Topic: Cobwebs, Dust & Veils
I got home Saturday night at about 1.30 AM, and the first line popped into my noggin, so I finished it off Sunday morning. The theme is schizophrenia, it may not be recognisable from the lyrics. There has been a lot of scandal lately with schizophrenics being released as "safe" then they have killed.
I have posted it in the key of "D", but I wrote and am recording it in "F#". Capo on the 4th fret.
Cobwebs, Dust and Veils. Phill Williams.
They tell me that I'm sane.[D to A]
I'm sane as I need to be.
If they mess with my brain.
Will I be if I try to be?
CHORUS
And [G] funny things go [A] round my head.
[Bm] Through my mind, get [C] lost in there.
Oh, [D] cobwebs, [A] dust and [G] veils. [A]
[D] Cobwebs, [A] dust and [G] veils. [A]
[D] Cobwebs, [A] dust and [G] veils, [A] cloud my [D] mind.
The big men came one day. [D to A]
They said, “hey man your out of it� .
They took me for a ride.
We just seemed to drive around a bit.
(REPEAT CHORUS)
(BRIDGE)
And they [G] give me lots of [A] pretty pills.
I [D] watch TV and [G] paint the hills.
[Em] Mother comes round [A] now and then.
She [D] says “hello�then she's [G] gone again.
And I [Bm] wish sometimes she'd [Bm] stay a while.-(BASS RUN DOWN-B-A-Ab)
[Bm] Give some time to her [G] wayward child...
And [D] cobwebs, [A] dust and [G] veils.-[A]
[D] Cobwebs , [A] dust and [G] veils.-[A]
[D] Cobwebs [A] dust and [G] veils. [A] Cloud my [D] mind.
(SOLO)
And they [G] give food, three [A] times a day.
And [D] I could live my [G] life this way.
But they [Em] say I must get [A] out of here.
And I've [D] got to say; boy [G] am I scared?
The [Bm]big bad world sits and waits for me. (BASS RUN-DOWN=B-A-Ab)
Oh! my God, if they [G] set me free....
And, [D] cobwebs, [A] dust and [G] veils.-[A]
[D] Cobwebs, [A] dust and [G] veils.-[A]
[D] Cobwebs, [A] dust and [G] veils, [A] cloud my [D] mind.
So I'm back here on the street. [D to A]
All these people stare at me.
So I look down at my feet.
Is someone going to care for me?
(REPEAT CHORUS X 2)
Phill Williams 28th March 2010
Ask not what Chordie can do for you, but what you can do for Chordie.
