Stay I Missed You - Lisa Loeb
Capo: Fret 6
Tuning: , E A D G B E
[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