Goodbye
Hasn't been so good to me
Stepped out into the night
Back against the moon
I saw ten thousand hands with candlelight
We all think that we're right
It's hard to tell
If the night is full of hope or doom

What more than sorry can I say
What more than sorry can I be
Before our love fades away
What more than sorry
Do you want from me

My eyes
Burn with unshed tears
My body is weak
From so many silent years
Too many people say goodbye
Before they say hello
Step into the morning and disappear

What more than sorry can I say
What more than sorry can I be
Before our love fades away
What more than sorry
Do you want from me

What more than sorry can I say
What more than sorry can I be
Before our love fades away
What more than sorry
Do you want from me


Musicians

Ben Harper : Vocals
Danny Kalb : Guitar


Comments

by Danny Kalb (recording engineer and co-writer of the song) :

"This is the rough mix too. Stephen Marcussen did a hell of a job on this in mastering."

"The main guitar part was something I had written a year or two ago. During the session I won two online auctions for two different classical guitars. I got them both really cheap. I had one of the guitars just laying around the studio. We were taking a short break; Ben was in the back of the control room making a call on his cell. Being that it was a new guitar and a nylon one at that (I had never owned a nylon before) I picked it up in the front of the control room and started playing very quietly. I started playing the part I had written because it lent itself very well to nylon fingerstyle guitar. I then heard Ben say from the back "what is that?". I'm still amazed he even heard it — his hearing is very acute. He got off the phone a little bit later and asked me about it. I played it for him again and he said "we might have to record that". The next day when we were taking a break he asked me to play the part again. I played it for a bit. He told me that he had some lyrics that would go great with it and he wanted to record it! Long story short, we worked out an arrangement and recorded it the next night. The vocal and main guitar part were recorded together at the same time in the same room. Then I overdubbed the 2nd guitar part for the choruses. We recorded it on the studios barely working MCI tape machine that hadn't been used in about 2 years."

"Here are the basics. The guitar is tuned down a whole step. Here's the chords..."

-0---0---0---0--------------------
-1---1---1---1--------------------
-0---0---0---0-h-2---------------
-2---2---2---2--------------------
-3---0---1---x--------------------
--------------1--------------------

"In standard tuning the chords would be C-Am7-A#???-Fmaj7. Obviously the tab doesn't show all the hammer-ons and pull-offs. If you just explore with your pinky you'll find the notes. Aside from the pinky hammer-ons, you'll notice that the only thing that changes between the chords is the root note and the way the chords are arpeggiated."