Dream Theater - Losing Time Chords

Only a piece as majestic as this one (especially the last part that recaps the end of the overture) would be suitable to finish off something as epic like ‘Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence’. I hardly ever listen to the first half of that album – I always just go straight for the amazing eight-part title track.

Enjoy!

-JWS

Intro: Same chords as the beginning (up to ‘…she’d been miles away’)

Cm                         Ab

She dresses in black everyday
Bb                     Gm

She keeps her hair simple and plain
Cm                         Ab

She never wears makeup

Bbsus4                                            Bb
But no one would care if she did anyway
Cm                  F7/A

She doesn't recall yesterday
Bb7/Ab                            Eb/G

Faces seem twisted and strange
Cm                         Ab

But she always wakes up
           Bbsus4                         Bb

Only to find she'd been miles away

Am               Em
Absence of awareness
C   D   E9   E

Losing Time
Am            Em

A lapse of perception
C   D   E9   E

Losing time

Cm/Eb    Ab      Bb/D

Wanting to escape

Gm               Cm   Ab    Bbsus4   Bb                        
She had created a way to survive
Cm     F7/A          Bb/D       Bbm/Db

She learned to detach from herself
Cm                 Gbdim   G7sus4   G

A behavior that kept her alive

C                                    Dm/C

Hope in the face of our human distress
G/B              F/A                 Em/B                  F
Helps us to understand the turbulence deep inside

      Bb        Gsus4   G
That takes hold of our lives

C                                             Dm/C
Shame and disgrace over mental unrest

G/B                   F/A                 Fm/Ab
Keeps us from saving those we love

        C/G                   D/F#
The grace within our hearts

Fm      G7sus4   Ab
And the sorrow in our souls

Ab                Ab/Bb
Deception of fame

        C/G                            
Vengeance of war

    C/G
Lives torn apart

Eb/Bb
Losing oneself

F/Bb
Spiraling down

Gb/Bb
Feeling the walls closing in

A/E
A journey to find

B/E
The answers inside

C/E  C   D   E
Our illusive mind