Liferaft

Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 14:32:06 -0500 (CDT)
From: "jeffnmoe" 

            from the album 'Whatfunlifewas'

        (note: if anyone knows the complete lyrics, please
        send them to me at *....are there

        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
        -------------------------------------------------------|
        -------------------------------------------------------|
        -----------------------0-------------------------------|
        -------------------------------------------------------|
        -----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)
        -------------------------------------------------------|
        -------------------------------------------------------|
        -----------------------0----0--------------------------|
        -------------------------------------------------------|
        -----0--0-----0---2--3----3----3--2--3-----------------|
        --0--------0-------------------------------------------|


        (figure 2) - this line is played during the bridge...
        -------------------------------------------------------|
        --------1--3-------------------------------------------|
        --3--3--------2--0--0-----------------0--2-------------|
        -----------------------1--1--0--1--3-------------------|
        -------------------------------------------------------|
        -------------------------------------------------------|

        (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....
        --------------------------------------------|

        ---------------------------------|
        --------------1------------------|
        -----0---------------0--0---0----|  repeat several times
        --3-----3--3-----3---------------|
        ---------------------------------|
        ---------------------------------|

        ***********  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)
            D                 G
        the bed at night is a liferaft
               D             G
        in the ocean of the dark
          D              G
        i hang my hands over the sides
            D                  G
        and pray that god knows why
         C                 G
        drifting somewhere in the black
         F                        G
        feeling (low?) 'neath the blanket
                C             G
        and the weight of the mattress
            F               G
        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)

           Bb              F                C
        on many successive nights i've been miserable
          Eb                 Bb         F
        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)
            D                 G
        the bed at night is a lifeboat
                 D                  G
        a throne off which you can (?) from
                  D                   G
        i hang my hands and feet over the sides
            D                             G        D
        and pray to the space of what can never be known


        ....questions, comments and corrections
            to *