Wrapped in Grey

(Partridge)

Recordings
XTCfans interview with Andy Partridge
Art
Lyrics
Chords and Tablature
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Recordings

  1. Album version, 3'46.
    Released on Nonsvch.
    Was to be released on 7 September 1992 as a single in the U.K. but was withdrawn.
    Dave Gregory - Piano, synthesizers & backing vocals
    Stuart Gordon - Violin
    Gina Griffin - Violin
    Florence Lovegrove - Viola
    Rose Hull - Cello
    Andy Partridge - Lead & backing vocals, tambourine & percussion
    Colin Moulding - Bass guitar & backing vocals
    Dave Mattacks - Drums
    Andy: “Life doesn't have to be grey and soulless. If you tap into your own emotions, you can experience all the colours.”
    Andy: “This was the final straw. I was really proud of this track — we put a lot of time and thought into the whole thing, including the video, and Virgin just pulled it.”
  2. 2013 stereo mix.
    Mixed and produced by Steven Wilson from the original multi-track tapes.
    Released on the DVD and Blu-ray reissue of Nonsuch on 4 November 2013 in the U.K.
  3. 2013 5.1 mix.
    Mixed and produced by Steven Wilson from the original multi-track tapes.
    Released on the DVD and Blu-ray reissue of Nonsuch on 4 November 2013 in the U.K.
  4. 2013 instrumental mix.
    Mixed and produced by Steven Wilson from the original multi-track tapes.
    Released on the Blu-ray reissue of Nonsuch on 4 November 2013 in the U.K.
  5. Demo version.
    Recorded by Andy at home.
    Released on the Blu-ray reissue of Nonsuch on 4 November 2013 in the U.K.

Art

#\#i#/#Wrapped In Grey#\#/i#/# CD single cover

Wrapped In Grey CD single cover

 #\#i#/#Wrapped In Grey#\#/i#/# 7" single

Wrapped In Grey 7" single

 #\#i#/#Wrapped in Grey#\#/i#/# CD single

Wrapped in Grey CD single
“Wrapped in Grey” vignette from #\#i#/#Nonsvch#\#/i#/#

“Wrapped in Grey” vignette from Nonsvch

 “Wrapped In Grey” sheet music

“Wrapped In Grey” sheet music

 the #\#i#/#Wrapped in Grey#\#/i#/# CD single autographed by Andy Partridge, Colin Moulding, Dave Gregory and Dave Mattacks

the Wrapped in Grey CD single autographed by Andy Partridge, Colin Moulding, Dave Gregory and Dave Mattacks
Jen, 062398

Jen, 062398

 John Relph, 2005-Jun-05

John Relph, 2005-Jun-05

 Shari Lewis

Shari Lewis
aquegg, 09/17/06

aquegg, 09/17/06

    

Lyrics

Some folks see the world as a stone
Concrete daubed in dull monotone
Your heart is the big box of paints
And others, the canvas we're dealt
Your heart is the big box of paints
How coloured the flowers all smelled
As they huddled there, in petalled prayer
They told me this, as I knelt there
Awaken you dreamers
Adrift in your beds
Balloons and streamers
Decorate the inside of your heads
Please let some out
Do it today
But don't let the loveless ones sell you
A world wrapped in grey
Some folks pull this life like a weight
Drab and dragging dreams made of slate
Your heart is the big box of paints
And others, the canvas we're dealt
Your heart is the big box of paints
Just think how the old masters felt, they call...
Awaken you dreamers
Asleep at your desks
Parrots and lemurs
Populate your unconscious grotesques
Please let some out
Do it today
Don't let the loveless ones sell you
A world wrapped in grey
And in the very least you can
Stand up naked and
Grin

© 1992 Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd.

Chords and Tablature

Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 21:36:57 +0200
From: Gianluigi Alari <gianluigi.alari (at) gmail dot com>
Subject: (Chalkhills) Wrapped in grey tabs
Message-Id: <E72F6BE6-FEE1-4FF5-955E-8F7252AE3C73 (at) gmail dot com>

Hi John,
as exchanged via facebook, please find hereunder my transcription of
"Wrapped in grey" for guitar.

I think it improves the current chords on Chalkhills but I might be
wrong. In particular I find some voicing more close to the original.

