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A Stranger's Eye

By: They Might Be Giants

Key: A Major

Year: 1997

lead guitar tab at bottom! C# D Esus4 E A A D I met a girl, we had a beer Bm C# She shouted something I could not hear A D E A E A D The bar was loud, she yelled into my ear, she yelled into my ear D E D E A E A Gone was my mind and all I could hear was the yelling in my ear D E D E A Felt just like I was walking in a stranger's eye A D I walked into a stranger's eye A Bm It was unfamiliar and disturbing and I E C# D A Esus4/A A looked out of a stranger's eye at ev - ery - thing A D I picked up the paperback that you put down Bm C# Skimmed the introduction and soon I found A D E A E A D That I was totally engrossed in it, I was engrossed in it D E D E A E A This was exactly the type of thing that I would never read D E D E A That's when I found myself walking in a stranger's eye A D I walked into a stranger's eye A Bm It was unfamiliar and disturbing and I E C# D A Esus4/A A looked out of a stranger's eye at ev - ery - thing BRIDGE INSTRUMENTAL D Dm A Adim Bm Bdim E A D When I'm alone, I'm "by myself" Bm C# And when I'm mad, "beside myself" A D E A E A D But what's the name for when you are inside the eye of someone else? D E D E A E A How do I say this thing that happened to me to me to me? D E D E A What is it called when you're walking in a stranger's eye? A D I walked into a stranger's eye A Bm It was unfamiliar and disturbing and I E C# D A Esus4/A A looked out of a stranger's eye at ev - ery - thing, and I A D walked into a stranger's eye A Bm It was unfamiliar and disturbing and I E C# D A B E A looked out of a stranger's eye at everyone and everything --------------------------------------------------------- LEAD GUITAR INTRO: D|-----------------0---------------2-------2----------------------| A|-4----------------------------------------------0---0---0-------| E|------------------------------------------------------------4---| VERSE: D C# D|---------------------------------------0-------0----------------- A|-0---2-4-0---2-4-0---------------2---4---2---4---2---0----------- E|---------------------4------------------------------------------- I met a girl we had a beer, She shouted sm I couldnot hear D|---------0-------0---0---2---2-----------4---4-----------2------- A|-0---2-4-------4-----------------0---0-----------0---0----------- E|----------------------------------------------------------------- the bar ws loud sheyell in to my ear she yell in to my ear D|-------------------------------------4---4----------------------- A|-----------------------------0---0------------0---0---0---0------ E|----------------------------------------------------------------- ....all i could hear was the yell ing in my ear D|----------------------------------------------------------------| A|---------------------------------0-------0-------0--------------| E|----------------------------------------------------------------| ...I was walking in a stranger's eye CHORUS: D|------------------------------------------0---------------------- A|--------------------------0-------0------------------------------ E|--------------0---2---4------------------------------------------ I walked into a stran- ger's eye, D|-------------------------------------------------------------------------- A|--------------------------0-------0-------2-------2----------------------- E|--------------0---2---4-----------------------------------0---0---2---4--- it was un- fa- miliar and disturbing & I looked out of a D|-----------------0---------------2-------2----------------------| A|-4----------------------------------------------0---0---0-------| E|------------------------------------------------------------4---| stranger's eye at eve- ry- thing INSTRUMENTAL: D Dm A Adim e|-----------10---12---13-------10-------------------------------------| B|---------------------------------------10---------------9---10-9-7---| G|---------------------------------------------------------------------| D|---------------------------------------------------------------------| A|---------------------------------------------------------------------| E|---------------------------------------------------------------------| Bm Bdim E e|---------------------------------------------------------------------| B|---------------------------------------------------------------------| G|9-----------------------7---6----------------------------------------| D|--------------------------------7------------------------------------| A|------------------------------------7--------------------------------| E|---------------------------------------------------------------------|