Humdrum
Peter Gabriel
Humdrum Key: G-flat major Time: 4/4 Tempo: 100 Verse 1: {With electric piano only} ~~~~~~~~ |4/4 Db7 |Gbsus4/Db | I saw the man at J.F.K |Db7 |Gbsus4/Db He took your ticket yesterday In the hum-drum 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-) ~~~~~~~ Emp- ty my mind - I find it |4/4 Gbmaj7 ||3/4 hard to cope Lis- ten to my heart - don’t need no stethoscope Interlude: (1:00-) {Enter key bass & drums tempo:114} ~~~~~~~~~~ |: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} ~~~~ |:B/D# | |Esus2 | :| (x 2) |Absus4/ |Gbsus2 |/ | || Out of woman come the man spend the |Esus2 | | rest of his life getting back where he can |B/D# | |Esus2 | | |Absus4/Eb | From the black hole |Gbsus2 | come the tadpole With the dark soul in coal she burn she burn; as I drove into the sun |Esus2 | | Didn’t dare look where I had begun Lost among echoes of things not there |Esus2 | | Watching the sound forming shapes in the air |Absus4/Eb | From the white star |Gbsus2 | come the bright scar Our amoeba my little liebe schon_____ ||B || (x 4 bars tempo rub