Chords:OMWF-Buffy Musical-Going through the Motions

[Jeff Burke the Bassoon Player]

Song Title: Going through the Motions
Music and Lyrics: Joss Whedon
Source : TV Series: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Episode Title: Once More With Feeling (AKA Buffy the Musical)
Season: 6, Episode: 7
Original Airdate: November 6, 2001
Written,Directed by:Joss Whedon
Transcribed by: Jeff Burke the Bassoon
Player<jeffbsn...@bdkw.yi.org>
Thanks To: Jörg Plate at http://www.psyche.kn-bremen.de for the
transcription script from which I gleaned the lyrics.

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Going Through The Motions
Joss Whedon

Tempo : 180 bpm
Key : F

{Intro}
4/4 |F |F |F |F |F |F |F |F C

{verse 1}
|F |F7/Eb
BUFFY: Every single night, the same arrangement.
|Dm |Eb Cm
I go out and fight the fight.
|F |F7/Eb
Still I always feel the strange estrangement.
|3/4 Ab |5/4 G
Nothing here is real, nothing here is right.

|4/4 Dm |F
I've been making shows of trading blows,
|Dm |A
Just hoping no one knows

|Bb |F
That I've been going through the motions,
|Db/F |C
Walking through the part.
|Bb |F |Eb | Eb
Nothing seems to penetrate my heart.
<Stab - Dust>

{verse 2}
|F |F7/Eb
I was always brave and kind of righteous.
|Dm |Eb
Now I find I'm wavering.
|F
Crawl out of your grave,
|F7/Eb
You'll find this fight just

|3/4 Ab
Doesn't mean a thing. <punch>

|G
VAMPIRE: She ain't got that swing.

|4/4 <rest> |<rest> |F#m
BUFFY:Thanks for noticing.

| Dm |F
|VAMPIRES/DEMON: She does pretty well with fiends from hell,
|Dm |A
But lately we can tell

|Bb |F
That she's just going through the motions.
|Db/F |C <slice,stab>
Faking it somehow.
| Bb |F |Eb | Eb
DEMON:She's not even half the girl she... oww ___!

{bridge}
|Dm |G
Will I stay this way forever?
|Dm |G <free>
Sleepwalk through my life's endeavor?
|Dm |G
MAN:How can I repay ... ?
|Dm |Eb |Eb
BUFFY:Whatever. I don't want to be ______

{Coda}
|Bb |F
Going through the motions,
|Db/F | C
Losing all my drive.
|Bb |F
I can't even see
|Bb |F
If this is really me.
|Bb Gm | Cm |C7
And I just wanna be ____
| Bb/F | F | Db/F | C/F
a-live _________________!

|F Fadd4 |Fadd4 |Fsus4 |Fsus4 |F | F |F ||

Source: Jeff Burke the Bassoon Player<jeffbsn...@bdkw.yi.org>
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