Motion Picture Magnolia

pre>(harry nilsson c 1968)


Chords: em/d xx0000
C#m7-5 x42000
Cma7 x32000
G7 3x300x
Cm x35543


Em em/d
One is the loneliest number
C#m7-5 cma7
That you'll ever do
Em em/d
Two can be as bad as one
C#m7-5 cma7 em em/d c#m7-5 cma7
It's the loneliest number since the number one

No is the saddest experience em (em/d)
You'll ever know (c#m7-5) (cma7)
Yes, it's the saddest experience em (em/d)
You'll ever know (c#m7-5) (cma7)
Because one is the loneliest number em em/d
That'll you'll ever do c#m7-5 cma7
One is the loneliest number em em/d
That you'll ever know c#m7-5 cma7


Em

G g/f#
It's just no good anymore
G7
Since you went away
C
Now i spend my time
Cm
Just making rhymes
Em em/d c#m7-5 cma7
Of yesterday


Because one is the loneliest number em em/d
That you'll ever do c#m7-5 cma7
One is the loneliest number em em/d
That you'll ever know c#m7-5 cma7

One is the loneliest number em em/d
One is the loneliest number c#m7-5 cma7
One is the loneliest number em em/d
That you'll ever do c#m7-5 cma7
One is the loneliest number em em/d
Much much worse than two c#m7-5 cma7
One is a number divided by two em em/d

Coda: ||: em em/d c#m7-5 cma7 :||


/pre>

pre>
Chords: (the "star" here just means "strange, alternate fingering")

G* = gadd9 = xx5435 aimee plays it xx5785, i can't stretch that.
D* = xx0235 " " x577x5 or x57755 i couldn't tell...

Intro: (yes, it's all just piano, but in case there isn't one handy....)

||: g* d* g* d* :||

Verse 1:

G* d* g* d*
It's not what you thought
Bm /a g d5
When you first began it
G* d* g* d*
You got what you want
Bm /a g
Now you can hardly stand it though
E7 g
By now you know it's not
E7 g e7
Going to stop
G e7 g e7
It's not going to stop
D a/c# c
It's not going to stop
G g* d* g* d*
'til you wise up

Verse 2:

You're sure there's a cure g* d* g* d*
And you have finally found it bm /a g d5
You think one drink g* d* g* d*
Will shrink you 'til bm /a
You're underground and living down g e7
But it's not going to stop g e7
It's not going to stop g e7
It's not going to stop d a/c# c
'til you wise up g g* d* g* d*

Bridge:
G
Prepare a list of what you need
E7
Before you sign away the deed
G e7 g e7
'couse it's not going to stop
G e7 g e7
It's not going to stop
D a/c# c
It's not going to stop
G d
'til you wise up


Coda:

D a/c# c g
No it's not going to stop
G d
'til you wise up
D a/c# c
Now it's not going to stop
G ||: g* d* :||
So just give up

/pre>

pre>
Capo 3: c plays as eb

Chords

Em/d# 0x1000
G+ 3x100x
B7 x2120x

Intro:

Em em/d# em em/d# :||

Verse 1:

Em em/d# em a g c g b7
You look like - a perfect fit
Em /d# em a g c g d
For a girl in need of a tourniquet

Chorus 1:
D c em am
But can you - save me
C g c
Come on and - save me
C c em am
If you could - save me
G g+
From the ranks of the freaks
Em a7 g c g b7
Who suspect they could never love anyone

Verse 2:

'cause i can tell em em/d# em a
You know what it's like g c g b7
The long farewell em em/d# em a
Of the hunger strike g c g d

Chorus 2:

But can you save me d c em am
Come on and save me c g c
If you could save me c c em am
From the ranks of the freaks g g+
Who suspect they could never love anyone em a7
G c g b7

Bridge:

C g f c g f c
You struck me dumb like radium
Em am em am
Like peter pan or superman

Chorus 3:

G f c em am
You will come to save me
C'mon and save me c g c
If you could save me c c em am
From the ranks of the freaks g g+
Who suspect they could never love anyone em a7
'cept the freaks g g+
Who suspect they could never love anyone em a7
But the freaks g g+
Who suspect they could never love anyone em a7
G c g b7

Instrumental verse 3:
Em em/d# em a
G c g b7
Em em/d# em a
G c g d

Chorus 4:

C'mon and save me d c em am
Why don't you save me c g c
If you could save me c c em am
From the ranks of the freaks g g+
Who suspect they could never love anyone em a7

Coda:

Except the freaks g g+
Who suspect they could never love anyone em a7
Except the freaks who could never love anyone g g+ em a7
/pre>

Once upon a time is how it always goes
But i'll make it brief
What was started out with such excitement
Now i'd gladly end end with relief
In what now has become a familiar motif:


That nothing is good enough
For people like you
Who have to have someone take the fall
And something to sabotage--
Determined to lose it all


Critics at their worst could never criticize
The way that you do
No, there's no one else, i find,
To undermine or dash a hope
Quite like you
And you do it so casually, too


Cause nothing is good enough
For people like you
Who have to have someone take the fall
And something to sabotage--
Determined to lose it all


Ladies and gentlemen--
Here's exhibit a
Didn't i try again?
And did the effort pay?
Wouldn't a smarter man
Simply walk away?


It doesn't really help that you can never say
What you're looking for
But you'll know it when you hear it,
Know it when you see it walk through the door
So you say--
So you've said many times before


But nothing is good enough
For people like you
Who have to have someone take the fall
And something to sabotage--
Determined to lose it all