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                My Brain is Like a Sieve - Thomas Dolby
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Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard

Thomas Dolby 
My Brain is Like a Sieve (1988)
(Dolby)

From: "Aliens Ate My Buick"

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CHORDS
 
Fm6       1-3-3-1-3-1
Bbsus2    x-1-3-3-1-1
F/Bb      x-1-3-2-1-1
B5        x-1-3-3-x-x

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Capo 1st fret

INTRO
| C | % | Fm6 | C | Fm6 | C | Bb | Fm/Ab |


   C
My brain is like a sieve
               Fm(6)        C
Sometimes it?s easier to forget
        Fm(6)                 C
All the bad things you did to me,
           Bb   Fm/Ab
You did to me
   C
My brain is like sieve
       Fm(6)                        C
But it knows when it?s being messed with
       Fm(6)                 C
If you wanted you could come in,
        Bb   Bbsus2
So come in


Fmaj7               G
  When you said you loved me
Fmaj7/A                C
  When you told me you cared
Fmaj7                         G
  That you would be a part of me,
Fmaj7/A                    C
  That you would always be there
Fmaj7                    G
  Did you really mean to hurt me? No ...
Fmaj7/A                     C
  I think you only meant to tease
Fmaj7                G
  But it?s hard to remember,
Fmaj7/A     C
  I lost my memory, see ...


   C
My brain is like a sieve
               Fm(6)        C
Sometimes it?s easier to forget
        Fm(6)                 C
All the bad things you did to me,
           Bb   Fm/Ab
You did to me
   C
My brain is like sieve
       Fm(6)                        C
But it knows when it?s being messed with
       Fm(6)                 C
If you wanted you could come in,
        Bb   Bbsus2
So come in


SOLO (trombone)
| C | % | Fm6 | C | Fm6 | C | Bb | Fm/Ab |
| C | % | Fm6 | C | Fm6 | C | Bb | Fm/Ab |

    C
You ought to be ashamed of your behaviour
            Fm(6)  
When you?re treating me this way
   C                         Fm(6)              C
As if I had deserved to be a place to vent your ire
                  Bb               Fm/Ab
Someday I?m gonna douse that bonfire
          C
We make a crucial team for a dying world
    Fm(6)             C
And style is a word I never even heard
        Fm(6)        C
In your vocabulary
            Bb               Fm/Ab
Victim of a murder mystery ... Murder!


   C
My brain is like a sieve
               Fm(6)        C
Sometimes it?s easier to forget
        Fm(6)                 C
All the bad things you did to me,
           Bb   Fm/Ab
You did to me
   C
My brain is like a sieve
               Fm(6)        C
Sometimes it?s easier to forget
        Fm(6)                 C
All the bad things you did to me,
           Bb   Fm/Ab
You did to me
   C
My brain is like a sieve
               Fm(6)        C
But it?s a place where we both could live, yeah
       Fm(6)                 C
If you wanted you could come in,
        [Bb]
So come in

INTERLUDE
| Bb | Bbsus2 | F/Bb | B5 |
| Bb | Bbsus2 | F/Bb | B5 |


Fmaj7               G
  When you said you loved me
Fmaj7/A                C
  When you told me you cared
Fmaj7                         G
  That you would be a part of me,
Fmaj7/A                    C
  That you would always be there
Fmaj7                    G
  Did you really mean to hurt me? No ...
Fmaj7/A                     C
  I think you only meant to tease
Fmaj7                G
  But it?s hard to remember,
Fmaj7/A                    C
  Through these broken memories
Fmaj7/A         G          Am
  Through these broken memories