Chords used:
D#/Ebm: x68876
B: x24442
F#/Gb: 244322
C#/Db: x46664
D#/Eb: x68886
G#/Ab: 466544
Em: x79987
D: x57775
C: x35553
G: 355433
[* = Strum, listen to the song]
Intro Rhythm 1 (keyboard arr. for guitar):
|------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|
|---3---6---3---6---3---6---3------3-|------3------------------------------------------4---|
|--4---6---4---6---4---6---4-3----4--|--6--4---6----1-4--3---1-4--3---1-4--3---1-4--3--4---|
|-6-------6-------6-------6---6--4---|-6--4---6----2----4---2----4---2----4---2----4---2---|
|------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|
*
D#/Ebm
The dancer slows her frantic pace
In pain and desperation,
F#/Gb
Her aching limbs and downcast face
B
Aglow with perspiration
D#/Ebm
Stiff as wire, her lungs on fire,
With just the briefest pause
F#/Gb
The flooding through her memory,
B C#/Db
The echoes of old applause.
She limps across the floor
F#/Gb D#/Eb
And closes her bedroom door...
D#/Ebm D#/Ebm F#/Gb B
|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----7p6-----------------7p6--------------------------------------------|
|----8----8-8------------8---6-6-----------3---------4-------------------|
|---8---------6h8-------8-------6h8--------4---------4-------------------|
|--6-------------------6-------------------4---------2-------------------|
|------------------------------------------2-----------------------------|
* *
(This pattern follows through out the verse)
D#/Ebm
The writer stares with glassy eyes
Defies the empty page
F#/Gb
His beard is white, his face is lined
B
And streaked with tears of rage.
D#/Ebm
Thirty years ago, how the words would flow
With passion and precision,
F#/Gb
But now his mind is dark and dulled
B C#/Db
By sickness and indecision
And he stares out the kitchen door
F#/Gb D#/Eb
Where the sun will rise no more...
D#/Eb C#/Db G#/Ab
|-------------------------------------------|
|-------------8------6-------------------9--|
|----3--6-----8------6------5------5-6-8----|
|---4--6------8------6------6---------------|
|--6----------6------4------6---------------|
|---------------------------4---------------|
D#/Eb C#/Db
Some are born to move the world
G#/Ab
To live their fantasies
D#/Eb C#/Db
But most of us just dream about
G#/Ab
The things we'd like to be
Em D
Sadder still to watch it die
C G
Than never to have known it
B C#/Db
For you, the blind who once could see
B C#/Db B C#/Db
The bell tolls for thee...
B C#/Db D#/Eb
The bell tolls for..
- SOLO -
|-----------------------| |-----------------------------------|
|-----------------------| |-----------------------------------|
|----3------------------| |-----------------------------4--6--|
|---4--6-3----1-4-6-3---| X4 |---1-4--3---1-4--3---1-4--3--4--6--|
|--6------4--2-------4--| |--2----4---2----4---2----4---2--4--|
|-----------------------| |-----------------------------------|
*
B C#/Db
For you, the blind who once could see
B C#/Db B C#/Db
The bell tolls for thee...
B C#/Db B C#/Db
The bell tolls for thee...
This is one of my favourite all time Rush song. Since I didn't find a full tab or chord
for this song I thought it was time for someone to do it.
It was a pleasure figuring out the tab and chords for this incredible song and I'll hope
enjoy it as much as I do!
Feel free to contact me with any thoughts or changes to smuakr@hotmail.com