Guitar Tabs

Only When I Sleep tabs

Transcribed by Craig Hindman 1997
Craigh@lrl.com.au
I bought this album yesterday and thought this song was the coolest!! It's got a fantastic melody and harmonies and the chord progression is excellent. Just a "strummy" song for the old acoustic. Sounds Great! Don't know the name of some of the chords but I've named them anyway so here they are, here's the words, hope you enjoy!!

  Bm  D  E  Em A    A6  G/D   D/A     F#                D/G   D/Ab  D/A



E|-2--2--0--0--0--|-2----2-----2----|-2---------------|-(2)---(2)---(2)-----|

B|-3--3--0--0--2--|-2----3-----3----|-2---------------|--3-----3-----3------|

G|-4--2--1--0--2--|-2----0-----2----|-3---------------|--2-----2-----2------|

D|-4--0--2--2--2--|-2----0-----0----|-4-----F# Run----|--0-----0-----0------|

A|-2-----2--2--0--|------2-----0----|-4----(-1-2-4----|--x-----x-----0------|

E|-------0--0-----|------3----------|-2-----------2-)-|--3-----4------------|

Only When I sleep - Words by Andrea Corr

Verse 1



Bm     A6          E 

You're only just a dreamboat

              Bm

Sailing in my head

    A6             E

You swim my secret ocean

                  Bm

Of coral blue and red

     A6               E

Your smell is incense burning

                     G/D

Your touch is silken yet





Bridge

                      D/A

It reaches through my skin

                 G/D

Moving from with-in

                   F# ( Run )

And clutches at my breast



Chorus



                     Bm

But it's only when I sleep

              D

See you in my dreams

                E 

Got me spinning round and round

        Em     A

Turning upside down

                    Bm

But I only hear you breathe

                D

Somewhere in my sleep

                E

Got me spinning round and round

        Em     A

Turning upside down



But it's only when I sleep



And when I wake from slumber

Your shadow's disappeared

Your breath is just a sea mist

Surrounding my body

I'm working through the daytime

But when it's time to rest

I'm lying in my bed

Listening to my breath

Falling from the edge



Repeat Chorus





                     D/G

But it's only when I sleep

          D/Ab

Yeah Yeah Yeah

          D/A

Yeah Yeah Yeah

          F#

Yeah Yeah Yeah



Instrumental - Same chords as Chorus



Bridge 



It's reaching through my skin



Moving from within



And clutches at my breast......



The last words are sung over the chorus. Sounds really cool.



Up to the sky

Where angels fly

I'll never die

Hawaiian High

In Bed I lie

No need to cry

My sleeping cry

Hawwaiian High

Thanks to Craig Hindman.

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