Wrapped In Grey
Words & Music:
Andy Partridge (XTC)
Chords are courtesy of the fans at XTC's own site
"Chalkhills: Reel To Reel".
If you haven't discovered this band, I highly recommend doing so.
From: Kevin <KB305 (at) aol dot
com>
Chord voicings:
DM7 = x 5 4 2 2 x A/C#(add2)
= x 4 2 2 0 x
GbM7/Bb = 6 x 4 6 6 x OR: 6 x 6 6 7 x Ab9#11 = x 11 x 11
11 10
DM7 CM7 DM7
CM7 DM7 A/C#(add2)
Some folks see the world as a
stone.
Concrete daubed in dull monotone.
Bm
C#m
Your heart is the big box of
paints;
DM7
C#sus4 C#
And others, the canvas we're dealt.
Bm
C#m
Your heart is the big box of
paints,
DM7
Esus9 E
How coloured the flowers all
smelled
D6
CM7
As they huddled there, in petalled
prayer
BbM7
G
They told me this, as I knelt there
DM7 CM7 DM7 CM7
DM7
A/C#(add2) C#+
CHORUS 1:
Gb GbM7/Bb Ebm
DM7
Awaken, you dreamers, adrift in
your beds!
Gb
GbM7/Bb Ebm
DM7
Balloons and streamers decorate the
inside of your heads.
Dbsus4
Ebm7
Please let some out. Do it today.
Db/F
Dbsus
But don't let the loveless ones
sell you
Db
DM7 CM7 DM7 CM7 DM7 A/C#(add2)
A world wrapped in grey.
Some folks pull this life like a
weight
Drab and dragging dreams made of
slate
Your heart is the big box of paints
And others, the canvas we're dealt
Your heart is the big box of paints
Just think how the old masters
felt, they call...
CHORUS 2:
Awaken, you dreamers, asleep at
your desks!
Parrots and lemurs populate your
unconscious grotesques.
Please let some out. Do it today.
Don't let the loveless ones sell
you
Db
DM7 CM7 DM7 CM7 DM7 A
A world wrapped in grey.
Dm
C/E
Ab9#11
And in the very least you can stand
up naked and grin...
Alt. Chorus
Chords: [per Eric T. Lewis]
I suggest a simpler approach to the chorus, as follows:
Gb
Bbm/F
Awaken you dreamers
Ebm
D (then
G/D)
Adrift in your beds...
Play the last two chords from the lower inversion, that is:
A D Gb | D then B D G | D