This is a great song, interesting chord changes.
I've written out exactly how I play it, thus the seemingly staggering list of chords --
while there are a lot of different ones, some are repeats of the same chords on
parts of the neck.
I'm just trying to be helpful by writing them all out, in the order they appear.
Chords Used:
: xx0232
(open): 320033
: 242322
: x24432
: x35553
(barre): 355433
F1: 133211
: x68886
: x587xx
: x35353
: x8-10-10-10-8
Bb1: 688766
: x13331
: 577655
(barre): x79997
: 466544
: x46664
: 244322
(open): 022100
(open): x02220
: x57575
(open)
Your eyelids are made of lead
You can't keep them up
(barre)
Cause its sleepytime
F1
And that's no crime in the western world
Cause when the sun goes down
You’re bound to follow through
Sleeping through the afternoon
I just can't seem to leave my room
Waiting for the moon and a love so true
It's gonna see me through
Bb1
You know it's gonna see me through
(open)
(barre) F1
Cause when the sun goes down
I'm gonna make like a tree and bloom
Sleeping through the afternoon
I just can’t seem to leave my room
Waiting for the moon and a love so true
It’s gonna see me through
Bb1
You know it’s gonna see me through
(Even though the last part ends on Bb and this part starts on Bb,
I change from Bb1 to Bb2 to get closer to the lower F,
there's a pause anyway, might as well.)
Drifting down the sleepy river
F1
Waking like a child
barre
Never gonna know what the spirit said
F1
Unless you drift down for a while
Never gonna know what the wind is whispering now
Never gonna know unless you leave this world somehow
Bb1
Unless you leave this world somehow
Bb1 (barre)
I woke up on the street
(barre)
So apprehensive, feeling weak
And as I finally tried to speak
(open) (open)
Twelve birds flew straightways from my mouth
Bb1 (barre)
I circled high above the sky
(barre)
Began to cry with piercing sounds
A crowd gathered on the ground
(open) (open)
All speaking strangely through their teeth
Bb1 (barre)
I felt alone and in my creep
(barre)
I spoke once more into the wind
A storm of birds contained therein
(open)
Began to spin, to spin
Bb1 (barre) (barre)
(open)
(open)
Your eyelids are made of lead
You can't keep them up
(barre)
Cause its sleepytime
F1
And that's no crime in the western world
Cause when the sun goes down
You’re bound to follow through
Sleeping through the afternoon
I just can't seem to leave my room
Waiting for the moon and a love so true
It's gonna see me through
Bb1
You know it's gonna see me through
Outro: barre F1 Bb1