Heavy Things Chords

KeyC CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays581

Heavy Things by Phish is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, G and F. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
C
Text
16
Speed
  			 
| C G | C G | C G | C G | 
C					G 
Things are falling down on me 
C				G 
Heavy things I could not see 
| C G | C G | 
C				G 
When I finally came around 
C					G 
Something small would pin me down 
| C G | C G | 
F			   G (hold) 
When I try to step aside 
I move to where they'd hoped I'd be 
| C G | C G | 
 
F				C 
Vanessa calls me on the phone 
F				C 
Reminding me I'm not alone 
F				C 
I fuss and quake and cavitate 
				G 
I try to speak and turn to stone 
 
F				C 
Tilly reaches through my vest 
F				C 
To do the thing that she does best 
F				C 
She probes and tears my ventricles 
				G 
Steals my one remaining breath 
 
| C G | C G | 
 
F				C 
Stumbling as I fall from Grace 
F				C 
She needs my vision to replace 
F				C 
Her ailing sight throughout the night 
				G 
Leaving two holes in my face 
 
 
 
F				C 
Mary was a friend I'd say 
F			C 
'til one summer day 
F				C 
She borrowed everything I owned 
			    G 
And then simply ran away, 
 
Chorus 
 
F 
oo oo 
C 
wa aa 
F 
oo oo 
C 
wa aa 
F 
oo oo 
C 
wa aa 
G 
wa aa 
 

    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante