Biography:
Matthew Sweet (born October 6, 1964) is a power pop musician from Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. He was part of the burgeoning Athens, Georgia music scene in the early and mid-1980s before gaining commercial success during the early 1990s.
As a young musician wanting to make a name for himself, Sweet set off to Athens, Georgia in the mid '80s, to attend college and join the vibrant Athens music scene, most famous as the home base for R.E.M. and The B-52's.
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Other songs:
- Come To Love
- Dinosaur Act
- Do It Again
- Does She Talk
- Dont Cry No Tears
- Dont Go
- Evergreen
- Everything Changes
- Farther Down
- Girlfriend
- Giving It Back
- Happiness
- Hide
- Holy War
- How Cool
- I Almost Forgot
- I Wanted To Tell You
- In Too Deep
- Isolation
- Life Without You
- Looking At The Sun
- Lost My Mind
- Morning Song
- My Pet
- Never Said Goodbye
- Push The Feelings
- Quiet Her
- Reaching Out
- Save Time For Me
- Scooby
- Sick Of Myself
- Smog Moon
- Someone To Pull The Trigger
- Superdeformed
- Teenage Female
- Thing
- Thought I Knew You
- Tommorrow
- Trade Places
- Wait
- Walk Out
- What Do You Know
- What Matters
- Wild
- Winona
- You Dont Love Me
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"I Thought I Knew You" (Last updated: 5/29/96)
Original chords by: ?
Corretions by: Cliff A. Hicks <[email protected]>
Riff from: Tyler Kelley ([email protected])
Intro riff chords (also used between chorus and verse):
-8----7-----12--------|
-10---10----12--------|
-9----9-----13--------| ... you know the rhythm, etc.
-10---10--------------|
----------------------|
----------------------|
Starts out in Am, pull off and hammer on the index finger, alternating with E
and then go to:
Am
I thought I knew you, I was
G
in for a surprise, I let my
D
love flow from my
E
heart into your eyes, and then I
Am
found out
G D
that there was nothing I could know or guess about you
E
you'd go as far as you could go and it took me
F C
Years to figure out that there was
D7 E
nothing I could give to you, and
F C
Years to figure out that there was
D7 E
nothing you would take from me, and
F C
How can I describe the way you
D7 E
slowly took my hope away, and
F
all of the time, I thought I
Am
knew you
#This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the #
#song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. #
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------##
#
# For the latest collection of Matthew Sweet chords, go to
# http://www.uark.edu/~cbray/sweet/
#
# If you have any corrections or additions to this file, please email them
# to [email protected]
#
"I Thought I Knew You" (Last updated: 5/29/96)
Original chords by: ?
Corretions by: Cliff A. Hicks <[email protected]>
Riff from: Tyler Kelley ([email protected])
Intro riff chords (also used between chorus and verse):
-8----7-----12--------|
-10---10----12--------|
-9----9-----13--------| ... you know the rhythm, etc.
-10---10--------------|
----------------------|
----------------------|
Starts out in Am, pull off and hammer on the index finger, alternating with E
and then go to:
Am
I thought I knew you, I was
G
in for a surprise, I let my
D
love flow from my
E
heart into your eyes, and then I
Am
found out
G D
that there was nothing I could know or guess about you
E
you'd go as far as you could go and it took me
F C
Years to figure out that there was
D7 E
nothing I could give to you, and
F C
Years to figure out that there was
D7 E
nothing you would take from me, and
F C
How can I describe the way you
D7 E
slowly took my hope away, and
F
all of the time, I thought I
Am
knew you
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