Vital Signs

Artist:     Rush

Song:       Vital Signs

Album:      Moving Pictures

Tabbed by:  Wiktor R. Kolowiecki

E-mail:     [email protected]



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Intro:

Cm Bb Ab



Cm Ab Cm x2



Verse 1:

   Cm      Ab    Cm 

Unstable condition,

     Cm      Ab    Cm

A symptom of life,

    Cm         Ab           Cm      Cm Ab Cm

Of mental and environmental change.

    Cm        Ab        Cm

Atmosphereic disturbance,

    Cm       Ab   Cm

The feverish flux

    Cm       Ab             Cm

Of human interface and interchange.



Bridge:

                          

e|----------------------|    |---------------------|

B|----------------------|    |1--------------------|

G|-5--------------------|    |--0---1--------------|

D|---5---6--------------| or |----1---1--------1---|

A|-----6---6--------6---|    |----------1-3--3---3-|

E|-----------6-8--8---8-|    |---------------------|



Bb   Cm Eb Cm Bb



Pre-chorus 1:



NOTE: Playing pre-chorus on chords it's not really the best idea, 

I made it only for orientation, so better do it on one string:

                                      

e|---------------------------------||----------------------------------||

B|---------------------------------||.--------------------------------.||

G|---------------------------------||----------------------------------||

D|---------------------------------||.--------------------------------.||

A|-----------------------------6---||---------------------------6------||

E|-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-8-8---8-||-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-8---8-6--||



e|---------------8--6-6--6---------||----------------------------------||

B|---------------8--8-8--6---------||.--------------------------------.||

G|---------------8--8-8--7---------||----------------------------------||

D|---------------10-8-8--8---------||.--------------------------------.||

A|---------------10-6-6--8---6-----||---------------------------6------||

E|-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-8--6-6--6-8---8-6-||-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-8---8-6--||



e|-8--6-6--4-4--|

B|-8--8-8--4-4--|

G|-8--8-8--5-5--|

D|-10-8-8--6-6--|

A|-10-6-6--6-6--|

E|-8--6-6--4-4--|



    Cm  Eb  Cm  Bb

The impulse is pure;

               Cm  Eb  Cm  Bb

Sometimes our circuits get shorted

   Cm       Eb       Bb   Cm Eb Cm Bb

By external interference.

                    Cm Eb Cm Bb

Signals get crossed

                         Cm Eb Cm

And the balance distorted

Bb   Cm     Bb   Ab

By internal incoherence.



Chorus 1:

Cm                     Bb

A tired mind become a shape shifter,

                 Ab

Everybody need a mood lifter,

Cm              Bb         Ab

Everybody need reverse polarity.

Everybody got mixed feelings

About the function and the form.

Everybody got to elevate from the norm.



Cm Ab Cm



Verse 2:

An ounce of perception,

A pound of obscure.

Process information at half speed.

Pause, rewind, replay,

Warm memory chip,

Random sample, hold the one you need.



[Bridge]



Pre-chorus 2:

Leave out the fiction,

The fact is, this friction

Will only be won by persistence.

Leave out conditions,

Courageous convictions

Will drag the dream into existence.



Chorus 2:

A tired mind become a shape shifter,

Everybody need a soft filter,

Everybody need reverse polarity.

Everybody got mixed feelings

About the function and the form.

Everybody got to elevate from the norm...



Outro:

Cm Ab Bb Ab



Cm             Bb        Ab 

Everybody got mixed feelings

Everybody got mixed feelings

Everybody got to elevate from the norm - (repeat till fade)



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[NOTE - I know there are some other words instead 'elevate'

in this last repeating verse but I don't have time to find them ;P]