The Opposite Of Hallelujah chords

Jens Lekman

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Simplify chords 

  			Intro: C Am G F (x4) 

Violin part (intro and repeated later) 

 
E|3---3-3-3--1--0-1-3-3-8---0-0-0---------0-0---| 
B|---------------------------------3--1-3-------| 
 

 
E|3---3-3-3--1--0-1-3-3-8---0-0-0---------0-----| 
B|---------------------------------3--1-3---1---| x2 
 

Verse 
C                            G 
I took my sister down to the ocean 
C       Am                 G 
But the ocean made me feel stupid 
               F            C 
Those words of wisdom I had prepared 
              F                D 
All seemed to vanish into thin air 
                 G       F Em Dm 
Into the waves I stared 

(C Am G F)(x4) with violin part 

C                                       G 
I picked up a seashell to illustrate my homelessness 
C     Am                               G 
But a crab crawled out of it making it useless 
           F              C 
And all my metaphors fell flat 
            F              D 
Down on the rocks where we sat 
                        G   F Em Dm 
She asked where are you at? 

Chorus 
    C                Am               G 
But sister, it's the opposite of hallelujah 
         F                 C 
It's the opposite of being you 
          Am                               G 
You don't know 'cause it just passes right through you 
          F                   C         Am  G 
You don't know what I'm going through 
          F                   C         Am  G 
You don't know what I'm going through 
          F                   C         Am  G 
You don't know what I'm going through 
          F                   C         Am  G 
You don't know what I'm going through 

Verse 
C                                        G 
We made our way home on the bikes we had borrowed 
C             Am                         G 
I still never told you about unstoppable sorrow 
                    F                  C 
You still think I'm someone to look up to 
                   F              D 
I still don't know anything about you 
             G    F Em Dm 
Is it in you too? 

Pre-Chorus 
C                  Am      G            F 
        You've got so much to live for,    little 
C                     Am      G         F 
sister, You've got so much to live for 


    C                Am               G 
But sister, it's the opposite of hallelujah 
         F                 C 
It's the opposite of being you 
          Am                               G 
You don't know 'cause it just passes right through you 
          F                   C         Am  G 
You don't know what I'm going through 
          F                   C         Am  G 
You don't know what I'm going through 
          F                   C         Am  G 
You don't know what I'm going through 
          F                   C         Am  G  F 
You don't know what I'm going through 

(C Am G F)