Nothing In Return

T-Bone Burnett recorded this song for the Roky Erikson tribute

CD Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye. The song is called

"Nothing in Return" and it goes like this...

Nothing in Return (Erikson)

Verse 1:

I call your name in the midnight

But you don't hear me at all

I love you so dearly and nearly

But you don't love me at all

There's nothin in this big round world that's worse

Hu--ur---ur---rts

Than payin out 'n receivin nothin in return

Verse 2:

Every day and night I dial your number

But you never answer the phone

Are you really not there when I call you?

What gives you so much chance to roam?

- chorus -

If I only knew how to get you

Well I tried all I know and failed except for lovin you so

Verse 3:

I sought you out and found out your name first

But my name you never seem to have called

How in this world can I date you

When you won't give me a call?

- chorus -

- bridge -

- verse 1 -

- chorus -

End: E E/D# C#m C#m/B

Oh no---oh---oh

Payin out 'n receivin nothin in return

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some notes:

The progression E E/D# C#m C#m/B indicates a descending

bass line, namely the *notes* E, D#, C#, B. I play the E

chord which starts this progression at the 7th fret and

then play the C#m chord at the 4th fret.

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