How The Heart Approaches What It Yearns Chords
by Paul Simon
How The Heart Approaches What It Yearns by Paul Simon is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords E, E9, A, B7, E7, Gbmaj7, Gb/F, Bbm7, Bbm6, Cm7/5-, Cdim, Ebm7/5-, Dbmaj7 and Gbm6. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
words & music by Paul Simon 1978
|E |
In the blue light
| | E9
Of the Belvedere Motel
A |E | | |
Wondering as the television burns
B7 | |E |
How the heart approaches what it yearns
| |
In a fe-ver
| | E9
I distinctly hear your voice
|A |E | | |
Emerging from a dream, the dream returns
B7 | |E |E7 |
How the heart approaches what it yearns
Gbmaj7 Gb/F |Bbm7 Bbm6
After the rain on the Interstate
Cm7/5- Cdim |Bbm7
Headlights slide past the moon
|Ebm7/5- |
A bone-weary traveler
Dbmaj7 |Gbmaj7 |
Waits by the side of the road
Gbm6 |B7 |
Where's he going?
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