Now We're Getting Somewhere

Words and music by Crowded House. Copyright © 1986 Roundhead Music. Published by EMI Music Publishing Ltd.

Transcribed by Tom Johnstone


Intro

C#m   F#m   G#*


Verse

C#m                        F#m            G#
Never used to be that bad, neither was it great

C#m                                F#m         G#
But somewhere in the middle there, content and much too safe

E                                 B11
Oh tell me please why it takes so long

C#m  F#m                            B11
To   realize when there's something wrong


Chorus

            E             Asus2            B11               
Well lay me out with your heart, now we're getting somewhere

        E           Asus2            B11
Push me back to the start, now we're getting someplace

        E           Asus2              B11
Take me out, let me breathe, now we're getting somewhere

              E           Asus2         B11
When I'm with you I don't care where it is I'm falling


(Repeat Verse and Chorus)

 

Solo: Play twice (16 bars)


           E  E  E  E   E  E  E  E      E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E 
     E||----------------------------|------------0--------------|
     B||------5-----5------7-----7--|------9-----9-----9-----9--|
     G||--/6-----6-----/8-----8-----|--/9-----9-----9-----9-----|
     D||----------------------------|---------------------------|
     A||----------------------------|---------------------------|
     E||----------------------------|---------------------------|
           C#m        
                                          ---------------------------
            E   E   E   E   E   E   Q       E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E   |
        ----------------0----------------|-----0---------------------||
        -------10------10------10--------|-----9-----9-----7-----7---||
        --/11------11--------------11----|--9-----9-----8-----8-----*||
        ---------------------------------|--------------------------*||
        ---------------------------------|---------------------------||
        ---------------------------------|---------------------------||
            F#m                             G#7b13       (1st ending)
        ----------------------
          (Tremelo)           |
           H.                 |
        ---0------------------||
        --13------------------||
        --13-----------------*||
        ---------------------*||
        ----------------------||
        ----------------------||
                  (2nd ending)

 

 

Verse

Em                               C        G
I was standing on a wave, then I made the drop

Em                                           C       G
I was climbing up the walls, waiting for the band to stop

C                 Em           G
You can't say the magic words, I got my sensors on

C               Em              G
And this is the only place that I always run from


Chorus

Am       D                  Am
Sleep by no means comes too soon

     Em                Bm
In a valley lit by the moon


Outro

Em   Bm
(repeat ad lib)

C    G