a second of how
the song was originally written.
Ready? _
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Look at our lives gone away
My sweet love has gone away
My sweet love has gone away
My sweet love has gone away now
So [A] that would be the normal way of playing it.
But what I wanted to do _ was_
_ _ _ _ There are these things_
It's kind of busy back here, but that's okay.
_ Sometimes with a guitar, you can be lazy
and do an open tuning [E] like this. _
[Em] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ So that way, with my left hand free,
I can still play the E major.
_ _ _ _ And one day I was in my living room
with this open-tuned guitar,
and instead of playing it with a pick,
I decided to play with just _ basically treating the guitar
like a percussion instrument.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
And it gave the song just a much _ different
sort of stranger quality to it,
and so originally I was singing it, so it's like_ _ _ _ _
Look at our life, it's gone away
My sweet love has gone away
My sweet love has gone away
My sweet love has gone away now _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ So let's just _ consider [Ab] that strange noise
in the background [E] to be _ _ _ _ part of the [B] song. _ _
_ See, we're supposed to be_
But eh, okay.
So that's the way the song happened,
_ _ [E] _ _
basically playing this open tuning,
and I was singing it, but then I realized
my voice isn't very good for this song,
so I asked E-Yang to sing it,
and then we ended up with me playing the guitar like this. _ _ _ _ _ _
Look at our life, it's gone away
My _ _ sweet love has gone away
My sweet love has gone away now _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
It's gone away, my sweet love
It's gone away, my sweet love
It's gone away, my sweet love _ _
_ My _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ baby, I _ _ love my baby now _ _
Love my baby, I _ _ _ love my baby now _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Love my baby, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I _ _ love my baby _ [Em] _ now
Look at our shadows, [E] gone away
My sweet love has gone away
My sweet love has gone away
My sweet love has gone away now _ _ _ _ _ _
My baby, my baby
Look _ at _ _ _ our life, it's gone away
My sweet love has gone away
My sweet love has gone away
My sweet love has gone away now _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Oh my baby, oh my love
Oh my baby now _ _ _
Oh my baby, oh my love
Oh my baby now _
Oh my baby, oh my
Oh my baby now _ _
Oh my baby, oh my love
Oh my baby now _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, _ mm-hmm
_ Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm
[Bb] _ So that's the strange way that that song,
The Poison Tree, came into [E] existence
with an open E major tuning.
_ My name's Moby, this is my friend E-Yang.
Thank you very much. _ _ _
My baby, my _ _ _