Some interesting features of this song are the dramatic stop-time and dropped beat on the "'Cause I still can remember" line - there is one bar of 3/4 here in this otherwise 4/4 song - and the lush background vocals on the chorus. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm Looking At You But I'm Talking To Myself (*1:Intro) Aadd9 Dadd9 (x2) (*2:verse) A E/A F#m/A E/A E F#m I'm looking at you but I'm talking to myself A E/A F#m/A E/A E F#m Looking straight at you but I'm talking to myself E Talking to myself F#m 'Cause I still can remember C#m7 A/D C#m7 Words that didn't sound so well planned F#7 A/B What is wrong with me? D/E You don't have to pretend to understand Every moment, I am thinking to myself It seems so different, I am thinking to myself Thinking to myself And I don't want to face it Why is everything so past tense? What is wrong with me? This just don't seem to make any sense (*3:Chorus) A E/A F#m/A E/A And I'm looking at you Fmaj7 Em Fmaj7/D Em/G A but I'm talk- ing to my- self E/A F#m/A E/A Looking straight at you Fmaj7 Em Fmaj7/D Em/G A but I'm talk- ing to my- self It wasn't over, I was hoping to myself We've got forever, I was hoping to myself Hoping to myself And for a shred of a second I thought we could still change our fate What is wrong with me? I can see it's already way too late 'Cause you're looking at me but you're talking to yourself Looking straight at me but you're talking to yourself And I'm looking at you but I'm talking to myself Looking straight at you but I'm talking to myself ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (*1) I haven't yet come up with a convincing imitation of the recorded intro to this song. In the meantime, this is reminiscent of it. Aadd9 Dadd9 xo__oo xoo__o |||||| |||||| ||12|| |||1|| |||||| ||||2| |||||| |||||| (*2. A couple of common Todd guitar-isms: various diatonic triads superimposed over a static bass note, A in this song. Todd also likes lots of open strings for a full, ringy, chimey sound.) A E/A F#m/A E F#m o oo o oo o oo o___oo ______ 5|||||| 4|||1|| 2|||1|| 1|||2|| |||||| |||2|| |||||| |||||| |34||| 111111 ||3||| ||3||| ||3||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |34||| C#m A/D F#7 A/B D/E x x ______ x_____ 4|11111 5|11111 |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||2| |||2|| 2111111 2|11111 7|11111 ||3||| ||3||| |||2|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |3|||| |||||| |||||| (*3. The chords here can be more simply thought of as alernating between Fmaj7 and Em. It's made more interesting by Kasim's bass line which, instead of sticking strictly to the roots of the chords, descends from F to E to D to G, then up to A.) Fmaj7 Em Fmaj7/D Em/G A xx___o xx_ooo xxo__o _x_ooo xo___o 1||||1| 1|||||| ||||1| |||||| |||||| |||2|| ||2||| |||2|| ||2||| ||111| ||3||| |||||| |||||| 3||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| Notes: This message should be displayed in a mono-spaced font such as Courier. Don't use a proportional spaced font or the the chord diagrams and tabs will appear out of alignment and won't make sense. The letter to the left of the slash in chord names like "A/D" refers to a triad, and the letter to the right refers to the bass note only. The number directly to the left of the chord diagram is the position on the guitar neck (or closest higher fret). "x" along the top means mute or deaden that string, "o" means let it ring open. A horiziontal line at the top of the diagram represents the nut. If you see any mistakes, or have any corrections or alternate ways of playing any of my tabs, I'd love to hear from you. Please email me at lsprague@user1.channel1.com or lsprague@bull.com Last revised 9:17am Thursday, February 27, 1997 -- ...Lin Sprague... lsprague@user1.channel1.com -OR- lsprague@crater.ma02.bull.com