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Rush - Red Lenses
From the CD 'Grace Under Pressure'
Written by Lee/Lifeson/Peart
Mercury/Polygram Records 818476-2
This tab is a royal mess. It was a real pain to do, and I hope
you people appreciate it. This song (Texts of songs ) isn't so popular, so why the hell did
I tab it? The key is E, switching to Ab for the keyboard interludes.
| = not a standard bar line; just used to separate music
~ = vibrato or held note
/ = slide up from infinity
= slide down into infinity
o _
o / repeat sign (always look for these!)
[x35553] = fret box; this is a C chord - this is the same as standard
tablature, only turned on its side. Tilt your head clockwise to read.
[Riff 1] x1
[Riff 1] x2 very freely
It's the color of your heartbeat,
[Riff 2] x2
A rising summer sun,
[Riff 3] x2
The battle lost or won,
[Riff 1] x1 C#m7
The flash to fashion, the pulse to passion feels red,
C#m7
Inside my head.
F# F# F# F#~ F#7sus4 3x F#7(addB)
And truth is something better left unsaid.
E E E C#m7
I said red, red.
C#m7 C#m7 C#m7 C#m7
I'm thinking about the overhead, the underfed.
F# F#7sus4 F#7(addB)
Couldn't we talk about something else instead?
[Riff 1] x1
[Riff 1] x2 very freely [Riff 2] x2
We've got Mars on the horizon, says the National Midnight Star.
(It's true.)
[Riff 3] x2
What you believe is what you are.
[Riff 1] x1 C#m7
A pair of dancing shoes the Soviets are the blues. The reds under your
C#m7
bed,
F#7sus4 F#7(addB)
C#m7 C#m7 F# / /
lying in the darkness dead ahead.
And the mercury is rising; Barometer starts to fall.
You know it gets to us all.
The pain that is learning - and the rain that is burning -
C#m7 C#m7
Feel red. Still, go ahead.
F#7sus4 F#7(addB) E
C#m7 C#m7 C#m7 F# / / /
You see black 'n' white, and I see red, red -
E E E C#m7
not blue.
C#m13 C#m7
e:--9--9--9--9--9--9---9--9--9--9----9~------------------------------|
B:-12-12-12-12-12-12--11-11-11-11----9~------------------------------|
G:--9--9--9--9--9--9---9--9--9--9----9~------------------------------|
D:--9--9--9--9--9--9---9--9--9--9----9~------------------------------|
A:-11-11-11-11-11-11--11-11-11-11---11~------------------------------|
E:-------------------------------------------------------------------|
[C#m7 freely] F#
I'm thinkin' about the overfed, the under read.
