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Title:                   FEELIN' ALRIGHT               (Dave Mason)
                             Traffic

          C7                    F7
          Seems I got to have a change of scene
          C7                           F7
          Cause every night I have the strangest dreams
          C7                       F7
          Imprisoned by the way it could've been
          C7                     F7
          Left here on my own or so it seems
          C7                      F7
          I got to leave before I start to scream
          C7                                F7
          But someone's locked the door and took the key

                  C7           F7
          Feelin' alright
                          C7                 F7
          Not feelin' too good myself
                  C7           F7
          Feelin' alright
                          C7                 F7
          Not feelin' too good myself


          Boy you sure took me for one big ride

          Even now I sit and wonder why

          And when I think of you I start to cry

          I just can't waste the time I must keep dry

          Got to stop believin' in all your lies

          Cause I got to much to do before I die

          Don't get too lost in all I say

          If half the time I really felt that way

          That was then and now it's today

          Can't get off yet and so I'm here to stay

          Before someone comes along and takes my place

          With a different name and yes a different face

          EADGBe
      F7  113121
      C7  333553

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture !Ace Rhythm Player	#1 by !Ace Youngs at Oct 17, 1975 at 10:00 AM EST
	This song is one of the best songs about "divorce" ever written. The first line should be "Seems I've got to have a change of SCENE" and the verse goes on to discuss being tortured by thoughts of how things might have turned out better. The chorus is just asking the girl if she feels as bad as the singer does. The second verse discusses how it is time to move on. The final line, in all the Traffic and Dave Mason (who I believe wrote the song) versions, is "Cause there's too much to do before I SIGN"; which is why I feel this is about divorce specifically and not just a breakup. (The Joe Cocker "hack job" of this song does use the words "before I DIE" but then I think Joe basically missed the point of the song.) The final verse is possibly about the girl asking to reconcile and the singer telling her find some other sap, but I am not sure about this; it might just be about his acceptance of moving on.

No Picture dalton Average	#2 by dalton hoffman at Dec 17, 1979 at 7:09 PM EST
	As a listener, my first impression of "Feelin' Alright" was always about a relationship with a girl. But the line about "must keep dry" never made any sense in that context to me, and it occurred to me that if you look at this as a song about a relationship with drinking, it makes much more sense. Think of the song as the voice of someone on a bar stool, and it makes a LOT of sense. Also, to correct a few lyrics, the first line is "have a change of scene," and in the refrain, it should read, "I'm not feeling too good myself" in each instance.

No Picture Maggotkill Average	#3 by Maggotkill at Aug 18, 1988 at 9:23 PM EST
	As far as the lyrics, I think hippoman is right. I just went back a listed yet again with headphones and I think it’s “die.” As far at the meaning, I think you are both right in away. That song is about the point in a relationship where everyone knows that it is over but doesn’t know how to let I go. Maybe because it’s comfortable or because they aren’t sure how. So they keep recapping the same old ground and taking it back only to repeat the cycle. We’ve all been there; at least I know I have.

No Picture Squats Average	#4 by Squats at Nov 12, 1997 at 1:29 AM EST
	I believe that even in the Traffic version, the word is "die" and not "sign". Dave Mason also says "die" on the version of this song that appears on his solo album, "Headkeeper". Since Mason is the writer of this song, I have to believe that "die" is the word. I don't think that the song is about breaking up, but it does seem to be about relationship problems. Things are difficult between them, and the singer isn't "feelin' alright" about what's going on between them. In the second verse, he said that he "can't waste my time" and wants to move on "before I die", but then, in this final verse, he says for her not to "get too lost in what I say." In that verse, he "can't get up yet" and he's "here to stay", which to me, implies that he has decided not to leave her, and that he's staying put while he tries to decide if he has the strength and courage to leave her, in spite of "all your lies".