Coming Up Close

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"Coming Up Close" by Aimee Mann. Her finest hour IMHO

(transcribed by Tim JB Durham)

Played with capo on fret IV. (Song is in G#). Transcribed as if fourth fret were the nut...

There are three guitars going on this song, an acoustic 6-string, a pedal steel, and an electric 6-string

well as a piano but if you are all by yourself.....

Intro starts w/ upstroked E, then an E major scale run:

e----0--2--4-------------------------------------------------------------4p2p0---0------------|
a--------------0---------2----0----------------0----------------2-p-0-------------2-----------|
d-------------------2-------------2-h-4-p-2------2-h-4-p-2----------------------2-------------|
g------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1--------|
b------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0--------|
e------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0--------|

One night in Iowa, he and I in a borrowed car

C#m

went driving in the summer, promises in every star

out in the distance I could hear some people laughing

F#m

I felt my heart beat back a weekend's worth of sadness

There was a farmhouse that had long since been deserted

F#m

we stopped and carved our hearts into the wooden surface

we thought just for an instant we could see the future

F#m

we thought for once we knew what really was important

C E A

H Coming up close

O A E

R everything sounds like welcome home

U A

S Come home

A E

and oh, by the way

F#m

don't you know that I could make

F#m A

a dream that's barely half-awake come true

A E

I wanted to say -

C#m

but anything I could have said

C#m A

I felt somehow that you already knew

Then it turns around like this:

e------x----x----x----0-----------------------------------------------------|
a------x----x----x----2-----------------------------------------------------|
d------7----6----4----2-----------------------------------------------------|
g------6----4----2----1-----------------------------------------------------|
b------0----0----0----0-----------------------------------------------------|
e------0----0----0----0-----------------------------------------------------|

We got back in the car and listened to a Dylan tape

we drove around the fields until it started getting late

and I went back to my hotel room on the highway

and he just got back in his car and drove away

Coming up close

everything sounds like welcome home

Come home

and oh, by the way

don't you know that I could make

a dream that's barely half-awake come true

I wanted to say -

but anything I could have said