Let Me Sleep (Next To The Mirror) - Idlewild
From the 2000 album "100 Broken Windows", released on Parlophone records
Tune guitars down 1 semitone: Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb
Guitar 1
Intro
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Verse
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Bridge (listen to song for rhythm)
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Chorus (play twice)
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Interlude
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Then play
Verse - Bridge - Chorus (but not interlude)
Guitar 2
Intro
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Verse (listen to song for rhythm)
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Bridge (listen to song for rhythm)
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Chorus (listen to song for rhythm)
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Interlude
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Then play Verse - Bridge - Chorus - Interlude
finishing on
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Band: Idlewild
Song: LET ME SLEEP (NEXT TO THE MIRROR)
Album: 100 Broken Windows
Thom Mills dustbin_man@hotmail.com
D#
I woke up first this morning
C
I’ve never seen the dawn
G# Bb
But I know what the world looked like before
D#
How would I know what you said?
C G#
You’re always first to go to bed
You’re intent on sleeping it off
Bb G# D# Bb
Let me sleep, next to the mirror
G# D# Bb
I know you don’t like mirrors
G#
When they reflect on you
D# G
For every word that you write
C G#
They won’t mean much as barricades (They hold me down)
D# G
I’m sure that you’ll be fine
D# G
Ten more years of this
D# G
It will nearly be time
D# G
I’m sure that you’ll be fine
D# G
It can’t take ten more years
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