Taught To Look Away Chords
by Matt Pond Pa
Taught To Look Away by Matt Pond Pa is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of A. It uses the chords A, Db, D, Dm, E, Gbm and Dbm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
/INTRO/
A
A Db
No one knows why we were taught to look away
D
There might be something wrong with me
Dm
There's nothing that I can't believe
E Db Gbm D Dm
Are you listening two thousand miles from here?
A
Is the same sky just as clear?
A
A Db
Out of the window the slow light morning
D Dm
First hits your hands, touches your face
A Db
Though it's uncomfortable, though it is awkward
D Dm
Days leave the night, eyes in the light
A Db
The only time you're listening
D Dm
When we run from all the things we could say
A Db
I don't know what you could be hearing
D Dm
The sounds have gone so far, far away
/PIANO INTERLUDE/
Dbm Gbm (x4)
Dm
A Db
I don't know why we were taught to look away
D
There might be something wrong with me
Dm
There's nothing that I won't believe
E Db Gbm D Dm
Are you listening two thousand miles from here?
A
Are the crickets just as clear?