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From: KeanJ@agresearch.cri.nz
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 17:16 +1200 (NZST)
Overs - Simon & Garfunkel
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>From "Bookends".
Transcribed an tabbed by John Kean (keanj@agresearch.cri.nz).
Capo 2nd fret.
4/4, . , . , . , . , . , . , . , .
||-----3--------------------------|-1-----------0h1p0--------------|
||----5------------5--------------|-3----------3--------3----------|
||---4-------------3--------------|-2---------2-------------2------|
||--5--------------5--------------|-3---------------------------3--|
||-3---------------4--------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Why don't we stop fooling ourselves?
6/4, . , . , . , . , . , . 4/4, . , . , . , .
|------0--------------------------------|---------------------0----------|
|-----0---------------------------------|-----------------3--------------|
|----0----------2--0--------------------|-------------1------------------|
|---2-----------3--2--------3--2--------|---------0----------------------|
|--3------------------------3-----------|-----2--------------------------|
|------------------------------3-----1--|-0---------------------------0--|
The game is over, over, over No
, . , . , . , . , . , . , . , .
|--------------------------------|-0------------------------------|
|-1-------1-------3-------3------|-1-------1-------1-------1------|
|-2-------2-------2-------2------|-0-------0-------0-------0------|
|-3-------3-------3-------3------|-2-------2-------2-------2------|
|--------------------------------|-3-------2-------0--------------|
|-1-------1----1--1-------1----1-|-------------------------3---0--|
good times, no bad times, There's
, . , . , . , . , . , . , . , .
|------1-------------------------|----------------------2----------|
|------1--0-------3-------1------|-(1---0h1p0-------1--------------|
|-2----2--0-------0-------0------|-)2-----------2------------------|
|-3-------2-------0-------2------|-(0---------------------------0--|
|-3---------------2-------0------|-)0------------------------------|
|-1-------0----------------------|-(2-----------------------2------|
no times at all, Just the New York Times,
, . , . , . , . , . , . , . , .
|------0-------0-------0---------|--------------------------------|
|-1-h3----3-------3--------------|---------1b------1--------------|
|--------------------------------|-------2-------------2----------|
|--------------------------------|-----0-------------------3------|
|-3-------2-------1-------0------|-----------------------------3--|
|--------------------------------|-1------------------------------|
Sittin' on the windowsill Near the
, . , . , . , . , . , . , . , .
|------0--0------------0---------|------3-------------------------||
|------1--1-------3-------3------|-5----5----------3----2-1------||
|---------0-------2------------2-|-4---------------2----0---------||
|---------2----0--3-------3------|-5---------------3--------------||
|--------------------------------|---------0----0-------0---------||
|--------------------------------|------------------------------0-||
flowers.
, . , . , . , . , . , . , . , .
||----------0------(3-------3------|-(1-------1---0h1p0--------------|
||-(0-------0------)2-------2------|-)3-------3---3-------3----------|
||-)0-------0------(3-------3------|-(2-------2---2-----------2------|
||-(2-------2----2----------2------|-)3-------3-------------------3--|
||-)3-------3----------------------|---------------------------------|
||---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
We might as well be apart
6/4, . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , .
|-(0------------------------------------|------------------0--------------|
|-)0------------------------------------|--------------3-------3----------|
|-(0------------------------------------|----------1---------------1------|
|-)2------------3--2--------------------|------0--------------------------|
|-(3------------------3-----3--------3--|-p2------------------------------|
|------------------------3-----3--0-----|------------------------------0--|
It hardly matters: we sleep separately
, . , . , . , . , . , . , . , .
|---------1---------------1------|-0------------------------------|
|-1-------1-------3-------3------|-1-------1-------1-------1------|
|-2-------2-------2-------2------|-0-------0-------0-------0------|
|-3-------3-------3-------3------|-2-------2-------2-------2------|
|------------------------------3-|---------2-------0--------------|
|-1-------1----1----------1------|-------------------------3------|
And drop a smile passing in the hall But there's
, . , . , . , . , . , . , . , .
|------1-------------------------|----------------------2----------|
|------1--0-------3-------1------|-(1---0h1p0-------1--------------|
|-2----2--0-------0-------0------|-)2-----------2------------------|
|-3-------2-------0-------2------|-(0---------------------------0--|
|-3---------------2-------0------|-)0------------------------------|
|-1-------0----------------------|-(2-----------------------2------|
no laughs left, 'Cause we laughed them all
, . , . , . , . , . , . , . , .
|------0-------0-------0-------0-|--------------------------------||
|-1-h3----3-------3-------3------|---------1b------1--------------||
|-0-------0-------0-------0------|-------2-------------2----------||
|--------------------------------|-----0-------------------3------||
|-3-------2-------1-------0------|-----------------------------3--||
|--------------------------------|-1------------------------------||
And we laughed them all In a very short
, . , . , . , . , . , . , . , .
