#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## From: ez003151@chip.ucdavis.edu (Chris Tapio) Secret World (Peter Gabriel) ---------------------------- (Disclaimer: no guarantee of correctness or completeness of transcription is given with respect to 7ths, inversions, fingering, and choice of #/b. Any major blunders, questions and suggestions to djb@uk.ac.bath.maths ;^) Verse: ------ I stood in this unsheltered place D D/B 'Til I could see the face behind the face Bm/G A D All that had gone before had left no trace D D/B Chorus: ------- Down by the railway siding G D/Gb In our secret world, we were colliding G D/A All the places we were hiding love G A/Gb A D/B What was it we were thinking of? G A D [verse] So I watch you wash your hair Underwater, unaware And the plane flies through the air [chorus] Did you think I didn't have to choose it That I alone could win or lose it In all the places we were hiding love What was it we were thinking of? [verse] In this house of make believe Divided in two like Adam and Eve You put out and I receive [chorus] Bridge: ------- [D bass riff] Oh the wheel it is turning spinning round and round D D And the house it is crumbling but the stairways stand D D .......................... C/D D With no guilt and no shame, no sorrow or blame D D Whatever it is, we are all the same D D Making it up in our secret world C/D D Making it up in our secret world C/D D Making it up in our secret world C/D D Shaking it up C G Breaking it up C G Making it up in our secret world C G D [verse] Seeing things that were not there On a wing, on a prayer In this state of disrepair [chorus] Ssh, listen.... End Section: ------------ D G/D D, C/D G/D D [repeat to end] -- /////////////////////////////////////////////////// // What makes mass society so difficult to bear // // is not the number of people involved...but // // the fact that the world between them has lost // // its power to gather them together, to relate // // and to separate them. -- Hannah Arendt, 1958 // //-----------------------------------------------// // Chris Tapio gctapio@ucdavis.edu // ///////////////////////////////////////////////////