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It Started Out So Nice

Transcribed by Glenn Coggin

Intro:
C, Bm, Am, Am, G (see notes below)

Fmaj7, Cmaj7, Fmaj7 

    Cmaj7
It started out with butterflies
        Fmaj7
On a velvet afternoon
Cmaj7
With flashing eyes and promises
Fmaj7
Caught and held too soon
Cmaj7
In a place called Ixea
              Fmaj7
With it's pumpkin oval moon
Cmaj7                       Fmaj
It started out so nice

Cmaj7
Genji taught Orion
       Fmaj7
Sea-purple harmony
Cmaj7                                   Fmaj7          
While Kogi hid secrets into seashells
Cmaj7
And even the ocean laughed 
                      Fmaj7
beneath that celestial canopy
        Cmaj7                     Fmaj7,   G
Cuz it started out so nice
Fmaj7
With the dust of stars they intermingled 
Fmaj7
Durock of Avon would only jingle 
Cmaj7
Marble money tunes 
     Fmaj7                       Cmaj7            Fmaj7
As pale earthly circles swooned


Cmaj7                                Fmaj7
Volume left Bohemia, a triangle for his thumb 
Cmaj7                                                  Fmaj7
Questions fell but no one stopped to listen
Cmaj7
That eternity was just a dawn away
              Fmaj7
And the rest was sure to come
             Cmaj7                        Fmaj7,    G          
Leaves, caught in winter's ice

Fmaj7
Abandoned circus grounds of flower captains 
Fmaj7
Prisms in a palm one way it happens 
Cmaj7
The air was silver calm
Fmaj7                                               Cmaj7, Fmaj7, 
The softly met were slowly moving on 

Dim(1)                 Dim(2)       Dm                                 G
Then all things in common suddenly grew strange

Now the Wurs were chasing other rainbows 
Trying to find where the wind blows 
To empty corners past dusty memories
Now in the third millennium the crowded madness came 
Crooked shadows roamed through the nights
The wizards overplayed their names 
And after that the Wurs never bothered to have
Summer reasons...again,
but it started out so nice
it started out so nice
We started out so nice.

Notes:
The C, Bm, Am, Am, G on the intro are played using the 3 thinnest strings like this:

C X X X 9 8 8
Bm X X X 7 7 7
Am X X X 5 5 5
G X X X 4 3 3

The other chords are:
Fma7 X 3 3 2 1 0 (F with 1st finger off)
Cmaj7 3 3 2 0 0 0 (C with 1st finger off)

The diminished chords contain all the same notes (because there are only 3 diminished chords in total), but there’s a change of position for the second one (up 3 frets). Not sure of their proper name, but they’re right.
Dim(1) X X 4 5 4 5
Dim(2) X X 7 8 7 8
Dm X 0 0 2 3 1

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