Watching My Life Go By Lyrics

by Michael Hedges 1981
Legend:
! = left hand reaches under neck and vigorously slaps guitar body like
it's a bongo drum!
This tune is in 5/8 TIME Michael kept a kind of eighth note grace note
strum pattern throughout this tune. Notes Tabbed out below are more or
less Accents, but this is my first tab, so there are grace notes that I didn't put in
here, but if you know the tune, you'll know what to do...
* WHEN YOU OPEN THIS MAKE SURE IT WRAPS TO WINDOW AND NOT RULER.
UNSURE? GO TO THE 62ND CHARACHTER OF EACH LINE OF TABLATURE AND DO A HARD RETURN [HIT
ENTER] IT WILL LINE UP PROPERLY ...
WITH PSSION
Forte
! !
! !
lightly with grace and energy, LT IT RTH
pianoforte
and keep 16ths going on the top 2 strings as shown vaguely below
Everyone sees their life a different way __________________________
Saviors even come on different days
Bleeding his colors into several shades
stronger
Forte
But I am a prisoner caught in the flesh, red-handed
Watching my life go by
slides up to 12th fret from open string.
I'm watching my life go by
GLISS
Watching my life go by
! !
Nobody knows how close ... "together" means
Love is a race we run at different speeds
Pacing ourselves to deal with different needs
But I am a spectator caught in a crowd of laughter
Watching my life go by
I'm watching my life go by
GLISS
~~~crescendo>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Watching my life go by
Deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee deet deet
Dee Deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Dweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Daa
Dweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
eeeeeeeee Ah - dah - daaaaaahhhhh
! !
! !
same as verses above
Somebody help me find my way back down
There's nobody left for me to lap around
Everyone's breaking past my speed of sound
I am a dictator I keep my soul surrounded
Watching my life, Waaah - tching my life, Watching my life ....
I'm watching my life go by
Watching my life go by
ending
I'm watching my life go by-------------------------
--yyyyy-----------------------------------------------------------I'm---
~~~crescendo>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>
Watching my life!
the entire harmonics part
Alternative harmonics
! !
! !
--0---0---0-----0-0----------(0)-0---0---0--------------H4--------------|
--0---0---0-----0-0----------(0)-0---0---0--------------------H5--------|