There Goes God

(Neil Finn)

In terms of structure this is one of Neil's simpler songs. There are really only three sections: the intro, the verse and the chorus, which are repeated more or less exactly each time (the first "chorus" has different lyrics than the ones that follow, but the chords are the same). The instrumental break uses the verse chords, and the outro really just ad libs on the beginning of the chorus.


Intro

Opening Line

                         |-3-| 
        E.  E.  E  E  E  S S S E       E.  E.  E  E  E  Q 
   E||------0----------------------||------0-----------------|
   B||--0-------0-----0--0-1-0-----||------------------------|
   G||-------------------------2--*||--1-------1-----1--1----|
   D||----------------------------*||------------------------|
   A||-----------------------------||------------------------|
   E||-----------------------------||------------------------|
               (play 3x)
        E.  E.  E  E  E  Q       E  E  E  E  H 
      ------0-----------------|-----------3------||
      ------------------------|--------2---------||
      --0-------0-----0--0----|------------------||
      ------------------------|-----2------------||
      ------------------------|--0---------------||
      ------------------------|------------------||

Verse

          G    D/F#  Em7                     B11  Am  B11
What'll I tell him,  when he comes to me for absolution

             G    D/F#  Em7                     B11  Am  B11
Wouldn't you know it,   hope I don't make a bad decision


Chorus

       D           C
'Cause I'd like to believe that there is a god

D            C
While sinful angels suffer for love

D           Am             Am/maj7  Am7           Am/maj7   Am          
I'd like to believe in the terrible truth, in the beautiful lies

(Verse)

(Chorus)

Inst. Break

G   D/F#   Em7     B11  Am  B11

G   D/F#   Em7     B11  Am  B11

(Chorus)

Outro

D   C   D   C


(repeat ad lib)

Chords

D/F#       2x0232
B11        x21200
Am/maj7    x02110  or  Amaj7sus2    x02100
Am7        x02010