Secret World

#------------------------------------------------------------------------------## Secret World (Peter Gabriel) ---------------------------- (Disclaimer: no guarantee of correctness or completeness of transcription is given with respect to 7ths, inversions, fingering, and choice of #/b. Verse: ------ I stood in this unsheltered place D D/B 'Til I could see the face behind the face BADG All that had gone before had left no trace DD/B Chorus: ------- Down by the railway siding GD/F# In our secret world, we were colliding GD/A All the places we were hiding love GAAD/B What was it we were thinking of? GAD verse So I watch you wash your hair Underwater, unaware And the plane flies through the air chorus Did you think I didn't have to choose it That I alone could win or lose it In all the places we were hiding love What was it we were thinking of? verse In this house of make believe Divided in two like Adam and Eve You put out and I receive chorus Bridge: ------- D bass riff Oh the wheel it is turning spinning round and round DD And the house it is crumbling but the stairways stand DD .......................... CDD With no guilt and no shame, no sorrow or blame DD Whatever it is, we are all the same DD Making it up in our secret world CDD Making it up in our secret world CDD Making it up in our secret world CDD Shaking it up CG Breaking it up CG Making it up in our secret world CGD verse Seeing things that were not there On a wing, on a prayer In this state of disrepair chorus Ssh, listen.... End Section: ------------ D G/D D, C/D G/D D repeat to end -- /////////////////////////////////////////////////// // What makes mass society so difficult to bear // // is not the number of people involved...but // // the fact that the world between them has lost // // its power to gather them together, to relate // // and to separate them. -- Hannah Arendt, 1958 // //-----------------------------------------------// ///////////////////////////////////////////////////