the Smashing Pumpkins
In the arms of sleep
Off Mellon Collie & the infinite Sadness:
Twilight to starlight (1995)
Written By Billy Corgan
Tabbed by Jimi Jackson


For this song Billy and James use another
strange tuning like the one for Slow Dawn.
The strings are all tuned down one step
except the G string which is left in
standard tuning (EbAbDbGBbeb).


This song?s played by two guitars but it?s
very hard to distinguish what James is play
ing, so I tabbed Billys Rhythm guitar and
James?s most important parts. There are
also some differences between the used inst
ruments. Billy probably plays a Nylonstring
Acoustic and James a clean electric to get
the soft feedback with which the song starts.
Billy rakes over the strings while James does
Strum them most of the time.

Guitar 1: Billy (Nylonstring Acoustic)
Guitar 2: James (Electric Leadguitar)


Chords:

Because of the strange tuning I needed to
“invent” some chords that have the same
voicing as standard chords.

    A       Fmin  Gmin  E   B

eb--0-------------------0-------
Bb--0---0---0-----------0---0---
G---1---0---0-----0-----0---0---
Db--2---7---4-----6-----2---9---
Ab--0---7---4-----6-----2---9---
Eb------5---2-----4-----0---7---

Use the second A as an A minor Chord.



Intro:

Some soft drum noises and scrapes and very soft
Feedback produced by an unplayed guitar in front
of the amp.

Gmin  Fmin  (three times)


The song:

Billy plays single chords while James strums a
Gmin Fmin E Amin Gmin progression over the vocals.

Gmin           Fmin
Sleep will not come

Gmin          Fmin
to this tired body now

Gmin           Fmin
Sleep will not come

Gmin           Fmin
to this lonely heart


Both play now the same:


E         A               Gmin
There are some things I lived without

           E
But I want you to know

           A         Gmin
That I need you right now...

           Fmin   E
I need you tonight


E     E     E  (strum)


Gmin          Fmin                      Gmin
I steal a kiss from her sleeping shadow moves

Gmin          Fmin
Cause I always miss her wherever she goes

E               A            Gmin
And I?ll always need her more than she

E               A
could ever need me

E          A             Gmin
I need someone to ease my mind

A                                     A
But sometimes a someone is so hard to find

B                       A             B
And I?ll do anything to keep her here tonight

B                        A             B
And I?ll say anything to make her feel alright

B                       A             B
And I?ll be anything to keep her here tonight


E   A   Gmin


            E       A
Cause I want you to stay ... with me

       E
I need you tonight


Gmin  Fmin  (three times)

James plays his first chord progression again

Gmin         Fmin
She comes to me

Gmin                 Fmin
Like an angel out of time

Gmin             Fmin
Cause I play the part

Gmin             Fmin
of a Saint on my knees

E         A               Gmin
There are some things I lived without

           E
But I want you to know

           A         Gmin
That I need you right now...

A         Gmin    E A Gmin
Suffer my desire

A         Gmin    E A Gmin
Suffer my desire

A         Gmin    E  A   Gmin
Suffer my desire for you

A         Gmin    E A Gmin
Suffer my desire

A         Gmin    E A Gmin
Suffer my desire

A         Gmin    E  A   Gmin
Suffer my desire for you

A         Gmin    E A Gmin
Suffer my desire

A         Gmin    E A Gmin
Suffer my desire

A         Gmin    E  A   Gmin
Suffer my desire for you

E A Gmin Fmin E (James, till the end)

   A   Gmin  (E)
...for you


Same feedback as at the beginning


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