||---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
||-(0------(0------(0------(0------|-(0------(0------(0------(0------|
||-)0------)2------)4------)2------|-)0------)2------)4------)2------|
||-(2------(2------(2------(2------|-(2------(2------(2------(2------|
||-------3-------3-------3-------3-|-------3-------3-------3---------|
||---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
Time is tapping on my
3/4, . , . , . 4/4, . , . , . , .
|-------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-(1----------------------|---------1---------------1------|
|-)0---------------2------|------2---------------2---------|
|-(2-----------2----------|----0---------------0-----------|
|-)3---2---0-----------3--|--------------------------------|
|-------------------------|-2---------------1--------------|
forehead Hanging from my
3/4, . , . , . 4/4, . , . , . , .
|-------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-(1----------------------|---------1---------------1------|
|-)0---------------2------|------2---------------2---------|
|-(2-----------2----------|----0---------------0-----------|
|-)3---2---0-----------3--|--------------------------------|
|-------------------------|-2---------------1--------------|
mirror Rattling the
, . , . , . , . , . , . , . , .
|--------------------------------|---------1------(1--------------||
|-----------------0-----------0--|-----3----------)1-------1------||
|-------------0-----------0------|-2--------------(1---1-------1--||
|---------2-----------2----------|-3--------------)3--------------||
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
|-0------------------------------|--------------------------------||
teacups, And I wonder
, . , . , . , . , . , . , . , .
||-(0-------0------(3-------3------|-(1-------1---------------1------|
||-)0-------0------)2-------2------|-)3-------3-----------1----------|
||-(0-------0------(3-------3------|-(2-------2-------1-----------1--|
||-)2-------2----2----------2----3-|----------3----------------------|
||-(3-------3----------------------|---------------------------------|
||---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
How long can I delay?
6/4, . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , .
|-(0------0---0-------------------------|------------------0--------------|
|-)0------0---0-------------------------|--------------3-------3----------|
|-(0------0-----------------------------|----------1---------------1------|
|-)2------------3--2--------------------|------0--------------------------|
|-(3------------------3-----3--------3--|-p2------------------------------|
|------------------------3-----3--0-----|------------------------------0--|
We're just a habit, like saccharin
, . , . , . , . , . , . , . , .
|-1-------1-------1-------1------|-0------------------------------|
|-1-------1-------3-------3------|-1-------1-------1-------1------|
|-2-------2-------2-------2------|-0-------0-------0-------0------|
|-3-------3-------3-------3------|-2-------2-------2-------2------|
|------------------------------3-|---------2-------0--------------|
|-1-------1----1----------1------|-------------------------3------|
And I'm habitually feelin' kinda blue But
, . , . , . , . , . , . , . , .
|------1--0---------------0------|-(2-------------------2----------|
|------1--0-------3-------1------|-)1---0h1p0-------1--------------|
|-2----2--0-------0-------0------|-(2-----------2------------------|
|-3-------2-------0-------2------|-)0---------------------------0--|
|-3---------------2-------0------|-(0------------------------------|
|-1-------0----------------------|-)2-----------------------2------|
each time I try on the thought of leaving you I
, . , . , . , . , . , . , . , .
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
|-3------------------------------|--------------------------------||
|--------------------------------|-8--7--6--5--1--------------||
stop. I stop and think it over...
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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mike Average |
#1 by mike duncan at May 20, 1976 at 3:29 AM EST |
| "this is a song that was my favorite song for quite some time. it's from our last LP, the "bookends" album. it's about a point in a relationship when two people realize it's over, and yet neither has any place to go from there. it's called overs." -paul simon in concert one of my favorite S&G songs of all time. the guitar is great. paul is great. | |
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Pablo Rhythm Player |
#2 by Pablo Muņiz at Sep 7, 1980 at 2:21 PM EST |
| The whole song is a circle: notice "the game is over" line and "I stop and think it over", different meanings for over; as an end and as a start. The whole song is about a dead love, the person knows that, totally, but the end shows a bit of denial towards the end of the relationship. I feel bad in some way because I remember showing this song to a friend who was just separated from her husband. A week later, she divorced the guy. Sometimes I think if it was the song that had to do on her decision. :-S | |
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Jake Wanna Be |
#3 by Jake Stewart at Sep 29, 1990 at 12:05 PM EST |
| The voices are both singing solo verses here, which is relatively strange for S&G, but works very well. One of their most poetic songs, and to think a man who was only in his 20s wrote it. Constant refs to time, and I love 'No good times, no bad times There's no times at all just the NY Times' Very clever and meaningful lyrics all through, and it kind of starts and ends with the word 'Over' but in different ways. Melancholy at its best. | |
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Indy Lead Player |
#4 by Indy Windrose at Jul 16, 1999 at 3:30 AM EST |
| This is about being in a relationship/marriage and acknowledging that the magic has long since vanished. | |
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