I'm Looking Through You
(Lennon/ McCartney)
The Beatles
Rubber Soul (1965)
Capo on the first fret!!
Intro: (note that all fret numbers assume you are counting up from capo.
The first chord is shaped like a simple D chord: just move
move it up the neck. Make sure you get the strumming rhythm
off the record; this is only an approximation to provide the
fingering)
G D
|--/7--7---7--7--7--7---\5--5--5--5-----|
|--/8--8---8--8--8--8---\7--7--7--7-----|
|--/7--7---7--7--7--7---\7--7--7--7-----| The rest of the intro as well
|---------------------------------------| as the sections between verses is
|---------------------------------------| just an alternating pattern of
|---------------------------------------| G--> Cadd9 --> G...
G Cadd9 G Cadd9 G Cadd9
G Cadd9 G/B Am
I'm look ing through you--
Em D Dsus2 D
Where did you go?
G Cadd9 G/B Am
I thought I knew you
Em D Dsus2 D
What did I know?
Em7 Asus4 Am
You dont look diff' rent
G Cadd9 D Dsus2 D
But you have changed
G Cadd9 G/B Am
I'm look ing through you
Cadd9 G [see below for riff]
You're not the same!
G Cadd9 G Cadd9 G Cadd9
G Cadd9 G/B Am
Your lips are moving--
Em D Dsus2 D
I cannot hear.
G Cadd9 G/B Am
Your voice is soothing,
Em D Dsus2 D
But the words arent clear.
Em7 Asus4 Am
You dont sound diff' rent
G Cadd9 D Dsus2 D
I've learned the game
G Cadd9 G/B Am
I'm look ing through you
Cadd9 G
You're not the same!
G Cadd9 G Cadd9 G Cadd9
Cadd9 G
Why, Tell me why did you not treat me right?
Cadd9 Dsus4 D
Love has a nasty habit of disappearing overnight.
G Cadd9 G/B Am
You're think ing of me
Em D Dsus2 D
The same old way
G Cadd9 G/B Am
You were a bove me
Em D Dsus2 D
But not today
Em7 Asus4 Am
The only diff' rence
G Cadd9 D Dsus2 D
Is youre down there
G Cadd9 G/B Am
I'm look ing through you
Cadd9 G
And youre nowhere!
G Cadd9 G Cadd9 G Cadd9
Cadd9 G
Why, Tell me why did you not treat me right?
Cadd9 Dsus4 D
Love has a nasty habit of disappearing overnight.
G Cadd9 G/B Am
I'm look ing through you--
Em D Dsus2 D
Where did you go?
G Cadd9 G/B Am
I thought I knew you
Em D Dsus2 D
What did I know?
Em7 Asus4 Am
You dont look diff' rent
G Cadd9 D Dsus2 D
But you have changed
G Cadd9 G/B Am
I'm look ing through you
Cadd9 G Cadd9
You're not the same!
G Cadd9 G Cadd9
Yea! Baby you've changed!
Ah, I'm lookin' through you!
Yea! I'm lookin' through you!
You've changed! You've changed!
You've changed! You've changed! [fade]
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riff: (The first two staccato hits are doubled by an organ)
|---3--3-----------------|
|---3--3---3h5p3p0-------|
|------------------3h4---|
|------------------------|
|------------------------|
|------------------------|
----------------------------------------------------------------
Cadd9 G/B Dsus2 Dsus4 Em7 Asus4
-3- -3- -0- -3- -0- -0-
-3- -3- -3- -3- -3- -3-
-0- -0- -2- -2- -0- -2-
-2- -0- -0- -0- -2- -2-
-3- -2- --- --- -2- -0-
--- --- --- --- -0- ---
transcribed by Chris Sears
cts@mail.utexas.edu
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