Where Your Eyes Don’t Go by They Might Be Giants
[Convention: each chord is two beats/half a measure. A dash indicates that
the chord is held for another two beats; two chords with a slash between
them are held for one beat/a quarter of a measure each.
Don’t ask me how to play this.]
Intro:
E Am E Am/G
1.
|: C F G A
Where your eyes don’t go a filthy scarecrow waves his broomstick
Bb G Am F / G 😐
arms and does a parody of each unconscious thing you do
when you turn around to look it’s gone behind you — on its face
it’s wearing your confused expression — where your eyes don’t go
Chorus:
Ab Bb Cm Ab / Bb
Where your eyes don’t go a part of you is hovering
Eb Fm Gm Ab / Bb
it’s a nightmare that you’ll never be discovering
Eb Eb+aug5 Eb+6 Eb+7
you’re free to come and go or talk like Kurtis Blow
Ab Ab+6 Ab+maj7 Ab
but there’s a pair of eyes in back of your head
2.
Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that
wonders what the part that isn’t thinking isn’t thinking of
should you worry when the skull head is in front of you — or
is it worse because it’s always waiting — where your eyes don’t go
(Chorus)
Instrumental:
Eb Ab Bb C
Db Bb Cm Ab/Bb
(Repeat verse 1)
Coda:
|: Am Am+maj7 Am+dom7 Am+6
Dm Bb Bm E
A A+aug5 A+6 A+7
D — B E 😐