By Marty Willson-Piper
Transcribed by Brian Smith
This song will be easier to play if your hand if your fingers start each figure
in the right position, as shown below.
I will also write in the tab what "chord" your hand should be playing. Much
of this song just requires your hand ready to play a certain chord, but you
pick out a melody instead. I'll put the chord in single quotes. e.g 'Am'
First Bar Second Bar (C Chord) Third Bar (D add 5)
----2-3-----------------0--------------------------5---(little finger)---------
------3-----------------1--------------------------3---(middle finger)---------
------0-----------------0--------------------------2---(index finger)----------
------2-----------------2--------------------------0---------------------------
------------------------3------------------------------------------------------
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Here's the actual tab.
FIGURE 1
1st 2nd 3rd
(Play Fig. 1 twice)
|3-2-----0---3---------5-3-2---------------------------------------------------
|----3-----------3---3-------5-3-----------------------------------------------
|------4---0---0---2-----------------------------------------------------------
|2---------------0-------------------------------------------------------------
|--------3---------------------------------------------------------------------
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
("And I wonder") 'C' 'Am' 'D' 'C9'
8---7--10-----10--0---2---3---5----------0---3--2-------2-3-2-0----0--0--0-----
10--8--10-----8------------------1---3------------3---3---------3---3--3--3----
-----------0--------0---0---0------0---0---2--------2----------------0--0------
------------------3----------------------2---2--2-------2----------------------
---------------------------------0---------------------------------3-----------
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'A' 'D' (repeat D & C9 bars above)
--------0---3---2--------------------------------------------------------------
2---3--------------------------------------------------------------------------
--2---2---2---2----------------------------------------------------------------
----------------0--------------------------------------------------------------
0---0---0---0------------------------------------------------------------------
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What I haven't written out is the bridge section and the lead-in to it. The
reason is that it is played just by playing the following chords, but one
note at a time, etc, nothing that needs explicit note-for-note transcription.
So, you've played the two verses, here comes the bridge.
(This is the end of last verse...)
A D D C9 D G Gsus4
Will I start to bleed ?
Em B7 Em
Magnetic field around your heart
B7 Em
I'm sure I felt the engines start
B7 C
But what if all the fuel runs out ?
Lyrics:
Silence floats into the room
Whispers to me out of tune
And I wonder if these deadly
Awkward moments stay
Stabbing their spikes in me
Will I start to bleed ?
Raise your eyes until they're mine
Lift yourself towards the light
Your face looks like a
Waterfall to me
If I concede, what is it gonna mean ?
Will I start to bleed ?
(Bridge as written above)
Glad I didn't stay with you
So much more for me to do
I am free like Matthieu in the
Age of reason
But somethin' is missing
Will I start to bleed ?
Verse:Bm D G5 F# (second time don't play F#)
Chorus:Ebm F# Bbm (rpt) Db7 (At shelter in Calais)
Bridge:Ab Ab7 C#m F# (Tell me why her skirts)