The 6/9 chord is a closed cluster on synth; to translate to guitar, x21122 or x99899 can work.
Alternative strategies that might make reading these chords easier:
- Tune strings to standard D#/Eb and transpose the chord shapes up 1/2-step (first chord, C6/9 = 32233), or
- transpose chords up/down 6 half-steps (first chord F6/9 = x33233) and capo 6
ORDER: I V1 INT1 C PsC V2 INT2 C PsC INT3 FC
[INTRO]
(sample)
B6/9 | |
(add bass, guitar)
Bmaj7 D#m | |
Bmaj7 D#m F# | F# B |
[VERSE 1]
B6/9 D#m7 C#6
These picture frames don't hang the way they used to
B6/9 D#m7 C#6
They're all turned around, and half are filled with my youth
B6/9 D#m7 C#6
Bittersweet reminders of my life before you
B6/9 D#m7 F#maj7 B6/9
split me in two
B6/9 D#m7 C#6 ( B6/9 )
My body didn't like the way it felt last June
B6/9 D#m7 C#6 ( B6/9 )
And it haunted me the whole year, then turned into
B6/9 D#m7 C#6
thinking I was dying, wouldn't pull through
B6/9 D#m7 F#maj7 B6/9
to see twenty-two
[INTERLUDE 1]
B6/9 | |
[CHORUS]
Bmaj7 D#m C#6
(no - la) You keep on saying that I've changed
Bmaj7 D#m C#6
(no - la) I know that I don't seem quite the same
Bmaj7 D#m C#6
(no - la) Don't know where, don't know where I went, no
Bmaj7 D#m F#maj7 Bmaj7
(no - ) Don't know where I went wrong, but I keep singing
(la)
[POST-CHORUS]
Bmaj7 D#m C#6
Nola, Nola, Nola, No - la,
Bmaj7 D#m C#6
Nola, Nola, Nola, No - la
(But I keep singing)
Bmaj7 D#m C#6
Nola, Nola, Nola, No - la,
Bmaj7 D#m C#6
Nola, Nola, Nola, No - la
(But I keep singing)
[VERSE 2]
B6/9 D#m7 C#6
I'm at a loss for words under a full moon
B6/9 D#m7 C#6
Staring at the ceiling of a white room
B6/9 D#m7 C#6
Does the mirror in the corner see my shame too?
B6/9 D#m7 F#maj7 B6/9
Or a different view?
B6/9 D#m7 C#6
And on the porch, the ceiling's painted baby blue
B6/9 D#m7 C#6
Dressed to the nines just like the sky in early afternoon
B6/9 D#m7 C#6
'Cause its midnight and the ghosts might
B6/9 D#m7 F#maj7 B6/9
be coming soon
[INTERLUDE 2]
B6/9 | |
(go rise up)
[CHORUS]
Bmaj7 D#m C#6
(no - la) You keep on saying that I've changed
Bmaj7 D#m C#6
(no - la) I know that I don't seem quite the same
Bmaj7 D#m C#6
(no - la) Don't know where, don't know where I went, no
Bmaj7 D#m F#maj7 Bmaj7
(no - ) Don't know where I went wrong, but I keep singing
(la)
[POST-CHORUS]
Bmaj7 D#m C#6
Nola, Nola, Nola, No - la,
Bmaj7 D#m C#6
Nola, Nola, Nola, No - la
(But I keep singing)
Bmaj7 D#m C#6
Nola, Nola, Nola, No - la,
Bmaj7 D#m C#6
Nola, Nola, Nola, No - la
(But I keep singing)
[INTERLUDE 3]
Bmaj7 D#m | D#m C#6 |
Bmaj7 D#m | D#m C#6 |
Bmaj7 D#m | D#m C#6 |
Bmaj7 D#m F# | F# B6/9 |
[FINAL CHORUS]
(chill)
Bmaj7 D#m C#6
(no - la) You keep on saying that I've
Bmaj7 D#m
(no) changed (la), that I don't seem
Bmaj7 D#m
quite the same, no, don't know where I went, no
(no - la)
Bmaj7 D#m F#maj7 Bmaj7
(no - ) Don't know where I went wrong
(la)