NOTE FOR PLAYERS:
These tabs are for advanced guitarists. If you're not one, you should
only play the backing chords (labelled as "guitar 1").
Guitar 1: plays mainly on the lows strings
Guitar 2: make variations over the backing chords on intro and
verses playing alternately F#/C# while guitar 1 plays
F# and Bmaj7/B6 while guitar 1 plays at end of verses
and chorus as indicated lower down
Chords Used:
Guitar 1 (rhythm guitar) Guitar 2 (lead guitar)
E A D G B E E A D G B E
F# ------ 2 4 4 3 2 2 F# ---- X X X 6 7 6
F#5(+) X X 4 3 3 2 C# X X X 10 9 9
B ------- 2 2 4 4 4 2 Bmaj7 - X X 9 8 7 6
C#7 4 4 6 4 6 7or4 or Bmaj7 X X 4 4 4 6
Abm7 ---- 4 6 4 4 4 4 B6 ---- X (2) 4 4 4 4
C#7/6 4 4 6 4 6 6
D#m ---- (6) 6 8 8 7 6
Bb (6) 8 8 7 6 (6)
GUITAR1 GUITAR 2
| D#m --- X X 8 8 7 6
at end of verse: while D#m | D#7/4 -- X X 8 6 9 6
| Bb ---- (6) 8 8 7 6 (6)
at end of verse: while Bb | Bb7 --- (6) 8 6 7 9 (6)
| Bdim(1)- X X 3 4 3 4
at end of chorus: while C#7 | Bdim(2)- X X 6 7 6 7
| Bdim(3)- X X 9 10 9 10
Intro:
Guitar 1: F# --------- B ----------
Guitar 2: (F# / C#) -- (Bmaj7 / B6) (at frets indicated)
Verse: (tabs for guitar 1. guitar 2 over 1 as indicated)
F# ---------------------------
Born on a junk heap in the sea
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cursed with the notion to be free
--------------------------- B -
white and bright and twenty one
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But in my heart I'm on the run
--------------------------- F -
I kissed the lips of eau de vie
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I tasted sugar and debris
------------------------ B ---
but in the early morning light
------------------------- D#m -- Bb7 ->(gtr.2:D#m/D#7/4 - Bb/Bb7)
I saw the day destroy the night
Ab7 (let ring) ---- C#7/6 (let ring)
Life is a long walk home
Chorus: (guitar 2 same as 1 but letting the chord ring)
---------- F# ------
Was it the moonlight
------------- F#5(+)
That left you gasping
---- B -------- B6 ----------- C#7 -- Bdim(1)
Gras-ping, some-thing beyond a boy or girl
--------------- F# -
Just let it all blow
---------- F#5+ -------
Untie your heartstrings
B ------ B6 -------------- C#7 --- Bdim(1) ->(gtr.2:Bdim(1)(2)(3))
No don't cling to this phe-nomenal world
Verse 2:
F# ---------------------------
I lost my senses in the spring
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Of someone's life that I left behind
--------------------------------- B ---
And though I search through every-thing
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A sense of loss is all I find
------------------------- F -
Her face is every work of art
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She haunts the city high and low
--------------------------- B ---
But I can't live inside her heart
---------------------- D#m -- Bb7 ->(gtr.2:D#m/D#7/4 - Bb/Bb7)
And so I had to let it go
Ab7 (let ring) ----- C#7/6 (let ring)
And make my heart my home
Chorus
Bridge:
new chords used:
E A D G B E
D# ---- x 6 8 (8) (8) (6)
D#5aug x 6 9 (8) x x
guitar 1:
D# -- D#5aug -- D# -- Ab
Bdim(1) - Bdim(2) - Bdim(3) ->(letting them ring)(*)
* This final inversion of dim chords is the same as the one at
chorus end and also is used at coda.
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