Nobody Wants To

Words and music by Neil Finn. Copyright © 2007 Roundhead Music. Published by EMI Music Publishing Ltd.

Transcribed by Tom Johnstone

I used the reunion webcast and Thekla Social shows as the basis for this transcription. The D-pattern used for the intro continues into the verses. Note that the D/F# chord in the intro is different than the one in the chorus.

It's easily possible for this song to be played in standard tuning with a capo on the first fret, but the solo acoustic break near the end is not possible without down-tuning. Rather than notate a whole tab for a fairly simple riff, at the end you'll see A-Asus-A-Asus2. This is just a basic A shape with some movement on the B-string--assuming you've heard the song, it should easily make sense once you see the chord definitions.


Tune down one semitone

 

Intro

D   Dadd4   D/F#   Dadd4/F#

(play 3 more times)


Verse

D                        Bm
Down on the ocean floor, that's where I'm headin' for

D                           Bm
Hold on to a sinking stone, until the worst is known

Chorus

Em7    D/F#*     Bm    A
Nobody wants to (oooh) think about it

Em7    D/F#      Bm    A
Nobody wants to (oooh) talk about it

Em7    D/F#         Bm
Nobody protects you...

(Repeat Verse and Chorus)


   Em7    D/F#     Bm
...Nobody protects you

D
Yeah

Bridge

              Em7                   D
Are we losing something, we used to cry

F#m        G
We used to say why

Em7       D     F#m         G   
For all I know, I might not get home

Em7         D
But I found out

      F#m                    G
If we opened it up, we could work this out


Bridge

Em7    D/F#      Bm    A
Nobody wants to (oooh) think about it

Em7    D/F#      Bm    A
Nobody wants to (oooh) talk about it

Em7
Now

         D             A       Em7
What you suspected all along

              D            A       Em7
Everything he told you was wrong

            D             A
And you can see it if you want

Em7    D/F#       G   A
Nobody wants to

Break/Outro


Bm   F#m   Bm   F#m

Em   A-Asus-A-Asus2   Em   A-Asus-A-Asus2

(repeat ad lib)

Em7   D/F#   G   A

D

 


Chords


D           xx0232
Dadd4       xx0032
D/F#        xx4232
Dadd4/F#    xx4032

D/F#*       1x0232

A           x02220
Asus        x02230
Asus2       x02200