Biography:
Elvis Perkins (born February 9, 1976) is a folk-rock singer-songwriter. He is the son of actor Anthony Perkins (an Academy-award nominated screen actor best known for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho) and photographer Berry Berenson. He was raised in Los Angeles, California and New York City. Perkins is a great-grandson of the fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli and a nephew of the actress Marisa Berenson.
Perkins's melancholy songs reflect the personal tragedy he has experienced over the years.
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Elvis Perkins in Dearland – I Heard Your Voice Dresden
Chords by tommythecat : Check song for timing
C
I heard your voice in the Dresden
F Em G
As baby took to the stairs
With all my loving
C Em
Heard your voice in the Dresden
Am G C
Now it follows me everywhere
C F Em
Dear Woman at the gates of the dawn,
C F G
It's my birthday may I come in?
C
I'll tell my brother and if I had one,
F Em
I'd tell my sisters too
C F G
You alone may sing my hymns and
C
Raise the warning
F Em
Raise the warning
C
Raise the warning
F G
He's bottled his tears
C
Raise that warning
F Em
The warning
C
Raise the warning
F G
The beginning is near.
C
O I heard your voice in the Dresden
F Em G
As baby boarded the liner in Paris
C E7
Now I heard your voice in Dresden
Am G C
And now it follows me everywhere
C F
Dear land from the giant
Em C
Speakers of all man
F G C
Time from the swollen mountain tops
F Em C F G
The stolen sun thoughts the solar wind chimes
C F Em
To ring the morning the morning up
C F G
O ring the morning the morning up
C Em
O I heard your voice in Dresden
Am G C G C
And now it follows me everywhere.
C G C G C
Now let us together sing the sun
E F
To the home in the heavens
C
From the sea from the sea
C G C
O yes and to our loving mother
C E7 F
We'll say, yes, we will see you another day
Am G C Am
O yes O yes for I can't hold my life can't hold my life
G G7 C F Em C F G
Can't hold my life in the march on glory glory glory glory Gloria
C F Em C F G
We march on glory glory glory Hallelujah
C
O I heard you voice in the Dresden
F Em G
As baby took to the air with all my loving
C
I heard your voice in Dresden
E7 Am G Am G Am G C
And now it follows me everywhere
Am G F C
Some have said our love is lost
Am G C
But I swear I know my way from here
Am G F C
Yes some have said our love is lost
Am G C
But I swear I know my way from here
Am G F C
Yes some have said our love is lost
Am G C G C G C etc.
But I swear I know my way from here
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It's certainly in the right ballpark - corrections welcome!
April 2009
"I don't let Doomsday bother me. Do you let it bother you?"
Chords by tommythecat : Check song for timing
C
I heard your voice in the Dresden
F Em G
As baby took to the stairs
With all my loving
C Em
Heard your voice in the Dresden
Am G C
Now it follows me everywhere
C F Em
Dear Woman at the gates of the dawn,
C F G
It's my birthday may I come in?
C
I'll tell my brother and if I had one,
F Em
I'd tell my sisters too
C F G
You alone may sing my hymns and
C
Raise the warning
F Em
Raise the warning
C
Raise the warning
F G
He's bottled his tears
C
Raise that warning
F Em
The warning
C
Raise the warning
F G
The beginning is near.
C
O I heard your voice in the Dresden
F Em G
As baby boarded the liner in Paris
C E7
Now I heard your voice in Dresden
Am G C
And now it follows me everywhere
C F
Dear land from the giant
Em C
Speakers of all man
F G C
Time from the swollen mountain tops
F Em C F G
The stolen sun thoughts the solar wind chimes
C F Em
To ring the morning the morning up
C F G
O ring the morning the morning up
C Em
O I heard your voice in Dresden
Am G C G C
And now it follows me everywhere.
C G C G C
Now let us together sing the sun
E F
To the home in the heavens
C
From the sea from the sea
C G C
O yes and to our loving mother
C E7 F
We'll say, yes, we will see you another day
Am G C Am
O yes O yes for I can't hold my life can't hold my life
G G7 C F Em C F G
Can't hold my life in the march on glory glory glory glory Gloria
C F Em C F G
We march on glory glory glory Hallelujah
C
O I heard you voice in the Dresden
F Em G
As baby took to the air with all my loving
C
I heard your voice in Dresden
E7 Am G Am G Am G C
And now it follows me everywhere
Am G F C
Some have said our love is lost
Am G C
But I swear I know my way from here
Am G F C
Yes some have said our love is lost
Am G C
But I swear I know my way from here
Am G F C
Yes some have said our love is lost
Am G C G C G C etc.
But I swear I know my way from here
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It's certainly in the right ballpark - corrections welcome!
April 2009
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