Chords for William Bell - This Is Where I Live (Behind The Scenes)

One, _ _ [F#] _ two, [B] or one, two, three.
[Em] _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ [Em] Coming back to Stax Records is like [A] coming home.
I [Em] mean, we were [Bm] like a family at Stax.
[Em] It was all over [Am] for me.
William and I, [C] I think, just [G] knew intuitively that we just wanted to do
[Em] new, fresh, [E] forward-thinking, forward-feeling _ [Em] music
[Am] that [Bm] still resonated with the great soul [Em] music of the 60s and 70s.
It's true what they say [Am] about love
It's a blessing [Bm] _ [E] and a curse
[A#] She [Em] put poison in the well
_ [Em] _ Poison in the [F#m]
well
_ [Em] _ Poison in [G] the [C] well
[F#m] We knew [B] that we wanted [E] to _ _ _ evolve a little bit
because it's the first project that I had done [A] on a [Em] major label in a while
and the first project for [A] Stax in over 40 [Em] years.
You know, I've been doing this [Bm] for a while
and [Em] I felt electricity go through my body.
[C] I was really excited.
[D] I was really [E] familiar with William
[B] and [Em] like I knew immediately I wanted to do it.
She left him without [Bm] his sight
[F#m] He [Em] was bought [Bm] and sold [Am] for a bag of gold
He [C] was just [Bm] too weak to [E] fight
[A] [Em] She put _ poison in the well _ _ _
Poison in [Bm] the well
_ _ [Em] _
[G] Poison in the well
[C] _ _ [F#m] _ _
[B] And [Em] I drank [G] it
The theme for it when we started out
[Dm] was just to write [A#] some _ brand new _ [F] [Gm] great songs.
[C] For me, some of the deepest [F] soul music that moves me
is [G] the music where R [F]&B and country music sort of [Dm] collide.
And I think William at his heart is [A#] a ballad singer
so [F] that sensibility that William [Dm] brings to it _
[F] is a powerful template for [A#] me
and it's always a [F] place I've been drawn toward.
[Am] Oh, [Dm] I hope it [F] takes me back
_ _ _ _ _ Then [Dm] the man [F] I was, the man I [A#] _
am
[A] _ _ Will [Dm] just fade [C] to black
[Dm] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
Oh, the three of me, the [Am] three of [Dm] _ _ me
_ _ _ [Gm] _
I [Am] wanted to sort of really [Gm] make sure the lyrics [Dm] spoke
in a deep and [F] meaningful way
_ [C]
for a guy who's [Dm] lived the life that William's lived.
[F] _
Oh, [A#] there ain't no [F] room
_ [Gm] For the three of [G] me
[Gm] Oh, [F] the three of me, the [Am] three of [Dm] me _ _
[G] _ If a lyric says [A#] hallelujah, the [F] music should say amen.
[D] Something that _ [F] the listener can [Am] readily [Dm] identify with
and [F] _ say [Am] wow, I could have written that
or that's about my life or I've lived [G] that same story.
And then there's his [D] voice, you know, the timbre of his voice,
[B] the phrasing, _ the yearning
and the depth of feeling that's [E] implied.
I've been [Bm] down since I [B] began to crawl
_ _ _ Oh, if it [F#] wasn't for bad luck
_ _ [D] I wouldn't [B] have no luck at all _ _ _
I would define soul _ as
_ _ _ _ performing [E] a song and singing [B] or playing a song _ _ _
[Bm] _ at any given moment the way you're [F#] feeling from the heart.
[Bm] To me, [E] William has written a handful of classics,
so to get to write [B] one of them _ is [G#] fantastic.
William is alive and [F#] living in these songs, you know,
[B] and I think people feel it when they hear it.
I wouldn't have no luck at all
_ _ _ _ _ _ I can't read, _ [F#] didn't learn how to [Bm] write
[E] _ My whole life [D] has [B] been one big fight
[Bm] It's just a wonderful _ _ [F#] _ expression of [D] feeling.
That's what [E] soul is.
I've been down [C#] since I began [B] to crawl