Nails In My Feet

Words and music by Neil Finn. Copyright © 1993 Roundhead Music. Published by EMI Music Publishing Ltd.

Transcribed by Tom Johnstone

Note that in the first two choruses, the phrases end on an ambiguous D chord (D7sus). This is why the last chorus, which finally gives us a full cadence from G to C, sounds so triumphant.

Verse

             Am                           Bdim
My life is a house, you crawl through the window

     E                                       Am
Slip across the floor and into the reception room

              Am               Bdim      
You enter the place of endless persuasion

       E                                                    Am
Like a knock on the door when there's ten or more things to do

Chorus

            C  Fmaj7  Em       D7sus
Who is that calling?      Are you my

C  Fmaj7  Em  D7sus
companion?    Run to the

C          Fmaj7   E             Fmaj7     E
water on a burning beach, and it brings me relief

(Repeat Verse)

Chorus

            C   Fmaj7  Em     D7sus
Cast me off one day,       to lose my

C  Fmaj7  Em    D7sus
inhibitions  /  Sit like a

C            Fmaj7    E
lap dog on a matron's knee

         Fmaj7         E     Fmaj7  E    
Wear the nails of your feet

                               |-3-|                                          
    E  E  E  E  E  E     Q    S S S E  H           E  E  E  E  E  E   E  E   
||--------------------|-------------------------|---------------------------|
||--------5--4-----3--|-------0-3-0----0--------|--------------5---------3--|
||--------------3-----|-------------2-----------|-----------------8s--3-----|
||--2--3--------------|-------------------------|-----2--5--6---------------|
||--------------------|-------------------------|---------------------------|
||--------------------|-------------------------|---------------------------|
                         Am                        E
       |-3-|                                             
    E  S S S E  E  H           E  E  E  E  E  E   E  E   
  --------------------------|---------------------------|
  -----0-3-0----0-----------|--------------5---------3--|
  -----------2--------------|-----------------8s--3-----|
  --------------------------|-----2--5--6---------------|
  --------------------------|---------------------------|
  --------------------------|---------------------------|
    Am                         E
         |-3-|                                                                 
    Q    S S S E  H           E  E  E  E  E  E   E  E     Q.     E  H          
  -------------------------|---------------------------|---------------------||
  -------0-3-0----0--------|--------------5---------3--|---------0-----------||
  -------------2-----------|-----------------8s--3-----|---------------------||
  -------------------------|-----2--5--6---------------|---------------------||
  -------------------------|---------------------------|---------------------||
  -------------------------|---------------------------|---------------------||
    Am                        E                           Am                    E

Verse

              Am                 Bdim
I woke up the house, stumbled in sideways

    E                                     Am
The lights went on and everybody screamed surprise

    Amsusb6  Am                 Bdim      
The savage   review, it left me gasping

       E                                        Am
But it warms my heart to see that you can do it too

Chorus

      C  Fmaj7  Em       G
Total surrender,    your touch is so

C  Fmaj7  Em          G
tender           Your skin is like

C          Fmaj7   G      G7*
water on a burning beach

                 C  Fmaj7  Em         G         C  Fmaj7  Em
And it brings me relief,       and it brings me relief

       G         C  Fmaj7  G
And it brings me relief


C   Fmaj7   Em   G
C   Fmaj7   Em   G
C   Fmaj7

Outro

G

(ad lib)

Chords

Bdim       xx3434
Fmaj7      133210  or  x33210
D7sus      xx0213
Amsusb6    x02201
G7         3x0001