When You Dream - Barenaked Ladies
(Words and music by Steven Page and Ed Robertson)
(Transcribed by George Baldasarre.   GAB65@aol.com)

From Barenaked Ladies "One Week" single (which included this tune and
"Shoebox" live.) This is an accoustic, unplugged version recorded at Steven
Page's house.  "When You Dream" is also the last song on the "Stunt" CD.

Standard Tuning
Capo II

Chords (relative to capo):

D                       xx0232
Dsus2           xx0230
A                       xx2220
Asus4           xx2230
Em                      022000
G                       320033

Intro:  Dsus2  (softly 8X)

        D                          A
With life just begun, my sleeping new son
         G                                D       A
has eyes that roll back in his head
         D                         A                              Asus4
They flutter and dart, he slows down his heart
       G                                   D     A     Em
and pictures a world past his bed
                    A      Asus4    A    Em    
It's hard to believe
                       A          Asus4    Em
As I watch you breathe
                               A
Your mind drifts and weaves
                D
When you dream,
                             A        Asus4    A
what do you dream about
                D
When you dream
                             A        Asus4    A
what do you dream about
             Em
Do you dream about
           G
music or mathematics
       D                           A
or planets too far for the eye
             Em
Do you dream about 
              G
Jesus or quantum mechanics
     D                           A
or angels who sing lullabies
      D                              A
His fontenelle pulses with lives that he's lived
       G                                D       A
with memories he'll learn to ignore
       D                            A                     Asus4    A
and when it is closed, he already knows
           G                            D       A      Em
he's forgotten all he knew before
                              A      Asus4    A    Em
but when sleep sets in
               A       Asus4    Em
History begins
                         A
but the future will win
                 D         Dsus2     D
When you dream
                              A       Asus4    A
what do you dream about
                D
When you dream
                              A       Asus4    A
what do you dream about
              Em
are they color or black and white
  G
Yiddish or English
      D                            A       Asus4
or languages not yet conceived
               Em
Are they silent or boisterous 
 G
Do you hear noises just
 D                            A
loud enough to be perceived 
 Em                                        G
Do you hear Del Shannon's "Runaway" playing
      D                    A
on transistor radio waves
             Em
With so little experience
         G
your mind not yet cognizant
        D                                   A
Are you wise beyond your few days
                 D         Dsus2    D
When you dream
                               A      Asus4    A
what do you dream about
                 D
When you dream
                              A       Asus4   A
what do you dream about
                 D
When you dream
                              A       Asus4    A
what do you dream about


Asus4      Dsus2      D