Ryan Adams - Sweet Illusions
from the record "Cold Roses"
Tabs submitted by Tim Prizer (tim_prizer@yahoo.com)
Questions, comments, corrections welcome. And if anyone can tab out the very nice
electric guitar in the background, that would be great...
Chords used (standard tuning - eBGDAE):
Bm 234422
G 330023
D 2320xx
Em 000220
Asus4 032200
*It sounds as though Ryan mutes the A string at some points on the G and the little e
string on the D, but it sounds fine either way.
Intro
Let me go I'm only letting you down
I 've got nothing to say to you now
I lose the feelings that are weighing me down
When I'm safe
It's turning morning all the birds sing
I'm not complicating anything
I'll have another then I'll go to bed
But I'll dream of you
Cause it's almost over
And it's almost gone
CHORUS
And I can feel the sweet illusion, coming
Sweet confusion, honey
Sweet illusion coming down
And I ain't got nothing but love for you now
You and I used to shine like a jewel
But time's been nothing to us but cruel
So play it out and never play the fool
Cause you'll lose every time
We were nothing, we were only the past
Hard times like that don't last
I've been forgiven, I have been surpassed
By my heart
Have you?
Cause it's almost over
Yeah it's almost gone
And I can feel the sweet illusion coming
Sweet confusion, oh
Sweet illusion coming down
And I ain't got nothing but love for you
BRIDGE
Love for you I can't use
And lonely nights multiplied by the blues
That I can't resolve
(very light picking on this verse)
You never knew me but I did my best
I'm just lonely inside I guess
You gave me everything you really tried
Thanks
If we were nothing and we're only the past
Then I'm just living in a dream I guess
A long black dream that takes me down the river to you
Where it's almost over
And we're almost gone
And I can feel the sweet illusion coming
Sweet confusion, honey
Sweet illusion coming down
Well I can feel the sweet illusion coming
Sweet confusion, honey
Sweet illusion coming down
And I ain't got nothing but love for you now