ARTIST: The Smiths
TITLE: I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
ALBUMS: Strangeways Here We Come, The Singles


chords:
C#   D    E    F    F#   B    Bb      
4    5    7    8    x    2    x     
6    7    9   10    x    4    x
6    7    9   10    x    4    x
6    7    9   10    4    4    8
4    5    7    8    4    2    8
x    x    x    x    2    x    6   


intro:
e---------------0----------------------------0-------
b---------------0-----------0----------------0-------
g----1----------------------1------1---------1-------
d----2--2-------------------2------2--2--------------
a----2--2-------------------2------2--2--------------
e-------0--------------------------0--0--------------

(play this lead also during choruses)
C#
e------0--------0---------0-----------0---------1----------4--
b--------0------------------0---------------------2-----------
g----------1----------1-------1-------------1-------1---------
d-------------------------------------------------------------
a-------------------------------------------------------------
e-------------------------------------------------------------

                                       D                   E    F
e----1---------1--------6---7----------2----------2--------4----5------
b----------------2-----------------------3----------3--------5----6----
g----------1-------1--------------1--------2----------2--------4----5--
d----------------------------------------------------------------------
a----------------------------------------------------------------------
e----------------------------------------------------------------------


F#  E  F#  A Bb B

B
The lanes were silent
      D            E                   F#   
with nothing or no one around for miles
B
I doused our friendly venture
       D
with a hard-faced
            E
three-word gesture
C#
I started something

I forced you into a zone
             D
and you were clearly
E       F          F#     
never meant to go
C#
hair brushed and parted

typical me, typical me

typical me
          D
I started something
       E        F
...and now I'm not too sure
B
I grabbed you by the guilded beams
D              E             F# 
that's what Tradition means
B
and I doused another venture
       D
with a gesture
         E               F
that was...absolutely vile
C#
I started something
              
forced you to a zone
             D
and you were clearly
E                  F#
never meant to go
C#
hair brushed and parted

typical me, typical me

typical me
          D
I started something
       E        F  
...and now I'm not too sure

F#

B
I grabbed you by the guilded beams
D              E              F#
that's what Tradition means
B
and now eighteen months' hard-labour
     D  E
seems...fair enough
C#
I started something

forced you to a zone
             D
and you were clearly
E       F          F#
never meant to go
C#
hair brushed and parted

typical me, typical me

typical me
          D
I started something
    E        F
and now I'm not too sure

F#



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