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7 <title>Love Minus Zero/No Limit
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13 <h1 class=
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16 <p>Words and music Bob Dylan
<br />
17 Released on
<a class=
"recordlink" href=
"index.htm">Bringing It All Back Home
</a> (
1965) and on
18 <a class=
"recordlink" href=
"../21_budokan/index.htm">Budokan
</a> (
1978), and in a live version on
<a class=
"recordlink" href=
"../42_bs5/index.htm">Live
1975</a>
20 Tabbed by Eyolf
Østrem
</p>
22 <h2 class=
"songversion">Album Version
</h2>
23 <p>Dylan's guitar is in dropped C tuning (C-A-d-g-b-e') with a capo on the
4th fret (sounding key E major) and with the following chords:
</p>
29 <p>Since Dylan's guitar isn't the most prominent one, I've given the plain chords (without the G7), played by the other main guitar.
</p>
33 My love she speaks like silence,
35 Without ideals or violence,
37 She doesn't have to say she's faithful,
39 Yet she's true, like ice, like fire.
43 And make promises by the hours,
45 My love she laughs like the flowers,
47 Valentines can't buy her.
49 In the dime stores and bus stations,
50 People talk of situations,
51 Read books, repeat quotations,
52 Draw conclusions on the wall.
53 Some speak of the future,
54 My love she speaks softly,
55 She knows there's no success like failure
56 And that failure's no success at all.
58 The cloak and dagger dangles,
59 Madams light the candles.
60 In ceremonies of the horsemen,
61 Even the pawn must hold a grudge.
62 Statues made of match sticks,
63 Crumble into one another,
64 My love winks, she does not bother,
65 She knows too much to argue or to judge.
67 The bridge at midnight trembles,
68 The country doctor rambles,
69 Bankers' nieces seek perfection,
70 Expecting all the gifts that wise men bring.
71 The wind howls like a hammer,
72 The night blows cold and rainy,
73 My love she's like some raven
74 At my window with a broken wing.
79 <h2 class=
"songversion">Budokan version
</h2>
81 <p>Same as above, but in standard tuning, and in the key of D:
</p>
84 My love she speaks like silence,
86 Without ideals or violence,
88 She doesn't have to say she's faithful,
90 Yet she's true, like ice, like fire.
94 And make promises by the hours,
96 My love she laughs like the flowers,
98 Valentines can't buy her.
103 <h2 class=
"songversion">Live
1975 version
</h2>
105 <p>Played quite squarely, with a constant emphasis on the up-beats
</p>
108 My love she speaks like silence,
110 Without ideals or violence,
112 She doesn't have to say she's faithful,
114 Yet she's true, like ice, like fire.
118 And make promises by the hours,
120 My love she laughs like the flowers,
122 Valentines can't buy her
127 <h2 class=
"songversion"><a class=
"recordlink" href=
"../37_unplugged/index.htm">Unplugged
</a> version
</h2>
129 <p>Standard tuning
</p>
131 Dm = standard or xx3230
135 <p>At least in the intro the F is rather a F9
133213 (or, more playable:
13x213).
</p>
137 <p>"C-G-F
"-figure:
</p>
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153 My love she speaks like silence,
155 Without ideals or violence,
157 doesn't have to say she's faithful,
159 Yet she's true, like ice, like fire.
163 make promises by the hours,
165 My love she laughs like the flowers,
167 Valentines can't buy her.