High Time

By Michael Penn

Transcribed here by me, Tom

Things to note:

• I did this with a capo on 3.
• This one's driven in part by a 2-bar riff-type deal... it's basically just alternating between a D and a D without the middle finger on the 2nd fret of the high e string. The latter of those two chords (I think... I'm bad with chord names when they're not plain ones...) is a DmDim... it looks like this (I'll call it D2 for shorthand purposes):

  

  So this chord is part of this overall riff:

  

• As usual, my convention with writing out chords is that if you see something like this:

  G D D D

  ... each note gets one beat of the measure... if you see two notes on one line, each gets two beats of the measure. However, when I have chords WITH text, just use the words as a guide for how long to play the note. Hope that's not too confusing.

[intro]

D  (riff)
G D D D
G

       D (riff)
What a scene....... what a 

G
drama just to find the door... that was

D (riff)
Mean....... that was

G
Totally uncalled for



         A                       Em
have you reached the point where you must choose between

Bm                G        A        D (riff)
what you lost and what you stand to lose

         Em          G
isn't it high time?........


D (riff)
D (riff cont'd)
G D D D
G

         D (riff)
Could it be that the  

G
future's going to turn out great? well, we'll 

D (riff)
see........ meantime 

G
somebody lays in wait..... 'til you


A                     Em
reach the point where you must choose between

Bm                   G        A
what you've lost and what you stand to 

D (riff)
lose........ so come up with a 

Em            A
new line......... 'cause baby it's 

D (riff)
high time...



[interlude]

Em  
A
D/G   D/F#
A

Em
A
D/G   D/F#
A

Em
A
C  C/B
F   Em

D (riff)
G  D  D  D
G


       D (riff)
What a shame..... I know 

G
nothing's ever been this tough... out of 

D (riff)
blame..... and out of 

G
all of that other stuff.... but when

A                 Em
you're alone with what you've left and you've 

Bm
done bereaved and 

G      A      D       G
been bereft e-nough...... you have
 


A
reached the point where 

Em
you must choose between 

Bm
what you've lost and 

G        A        D (riff)
what you stand to lose....... isn't it

Em          A
high time......  baby it's

D (riff)
high time

Em  G
........baby it's 

D (riff)
high time

G D D D
G

D (riff)
G D D D
G

[REPEAT and fade...]

5/11/00