TAKE IT OFF THE SCREEN
Print the sheet for the piano stand, or load the MIDI into any app and practise at your own tempo.
HOW TO PLAY
- 1Put your right thumb on middle C. Most beginner songs stay under five fingers — you never move your hand.
- 2Set the speed down and turn CLICK on. Press each key exactly when the note reaches the line.
- 3Loop the bar that keeps breaking until it feels easy, then add the left hand and take the speed back up.
LYRICS
Take back the books and pack (Em7)up the clothes.
Clear out the room and drop (Gsus2)off the key.
Leave with what’s left of my (Gsus2)dig ni ty.
Get in the car and just (F)go.
Chalk it all up to ex (Em7)pe ri ence.
They said I’d fail but I (Gsus2)dis a greed.
Who could say then where my (Gsus2)path would lead?
Get in the car and just (F)go.
Well, now I (Fmaj7)know.
(C)Back (Csus)to (C7)the (Abmaj7)sun,
back to the (Gm)shore,
back to what (Cm7)I was be fore.
(Cm7)Back where I’m (Abmaj7)known,
back in my (Gm)own
ver y small pond.
(G)Laugh with my (Cmaj7)friends
when I ar (D6)rive,
we’ll drop the (Em7)top and just drive.
That’s fine with (F6/9)me.
Just let me (C6/9)be,
le gal ly blonde.
(D)Thanks for your help and for (F#m)all you’ve done.
(D)Thank you for treat ing me (A)de cent ly.
(D)May be some day you can (A)vis it me.
(F#m)Give me a call, say hel lo.
Wait, (A)where are you go ing?
(D)Sor ry I’m let ting down (F#m)ev ’ry one.
What brought on this?
(D)You did your best with a (A)hope less case.
You are the best thing a (A)bout this place.
Elle, you should (Gmaj9)know...
What a bout (G)love?
I nev er men tioned (Dsus)love.
The (D)tim ing’s bad, I (Em)know.
But, per (G)haps, if I’d made it more (Cmaj9)clear that you be long right (D)here, you would n’t have to (Em)go.
’Cause you’d (Fmaj7)know that I’m so much in Back to the (Bbmaj7)sun,
back to the (C6/9)shore,
(F)back to what (Dm7)I was be fore.
Lie on the (Bbmaj7)beach.
Dream with in (C6/9)reach.
SONG INFO
- Level
- 4 of 5
- Key
- G
- Tempo
- 142 BPM
- Plays
- 19
- Category
- Musical/Soundtrack
- Artist
- Nell Benjamin