Broadway - Elaborate Lives Chords & Tabs

 

Elaborate Lives Chords & Tabs

Broadway Chords & Tabs

Version: 2 Type: Chords

Elaborate Lives Chords

   
There's a bit of picking at the beginning and the end. It's not difficult at all, and 
you shouldn't have any trouble with it. This is the first version of the song as opposed 
to Aida's reprise at the conclusion of the show.

Tuning: Standard EADGBE
Key: G

The Broadway version is actually in the key of Gb, but to put off some work, I figured 
whoever would want these chords would like to have the option of having the original key 
or a half-step higher.

Chords:
G= 320033
Cadd9= x32033
C= x32010
Em= 022000
D= xx0232
B= 799877
A7= x02020
C*= x22010
Dsus4= xx0233
E= 022100

Intro:


e|--10---8---8---7---7---5---5---3---7---------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|


e|--10---8---8---7---7---5---5---3---7------5--------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|


Verse 1:
        G   Cadd9  G
We all lead

                 C C* C
Such elaborate lives

           D  Dsus4 D
Wild ambition

          G   Cadd9
In our sights

          G    B
How an affair

Of the heart

    Em
Survives

        C
Days apart

               D
And hurried nights


Seems quite

       B
unbelieveable to me

            Em
I don't want to live like that

                  B
Seems quite unbelieveable to me

               C
I don't wanna love like that

D                        E
I just want our time to be

             A7
Slower and gentler

D
Wiser

C
Free


Verse 2:

G  Cadd9  G


        G   Cadd9 G
We all live

                C    C* C
in extravagant times

       D
Playing games
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/b/broadway/elaborate_lives_crd_ver_2.html ]
           G    Cadd9 G
we can't all win

    G     B
Unintended

          Em
emotional crimes

    C
take some out

        D
take others in

                 B
I'm so tired of all we're going through

            Em
I don't want to live like that

                 B
I'm so tired of all we're going through

                C
I don't wanna love like that

D              E
I just wanna be with you

           A7
Now and forever

D
Peaceful

C
True


Bridge:
                   C
This may not be the moment

              G
to tell you face to face

                    A7
But I could wait forever

                        D
for the perfect time and place


C        G  Cadd9 G
We all lead

                C    C* C
such elaborate lives

          D   Dsus4  D
We don't know

                  G  Cadd9 G
whose words are true

            G
Strangers lovers

B         Em
husbands wives

        C
Hard to know

             D
who's loving who

                B
Too many choices tear us apart

             Em
I don't want to live like that

                B
Too many choices tear us apart

             C
I don't wanna love like that

D                  E
I just wanna touch your heart

             A7
May this confession

D
be the

(begin picking)
start


Outro:

e|--10---8---8---7---7---5---5---3---7---------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|


e|--10---8---8---7---7---5---5---3---7------5--------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|


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