Let me know what do you think.

ciao

-gg

____________________

Wrapped in grey
by XTC

voicings:

Dmaj7  xx0222 (x5767x)
Cmaj7  x3200x
Asus2  x0220x=20
A+sus2  x0320x
Bm7     x2x232
C#m7    x4x454
Db sus4(omit 5) x4467x
Db      x4777(4)
Db7     x4747(4)
Gb      244322
Gbmaj7  2x3321
Ebm     x68876
Ebm7    x68676
D       x5777(5)
Bm7(/E) (0)20202
E       022100
Aadd11  x00220
Bbmaj7  x1323x
G       355433

Dm            xx0231
C/E            032010
Cm6(omit 5)   x,x,10,8,10,11
Cm69(omit 5) x,x,10,8,10,10

1st passage A-5 (x5767x) e-4 / A-5 (x57675) e-7 / A-5 (x5x677) e-9/ e-14, e-16, e-12, b-14
2nd passage A-5 (x5767x) e-4 / A-5 (x57675) e-7 / A-5 (x5x677) e-9/ e-5
----------

Dmaj7 Cmaj7  Dmaj7  Cmaj7 Dmaj7  e-3 e-2    Asus2
Some  folks  see    the   world  as  a      stone
Concrete daubed in dull monotone

E-2 Bm7           E-4 C#m7
Your heart is the big box of paints
E-5 Dmaj7       Dbsus4(omit 5) Db7
And others, the canvas we're   dealt
E-2 Bm7           E-4 C#m7
Your heart is the big box of paints
E-5 Dmaj7        Bm7(/E)     E
How coloured the flowers all smelled
        Aadd11            Cmaj7
As they huddled there, in petalled prayer
     Bbmaj7           G
They told me this, as I knelt there

Dmaj7 Cmaj7  Dmaj7  Cmaj7 Dmaj7      Asus2   A+sus2

Gb         Gbmaj7
Awaken you dreamers
Ebm  (Ebm7)           D (Dmaj7)
     Adrift in your beds
Gb           Gbmaj7
Balloons and streamers
             Ebm  (Ebm7)           D (Dmaj7)
Decorate the      inside of your heads
       Dbsus(omit 5)
Please let some out
     Ebm7
Do it today
    Db            Dbsus(omit 5) Db7
But don't let the loveless ones sell you a world wrapped in grey (1st passage)



Some folks pull this life like a weight
Drab and dragging dreams made of slate
Your heart is the big box of paints
And others, the canvas we're dealt
Your heart is the big box of paints
Just think how the old masters felt, they call...
Awaken you dreamers
Asleep at your desks
Parrots and lemurs
Populate your unconscious grotesques
Please let some out
Do it today
Don't let the loveless ones sell you a world wrapped in grey (2nd passage)


Asus2           Dm
     And in the very least you can
C/E
Stand up naked and
Cm6(omit 5) Cm69(omit 5)
Grin
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 10:31:37 +0200
From: Florian Decros <flodecros (at) gmail dot com>
Subject: Bass tabs of "Nonsuch"
Message-ID: <CAPtZtiNCnBEY3t2uv4mX+_0AGZQiYBqXqP8Wj==KH8CA=YhwFw (at) mail dot gmail dot com>

Great !
Now, after "Skylarking", here's the 17 songs of "Nonsuch" (well 16, because there's no bass in "Rook") tabbed !
It was harder, because it was longer, and also because sometimes the bass was mixed pretty low, so maybe tabs like "Humble Daisy" or "Wrapped In Grey" are inaccurate.
Cheers

Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 23:49:27 -0400
From: "Eric T. Lewis" <grouchos (at) foto dot infi dot net>
Subject: Wrapped in Gray Transcr. Change
Message-ID: <39DFEEC6.68A46C83 (at) foto dot infi dot net>


I like "Kevin's" transcription but I suggest a simpler approach to the
chorus, as follows:

Gb                Bbm / F
Awaken you dreamers

Ebm                D     (then G/D)
Adrift in your beds...

