I Dont Know What It Is

I Dont Know What It Is chords and lyrics

Free chords for I Dont Know What It Is by Rufus Wainwright. Scroll the interactive sheet above or read the chord names inline below.

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   / Rufus Wainwright         /  From his website: "When I first came up with
  / I Don't Know What It Is  /  the lines, "I don't know what it is, but you got
 / Want One                 /  to do it / I don't know where to go, but you got
/__________________________/  to be there" I was at this party for The Strokes
                             in New York. There was this prevailing sense of,
"We're not quite sure what's happening or what is cool, but we know that it's
somewhere around here, in this room." It was this vague confusion, with
everybody kind of sniffing for blood. It wasn't that it was a bad party, or that
I don't like The Strokes; I just think there's a lot of confusion right now in
the music business. Then, later on, I realized the song was really personal. I
didn't know where I was, and I didn't know I was actually lost. It wasn't about
the party at all; it's about searching but not knowing what you're searching
for. There's the train motif, being on this train heading for either oblivion or
salvation – and just holding on for dear life. That song came down from some
mountain somewhere, because it was right after I wrote it that I sort of packed
it in."
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 Intro:                  | E | - | - | - |
 1. & 2. Verse:        ||: E | - | Bm/E | - |
                         | A(add9) | A | E | F# |
                         | B | F#m7(add4) | - | G#m |
                         | F#m7 | - |
                      1. | Bsus4 | B7 :||
                      2. | B | F#m7(add4) | Bsus4  B7 |
 Interlude:            ||: E | E7 | F#m | Am :||
 Build-up:               | B/A | E/G# | B/F# | E |
                         | Am7 | E7/B | Cdim7 | E/D | E |
 3. & 4. Verse:          both similar to 1. Verse
 Build-up:               similar to previous
 Interlude:              similar to previous
                       + | E | E7 |
                         | A | E/G# | F#m7 | F#/C# |
 Orchestral Interlude:   | B | F#m7(add4)/A | F#m | G#m |
                         | A | B | A/C# | Am6 |
                                   1 + 2  + 3 +  4 +   1 +
 5. Verse:               | E | - | F#m/A  E/G#   F#m |   E |
                         | A | E/G# | C#m7 | F# |
                         | B | F#m7(add4) | F#m | G#m |
                         | A | B | C#m |
                         | D#7 | - | - |
 Breakdown:              | A/E | - | - | - |
                         | C/G | - |
 Outro Verse:            | Bsus4 | B7sus4 | F#m/B | Am |
                         | Bsus4 | B7sus4 | F#m/A | Am/C |
                         | Bsus4 | B7sus4 |
 Interlude:              similar to previous
 Outro:                  | Esus4 | E | Bm/E | - |