Fan Transcriptions

Most of these tabs have been collected from the now defunct Unofficial Blue Nile Website. At some point I should make a link to a downloadable version.

Guitar Tablature for I Surrender

I Surrender - David Sylvian

Chords

D#m5/C -8x8766
Cm7    -8x888x
G#     -466544
Gm     -355333
Bb     -688766

@ I Surrender

Dm#5/C        


Cm7  Dm#5/C

Cm7
    I opened up the pathway of the heart
Dm#5/C
      The flowers died, embittered from the start
G#              Gm
   That night I crossed the Bridge of Sighs
          Cm7   Dm#5/C
And I surrendered

Cm7 Dm#5/C
I looked back and glimpsed the outline of a boy
Cm7 Dm#5/C
His life of sorrows now collapsing into joy
G#          Gm
Tonight the stars are aligned
      Cm7 
And I surrender

G#              Gm   
  A mother cries beneath a southern sky
          Cm7   
And I surrender

Cm7          Dm#5/C         Bb
   Recording angels and the poets of the night
Cm7            Dm#5/C          Bb
Bring back the trophies of the battles that we fight
G#              Gm  
   Searchlights fill the open skies
          Cm7   Dm#5/C
And I surrender

Outrageous cries of love have called you back
De-railed the trains of thought, demolished wayward track
You tell me I've no need to wonder why
I just surrender

I stand too close to see the slight of hand
How she found this child inside the frightened man
Tonight I'm learning how to fly
And I surrender

I've travelled all this way for your embrace
Enraptured by the recognition on your face
Hold me now while my old life dies tonight
And I surrender

My mother cries beneath the open skies
And I surrender

An ancient evening just before the fall
The light in your eyes, the meaning of it all
Birds fly and fill the summer skies
And I surrender

She throws the burning books into the sea
Come find the meaning of the word inside of me
It's alright the stars are all aligned
And I surrender

A mother cries beneath the moonlit skies
And I surrender

My body turns to ashes in her hands
The dissapearing world of footprints in the sand
Tell me now that this love will never die
And I surrender

My mother cries beneath the open skies
And I surrender

Guitar part for the intro and first verse

Dm#5/C    Cm7         Dm#5/C      Cm7
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----------4---8-4-6-8-6------------------------
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----------1---5-1-3-5-3------------------------
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                                         Dm#5/C
I opened up the pathway of the heart
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----------------------------------8--5-1-3-----
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The flowers died, embittered from the start
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G#              Gm
   That night I crossed the Bridge of Sighs
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          Cm7   Dm#5/C
And I surrender
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---------5-----3--------------------------------
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