Zack Hemsey - Changeling

      ♪: F chords indicated with a "*" can be alternately played as FM7.


[Intro]
F   CM7/G   Am          Em
                      Feelings over-
F   CM7/G   Am          Em
flow.            And I’m not letting
F   CM7/G   Am                  Em
go,                 though in my heart I
F         CM7/G   Am
know,        I    know.
             CM7/G
   Don’t wanna be


[Chorus]
Fadd2   Am7
over   you,       don’t wanna be
Fadd2   Am7             Em
over   you,       don’t wanna be
Fadd2   Am
over   you,   ooooooo
F
ooh, but you are not
Am
you.


[Verse 1]
Am
She said this wasn’t easy for her. De-
Fadd9
ciding to walk away wasn’t easy to her. And she said,
Am
   she felt the world was just something that she observed. that she
Fadd9
 was inadequate, that her place hadn’t been earned. She said,
Am
 she wasn’t happy with how her life had turned.
Fadd9
Feeling the real her was something she had to learn. I said,
C
 this isn’t easy but I support unnerved, be-
Em
lieving that in time she’d wake up and return.
Am
 But hope would fade as those few days had turned to weeks, and those
Fadd9
weeks created something of which I couldn’t speak, except
Am
  to say it spoke as if I wasn’t me, as if
Fadd9
we now hadn’t been together since we were teens, as if
Am
   these nine years were from a convincing dream and the
Fadd9
woman I thought I loved never loved me, I can’t conceive. This
C
had to be a thing, sort of like a changeling. It ac-
Em
ted and spoke the part, but her essence it couldn’t sing.

             CM7/G
   Don’t wanna be


[Chorus]
Fadd2   Am7
over   you,       don’t wanna be
Fadd2   Am7             Em
over   you,       don’t wanna be
Fadd2   Am
over   you,   but I just have to make it
F
through, ‘cuz you are not
Am
you.


[Bridge]
F                                   CM7/G
    When you’ve gone
Am          Em
astray,
F*                             CM7/G
    And the world just won’t o-
Am          Em
bey.
F*                             CM7/G
            When you fall             a-
Am
way,          well we
F*                             CM7/G
all                 must find our own
Am
way.


[Verse 2]
Am
    It’s quite amusing how being apart can yield
Fadd9
Levels of clarity on confusion once thought surreal
Am
     And what amazement to come to find you can heal, that one’s
Fadd9
future isn’t ill-fated but slated for high appeal.
Am
Well solace gives opportunity to reveal
Fadd9
   And time sheds perspective on why one feels
C
    To see success even in division’s the test, well
Em
every day we had wasn’t anything short of blessed.
Am
    So changeling, change brings, more than deranged
Fadd9
things, strange things, I’ve near persevered in an up-
Am
swing. So cling to new hope, more than a good
Fadd9
show, so do sing, do glow.     And to
Am
this new you, let us remove ado, let us
Fadd9
now greet renewed and just start from a different view. I’ll
C
introduce myself, now you introduce yourself. We’ll
Em
smile and live in health as two friends who have never dwelt

   Don’t wanna be


[Chorus]
Fadd2   Am7
over   you,       don’t wanna be
Fadd2   Am7             Em
over   you,       don’t wanna be
Fadd2   Am
over   you,    but
F          Fadd#11
you are not
Am
you.    Don’t wanna be
Fadd2   Am7
over   you,       don’t wanna be
Fadd2   Am7             Em
over   you,       don’t wanna be
Fadd2   Am
over   you,    but you are not


[Outro]
F
you, you are not
Am  CM7
you, you are not
Am
you, you are not
Am  CM7
you, you are not
FM7
you, you are not
Am
you.