The Book Of My Life Chords

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Author F1lover [a] 133. Last edit on Feb 13, 2014

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Great stuff here by a true master, Sting is truly the best.
Standard tuning (sorry about the mystery notes as I am not sure what they are called.)
 
 Music and lyrics by Sting.
 The Book of my life.
 
Let me [F#m]watch by the fire and remember my days
 
 
And it [E]may be a trick of the firelight
 
 
But the [B?/D#]flickering pages that trouble my sight
 
 
Is a [D]book I'm afraid to write
 
 
 
It's the[F#m] book of my days, it's the book of my life
 
 
And it's [E]cut like a fruit on the blade of a knife
 
 
And it's[B?/D#] all there to see as the section reveals
 
 
There's[D] some sorrow in every life
 
 
 
If it re[A]ads like a puzzle, a wa[Bm]ndering maze
 
 
Then I [F#m]won't understand 'til the [D dim7]end of my days
 
 
I'm still [D]forced to remember,
 
 
Rem[Bm]ember the words of my life [F?]
 
(sorry that's it for now more to come)
 
 
 
There are promises broken and promises kept
Angry words that were spoken, when I should have wept
There's a chapter of secrets, and words to confess
If I lose everything that I possess
there's a chapter on loss and a ghost who won't die
There's a chapter on love where the ink's never dry
There are sentences served in a prison I built out of lies.
 
 
 
Though the pages are numbered
I can't see where they lead
For the end is a mystery no-one can read
In the book of my life
 
 
 
There's a chapter on fathers a chapter on sons
There are pages of conflicts that nobody won
And the battles you lost and your bitter defeat,
There's a page where we fail to meet
 
 
 
There are tales of good fortune that couldn't be planned
There's a chapter on god that I don't understand
There's a promise of Heaven and Hell but I'm damned if I see
 
 
 
Though the pages are numbered
I can't see where they lead
For the end is a mystery no-one can read
In the book of my life
 
 
 
Now the daylight's returning
And if one sentence is true
All these pages are burning
And all that's left is you
 
 
 
Though the pages are numbered
I can't see where they lead
For the end is a mystery no-one can read
In the book of my life
 
Definitions
F#m     244222
E       012200
B?/D#   001202
D       XX0232
A       002220
Bm      224432
Ddim7 xx1212
F?      2xxxxx (let ring)
X

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Yeah pretty much spot on. I think for last line in the chorus, where it just says Bm - F? it goes Bm to E then F#m. ----------D---------Bm-----------E-----------F#m Forced to remember, remember the words of my life ----------D---------------------Bm-------E------------F#m There are sentences served in a prison I built out of lies I think that's right. Well done. We need more Sting and Police chords! Jx

Great stuff. The D chord is like Dm, but without the index finger (applies to both open and bar chord positions) The chorus is definitely like Rogan said in the comments: [A], [Bm] [F#m], [D] [Bm], [D][E][F#m] As for the breakdown/bridge, it's pretty much the chorus with some slight changes (timing and adding a chord to let it resolve on [E][F#m]. Like this: [A], [Bm] (let ring) [F#m], [D] (let ring) [Bm], [F#m]** (let ring) **this is small change [D], [E][F#m] As for the key change for the last minute of the song, I think everything goes up 5 half steps, but I am not going to bother with it.

right on