KING\'S X - "Dream In My Life" Tablature

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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 16:17:44 -0500
From: Dan Fisher <DFISHER@mbakercorp.com>
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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|-----------5====================================|-----------5============
|-----2==========================================|--4=====================
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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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|--------2======--2==============================|-----------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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|------------------------------------------------|--2===--2=========--2===
|--4===--4=========--4=========--4===============|------------------------
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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--0--0======--0===--0--0|-----------0===--0======--0--0======--0===--0--0
--2--2======--2===--2--2|-----------2===--2======--2--2======--2===--2--2
--4--4======--4===--4--4|-----------4===--4======--4--4======--4===--4--4
========================|------------------------------------------------
------------------------|--4===============--4=========--4===============
life I dream I'm with
life I dream it with
life I dream it with


13 14
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|-----------4===--4======--4--4======--4===--4--4|-----------4===--4======
|--2===--2=========--2===========================|------------------------
|------------------------------------------------|--4===============--4===

you If
you If
you Yes


[play only after first verse]
14a 15a
--0--0======--0===--0--0|-----------0===--0======--0--0======------------|
--0--0======--0===--0--0|-----------0===--0======--0--0======------------|
--2--2======--2===--2--2|-----------2===--2======--2--2======------------|
--4--4======--4===--4--4|-----------4===--4======--4--4======------------|
------------------------|--2===--2=========--2===============------------|
======--4===============|------------------------------------3===========|
I have a dream in my life for you



===> return above to beginning of verse 2


[play only after second verse]
14b 15b
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--0--0======--0===--0--0|-----------0===--0======--0--0======--0===--0--0|
--2--2======--2===--2--2|-----------2===--2======--2--2======--2===--2--2|
--4--4======--4===--4--4|-----------4===--4======--4--4======--4===--4--4|
------------------------|--2===--2=========--2===========================|
======--4===============|------------------------------------------------|
I have a dream in my life



16
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|-----------4===--4======--4--4======--4===--4--4|
|------------------------------------------------|
|--4===============--4=========--4===============|
I dream it will


17
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|====================----------------3===========|
all fit together with you



18
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|--0--2-----2-----0--2===------------------------|
I know this is the
Our hope is deeper than the

19
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|--5--7-----7-----5--7===------------------------|
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way it has to be but it
pain we often feel so we

20 21
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|--5=========--------------7=========--7===--7===|------------------------
|--5=========--------------7=========--7===--7===|--5--7-----7===--5--7===
|--3=========--------------5=========------------|--5--7-----7===--5--7===
|------------------------------------------------|--5--7-----7===--5--7===
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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------------------------|--3--5-----5-----9--5-----------------5===------
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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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|--4=========-----------0--3===-----0--2===------||
|--4=========-----------0--3===-----0--2===------||
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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|--0--2-----2-----0--2===------------------------
|--0--2-----2-----0--2===------------------------


25
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26 27
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|--0--2-----2-----0--2===-----------0------------|--0--2-----2-----0--2===
|--0--2-----2-----0--2===-----------0------------|--0--2-----2-----0--2===


28 GUITAR SOLO...
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-----------0------------|-----2==========================================
-----------0------------|--2=============================================


29 30
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------------------------| [repeat 2x during solo and then
========================| into measure 31]
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31

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|--2--2-----2-----2--2============--2------------|
|--3--3-----3-----3--3============--3------------|
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And suddenly
I see the place where dreams
and our paths run together
32
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|--4--4-----4-----4--4============--4------------||
|--5--5-----5-----5--5============--5------------||
|------------------------------------------------||
I don't have to run
and life become one
trailing off in the sun ---
|
V

[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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--0--0======--0===--0--0|-----------0===--0======--0--0======--0===--0--0|
--2--2======--2===--2--2|-----------2===--2======--2--2======--2===--2--2|
--4--4======--4===--4--4|-----------4===--4======--4--4======--4===--4--4|
------------------------|--2===--2=========--2===========================|
======--4===============|------------------------------------------------|
I have a dream in my life
I have a dream in my life


34
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|-----------4===--4======--4--4======--4===--4--4|
|------------------------------------------------|
|--4===============--4=========--4===============|
and you dream it
we both feel it's

35 36
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|-----------4===--4======--4--4======--4===--4--4|-----------4===--4======||
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|--2===============--2=========--2===============|--4===============--4===||
too Yes...
true Yes...

[repeat and fade]

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