Tell Tale Signs version
This is quite a simple song if you are a band, that is, where each player can play around with a riff. But since you’re more likely a single guitar player, you’ll have to choose. The initial tab line shows the two basic elements that run through the verse sections: the piano riff and the bass line.
Other than that, it’s just a bluesy Em7 (022430)
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Em7 /g /a /b
The light in this place is really bad
Em7 /g /a /b
Like being at the bottom of a stream
Em7 /g /a /b
Any minute now
Em7 /g /a /b
I'm expecting to wake up from a dream
G A Em7
Means so much
G A Em7
The softest touch
Em7 /g /a /b
Like the grave of some child, who neither wept or smiled
Em7 /g /a /b
I pondered my fate in the rain
I've been dreaming of you That's all I do And it's driving me insane
Somewhere dawn is breaking
Light is streaking across the floor
Church-bells are ringing
I wonder who they're ringing for
Travel under any star
You'll see me wherever you are
The shadowy past is so vague and so vast
I'm sleeping in the palace of pain
I've been dreaming of you That's all I do But it's driving me insane
Maybe they'll get me, maybe they won't
But whatever it won't be tonight
I wish your hand was in mine right now
We could go where the moon is white
For years they had me locked in a cage
Then they threw me onto the stage
Some things just last longer than you thought they would
And they never ever explain
I've been dreaming of you That's all I do And it's driving me insane
Well I eat when I'm hungry, drink when I'm dry
Live my life on the square
Even if the flesh falls off my face
It won't matter, long as you're there
Feel like a ghost in love
Underneath the heavens above
Feel further away than I ever did before
Feel further I can take
Dreaming of you Is all I do But it's driving me insane
Everything in the way is so shiny today
In queer and unusual form
Spirals of golden haze here and there in a blaze
Like beams of light in a storm
Maybe you were here and maybe you weren't
Maybe you touched somebody and got burnt
The silent sun has got me on the run
Burning a hole in my brain
I'm dreaming of you That's all I do But it's driving me insane
Fragments version
Piano song; with a guitar it should be played in A with a capo on the first fret (sounding key Bb major).
Played with a droning A bass more or less throughout, and with simple shapes moving up and down the neck, basically an Am shape, plus the half barre for the plain A major chord, so when the tab says “Bm7”, this is short for “Bm7/a”:
A x02220 D/a x04232 Amaj7 x06650 Bm7/a x04430 E/a x02100
During many of the verses, the simple Bm7–Amaj7 alternation is all that happens. However, the beginning of the verses and the section just after the harmonic change in the middle of the verse requires some other handling, since the previous phrase ends on a plain A. One possibility is the one that I have notated: going A – Amaj7 directly. Another possibility is to play:
A D/a D/a Amaj7
Feel further away than ever before
like in the penultimate verse. The beginning of the song is another example of this uncertainty.
A D/a Amaj7 Amaj7 A Bm7/a Amaj7 : . . . : . . . : . . . : . . . |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------| |-2---3-3-----5---|-----------------|-5---2---3---5---|-----------------| |-2---2-2-----6---|-----------------|-6---2---4---6---|-----------------| |-2---4-4-----6---|-----------------|-6---2---4---6---|-----------------| |-0-----------0---|-----------------|-0---------------|-----------------| |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------| A Bm7/a Amaj7 E/a D/a A : . . . : . . . : . . . : . . . |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------| |-2---2---3---5---|---------0---3---|-2---------------|-----------------| |-2---2---4---6---|---------1---2---|-2---------------|-----------------| |-2---2---4---6---|---------2---4---|-2---------------|-----------------| |-0---------------|---------0-------|-0---------------|-----------------| |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
D/a A
Well, I'm walkin' through
Amaj7 Bm7 A
the summer night
Bm7 Amaj7 A Bm7
jukebox playin' low.
Bm7 Amaj7 Bm7 Amaj7
Yesterday everything was moving too fast
Bm7 Amaj7 Bm7 Amaj7
today everything going too slow
G D E
My cup filled up to the brim
G D E
got all the trimmings, nothing to trim
A Amaj7
Well, your love is my link
Bm7 Amaj7
to the outside world
Bm7 Amaj7 Bm7 Amaj7
and always it will remain
Bm7 Amaj7 Bm7 Amaj7
Dreamin' of you is all I do,
Bm7 Amaj7
but it's drivin' me
Bm7 A D/a
insane.
A D/a
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-sane
The light in this place is really bad
almost like being at the bottom of a stream
[and] the burning reality of your sweet face
makes me feel like I'm expecting to wake up from a dream
The river runs strong
like myself, it's swept along.
By the grave of some child
who neither ever laughed or smiled
I've pondered my fate in the rain
But dreamin' of you is all I do
and it's drivin' me insane.
Somewhere dawn is breaking again
And the light is streaking 'cross the floor
Church bells ringing with every chime
I wonder who they're ringing for
Travel under any old star
You’ll see me wherever you are
The shadowy past is so vague and so vast
I’m-a sleeping in the palace of pain
Dreamin’ of you, that’s all I do
But it’s driving me insane.
Now, maybe they’ll get me, and maybe they won’t
But whatever, it won’t be tonight.
I wish your hand was in mine right now,
We could go together where the moon is white.
I squandered the years of my youth.
It’s a scary thing, the truth
Some things last longer than you think they will
When you’re like a monkey on a chain
Dreamin’ of you is all I do,
But it’s driving me insane.
Well, I eat when I’m hungry, and I drink when I’m dry
And I live my life on the square.
And even if the flesh falls off my face
It wouldn’t matter just as long as you’re there.
Well I feel like a ghost in love
Underneath the heavens above.
Feel further away than ever before,
And there’s nothing I know how to explain
Dreamin’ of you is all I do,
But it’s driving me insane.
Everything in my way is so resplendent today
It’s so queer and an unusual fall
Spirals of golden haze here and there,
Like beams of light in a storm.
Maybe you were here and maybe you weren’t,
Maybe you picked someone up and got burnt.
The silent sun has got me on the run
And it’s burning a hole in my brain.
Dreamin’ of you is all I do,
But it’s driving me insane.