Tablature orpheus - David Sylvian

          



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  From: jsinger@bosshog.arts.uwo.ca (Jonathan Singer)

  Date: 9 Aug 1995 14:08:05 GMT

  Subject: Re: David Sylvian: Orpheus

  

  

  As I have neither guitar nor cassette nearby, both the chords and lyrics 

  may be a bit off.

  Perhaps some kind sould could clean up any errors and send it on to OLGA, 

  if it doesn't yet exist there... .

  

  

  ORPHEUS

  by David Sylvian

  From the Album: "Secrets of the Beehive"

  

  

  Introduction: E-C-A-F  (the C and A may be in reverse order, sorry)

  

  E

  Standing here on this stony ground

  

       C

  The wind blows hot, pulls these clothes around

  

      A

  I harbour all the same worries as most

  

          F

  The temptation to leave or to give up the ghost

  

       D

  I wrestle with an outlook on life

  

         G

  That shifts between darkness and shadowy light

  

      C

  I struggle with words, for fear that they'll hear

  

        Bb                                           A

  But Orpheus sleeps on his back, still dead to the world

  

  

  Verse 2: (same chords)

  

  Sunlight falls, my wings open wide

  There's a beauty here that I cannot deny

  In bottles that tumble and crash on the stairs

  Just so many people I knew never cared

  

  Down below on the wreck of the ship

  There's a stronghold of pleasures I couldn't regret

  But the baggage is swallowed up by the tide

  As Orpheus keeps to his promise and stays by my side

  

  

  Bridge:

  

  Am      G

  Tell me - I'd still love to learn

  

  Am         G

  Understand - These fires never die

  

  Am         G

  Believe me - When this joke is tired of laughing

  

  Am               D            F         G

  I will be - the promise of my Orpheus' singing

  

  

  Intro (x2)

  

  

  Verse 3:

  

  Asleep as sleepers we row the boat

  Just you, the weather, and I gave up hope

  But all of the hurdles that fell in our lives

  Were fuel for the fire and straw for our backs

  

  Still the voices of stories to tell 

  Of the power struggles of heaven and hell

  But we feel secure again, such mighty dreams

  As Orpheus sings of the promise tomorrow may bring.

  

  

  (Bridge)

  -- 

  Jonathan A. Singer            | | "I'd rather that a bigot mistake me|

  jsinger@bosshog.arts.uwo.ca   | |  for a lesbian than that a lesbian |

  University of Western Ontario | |  mistake me for a bigot."	     |

  Centre for Theory + Criticism | |           	   - Tovah Hollander |

  

   


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 Orpheus, de David sylvian 

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