Invisible Sun Guitar Tab

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From markoffen@hotmail.com Sun May  4 10:18:49 1997
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 09:28:42 PDT
From: Mark Offen 
To: guitar@olga.net
Subject: tab: "invisible sun" by "the Police"

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"Invisible Sun" by The Police
Words and Music by Sting
Transcribed by Mark Offen

Verse 1:


Eb        Cm9

Eb                      Cm9
I don't wanna spend the rest of my life

Eb                           Cm9
Looking at the barrel of an Armalite

Eb                      Cm9
I don't wanna spend the rest of my days

Eb                              Cm9
keeping out of trouble like the soldiers say


Verse 2

Eb                    Cm9
I dont wanna spend my time in hell

Eb                         Cm9
looking at the walls of a prison cell

Eb                  Cm9
I don't ever wanna play the part

Bb9                 A9         Ab9
of a statistic on a Government Chart

Chorus

G
There has to be an invisible sun,


It gives it's heat to every one


There has to be an invisible sun


It gives us hope when the day's done


Verse 3:

It's dark all day and it glows all night
Factory smoke and acetylene light
I face the day with my head caved in
Looking like something that the cat brought in

Chorus

Instrumental:  D  Bm9 repeat

Verse 4:

And they're only gonna change this place
By killing everybody in the human race
And they would kill me for a cigarette
But I don't even wanna die just yet.

Chorus

Chords:
 a dash means a fret and an X means "finger here"

Cm9 			Bb9		A9
e --x            e x--        e --x--|
b --x            b x--        b -x---|
g --x            g x--        g ---x-|
d x--            d ---        d -x---|
a --x			a x--		a
e ---			e ---		e

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture duncan_player Wanna Be	#1 by duncan_player at Aug 2, 1985 at 12:34 PM EST
	I've read that Sting was thinking in particular of an IRA prisoner hunger strike which was still underway at about the time he wrote the song. Much as I enjoy the more poetic and imaginative interpretations of the title, I admit that it seems most likely that the Invisible Sun represents God (a choice influenced by Occam's Razor perhaps). The representation of a universally life-giving entity is reminiscent of Talmudic sayings which (though also metaphorical) refer to G-d. Granted I have no reason to believe Mr. Sumner is familiar with Judaica, but he is evidently well-read (Paul Bowles, Koestler, Jung etc.)

No Picture goofy Rhythm Player	#2 by goofy at Jul 4, 1994 at 2:01 PM EST
	And then again, the extra production actually works fine on some of the tracks. There's no way the band could have inserted all that creepiness and near-gothic majesty into a song like 'Invisible Sun' three years ago. It may deal with the problems of Northern Ireland, of course, but you wouldn't really know that without a special education problem - basically, it's just a violent social rant from Stingie. Wait... violent? It's as stern and becalmed as anything, and that gives the song an extra edge. That unnerving countdown of one... two... three... four... five... six... at the beginning, the robotic dum-dum-dum of the main synthline, Andy's solid repetitive riff, the menacing whoah-whoah harmonies, and above all, Sting's vocal manner the likes of which he'd never assumed before: immobile and dark, without the usual whiny or screechy overtones, like he's the Lord Jesus or something. Yeah yeah I know what you're thinking about, but believe me, it really works - even in the somewhat 'brighter' chorus section, which contrasts with the dark verses in a way that doesn't please everyone (I think I see the obvious seam, too), but which you eventually get used to. 'Invisible Sun' is, IMHO, the best song on here, but in no way does it overshadow the rest - as is the usual trick, EVERY song on here has at least something going on for it. [George Starostin]

No Picture Average	#3 by Fig at Nov 11, 1998 at 1:44 PM EST
	Its about the troubles in northern Ireland

No Picture Oliver Average	#4 by Oliver Taylor at Aug 18, 1999 at 12:21 AM EST
	this is about the troubles of northern ireland. I thought the version they performed at the conspiracy of hope tour really asserted this fact as they performed it with bono of u2. It was also good to see basically the greatest band on earth passin on the title to a new act. excellent song.