Play the last two chords from the lower inversion,
that is, A D Gb / D then B D G / D
Try that out and see if it floats yer boat.
Great song!
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 09:43:42 EST
From: GnrlKrull (at) aol dot com
Subject: Chords for Wrapped In Grey
Message-ID: <7f.e7e164.25e0061e (at) aol dot com>

wrapped in grey
by XTC

[|: 3/4 F#m/D   E/C# | F#m/D   E/C# |F#m/D   G/E F#m/D | E/C#  |     :|]
  some      folks     see          the      world      as    a              stone
          con          crete    daubed   in        dull          mo  no
  tone

| Bm     |                 | C#m         |               |
     your heart is a big box of paints

| D         |                     | C#m               | C#m/G#  |
       and others, the canvas we're dealt

| Bm     |                 | C#m         |               |
     your heart is a big box of paints

| D         |                        | E                |
 |
      how coloured the flowers all smelt as they

| D             |               | C            |                     | Bb        |
            | G        |           |
  huddled there, in petalled prayer they told me this, as i knelt there

|F#m/D     E/C# | F#m/D     E/C# | F#m/D     G/E F#m/D | E/C# | F |

[|: F#   |                     | Fm           |     | Ebm   |
| D     |      :|]
           awaken you dreamers                   adrift in your beds
     balloons and streamers decorate the inside of your heads

            | C#           |      | Ebm   |       |
please let some out do it today

      | Fm                |                          |  /C#         |
                     |
but don't let the loveless ones sell you a world wrapped in

[|: F#m/D   E/C# | F#m/D   E/C# |F#m/D   G/E F#m/D | E/C#  |     :|]
     grey
    some     folks      pull         this     life             like a
weight
    drab       and       drag       ging    dreams    made of       slate
| Bm     |                 | C#m         |               |
     your heart is a big box of paints

| D         |                     | C#m               | C#m/G#  |
       and others, the canvas we're dealt

| Bm     |                 | C#m         |               |
     your heart is a big box of paints

| D         |                           | E                 |
     |
        just think how the old masters felt, they call

[|: F#   |                        | Fm           |     | Ebm   |
      | D     |     :|]
              awaken you dreamers                  asleep at your desks
              parrots and lemurs populate your unconscious grotesques

            | C#           |      | Ebm   |       |
please let some out do it today

      | Fm                |                          |  /C#         |
                     |
but don't let the loveless ones sell you a world wrapped in

| F#m/D   E/C# | F#m/D   E/C# |F#m/D   G/E F#m/D | 4/4 E/C#               |
grey
                              and in the

| D                              | E                                  | F        |}
very least you can stand up naked and grin
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 17:57:06 -0400
From: Kevin <KB305 (at) aol dot com>
Subject: one more time
Message-ID: <960723175703_244054811 (at) emout16 dot mail dot aol dot com>

Wrapped in Grey

voicings: Dmaj7 x5422x
        Cmaj7 x3200x
        A/C# (add 2) x4220x

Dmaj7 Cmaj7  Dmaj7  Cmaj7 Dmaj7      A/C# add2
Some  folks  see    the   world as a stone
Concrete daubed in dull monotone

Bm                C#m
Your heart is the big box of paints
Dmaj7           C#sus        C#
And others, the canvas we're dealt
Bm                C#m
Your heart is the big box of paints
Dmaj7            Esus9       E
How coloured the flowers all smelled
        D6                Cmaj7
As they huddled there, in petalled prayer
     Bbmaj7           G
They told me this, as I knelt there

Dmaj7 Cmaj7  Dmaj7  Cmaj7 Dmaj7      A/C# add2   C#aug

Gb         Gbmaj7/Bb (6x466x) or (6x667x)
Awaken you dreamers
Ebm            Dmaj7
Adrift in your beds
Gb           Gbmaj7/Bb
Balloons and streamers
            Ebm             Dmaj7
Decorate the inside of your heads
       Dbsus
Please let some out
Ebm7
Do it today
    Db/F                        Dbsus
But don't let the loveless ones sell you
     Db                    Dmaj7 Cmaj7  Dmaj7  Cmaj7 Dmaj7      A/C# add2
A world wrapped in grey

Some folks pull this life like a weight
Drab and dragging dreams made of slate
Your heart is the big box of paints
And others, the canvas we're dealt
Your heart is the big box of paints
Just think how the old masters felt, they call...
Awaken you dreamers
Asleep at your desks
Parrots and lemurs
Populate your unconscious grotesques
Please let some out
Do it today
Don't let the loveless ones sell you
                                 Dmaj7 Cmaj7  Dmaj7  Cmaj7 Dmaj7      A
A world wrapped in grey
           Dm
And in the very least you can
C/E
Stand up naked and
Ab9#11 (??) (x,11,x,11,11,10)
Grin
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