Elaborate Lives

There's a bit of picking at the beginning and the end. It's not difficult at all, and

you shouldn't have any trouble with it. This is the first version of the song as opposed

to Aida's reprise at the conclusion of the show.

Tuning: Standard EADGBE

Key: G

The Broadway version is actually in the key of Gb, but to put off some work, I figured

whoever would want these chords would like to have the option of having the original key

or a half-step higher.

Chords:

G= 320033

Cadd9= x32033

C= x32010

Em= 022000

D= xx0232

B= 799877

A7= x02020

C*= x22010

Dsus4= xx0233

E= 022100

Intro:

Verse 1:

We all lead

Such elaborate lives

Wild ambition

In our sights

How an affair

Of the heart

Survives

Days apart

And hurried nights

Seems quite

unbelieveable to me

I don't want to live like that

Seems quite unbelieveable to me

I don't wanna love like that

I just want our time to be

Slower and gentler

Wiser

Free

Verse 2:

We all live

in extravagant times

Playing games

we can't all win

Unintended

emotional crimes

take some out

take others in

I'm so tired of all we're going through

I don't want to live like that

I'm so tired of all we're going through

I don't wanna love like that

I just wanna be with you

Now and forever

Peaceful

True

Bridge:

This may not be the moment

to tell you face to face

But I could wait forever

for the perfect time and place

We all lead

such elaborate lives

We don't know

whose words are true

Strangers lovers

husbands wives

Hard to know

who's loving who

Too many choices tear us apart

I don't want to live like that

Too many choices tear us apart

I don't wanna love like that

I just wanna touch your heart

May this confession

be the

(begin picking)

start

Outro:

Thank you!