• Song:

    Humdrum

  • Artist:

    Peter Gabriel

  • Album:

    Revisited

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

Verse 1: {With electric piano only}
~~~~~~~~
 | 4/4 Db7                 | Gb4/Db  | 
        I saw the man at J.F.K
C#5                    F#5 
     He took your ticket yesterday
      3/4 B5   F#5  Eb5  Bb5
In the      hum-drum 
      4/4 B5   F#5   Bb5 F#5
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-)
~~~~~~~
3/4 Eb5  Bb5  Eb5  Bb5   Bb5  F5    F5 4/4 
     Emp- ty   my   mind - I    find it         
 | 4/4 Gb7M        |  | 3/4
     hard to cope

3/4 Eb5  Bb5    Eb5  Bb5    Bb5   F5    F5 4/4 
     Lis- ten to my   heart - don't need no         
4/4 Bb5              
     stethoscope


Interlude: (1:00-) {Enter key, bass & drums, tempo:114}
~~~~~~~~~~
 | :Db7      | Gb4/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) (1:3(b9))


Coda: (1:52-) {Enter strings synth & snare drum}
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: B5             E5          : (x 2)

Ab5 F#5  C#5           


B5                                   
     Out of woman come the man, spend the
E5                                    
 rest of his life getting back where he can
B5                   E5              
     As a bow, so a dove, as below, so a-bove
Ab5                     
           From the black hole, 
F#5                        
          come the tadpole
C#5                                       
     With the dark soul in coal she burn, she 

B5                        
 burn; as I drove into the sun, 
E5                            
 Didn't dare look where I had begun
B5                                
 Lost among echoes of things not there,
E5                                      
 Watching the sound forming shapes in the air
Ab5                     
          From the white star, 
F#5                        
          come the bright scar
C#5                          G5        
     Our amoeba, my little liebe schon_____

 |  | B     |  |  (x 4 bars, tempo rub
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