______________
/ Björk / I think the song is about Selma imagining herself in heaven.
/ New World / Her previously new world USA didn't quite live up to her expec-
/ Selmasongs / tations, so she now tries her luck in the next world. It could
/_____________/ actually also be about the new life she has granted her son.
Time: 4 / 4
Key: Eb major (3 flats)
Chords:
(it was quite hard to find any chords that sounded anything like the symphony
orchestra on the record, but this is my best solution to get the real sound)
Eb Abm Eb7 Ab Ebmaj7 Cm F5 Abmaj7
---------4------------------------------------3-----
---4-----4-----4----4------8------4----6------4-----
---3-----4-----6----5------7------5----5------5-----
---5-----6-----5----6------8------5----3------6-----
---6-----6-----6----6------6------3----3------x-----
---------4----------4-------------------------4-----
Intro:
| Eb | Eb | Eb | Eb |
Verse:
| Eb | Abm | Eb | Abm |
| Eb7 | Ab | Ebmaj7 | Eb7 |
| Ebmaj7 | Ab | Ebmaj7 |
Chorus:
| Cm F5 | Abmaj7 F5 |
| Cm F5 | Abmaj7 F5 |
| Cm F5 |
Interlude:
| Eb | Abm | Eb | Abm |
| Eb7 | Ab Abm |
2x Verse
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/b/bjork/new_world_crd.html ]
Chorus
Interlude
Outro:
repeat | Eb | Abm | plenty of times, it would be impossible and
pointless to try to transcribe the string arrangements on guitar
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Form (with the chords above the lyrics):
1st Verse:
Eb Abm
Train-whistles, a sweet clementine
Eb Abm
Blueberries, dancers in line
Eb7 Ab
Cobwebs, a bakery sign
Ebmaj7 Eb7
Ooh, a sweet clementine
Ebmaj7 Ab Ebmaj7
Ooh, dancers in line, ooh
Chorus:
Cm F5
If living is seeing
Abmaj7 F5
I'm holding my breath
Cm F5
In wonder I wonder
Abmaj7 F5
What happens next?
Cm F5
A new world, a new day to...
Eb Abm Eb Abm Eb7 Ab Abm
see_________________________
2nd Verse:
Eb Abm
I'm softly walking on air
Eb Abm
Halfway to heaven from here
Eb7 Ab
Sunlight unfolds in my hair
Ebmaj7 Eb7
Ooh, I'm walking on air
Ebmaj7 Ab Ebmaj7
Ooh, to heaven from here, ooh
- 23rd /April /07
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