Bass tabs
Tuning: Standard (E A D G)
Band: Goo Goo Dolls
Song: Flat Top
Album: A Boy Named Goo (1995)
Tabbed for: Bass
Tuning: EADG
Listen to the song for exact timing and rhythm.
Intro:
B A E G#BC# A B A E
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Verse:
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Flat top intervention Bringing home a new invention. See it there in pieces on the ground
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F# G# E B G# B E
A television war between the cynics and the saints. Flip the dial and that's whose side you're on
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F# G# E B G# A# B
Sleeping on the White House lawn ain't never changed a thing. Look at all the washed out Hippie dreams
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Chorus:
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And it's fallin' all around us. Is this some kinda joke they're trying to pull on us
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Fallin' all around us. I turned my head off for a while
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Verse:
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The tabloid generation's lost Choking on it's fear. Used to be that's all we had to fear
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F# G# E B G# B E
Conscience keeps us quiet while the crooked loves to speak. His knowledge wrapped in blankets on the street.
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F# G# E B G# A# B
A visionary coward says that anger can be power. As long as there's a victim on TV
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Chorus:
B A E G#BC# A B A E
And it's fallin' all around us. Is this some kinda joke they're trying to pull on us
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B A E G#BC# A B A E
Fallin' all around us. I turned my head off for a while
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Break:
G# A C# B
And my dirty dreams all come alive on my TV screen
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G# A C# B
And assassination plots show me
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G# A C# B
what I haven't got Show me what I love, and who I'm supposed to
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G# A C# B
be Show me everything I need
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F# E F# E
Show it all to me
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F# E F# E
Show it all to me
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Solo:
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F# G# E B G# B E
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F# G# E B G# A# B
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Chorus:
B A E G#BC# A B A E
And it's fallin' all around us. Is this some kinda joke they're trying to pull on us
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B A E G#BC# A B A E
Fallin' all around us. I turned my head off for a while
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Outro:
B A E B A E
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