Humdrum chords by Peter Gabriel

Humdrum


Key: G-flat major, Time: 4/4, Tempo: 100

Verse 1: {With electric piano only}
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|4/4 Db7                |Gbsus4/Db |
        I saw the man at J.F.K
|C#7                    |F#sus4/C#
     He took your ticket yesterday
      ||3/4 B   F#  |Ebm  Bbm
In the      hum-drum
      ||4/4 B   F#   Bbm/F F#|
In the      hum-drum

[Verse 2 & 3] (0:15-)

 I ride tandem with a random
 Things don't run (in) the way I planned them
 In the humdrum
 In the humdrum

 Hey Valentina, do you want me to beg?
 You got me cooking I'm a hard boiled egg
 In the humdrum
 In the humdrum


Chorus: (0:46-)
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|3/4 Ebm  Bbm  Ebm  Bbm   |Bbm  F    F7 ||4/4
     Emp- ty   my   mind - I    find it
|4/4 Gbmaj7       ||3/4
     hard to cope

|3/4 Ebm  Bbm    Ebm  Bbm    |Bbm   F    F7/A ||4/4
     Lis- ten to my   heart - don't need no
|4/4 Bb         |     ||
     stethoscope


Interlude: (1:00-) {Enter key, bass & drums, tempo:114}
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|:Db7     |Gbsus4/Db :| (x 2)

{Enters flute}
||C#m7   || (x 8 bars)


[Verse 4] (1:25-) {Enter percussions}

 Seem to me that television
 She come to cut me a deep incision
 In the humdrum
 In the humdrum


(Chorus) (1:39-)


Coda: (1:52-) {Enter strings synth & snare drum}
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|:B/D#     |        |Esus2   |       :| (x 2)

|Absus4/Eb |F#sus2  |C#/F    |       ||


|B/D#            |                       |
     Out of woman come the man, spend the
|Esus2                   |                 |
 rest of his life getting back where he can
|B/D#            |       |Esus2         |     |
     As a bow, so a dove, as below, so a-bove
|Absus4/Eb                     |
           From the black hole,
|F#sus2                        |
          come the tadpole
|C#/F                     |                  ||
     With the dark soul in coal she burn, she

|B/D#            |            |
 burn; as I drove into the sun,
|Esus2                 |           |
 Didn't dare look where I had begun
|B/D#                |                |
 Lost among echoes of things not there,
|Esus2                     |                 |
 Watching the sound forming shapes in the air
|Absus4/Eb                     |
          From the white star,
|F#sus2                        |
          come the bright scar
|C#/F           |               |G    |    ||
     Our amoeba, my little liebe schon_____