{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":680719,"song":"I Dont Know What It Is","artist":"Rufus Wainwright","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/680719-i-dont-know-what-it-is-chords-by-rufus-wainwright/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/680719?type=chord","rating":4.31595,"votes":14,"content":"    ___________________________\r\n   / Rufus Wainwright         /  From his website: \"When I first came up with\r\n  / I Don't Know What It Is  /  the lines, \"I don't know what it is, but you got\r\n / Want One                 /  to do it / I don't know where to go, but you got\r\n/__________________________/  to be there\" I was at this party for The Strokes\r\n                             in New York. There was this prevailing sense of,\r\n\"We're not quite sure what's happening or what is cool, but we know that it's\r\nsomewhere around here, in this room.\" It was this vague confusion, with\r\neverybody kind of sniffing for blood. It wasn't that it was a bad party, or that\r\nI don't like The Strokes; I just think there's a lot of confusion right now in\r\nthe music business. Then, later on, I realized the song was really personal. I\r\ndidn't know where I was, and I didn't know I was actually lost. It wasn't about\r\nthe party at all; it's about searching but not knowing what you're searching\r\nfor. There's the train motif, being on this train heading for either oblivion or\r\nsalvation – and just holding on for dear life. That song came down from some\r\nmountain somewhere, because it was right after I wrote it that I sort of packed\r\nit in.\"\r\n\r\n\r\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Intro:                  | [ch]E[/ch] | - | - | - |\r\n\r\n\r\n 1. & 2. Verse:        ||: E | - | Bm/E | - |\r\n\r\n                         | [ch]A(add9)[/ch] | [ch]A[/ch] | [ch]E[/ch] | [ch]F#[/ch] |\r\n\r\n                         | B | F#m7(add4) | - | G#m |\r\n\r\n                         | [ch]F#m7[/ch] | - |\r\n\r\n                      1. | [ch]Bsus4[/ch] | [ch]B7[/ch] :||\r\n\r\n                      2. | B | F#m7(add4) | Bsus4  B7 |\r\n\r\n\r\n Interlude:            ||: [ch]E[/ch] | [ch]E7[/ch] | [ch]F#m[/ch] | [ch]Am[/ch] :||\r\n\r\n\r\n Build-up:               | [ch]B/A[/ch] | [ch]E/G#[/ch] | [ch]B/F#[/ch] | [ch]E[/ch] |\r\n\r\n                         | [ch]Am7[/ch] | [ch]E7/B[/ch] | [ch]Cdim7[/ch] | [ch]E/D[/ch] | [ch]E[/ch] |\r\n\r\n\r\n 3. & 4. Verse:          both similar to 1. Verse\r\n\r\n\r\n Build-up:               similar to previous\r\n\r\n\r\n Interlude:              similar to previous\r\n\r\n                       + | [ch]E[/ch] | [ch]E7[/ch] |\r\n\r\n                         | [ch]A[/ch] | [ch]E/G#[/ch] | [ch]F#m7[/ch] | [ch]F#/C#[/ch] |\r\n\r\n\r\n Orchestral Interlude:   | B | F#m7(add4)/A | F#m | G#m |\r\n\r\n                         | [ch]A[/ch] | [ch]B[/ch] | [ch]A/C#[/ch] | [ch]Am6[/ch] |\r\n\r\n\r\n                                   1 + 2  + 3 +  4 +   1 +\r\n 5. Verse:               | [ch]E[/ch] | - | [ch]F#m/A[/ch]  [ch]E/G#[/ch]   [ch]F#m[/ch] |   [ch]E[/ch] |\r\n\r\n                         | [ch]A[/ch] | [ch]E/G#[/ch] | [ch]C#m7[/ch] | [ch]F#[/ch] |\r\n\r\n                         | [ch]B[/ch] | F#m7(add4) | [ch]F#m[/ch] | [ch]G#m[/ch] |\r\n\r\n                         | [ch]A[/ch] | [ch]B[/ch] | [ch]C#m[/ch] |\r\n\r\n                         | [ch]D#7[/ch] | - | - |\r\n\r\n\r\n Breakdown:              | A/E | - | - | - |\r\n\r\n                         | [ch]C/G[/ch] | - |\r\n\r\n\r\n Outro Verse:            | [ch]Bsus4[/ch] | [ch]B7sus4[/ch] | [ch]F#m/B[/ch] | [ch]Am[/ch] |\r\n\r\n                         | [ch]Bsus4[/ch] | [ch]B7sus4[/ch] | [ch]F#m/A[/ch] | [ch]Am/C[/ch] |\r\n\r\n                         | [ch]Bsus4[/ch] | [ch]B7sus4[/ch] |\r\n\r\n\r\n Interlude:              similar to previous\r\n\r\n\r\n Outro:                  | [ch]Esus4[/ch] | [ch]E[/ch] | [ch]Bm/E[/ch] | - |\r\n\r\n                         | [ch]A(add9)[/ch] | [ch]A[/ch] | [ch]E[/ch] | [ch]F#/E[/ch] |\r\n\r\n                         | [ch]Dm7/E[/ch] | [ch]Am(maj7)/E[/ch] | - | [ch]Bm7/E[/ch] |\r\n\r\n                         | A(add9)/E | B7/E | Edim6(add9) \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n LYRICS\r\n**********\r\nI don't know what it is\r\nBut you got to do it\r\nI don't know where to go\r\nBut you got to be there\r\nI don't know where to fall\r\nBut I know that it's comfortable where...\r\nI don't know where it is\r\n\r\nPutting all of my time in learning to care\r\nAnd a bucket of rhymes I threw up somewhere\r\nWant a locket of who made me lose my perfunctory view\r\nOf all that is around\r\nAnd of all that I do\r\n\r\nSo I knock on the door\r\nTake a step that is new\r\nNever been here before\r\nIs there anyone else here too?\r\n\r\nIn love with beauty\r\nPlaying all of the games\r\nWho thinks three's company\r\nIs there anyone else who wears slightly mysterious bruises?\r\nI don't know what it is\r\n\r\nTake a looking around at friendly faces\r\nAll declaring a war on far off places\r\nIs there anyone else who is through with complaining about what's done unto us\r\n\r\nSo I knock on the door\r\nAnd I am on the train\r\nGoing god knows where to\r\nTo get me over\r\nTo get me over\r\n\r\nGive me heaven or hell, Calais or Dover\r\n\r\nI was hoping the train was my big number\r\nStopping in Santa Fe and the Atchison-Topeka\r\nThough I'm chugging along, put away by the crossing hand\r\nWe'll be heading for Portland or Limbo or Lower Manhattan\r\nFind myself running around\r\n\r\nI don't know what it is so get me over\r\nI don't know what it is so get me over\r\nI don't know what it is so get me over\r\nTo get me over\r\nYou gotta do it\r\nYou gotta be there","plain_text":"___________________________\n   / Rufus Wainwright         /  From his website: \"When I first came up with\n  / I Don't Know What It Is  /  the lines, \"I don't know what it is, but you got\n / Want One                 /  to do it / I don't know where to go, but you got\n/__________________________/  to be there\" I was at this party for The Strokes\n                             in New York. There was this prevailing sense of,\n\"We're not quite sure what's happening or what is cool, but we know that it's\nsomewhere around here, in this room.\" It was this vague confusion, with\neverybody kind of sniffing for blood. It wasn't that it was a bad party, or that\nI don't like The Strokes; I just think there's a lot of confusion right now in\nthe music business. Then, later on, I realized the song was really personal. I\ndidn't know where I was, and I didn't know I was actually lost. It wasn't about\nthe party at all; it's about searching but not knowing what you're searching\nfor. There's the train motif, being on this train heading for either oblivion or\nsalvation – and just holding on for dear life. That song came down from some\nmountain somewhere, because it was right after I wrote it that I sort of packed\nit in.