Midlake is an American rock band from Denton, Texas, that formed in 1999. The band first gained popularity in Europe.
Midlake began in 1999 by a group of jazz students at the University of North Texas. The original lineup consisted of Tim Smith (vocals, guitars, keyboards), McKenzie Smith (drums), Paul Alexander (bass), Eric Nichelson (guitar), and Evan Jacobs (keyboards). Their initial work (under the working name The Cornbread All-Stars) consisted of funk/jazz explorations heavily influenced by Herbie Hancock.
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
Verse: note, in the first 16 bars or so the guitar sounds to me like it is sliding up and down inversions of the chords, so if you want, do that, for simplicity i am just listing the chords used, not specific inversions or shapes.
Tried to make this intuitive, the #1's represent the first beat of each bar lined up with the according lyric w/ the chords above.
GaugGaugGaugGaug 1 1 (&) (&) 1 1 Well he siings when he moops seems to heeeeeeeeelp him a lot, (would you caaaaaaare for a driink? This is buuuusiness said she)
GaugGaugGaugGaug 1 1 (&) 1 1 Where theres uuuuuuuuuneven staaaaairs Mr. Landloooooooord is there (Tell me whhhheeere are the veeeents for theeeese aaappaarrt-ments)
BmajBmajBmajBmaj 1 1 & 1 & (2) 1 (&) Well he mooooooops all daaaaaaay he cant get awaaaaaay too (so they gooooooooo up-staaaaaairs to iiinspect air)
EminEmin 1 long
BmajBmajBmajBmaj 1 1 & 1 & 2 1 & And wheeeeeeeen he's through theres windows toooooo- (Aiiiiiirrr is good its reallyy good uuupp-)
Chorus: EmajEmajEmajEmaj 1 -ooooo (there)
DmajDmajEmajEmaj 1 1 1 Theeen Nellie cooomes tooo see him (Shees glad that heee caarres so much)
DmajDmajEmajEmaj 1 1 1 with a straight face she comes to see him (A-bout the safety of electrical ouuuttllets)
CmajCmajGmajGmaj 1 1 1 & taking her favoooorriittte pen from heeerr poocket
FmajFmajEmajEmaj 1 & & 1 1 She writes it doooown the things that she's found
CmajCmajEmajEmaj 1 1 1 & he always soooooometimes geettts a little nervous cause he'd (she) (she'd)
CmajCmaj 1 1 like for heeeeer tooo staaaay
EmajEmajDmajDmaj 1 for a daaaaaaayyyy---
CmajCmajEmajEmaj
DmajDmajCmajCmaj
EmajEmaj
*Repeat with parenthesis as second set of lyrics, hopefully the rhythm of the melody is close, always go with what you hear if you think what i have done is odd, but let me know if anything is blatantly wrong. Real good, Midlake real good listen time good.