Subject: TAB: 'Liferaft' by Bedhead
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 14:32:06 -0500 (CDT)
From: "jeffnmoe"
'Liferaft' by Bedhead
from the album 'Whatfunlifewas'
(note: if anyone knows the complete lyrics, please
send them to me at jeffnmoe@mcs.com....are there
any other Bedhead fans reading this newsgroup?)
dropped-D tuning (tune low E down to D)
chords (intro and verses)
C - x32010
D - 000232
Dm - 000231
F - xx3211
G - x20003 (don't play low E because of tuning)
chords (bridge)
Bb - x13331
C - x35553
Eb - x68886
F - 333xxx
(figure 1a) - the following line is played at beginning
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-----0--0-----0---2--3----------0--0-----0---2--3------
--0--------0-----------------0--------0----------------
(figure 1b) - the following line is played during the
verses (only over Dm-G or D-G chords)
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-----------------------0----0--------------------------
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-----0--0-----0---2--3----3----3--2--3-----------------
--0--------0-------------------------------------------
(figure 2) - this line is played during the bridge...
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--------1--3-------------------------------------------
--3--3--------2--0--0-----------------0--2-------------
-----------------------1--1--0--1--3-------------------
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(figure 3) - this solo is played after the bridge
-------------------1--0---------------------
--3---3---3---3----------3--0--1--3--1------
----2---2---2---2-----------------------2--- repeat 4x and
-------------------------------------------- then play....
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--------------1------------------
-----0---------------0--0---0---- repeat several times
--3-----3--3-----3---------------
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*********** how it all goes together *************
(INTRO)
(play figure 1a by itself, and then play figure 1b during
the Dm and G chords in the following chord progression:
Dm-G-Dm-G-Dm-G-Dm-G-C-G-F-G-Dm-G-Dm-G-Dm-G-Dm-G)
(VERSE: figure 1b is played over D-G chords during verses)
DG
the bed at night is a liferaft
DG
in the ocean of the dark
DG
i hang my hands over the sides
DG
and pray that god knows why
CG
drifting somewhere in the black
FG
feeling (low?) 'neath the blanket
CG
and the weight of the mattress
FG
the mistress of the sheets
(BRIDGE: play following chord progression using
bridge chord shapes shown above:
Bb-F-C-Eb-Bb-F-Bb-F-C-Eb-Bb-F
Second guitar plays figure two (shown above) over chords)
BbFC
on many successive nights i've been miserable
EbBbF
give one (sense?) to sense the invisible
F
i know you're in this room
being (? ? ?)
(SOLO: play figure three over repeated chord
progression Dm-G...)
(VERSE)
DG
the bed at night is a lifeboat
DG
a throne off which you can (?) from
DG
i hang my hands and feet over the sides
DGD
and pray to the space of what can never be known
....questions, comments and corrections
to jeffnmoe@mcs.com