A very tough song to play, unless you're Stephen Rothery.  I've watched him

play this song up-close several times, and it still amazes me.  If you've

never seen him up-close, I'll describe it.  He holds the pick normally between

his thumb and fore finger.  His middle, ring, and pinky fingers of his right

hand have long nails (almost 1/3 inch maybe) which he uses to finger pick the

high strings WHILE picking with the pick.  I have tried this, but can't do it,

so I just use my fingers and thumb (no pick) for the verses.  Without the long

fingernails and pick, the sound isn't as crystal clear, but what can you do?



Set delay time to about 425 milliseconds, about 3 repeats, and alot of delay in

the mix (almost 100%).  Steve uses EMG single coil active pickups, Roland Jazz

Chorus 120 amps for the clean parts, TC Electronics delay units, Alesis

Quadraverb, MIDI octopus, and bunch of other stuff (no kidding).  Steve

generally uses Marshall amps for solos, but in this case it sounds like a Jazz

Chorus with perhaps a Marshall pre-amp stage or Boss pedal for distortion.



------------------5-------|

--------------------5-----|

--7---6----7---6------6---|  Repeat once

--9---7----9---7----------|

--------------------------|

--------------------------|



--7---9----5----------------------------|

----7--------5------2---2---3-----------|

---------------6------2-------------6---| 

--9--------7--------4-------5---5/7-----|

----------------------------------------|

----------------------------------------|



--7---9----5--------------------|

----7--------5------2------3----|

---------------6-----------4----|

--9--------7--------4---5-------|

--------------------------------|

--------------------------------|



The two above are repeated throughout the verses.  The figures are simplified

during the parts "By the way, didn't I break your heart?"  Once you get the

above fingerings down, the simplified parts are... you guessed it-simpler!! 

So I won't post it here (laziness!!!)



Chorus:



--10-------9------7-----5-----3-----7-----5------5-----5-----|

-----10------10-----8-----7-----5-----8-----7------7-----7---|

--------11------9-----7-----7-----5-----7------7-----7-------|

-------------------------------------------------------------|

-------------------------------------------------------------|

-------------------------------------------------------------|



Solo:



rake					    rake	

------------------------------------------5----------------------------

---x--2--3-----2~--3-----2~--3-----2~--3------x--2--3-----2~--3--------

--x---------4---------4---------4------------x---------4---------4-----

-x------------------------------------------x--------------------------

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

-----------------------------------------------------------------------



               rake

---------------------------------------------------------------17------

--2~--3-----------x-14--15-----14~--15-----14~--15-----14~--15---------

----------2~~----x---------16----------16----------16------------------

----------------x------------------------------------------------------

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

-----------------------------------------------------------------------



rake						     p

--------------------------------14--17B(19)---(19)R17_14---------------

---x-14--15----14~--15--17B(19)----------------------------17--17B(19)-

--x---------16---------------------------------------------------------

-x---------------------------------------------------------------------

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

-----------------------------------------------------------------------



            PM	    h				            h  p h  p

-----------------------------------------------7--10B(12)--9_10_9_10_9-

-17--14-----------14_15------------------------------------------------

--------14~----14-------16~----------7--9B(11)-------------------------

------------16------------------7/9------------------------------------

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

-----------------------------------------------------------------------



			p		p		    p

------------------------------------------------------12--12_10--------

-10--10B(12)-----(12)R10_7-------10~--12_10----10--12-----------12-----

----------------------------9/11------------11-------------------------

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

-----------------------------------------------------------------------



			 p	       h  p		 PM  h

-12--10--12B(14)--(14)R12_10------10--9_10_9----9----------------------

-----------------------------12--------------12---10--------7_10B(12)--

-----------------------------------------------------9/7---------------

---------------------------------------------------------9-------------

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

-----------------------------------------------------------------------



			     h             h              h       PM-

-9-------------9------------9_10~--9~----------------------------------

---10~--7~-------10~--7~--------------10--7_8~--7~---------------------

-----------7~---------------------------------------7----4_5~--4~------

------------------------------------------------------------------5----

--------------------------------------------------------------------5--

-----------------------------------------------------------------------





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-------------

-4-----------

---5/7~------

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Second verse is the same as the first except everything is a full step higher.

Thus, everything is played exactly the same except two frets higher.

Second chorus is the same as the first.



Legend:

~    normal finger vibrato

/    slide...7/9 means start on the 7th fret and slide to the 9th

_    (underline) hammer-on or pull-off as notated above the tabs 

B    a bend..start on fret to the left of the B and bend to the note in ()

R    a release

PM   palm mute