IT HAPPENS

in A Major

By Doug Rausch

4/4    ♩= 130

 

Verse I:

Picking Up the Pieces of What’s Been Done 
Be A Whole Lot Easier If I Was One 
Who Had Lots of Peace and Luck When It’d begun 
Gotta Let It Be cuz What’s Done is Done What’s Done is Done 

Traveled Oh So Far and There’s a Lot to Come 
Been a Lot o Scars it Ain’t Been Lots o Fun 
Feel the Time Inside it Ain’t Over Yet 
I’m Still on the Rise If I Could Only Get Some Demons Outta My Head 

  

Chorus I: 

(3) I’ve Been Around This Track So Many Times There’s Nothing That I can Take Back 
(4) So Many People Let U Down, That’s What I Get for Living Breathing Being Around              

1: A                G                          D6                          F                 2: A6/9             GMaj13#11                  DMaj13                      F              3: AMaj13           GMaj13#11b9                DMaj13#11                   F             4: AMaj13           GMaj13#11b9                DMaj13#11                   F 

      

Verse II:

I Can Never Seem to Just Get it Right 
Always Hit or Miss and Miss is Winning the Fight 
Is it All My Fault or is it My Fate 
Doesn’t Matter at All Because it’s Not Too Late, No it’s Never Too Late 

This is How You Want it That’s How It Will Be 
Dark Can Take the Day So Easily 
It’s Beyond Me Why You Play This Charade 
Know I’ll Never be Back if It’s the Choice You Made and That’s the Choice You Made! 

  

Chorus II:

(3) I’ve Been Around This Track So Many Times There’s Nothing That I can Take Back 
(4) So Many People Let U Down, That’s What I Get for Living Breathing Being Around 
(5) I’ll Be Better Tomorrow But Tomorrow Is So Far Away 
(6) Good Moods You Can’t Borrow, So We’re Stuck In Here Today 
(7) Let Us Take This Hell on Our Chin It’s What They’d Expect  
I Guess I Never Thought I Could Win

1: A                G                          D                           F 
2: A                G13#11                     D13                         F                 
3: A                G13#11                     D13                         F 
4: A                G13#11                     D13(b9 #9)                  F 
5: A                G13#11                     DMaj13                      F  
6: A                G13#11                     DMaj13                      F                             7: A                G13#11                     D13                         F 

  

♩= 137 

Bridge (in Eb Lydian): 

You’re in A Weird, Weird Place to Be 
You Can’t Avoid This (6/4) Tragedy  
(4/4) You May or May Not Make It Through 
But It Will Be No (6/4) Fault of You  



4/4    ♩= 130 

Verse III:

Person Next to You Just Found a Pot of Gold 
Keep Your Head on Straight Never Sell Your Soul 
Have Some Patience You Will Win Back Control 
Learning How to Let Go 
Learning How to Have Hope 
Learning How to Have Faith, Better Make it a Goal, Because You’re Gonna Get Old  
So Go and Make It A Goal 

 

Chorus III: 

We Been Around This Track Too Many Times There’s Something We Gotta Take Back 
Everybody’s Let Us Down, They Stabbed Our Backs Just For Living Breathing Being Around 
We’d Be Better Tomorrow if Tomorrow it Weren’t So Far Away 
Happiness Can’t be Borrowed; Looks Like We’re Stuck in Right Now Right Here Today 
Let’s Take The Hell on Our Chin It’s What I’d Expect  
I Guess I Really Thought I Might Win! 

 

Outro (instrumental): 

m. 1♩= 135 
m. 5♩= 140 
m. 9♩= 143 
   m. 17♩= 130 rit…