TURIN BRAKES - "Feeling Oblivion" Tablature

Feeling oblivion (Turin Brakes) -- from the album 'The Optimist Lp'

tab by John Halfpenny (jhalfpenny@excite.com)

one of the best bands live, let me tell you. and they're fellow brits, too- which makes a change! ;)


chords used (don't know if these are the right names or not!)

G5 320033 Amin x02210 D xx0232
C5+D x32033 C x32010
Gmaj7+D x20032 D/F# 2x023x

Intro chords: G5 / C5+D / Gmaj7+D

G5 C5+D Gmaj7+D D/F#
Cubscouts are screaming needing icecreaming & all the pleasures of June
G5 C5+D Gmaj7+D D/F#
I'm in a parked car. Flowers seem friendly & people in hallways feel walls
G5 C5+D Gmaj7+D D/F#
Now it is night time, maybe we're cruising avoiding the anti-cruise
G5 C5+D Gmaj7+D
Oh, I don't really know where we are

Gmaj7+D Am
If things get real
Am C G5 D/F#
Promise to take me somewhere elll-se
D/F# Am C G5 D
By the time fear takes me over will we still be roll-ing
D G5
...and feeling oblivion

(Play intro chords twice)

G5 C5+D Gmaj7+D D/F#
Once in a while the lie in a laughter can burn through a hole in my ears
D/F# G5
Like a man with glasses
C5+D Gmaj7+D D/F#
Catching a sunbeam and burning the skin of a kid
G5 C5+D Gmaj7+D D/F#
Hypereal fragments disturbing the stagnants of almighty fear
D/F# G5 C5+D Gmaj7+D
Well I'll just go under the waaa-ter

Gmaj7+D Am
If things get real
Am C G5 D/F#
Promise to take me somewhere elll-se
D/F# Am C G5 D
By the time fear takes me over will we still be roll-ing
D G5
...and feeling oblivion

(Play intro chords twice)

G5 C5+D Gmaj7+D
So don't leave me
G5 C5+D Gmaj7+D
Here on my own
G5 C5+D Gmaj7+D
So don't leave me
G5 C5+D Gmaj7+D
Here on my own

Gmaj7+D Am
If things get real
Am C G5 D/F#
Promise to take me somewhere elll-se
D/F# Am C G5 D
By the time fear takes me over will we still be roll-ing
D G5
...and feeling oblivion