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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 16:17:44 -0500
From: Dan Fisher
Subject: Re: TAB: "Over My Head" by King's X -Reply -Reply -Reply
DREAM IN MY LIFE - KING'S X - from the eponymous album 1992
Wanda, here's your chance to play your favorite song...
Dropped D tuning DADGBE - ==== denotes sustain
Tabbed by Daniel S. Fisher during several parts of 1996 and 1997.
Comments welcome at wetstone@compuserve.com
What can be said about true beauty? This song gets better with each listen.
Approximate BPM = 87
4/4
[Drum beat and then sustained Em chord before first arpeggio]
1 2
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Verse 1: I'm walking in a foreign winter breeze
Verse 2: When I was young I knew just what I'd do
3
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don't think of home too much -- it may just
and so much more than that has come in
4 5
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bring me to my knees and I'm watching people
sharing life with you and I take another
6
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playing in a place they call their home and I
step in the direction I must go and I
7 8
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can't remember when I ever felt so all alone
feel the truth inside me it's the one thing that I know
9
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so far... from home
I know... I know
10 [with guitar arpeggios throughout] 11
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Chorus a: If I have a dream in my
Chorus b: If I have a dream in my
Chorus c: Yes I have a dream in my
12
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life I dream I'm with
life I dream it with
life I dream it with
13 14
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you If
you If
you Yes
[play only after first verse]
14a 15a
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I have a dream in my life for you
===> return above to beginning of verse 2
[play only after second verse]
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I have a dream in my life
16
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I dream it will
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all fit together with you
18
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I know this is the
Our hope is deeper than the
19
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way it has to be but it
pain we often feel so we
20 21
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doesn't make it easier I can't just pay a fee
take these steps together as the hurt begins to heal
22
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I will make pain go away so I accept it for
and we know it is for real so we accept it for
23
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ano - ther day -----> [after measure 23== go back to
ano - ther day --| measure 18 for the second part
| then continue to measure 24]
V
24
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25
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26 27
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28 GUITAR SOLO...
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29 30
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31
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And suddenly
I see the place where dreams
and our paths run together
32
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I don't have to run
and life become one
trailing off in the sun ---
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[go immediately to CHORUS C at measure 10 and after starting measure 14
continue and repeat/fade with the following:]
[14c] 33
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I have a dream in my life
I have a dream in my life
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and you dream it
we both feel it's
35 36
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too Yes...
true Yes...
[repeat and fade]