The Knife Feels Like Justice

The Knife Feels Like Justice from his first solo album of the same name. Released in 1986 

Key of G 

Intro Riff (on 12 string electric): 
E----------|-----------------------------------------------------| 
B----------|-----------------------------------------------------| 
G----------|-------------------0------------0------------0-----| 
D----------|------0---------2------------4------------2----0--| 
A----------|---2----2---3--------3->-5------5->-3----------| 
E-----0-2-|-3--------------------------------------------------| 

|---------------------------------------------------------| 
|---------------------------------------------------------|  
|---------------------0-------------0------------0------| 
|--------0---------2-------------4------------2-----0--| 
|-----2----2---3--------3->-5-------5->-3-----------| 
|--3-----------------------------------------------------|---3--- etc 








Intro (with band): 
G - C - | G - C - | G - C - | G - C - | 

Verse 
G 
So you think that you have found 
Em 
A better life that you should live 
C 
And you're through givin' it all away 
Am 
I wish there's something I could say 

G 
Like the time you looked into the mirror 
Em 
And saw someone else lookin' back 
C 
I wish I could find the words 
Am 
But there's nothing that even comes close 


D 
'Cause there ain't nobody ever looked at me 
Am 
Without lookin' right through me 
D 
There ain't nobody ever looked at me 
Am                        C 
Without lookin' right by me 
G                D/F#          Em      Em/D     Am7 
And you can't go on when the knife feels like justice 

Intro chords again:  
G - C - | G - C - | G - C - | G - C - | 

verse 2 
G 
When the sun dies down and the air grows cold 
Em 
And the moon plays tricks in the night 
Am 
Crawlin' low like a snake out of sight 
D 
Your guide is the northern light 

G 
You wanna laugh, say I'm insane 
Em 
Don't have the sense to come in from the rain 
C                            Am 
I know how to keep myself between the drops 

D                        Dsus4    D 
There ain't nobody ever looked at me 
Am 
Without lookin' right through me 
D                        Dsus4    D 
There ain't nobody ever looked at me 
Am                    C 
Without lookin' right by me 
G             D/F#          Em    Em/D        Am7 
And you can't go on when the knife feels like justice 

Pre-Guitar Solo Break 
Em 
Slip away 
Am 
Slip away 
Em        Am   C    D 
Slip away 

Guitar Solo Chords (like Chorus) 
D - - - | - - - - | Am - - - | - - - - | D - - - | - - - - | Am - - - | C - - - | 
G - D/F# - | Em - Em/D - | Am7 - - - | - - - - | 
G - D/F# - | Em - Em/D - | Am7 - - - | - - - - | 

Breakdown (intro again) 

verse 3 
G 
So you think that you have won me over 
Em 
By settin' me on fire 
C 
With the sound of your beating heart 
Am 
And you're burnin' hot desire 

G 
Like the time I looked at your reflections 
Em 
And saw someone else lookin' back 
C 
It's a shame things happen that way 
Am 
'Cause there's no one that even comes close 


D                             Dsus4   D 
And there ain't nobody ever looked at me 
Am 
Without lookin' right through me 
D                        Dsus4    D 
There ain't nobody ever looked at me 
Am       Em/B          C 
Without lookin' right by me 

G         D/F#                Em    Em/D       Am7 
And you can't go on when the knife feels like justice 
G              D/F#             Em    Em/D     Am7 
I said you can't go on when the blade tears inside you 
G             D/F#             Em     Em/D     Am7       Am 
You can't go on when the knife feels like justice