Tab by michael@cummings90.freeserve.co.uk

Paul Weller - The changingman
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This song really combines two rifts - the intro and verse one 
and the solo played in a C minor pentatonic scale at the 8th
fret.  


Rift 1 - Main verse (and chorus)
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     C                       D#
E |-----------------------|----------------------|
B |--------1-------1------|--------1-------1-----|
G |------0---0---0---0----|------0---0---0---0---|
D |-----------------------|----------------------|
A |--3--------------------|--1-------------------|
E |-----------------------|----------------------|

     F                       G#
E |-----------------------|----------------------|
B |--------1-------1------|--------1-------1-----|
G |------0---0---0---0----|------0---0---0---0---|
D |-----------------------|----------------------|
A |--0--------------------|----------------------|
E |-----------------------|--4-------------------|

So just repeat this rift throughout the song


Here are a few little short rifts he plays during the verse
E |--8----------------------|--8----8-8b-------------|
B |-------------------------|----10------------------|
G |----8V-------------------|------------8V----------|
D |-------------------------|------------------------|
A |-------------------------|------------------------|
E |-------------------------|------------------------|
	(V=vibrato)

E |-------------------------|-13B--13-11-13-11-13b---|
B |-------------------------|---------------------13-|
G |-10B-8-10-8--------------|------------------------|
D |-------------------------|------------------------|
A |-------------------------|------------------------|
E |-------------------------|------------------------|

Also Paul sometimes plays this sequence of power chords
- C5, D#5, F5, G#5 - at the same speed as the chords 
on the verse.


Now the solo.


Rift 2 - Cm pentatonic solo
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V=Vibrato
B=Bend up a tone(two frets)
b=bend up a half tone(one fret)
h=hammer on
p=pull off

		   (play his bit fast=+)
E |-----------8-8V---------------------|
B |------8-11------------+-------------|
G |----------------8-8-10B10p8---------|
D |---------------------------10-8-10--|
A |------------------------------------|
E |------------------------------------|

                                (stacato on this note *)
E |------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
B |-----------------------------*------|--------11-11-13b-11-11-13b-11-11-11-|
G |----------------8---8-10B12--8-10-10|--10/12------------------------------|
D |-----------8h10--10-----------------|-------------------------------------|
A |-10V--8h10--------------------------|-------------------------------------|
E |------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|

E |----------------8-----------------------|
B |----------------------------------------|
G |-10p8---8-10-10B-8V---------------------|
D |-----10-------------10-------8-8--------|
A |-------------------------8h10---10p8-6--|
E |--------------------------------------8V|

There is another solo but it is just a variation on this one. 



Lyrics 
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Is happiness real?
Or am I so jaded
I can't see or feel - like a man been tainted-

Numbed by the effect - aware of the muse
Too in touch with myself - I light the fuse

I'm the changingman - built on shifting sands
I'm the changingman - waiting for the bang-
		      As I light a bitter fuse

Time is on loan - only ours to borrow
What I can't be today - I can be tomorrow

And the more I see - the more I know
The more I know - the less I understand

It's a bigger part -
When our instincts act
A shot in the dark - 
A movement in black -

And the more I see - the more I know
The more I know - the less I understand.