Humdrum Lyrics

Humdrum ? Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel
Humdrum (1977)
(Peter Gabriel)
I / ar
From: "Peter Gabriel "
SPECIAL VOICINGS
C7sus4 x-3-3-3-1-1
C#6add9 x-4-3-3-4(4)
Ebsus2 x-x-1-3-4-1 or
ch /ch
Gsus4/D x-x-0-0-1-3 or
Fsus4 (t)1-3-3-0-1-1
The tab sounds good, I think, but only represents the basic pattern of
course. The Rhodes on the original recording adds variations here and there
which are difficult to reproduce exactly on a guitar. Suggestions are
highly welcome!
INTERLUDE (flute)
triplet
triplet
VERSE + CHORUS 1 (see above)
I saw the man at J.F.K.
He took your ticket yesterday
us4
In the humdrum
Bb F (single notes: E F)
In the humdrum
VERSE + CHORUS 1 (see above)
I ride tandem with a random
Things don't run the way I planned them
us4
In the humdrum
Bb F (single notes: E F)
In the humdrum
VERSE + CHORUS 1 (see above)
Hey Valentina, do you want me to beg?
You got me cooking I'm a hard-boiled egg
us4
In the humdrum
Bb F (single notes: E F)
In the humdrum
MIDDLE 8
Empty my mind -- I find it hard to cope
Li-sten to my heart -- don't need no stethoscope
VERSE (see above) ? instrumental
| C7 | C7sus4 | C7 | C7sus4 |
INTERLUDE (flute) - see above
| Cm7 | % | C#6add9 | % |
| Cm7 | % | C#6add9 | % |
VERSE + CHORUS 2 (see above)
Seem to me that television
She come to cut me a deep incision
In the humdrum
Bb F (single notes: E F)
In the humdrum
MIDDLE 8
Empty my mind -- I find it hard to cope
Li-sten to my heart -- don't need no stethoscope
| Bb/D | % | Ebsus2 | % |
| Bb/D | % | Ebsus2 | % |
ch /ch
| Gsus4/D | Fsus2 | C/E | % |
Out of woman come the man
Spend the rest of his life getting back where he can
As a bow, so a dove
As below, so above
ch /ch
From the black hole
Come the tadpole
With the dark soul, in coal she burn
She burn as I drove into the sun
Didn't dare look where I had begun
Lost among echoes of things not there
Watching the sound forming shapes in the air
ch /ch
From the white star
Come the bright car
Our amoeba my little liebe schn
| Bbsus2 | % | % | Bb