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Artist: John Frusciante
Song Title: "Song to Sing When I'm Lonely"
Album: Shadows Collide With People
Tabbed By: Ben Gonzalez
This is a great song by one of the greatest guitarists
Of all time
Intro Chords
B Ebm C# G#m (pick around these chords, listen to the song and you'll get it)
Verse 1
B Ebm
A song to play when I'm lonely,
C# G#m
Win and never play a game again,
B Ebm
No one to face when I'm falling,
C# G#m pm------------
Holding tight to dreams that never end
CHORUS 1
F#
I'll be you,
C#
I do,
G#m
I'll be you,
F# C# G#m
No one's afraid to be called by another name,
F# C# G#m mute strum
No one dares to be put down where they don't belong,
G#m F# C#
No where's anyone's reason,
G#m F# C# B
Everything dying and leaving,
B pm ------------------------------------------------ F# G#m
Out with these faults and you make me a baby,
B pm------------------------------------------ F# G#m
Faking a movement by no ones seeing it,
F# G#m F# G#m
No one always finds peace flung,
F# G#m F# G#m
No one chooses to beat my pride down.
Verse 2
B Ebm
Symbols pierce right through me,
C# G#m
People fail to be drawn up,
B Ebm
Sunlight to fate accumulates,
C# G#m pm-------------------
Loving pain to be clung to,
CHORUS 2
F# C# G#m
By Luminous bodies,
F# C# G#m
Only waiting for long signs to be wrong,
Mute
And true to us,
G#m F# C#
Out of place in my own time,
G#m F# C# B
Drowning thinking that I'm dry,
B pm----------------------------------------------- F# G#m
Holding on to facts that will never be proven,
B pm--------------------------------------- F# G#m
Faking an action cuz no one is looking,
F# G#m F# G#m
Hello when I'm crashing,
F# G#m F G#m F# C#
Feeling nothing when my life flashes before my eyes,
TAG
G#m
You should've threw me down,
F# C#
Is the content so much
(Repeat as need and end on G#m singing the last line with out guitar)
Chords
B (7 9 9 8 7 7)
Ebm (x 6 8 8 7 6)
C# (x 4 6 6 6 4)
G#m (4 6 6 4 4 4)
F# (2 4 4 3 2 2)
thats all great song
good work, great song!
Spot on chords. Such a simple, yet great song as well
A brilliant song, there is no doubt