C         x35553

G/C       xx5433

Fadd9/C   xx3213

Fmaj7     x33555

F6        x33535

Dm6       xx3435

Dm/F      xx3231

C/G       3x2013



[Intro] 



|| C G/C | F9/C G/C ||



      C          G/C   Fadd9/C  G/C

There once was a note, pure and easy



C          G/C         Fadd9/C G/C      C  G/C  Fadd9/C  G/C C G/C  Fadd9/C

 G/C

Playing so free like a breath, rippling by





Fmaj7                  Dm6[or Dm/F]

The note is eternal, I hear it, it sees me,

Fmaj7                   Dm6     C  G/C  Fadd9/C  G/C   C G/C  Fadd9/C  G/C

Forever we blend as, forever we die



[chorus]

  C              Dm    F          G

I listened and I heard music in a word,

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--3-------3-5-----------------------------

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    C              Dm             F     G

and words when you played your guitar



    Dm               Em            G              Am

The noise that I was hearing was a million people cheering

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------------------5-7/9------------5--------5-7-----------------

----5--------5-7------------------------------------------------

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G                        C/G         G7           C/G

And a child flew past me riding in a star

-----------------7-------8------8-----7-----7-----8-----7-------

------------8------8-------8------8-----8-----8-----8-----8-----

--------------7------7-------9------9-----7-----7-----9-----7---

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   Dsus4            D

As people assemble, civilization



   G                G7  C/G    G     G7  C/G G

Is trying to find a new way to die

    Am                Emsus4       E

But killing is really merely scene changer



Am                 Dm/F                 Am      Dm/F  Fmaj7/A Am

All men are bored      with other men's lives



[repeat chorus]



Gas on the hillside, oil in the teacup

Watch all the chords of life lose their joy

Distortion becomes somehow pure in its wildness

The note that began all can also destroy.



   Am          C/A (Am7)    Dm/F                   G/A

We all know success when we all find our own dream

And our love is enough to knock down any wall

And the future's been seen as men try to realize

Am         Am7/A         Dm/F    G/A     

The simple secret of the note in us all



Am     C      F    G



[solo]

[chorus]



[verse from demo]

[Today is the day when sound curdles mountains

Flowing and blowing each man it its wake

Destroying itself in the end with vibration

There's nothing on earth its challenge can take

Excepting one note]





There once was a note...  listen

      A    A     A/G      G D/F#

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