\"\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n\n Intro:                  | E | - | - | - |\n\n\n 1. & 2. Verse:        ||: E | - | Bm/E | - |\n\n                         | A(add9) | A | E | F# |\n\n                         | B | F#m7(add4) | - | G#m |\n\n                         | F#m7 | - |\n\n                      1. | Bsus4 | B7 :||\n\n                      2. | B | F#m7(add4) | Bsus4  B7 |\n\n\n Interlude:            ||: E | E7 | F#m | Am :||\n\n\n Build-up:               | B/A | E/G# | B/F# | E |\n\n                         | Am7 | E7/B | Cdim7 | E/D | E |\n\n\n 3. & 4. Verse:          both similar to 1. Verse\n\n\n Build-up:               similar to previous\n\n\n Interlude:              similar to previous\n\n                       + | E | E7 |\n\n                         | A | E/G# | F#m7 | F#/C# |\n\n\n Orchestral Interlude:   | B | F#m7(add4)/A | F#m | G#m |\n\n                         | A | B | A/C# | Am6 |\n\n\n                                   1 + 2  + 3 +  4 +   1 +\n 5. Verse:               | E | - | F#m/A  E/G#   F#m |   E |\n\n                         | A | E/G# | C#m7 | F# |\n\n                         | B | F#m7(add4) | F#m | G#m |\n\n                         | A | B | C#m |\n\n                         | D#7 | - | - |\n\n\n Breakdown:              | A/E | - | - | - |\n\n                         | C/G | - |\n\n\n Outro Verse:            | Bsus4 | B7sus4 | F#m/B | Am |\n\n                         | Bsus4 | B7sus4 | F#m/A | Am/C |\n\n                         | Bsus4 | B7sus4 |\n\n\n Interlude:              similar to previous\n\n\n Outro:                  | Esus4 | E | Bm/E | - |\n\n                         | A(add9) | A | E | F#/E |\n\n                         | Dm7/E | Am(maj7)/E | - | Bm7/E |\n\n                         | A(add9)/E | B7/E | Edim6(add9) \n\n\n\n\n LYRICS\n**********\nI don't know what it is\nBut you got to do it\nI don't know where to go\nBut you got to be there\nI don't know where to fall\nBut I know that it's comfortable where...\nI don't know where it is\n\nPutting all of my time in learning to care\nAnd a bucket of rhymes I threw up somewhere\nWant a locket of who made me lose my perfunctory view\nOf all that is around\nAnd of all that I do\n\nSo I knock on the door\nTake a step that is new\nNever been here before\nIs there anyone else here too?\n\nIn love with beauty\nPlaying all of the games\nWho thinks three's company\nIs there anyone else who wears slightly mysterious bruises?\nI don't know what it is\n\nTake a looking around at friendly faces\nAll declaring a war on far off places\nIs there anyone else who is through with complaining about what's done unto us\n\nSo I knock on the door\nAnd I am on the train\nGoing god knows where to\nTo get me over\nTo get me over\n\nGive me heaven or hell, Calais or Dover\n\nI was hoping the train was my big number\nStopping in Santa Fe and the Atchison-Topeka\nThough I'm chugging along, put away by the crossing hand\nWe'll be heading for Portland or Limbo or Lower Manhattan\nFind myself running around\n\nI don't know what it is so get me over\nI don't know what it is so get me over\nI don't know what it is so get me over\nTo get me over\nYou gotta do it\nYou gotta be there","chords":["E","Bm/E","A(add9)","A","F#","B","G#m","F#m7","Bsus4","B7","E7","F#m","Am","B/A","E/G#","B/F#","Am7","E7/B","Cdim7","E/D","F#/C#","A/C#","Am6","F#m/A"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"Am7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,0,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,0,1,0]},"B":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,2,3,4,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,4,2]},"B7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,1,3,0,4],"frets":[-1,2,1,2,0,2]},"C/G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[3,4,2,0,1,0],"frets":[3,3,2,0,1,0]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]},"E7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,0,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,0,1,0,0]},"Esus4":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,2,3,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,2,0,0]}}}