Chord transcription by Mikayel Abazyan mikayelabazyan@yahoo.com
Playing tips
In the verses I can hear just a base chord, while the harmonic picture is created by guitar and
bass. Chords are not difficult to play here. What IS important is how you are going to support
the rhythm and add harmonical shades.
Intro:
Am G Dm Am Am G F x2
Am
Unchain me from this lunatic
before he drags me to my knees;
I'd have to be some kind of Houdini
G
to unpick knots like these.
Am G Dm Am
While I was sleeping half a lifetime away
Am
someone moved the scenery,
G F
all my blocks went astray.
Am G Dm Am
So I awoke uneasy
Am G Fm (?)
and, as I spoke, grew queasy...
Am
I don't remember much about last night
but I suspect I went too far,
became just a passenger in my actions,
G
asleep at the wheel of the car.
Am G Dm Am
While I was sleeping someone stole in my room,
Am
rearranged the pictures
G F
and threw my bookmarks away.
Am G
The shadow's swiftly deepening
Dm Am
in the tidepull of the moon
C
while the lunatic
G
does his party tricks
F
but what makes him tick
G F
he's still most reluctant to say.
E
Before the facts there's no pat explanation...
only this Other implies
Am
whatever I did was Not I.
While I was sleeping
off the wake of the wake
I was less at home in my dreams than in my mistakes.
The lunatic's been creeping
settling and setting on my face
and we're bound together
we're tied and tethered
I don't know whether
the bond is one I can break.
After the act there's no hidden intention,
just fumbling around for the plot,
tying myself up tighter and tighter in knots.
G
So many angels,
F
however many can there be, ghosts and djinns
Am
dancing on the head of a pin?
How many questions are left unresolved?
F
Exactly where do I begin
Am
now that the walls are closing in?
Who's the lunatic
F
and who's the sensible soul deep within the skin,
E x3 F# x3 Em
hanging on and listening in...?
Bridge: (Bridge starts with four Am-based chords, changing fingers on 2nd string:) Am Am(2=0) Am(2=3) Am
Am G F(1=0) Em
Unchain me from this lunatic
G F(1=0)
restrain him in his cage
Am
keep him away from me
G F(1=0) (This F matches the first F of the next fragment "Unchain me...", denoted F*)
keep him away from the stage.
F* Em
Unchain me from this lunatic
G F
whose every action shouts me down;
Am
keep him away from me,
G F
keep me away from this clown.
F Em
Unchain me from this lunatic
G F
restrain him in his cage
Am
keep him away from me
G
keep him away from me
F Em {D C C(1=3)} x6 E
keep me away from his rage
Am G
While I was sleeping
Dm Am
the lunatic stirred.
Am
I've no alibi
G
for his beady eye.
F
Oh, I talk my head off...
G ????
he's a man of few words.