Stay I Missed You - Lisa Loeb

Capo: Fret 6
Tuning: , E A D G B E

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[Actually in C#; capo 6.]

      
[intro; see ta

 -    
b at end]

       
   You say I o

              
nly hear what 

                
I want to
          
   And you say

           
 I talk so all

           
 the time,    

      
so
           
   And I thoug

           
ht what I felt

 was simple
           
   And I thoug

          
ht that I don'

t belong
           
   And now tha

  
t I am leaving
           
   Now I know 

             
that I did som

              
ething wrong c

       
ause I missed 

you
         
   Yeah, I mis

        (      
sed you

          
   And you say

           
 I only hear w

              
hat I want to,

   
 I don't liste

n hard
            
I don't pay at

              
tention to the

             
 distance that

     
 you're runnin

g or to

Anyone, anywhe

re
           
I don't unders


tand if you re

ally care
          
I'm only heari

              
ng negative, n

        
o no no

           
So I, I turned

             
 the radio on,

              
 I turned the 

      
radio up
              
And this woman

     
 was singing m

y song
           
The lover's in

              
 love and the 


other's run aw

ay
           
The lover is c

              
rying cause th

  
e other won't 

stay
           
   Some of us 

              
hover when we 

             
weep for the o

             
ther who was d


ying
              
Since the day 

             
they were born

     
, well
           
Well, this is 

             
not that, I th

              
ink that I'm t

              
hrowing but I'

      
m thrown

           
And I thought 

              
I'd live forev

       
er but now I'm

 not so sure
           
You try to tel

)             
l me that I'm 

           
clever but tha

)
t won't take m

e anyhow
           
   Or anywhere

        
 with you

           
   And you sai

         
d that I was n

aive
           
And I thought 

           
that I was str

ong, oh
           
   I thought "

          
hey I can leav

e, I can leave

"
           
Oh, but now I 

             
know that I wa

              
s wrong cause 

  
I missed you
         
   Yeah, I mis

        (      
sed you

             
You said you c

            
aught me cause

              
 you want me a

       
nd one day you

'll let me go
           
You try to tak

)             
e away a keepe

     
r or keep me c

ause you know
              
You're just to

         
o scared to lo

     
se

            
And you say,  

       -   
       stay
       
   And you say

              
 I only hear w

           -     
hat I want to


TAB:

I've transcribed two versions of the intro: the first one is
probably more accurate, the second is probably easier.  When I
play it, I play the G(9) the easy way and the rest the hard way.

accurate:

          
E --5---------
B ------------
G -7----7-----
D 5-----------
A ------------
E ------------
  ^ . ^ . ^ . 

           
----|----0----
----|---0-----
----|--7------
----|-5-------
----|7--------
----|---------
^ .  ^ . ^ . ^

           
-------|------
-------|----5-
-7----0|--0---
-5-----|------
-7-----|------
-----0-|5-----
 . ^ .  ^ . ^ 

         
----------|---
------7---|---
----0-----|--0
----------|---
----------|---
5/7-----7/|8--
. ^ . ^ .  ^ .

---10--------|
8--8---------|
-0-----------|
-------------|
-------------|
-------8-----|
 ^ . ^ . ^ .  

easy:

          
E --5---------
B -3----3-----
G 0-----------
D ------------
A ------------
E ------------
  ^ . ^ . ^ . 

           
----|----0----
----|--30-----
----|-0-------
----|2--------
----|---------
----|---------
^ .  ^ . ^ . ^

           
-------|----0-
-3-----|------
-0----0|--0---
-2-----|------
-------|0-----
-----0-|------
 . ^ .  ^ . ^ 

         
------2---|---
----------|---
----0-----|--0
----------|---
0/2-----2/|3--
----------|---
. ^ . ^ .  ^ .

3--3---------|
-------------|
-0-----------|
-------------|
-------3-----|
-------------|
 ^ . ^ . ^ .  



- Adam Schneider, schn0170@maroon.tc.umn.edu

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