Secrets by Tears For Fears
From Raoul and the Kings of Spain (1995)
Tab by marcos.nagato at gmail - feel free to send me any corrections or improvements.
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--------------- author's note -------------------
A melancholic but reeeally really beautiful tune, with some very interesting and well played guitar phrasing which I think was done by Mr. Alan Griffiths, but it could also be Roland Orzabal himself.
I'm not so sure about those chords on the bridge which sound dissonant, but hopefully they're not too far from what I transcribed.
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F
C Dm C Bb9
It seems we caused a forest fire
C Dm C Bb9
With just a flicker of a flame
C Dm C Bb9
And now I set alight to everything
C Dm C Bb9
Now all I do is cause you pain
Guitar pattern:
|------------------------------------|
|------5-------6-----------1---------|
|--------5-------7-----3-----3-------|
|----5-------7-------3---3-----3-----|
|--3-------5-------1-------------1---|
|------------------------------------|
Chorus:
F
I won't keep secrets alive
Eb Bb
I'll send them all out to space
F
Without the will to survive
Eb Bb
They won't be going no place
C Bb
Oh my angel
C Bb G# Gm F
Woman child
Chorus licks:
|--1---3---5--------------------|
|--------------4~---------3-----|
|----------------------/3-3-----|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
Play above 2x, then on "oh my angel":
|----------------------------------4---3---1---|
|-----5-------3-------5-------3----4---3---1---|
|--/5------/3------/5------/3------5---3---2---|
|----------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------|
C Dm C Bb9
I used to think the time would come
C Dm C Bb9
When man would rise above the beast
C Dm C Bb9
I gave up thinking that way long ago
C Dm C Bb9
In conversation with a priest
2nd Chorus like 1st, but adding the following different fills:
"survive... they won't be going no place"
|----------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------|
|-------3-5-6~------5~-------3~----1~--1~------|
|----------------------------------------------|
"oh my angel wo - man child
|-----------------------------------------------4---3---1---|
|-----5-------3----3h4p3---------5---------3----4---3---1---|
|--/5------/3------------5p3--/5--------/3------5---3---2---|
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
Guitar before bridge:
|----------------------------------|
|----------------------6-/10--6~---|
|------------------5h7-------------|
|----------3---5h7-----------------|
|------3h5-------------------------|
|--3h5-----------------------------|
(and keep repeating that last note at the beginning of each phrase)
F/Eb
We could have heal this blindness
F
With some human kindness
F/Eb
I know secrets kill you
F
But my love can fill you
F/Eb
Time and time again
F
Time and time again
C#
It would be so fine
Ddim
If you could be mine
Guitar on 1st "Time and time again":
|----------------------------------|
|----13-11--11-9--11b--rp9---------|
|---x----------------------h11-----|
|--x-------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|
"It would be so fine if you could be mine":
|--------------------------------------------------|
|---9--------9-------9-------9-------9-------9-----|
|--10--10------10-----------10--10-----10----------|
|--11-----11------11---11---12----12------12---12--|
|--------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|
Solo:
|---------------------------------------------------
|-----------------16b~~--16br-13-13--13p11p9--------
|--12~---12b~~-------------------------------(11)---
|---------------------------------------------------
|---------------------------------------------------
|---------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------
----6~-----10~------11~----11p10-11p10-11p10-11p10--11/13~---
---------------------------------10-10-10-10-10-10-----------
-/7----/11-----(11)------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------10-------------
--11brp10-13~---13p11-11-------------------13-11-13~---
-------------------------13-10~~-----10----------------
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------15~------17~------18~----17-18-/20~~----20p18-18-17--------|
--13--------13-------13-----------------------------------18~----|
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Guitar after last chorus before switching to verse and fading:
|----------------------------------------|
|----------------------6-/10--8~--/10~---|
|------------------5h7-------------------|
|----------3---5h7-----------------------|
|------3h5-------------------------------|
|--3h5-----------------------------------|
