Mercury

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Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 20:00:10 
-0800
From: "Michael A. Mazur"

Transcribed by Michael A. Mazur (*)

Guitar 1 is an acoustic, tuned to 
open Eb (Eb Bb Eb G Bb Eb)
Guitar 2 is a mandolin, tuned down 
1/2 step (Gb Db Ab Eb)

Note: Watch the time signature here.
 The main riff is in 14/8, which
I think of as a measure of 6 
followed by a measure of 8 (as
I indicate below). But, the rest of 
the song is in 8/8, and the
shifts from 14/8 to 8/8 and back 
again are subtle.

Intro and main riff:

|  
|-----0-----------|----0--------------|
|  
|--------0--2/3\2-|-------0-----0-----|
|14|-----------2/3\2-|-0----------
||----0--| Guitar 1 (all of guitar 
||1 

| 
8|-----------2/3\2-|-0-----------------| is played with a slide)
|  
|-----------2/3\2-|-0-----------------|
|  
|--0--------------|-0--------0--------|
    (6/8)             (8/8)

Verse: (guitar 1 plays main riff 
over Eb)
| |/5--------5--------|
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| |/5--5-----5--------|
|8|/5-----5--5--5-----| Guitar 1 
|8|/5--------5-----5--| (note the
||plays this for the Ab chord 
|| change to 8/8)             

| |/5--------5--------|
| |/5--------5--------|


Eb
She is trapped inside a month of 
grey
And they take a little every day
         Ab
She is a victim of her own responses
Shackled to a heart that wants to 
Eb
settle
And the runs away

Chorus:
| 
 Bb                  Ab
|/7--------7--------|/5--------5--------|
| 
|/7--7-----7--------|/5--5-----5--------|
|8|/7-----7--7--7-----|/5-----5--
|8|/7--------7-----7--|/5--------
||5--5-----| Guitar 1       
||5-----5--| (again in 8/8) 

| 
|/7--------7--------|/5--------5--------|
| 
|/7--------7--------|/5--------5--------|

       Bb               Ab
It's a sin to be fading endlessly
                  Eb (guitar 1 plays
 main riff)
Yeah, but she's alright with me

She is leaving on a walkaway
She is leaving me in disarray
In the absence of a place to be
She stands there looking back at me
Hesitates, and then turns away
She'll change so suddenly
She's just like mercury
Yeah, but she's alright with me

Bridge:
|/12--|                        
|/12--|                        
|/12--| Guitar 1 plays this at 
|/12--| plays the main riff ove
|/12--|                        
|/12--|                        
||  
||  
||th
||r 
||  
||  
||                              
||                              
||e end of the chorus, and then 
||the bridge                    
||                              
||                              

|------------------------------| 
|--7--7--7--7--9--9b(10)r9--9--| 
|------------------------------| 
|------------------------------| 
||                        
||Guitar 2 (trem. picked) 
||                        
||                        

(Guitar 1 plays last 8/14 of main 
riff once)

Keep some sorrow in your
hearts and minds
For the things that die before their
 time
For the restlessly abandoned homes
The tired and weary rambler's bones
And stay beside me where I lie
She's entwined in me
Crazy as can be
Yeah, but she's alright with me