This is the major-key song, and the one that resolves. After three songs that refuse home with flat sevenths and minor fives, Somewhere Else lands a real vi ii V I in C major. The lyric reaches for somewhere better while the harmony settles home. Grounded in the transcribed keys and guitar MIDI, a pyin read of the vocal stem, and the Racy chord chart.
Somewhere Else · Hooray For Earth
C major · sustained chorus · the one that resolves, a real vi ii V I
Reading the numbers over each vocal note: 1 root, 3 major third, 5 fifth, 7 major seventh, 9 ninth, 11 the fourth sung as a color tone, 13 thirteenth (the sixth), b7 / b3 the lowered seventh and third, #11 / b9 the raised fourth and lowered ninth. Every label is the interval that sung note makes against the chord sounding beneath it in the staff directly below.
The chorus runs Am7 (vi), Dm7 (ii), G (V), C (I).
This is the one that resolves, a real vi ii V I with a dominant that lands home.
After the flat sevenths and minor fives of the other songs, C major arrives and the G pulls to C.
The singer sings somewhere else, somewhere better than here, over the chord that finally gets there.
The words reach away from home and the harmony settles onto it.
The vocal circles A, C, and D, all inside the chords, and the melody rides the resolution.
favorite momentThe V to I that actually lands, a real cadence home under a lyric that wants to be anywhere but here.
Chorus staves: vocal with the engraved lyric (pyin melody); guitar and bass with rendered standard-tuning tab (bass 4-string EADG). Chords from the Racy chord chart, which matches the audio.
C major · intro · the dominant and its secondary dominant, all pull and no home
The intro sits on G (V) and Dsus4 (II).
D major is a secondary dominant here, the five of the five, pointing at the G.
Dsus4 hides its third, so the chord leans forward and will not tell you major or minor yet.
The song opens on the dominant and its setup, all pull and no home.
That tension is the runway, and the chorus lands the resolution later.
Two chords, both reaching, and neither one the tonic.
favorite momentDsus4 as the five of the five, a secondary dominant with its third held back.
The intro is instrumental, so the vocal staff rests, marked tacet. Guitar and bass carry rendered tab staves. Chords from the Racy chord chart, which matches the audio.
C major · bridge · even the home chords keep an added second ringing
The bridge moves Fmaj7 (IV), Cadd9 (I), Gsus4 (V).
IV to I is the soft plagal side, warm and open.
Cadd9 keeps the ninth ringing on the tonic, and Gsus4 suspends the dominant.
So even the home chords hold an added second, a small unresolved shimmer on top.
The bridge stays diatonic and never leaves C major, the calm middle of the song.
The same sus and add9 colors that open the song come back to soften the landing.
favorite momentCadd9 and Gsus4, the tonic and the dominant both keeping an added second ringing.
The bridge is instrumental, so the vocal staff rests, marked tacet. Guitar and bass carry rendered tab staves. Chords from the Racy chord chart, which matches the audio.