The Who: Behind Blue Eyes

The Who's Behind Blue Eyes is another great song to learn with. I especially like Limp Bizkit's version which was used on the movie Gothica. In the full version of the song, Pete Townsend uses "sus" chords, or suspended 4th's, but we can ignore these for the time being.

We have a couple of new chords to play, G, Bm and A.

Playing the G chord: use fingers 2, 3 and 4 (pinky). This is much better than the standard 1, 2, and 3 and makes it easier to move to other chords like C.

Playing the A chord: personally I use fingers 2, 1, 3 in that order. You can use 1, 2, and 3 if you prefer.

Em                     G               D
No one knows what it's like, to be the bad man
       C          A
To be the sad man, behind blue eyes
Em                     G          D
No one knows what it's like to be hated
  C                   A
To be fated, to telling only lies

CHORUS
    C  D                   G    C  G
But my dreams, they aren't as empty
   C          D        E
As my conscience seems to be
    Bm           C
I have hours, only lonely
        D                      A
My love is vengeance that's never free

No one knows what it's like to feel these feelings
Like I do, and I blame you
No one bites back as hard on their anger
None of my pain and woe, can show through

CHORUS

Then it goes into the fast bit which we'll leave for now...