James - Come Home

Taken from the album Gold Mother

Written and performed by James

Main Riff:

e--6b(7)r---6b(7)r6b(7)r6b(7)r6b(7)r--------------------
B--8b(9)r---8b(9)r8b(9)r8b(9)r8b(9)r--------------------
G-------------------------------------------------------
D-------------------------------------------------------
A-------------------------------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------------------

Chorus Riff:

e----------------------4---------------4----------------
B--5h7p5----5h7p5----5---5----5-7-5--5---5--5-7-5-------
G--------4--------4--------4----------------------------
D-------------------------------------------------------
A-------------------------------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------------------

Keyboard Riff:

e------        e------        e------
B--0---        B--2---        B------
G----1-   x6   G----2-   x3   G--4---   x3
D------        D------        D----4-
A------        A------        A------
E------        E------        E------

Song Structure:
Nice simple one, Larry plays the Main Riff during the verse, and plays the Chorus Riff at the end of the chorus (over which Mark plays the Keyboard Riff, which I've tabbed too).  Saul plays an acoustic guitar, strumming the chords E A B throughout.  (In live versions with that dancey intro, Saul instead plays the chords (on an electric) E E B.)

Lyrics/Chords:

          E                 
It's that time again when I lose my friends

   A               B
Go walkabout, I've got the bends from pressure

            E
I have been pulled apart and my swollen heart

    A                  B
Has flipped out of the pan into the fire

 

And I don't believe you're all I'll ever need

And I need to feel that you're not holding me

But the way I feel just makes me want to scream

Come home, come home, come home

Come home, come home, come home

 

After thirty years I've become my fears

I've become the kind of man I've always hated

I am in love insane with a sense of shame

That I threw stones at the condemned and now I'm slated

I may have paid for sex but I was blessed by love

In this land that's ruled by gods of lust and money

 

And I don't believe you're all I'll ever need

And I need to feel that you're not holding me

But the way I feel just makes me want to scream

Come home, come home, come home

Come home, come home, come home

Come home, come home, come home



  
Transcribed by Alex Carter 2001.

alex@shandy3000.fsnet.co.uk