The Eye Chords

KeyC#m CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays396

The Eye by Toad the Wet Sprocket is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C#m. It uses the chords C#m, E, A, G#m, B and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
C#m
Text
16
Speed
  			 

| C#m | C#m | E | E | C#m | C#m | E | 

E                           C#m                      E 
. We're finally learning to fight now, we take to it well 
                    C#m               E 
'Till we are pure potential, imaginal cells 
                  A                              G#m 
You always were a wild one, you like to bend the rules 
                  A                               B   | B | 
But baby when the time comes I might surprise you too 

    A          B 
You laugh like nothing can touch you 
    E           C#m 
The skies might open above you 
         A                       B 
When the rain pours down and the wind whips high 
     G#m                  A               | C#m | 
This love is a hurricane, you are the eye 
C#m               | E | 
. You are the eye 

E                   C#m                        E 
. I can't make a connection, don't trust it to hold 
                         C#m                        E 
Though we cling to each other through the battering storm 
                A                            G#m 
Pain passes but slowly and pleasure gone too soon 
              A                       B     | B | 
A copper manzanita we have to burn to bloom 

    A          B 
You laugh like nothing can touch you 
    E           C#m 
The skies might open above you 
         A                       B 
When the rain pours down and the wind whips high 
     G#m                  A               | B | 
This love is a hurricane, you are the eye 

          B                    C#m          | C#m | A | 
I'll stop telling you what you want to hear 
     A                  B    | B | B | 
Stop waiting for me to arrive 
        B                     C      | C | A | 
We keep ripping apart the atmosphere 
        A                       B 
But the change is what keep us alive 
         |C#m    | 
Keeps us alive 

| C#m | E | E | A | A | B | B | 

    A          B 
You laugh like nothing can touch you 
    E           C#m 
The skies might open above you 
         A                       B 
When the rain pours down and the wind whips high 
     G#m                  A               
This love is a hurricane, you are the eye 
A          B 
Laugh like nothing can touch you 
    E           C#m 
The skies might open above you 
         A                       B 
When the rain pours down and the wind whips high 
     G#m                  A               | C#m | 
This love is a hurricane, you are the eye 
|C#m               | E |E                  | C#m | 
 . You are the eye      . You are the eye 

| C#m | E | E | C#m <> | 

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Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

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

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante