Chord/Tab song: Dim

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Here is a mostly complete transcription of Dada's tune, "Dim".

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Dada, "Dim"
from the album, _Puzzle_

transcription by ryan@odouls.stx.com (patrick m. ryan)
comments, corrections, cash donations welcome

[intro riff]

----0-2-3-2-0-----0-2-3-2-0------0---0--------------
--3------------3------------3-----------------------
------------------------------/4---2---0------------
----------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------

[intro riff played once with just guitar then
twice along with drums & bass]

[cool verse riff]
~~~~~~

-----------------------------------
-----------------------------0-----
----0---0----------------0---------
-------------4---4---------2-------
-----------0---0------3------------
--3---3-------------3--------------

[verse riff played 2x with no vocals
then verse riff played over each line (4x)]

[verse 1]
If you've got pictures of your face
Could you leave it on your way out the door
I don't care if it's color or black or white
I just need something to remember you by

[chorus]
[G] [D] B[C]efore my life, [C]before my life went dim

[G] [D] B[C]efore my life, [C]before my life went dim

[Em] No one [D]told me the tr[C]ouble I was in[C]

[G] Before m[D]y life went di[C]m[C]

[intro riff 2x]

[verse 2]
I painted half my face green
I painted half my face blue
In hopes of showing you both sides of me both sides of me
I guess it came down to don't you love don't you love me

[chorus]
Before my life went dim
Before my life went dim
No one told me the trouble I was in
Before my life went dim

[guitar solo
part 1]

--------------------------7--7--7--7--7--7--7---
-10-10-10--8--8--8--8----10-10-10--8--8--8--8---
--9--9--9--9--9--9--9-----9--9--9--9--9--9--9--- o
------------------------------------------------ o
------------------------------------------------
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[guitar solo, part 2 (under construction) ]


[intro riff 2x]

[verse 3]
[rhythm carried by drums & bass. verse riff not played.]
Can't this car go any faster

[arpeggio fades in under lines 2-4]

------7-------7------
--8-------8-------8--
-7---7---7---7---7---
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---------------------
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Can't this car go any faster
Can't this car go any faster
Cause I can still see where I am

[chorus]
Before my life went dim
Before my life went dim
You should have told me The trouble I was in
Before my life went dim

[intro 4x and end]

[--]"Now about those pictures..."
"I can explain! I was young! I needed the money!.."

patrick m. ryan
nasa / goddard space flight center / hughes stx / eosdis ims v.0 team
patrick.m.ryan@gsfc.nasa.gov / pryan@ccmail.stx.com / ryan@odouls.stx.com