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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