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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 96 12:43:54 1000
From: glenn
COMING UP CLOSE - Til Tuesday
Aimee Mann
I found the old 45 a while ago and I was hoping
someone would have a more accurate version so correct this
Capo first fret
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v~~
[G] One night (wouldn't have a clue)
He and I in a borrowed car
[Em] Went driving in the summer
Promises at every stop
[C] Out in the distant I could
Hear some people laughing
[Am] I felt my heartbeat fast
A weekends' worth of sadness [G]
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[G] There was a farm house
That had long since been deserted
[Em] We stopped and carved our thoughts
Into the wooden surface
[C] I thought just for an instant
We could see the future
[Am] We thought for once we knew
What really was important [G]
CHORUS
[G] Coming up [C]close
Everything sounds like
'Welcome [G]Home'
Come [C]home
And 'Oh by the [G]way'
[G] Don't you know that I could make a dream
That's barely half the way?
Come[C] true
I wanted to[G] say
That anything I could have said
a[Am?]bout some moment you already
[C]Knew
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[G] We got back in the car
And listened to a Dylan tape
[Em] We drove around the fields
Until it started getting late
[C] I went back to my hotel room
On the highway
[Am] And he just got back in his car
And drove away[G]
Chorus x2
[G] [C] alt. etc
B.Jansen
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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No Picture
Dan The English Wanna Be |
#1 by Dan The English at Feb 2, 1981 at 9:56 PM EST |
| THIS is THE Til Tuesday song. Much better than Voices Carry (IMHO). I don't know, somehow I think it's about young love. Possibly a first love. Maybe it was closer to being perfect than she realized at the time. Possibly the "ignorance is bliss" syndrome before the pitfalls of adulthood sink in. I suppose that's kind of an abstract meaning, not literal, but that's how it seems to me. This is a GREAT song and really the one that hooked me on Til Tuesday and Aimee Mann. Folksy, jangling acoustic guitars and that lead bass guitar. Aimee's vocal delivery has never been better - the way she pauses on words or sqeezes words into a phrase. Man, what a song. | |
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No Picture
Jesus Professional |
#2 by Jesus at Jan 1, 1990 at 9:29 PM EST |
| I like this song as well but then there are so many Til Tuesday songs I love. If on the album “Voices Carry”, the band related tales of the failed relationship between then band member Michael Hausman and Mann—among others [I don’t feel this was the sole influence] and the album “Everything’s Different Now” portrayed the aftermath of Mann’s relationship with Jules Shear, then perhaps “Welcome Home” and this essentially title track song told of Mann and Shear when things were looking up. The three albums recorded by Til Tuesday until the band broke up contain great songs that really didn’t find the larger audience they were deserving of in one sense but perhaps they were always little gems depicting the anguish of rocky relationships along with the fragments of love left behind—surprise gifts of song for the discerning listener. I just love Mann’s wail “Come on home” followed by the ooh ooh ooh ooh oohs at the end of this song. The beauty of some songs is that a day, a feeling, the joy of new love—can pass but the essence of the associated emotions can be captured to be enjoyed over and over again. | |
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