Relatively Speaking
Words by Arthur Hancock and Music by John Denver
from Seasons Of The Heart (1982)
C
Relatively speaking, you make me who I am.
F
I need you exactly like the ocean needs the land.
Am Em F G C
I need you like sunshine needs the shadows and the night.
Am F D7 Dm F/G
I need you the way love needs the savage hurtful fight.
C
Relatively sepaking, I'm nothing without you.
F
You are where I've been before, you are where I'm going to.
Am Em F G C
You are living out my dreams and you are all my fears.
Am F D7 Dm/G
You evoke my laughter, you unleash ev'ry tear.
Am Em F G7 C
The rich ones need the poor ones; the blind need those with sight,
Am F D7 G G7
Sinners need the pure of heart; the black ones need the white.
C
Relatively speaking the contrast makes it go.
F
Ev'ry action taken is related in the flow.
Am Em F G C
Stars and losers, kings and fools go dancing hand in hand,
Am F D7 Dm F/G
Relatively speaking, you make me who I am.
Instrumental (finished off the verse)
C F Am Em F G C Am F D7 Dm/G
Am Em F G7 C
The sick ones need the well ones, the living need the dead.
Am F D7 G G7
Heaven needs its hell you know, and love needs lonely beds.
C
Relatively speaking, the contrast makes it go.
F
Ev'ry action taken is related in the flow.
Am Em F G7 C
Stars and losers, kings and fools go dancing hand in hand.
Am F D7 Dm/G
Relatively speaking, you make me who I am,
F/G C
Who I am.
C (Repeat and fade)