Resubmission in text format.
Mixed guitar & bass chord, tab, full lyrics
With lyrics compiled from random lyric sites, some
notations borrowed (though simplified, then greatly
expanded) from the only other transcription in the
world I could find, by matusima@heteroclinic.Berkeley.EDU
(Tatsuhito Matsushima), dated 7 May 1994 16:57:21 GMT.
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(Intro, Loosely...)
(Moog Keyboard:) E
(Guitar:) B D E E D-E D-E D-E E G A B D
(Strings:) E D C G F# F# E B
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Accuracy Rating: - Votes: -
I (First Verse):
G / / / C / / / B / / / Em / Em7 /
Tears of joy at the birth of a brother
C / / / Bm / / / Am / / Am/B C / / D
Never a - lone from that time
G / / / C / / / B / / / Em / Em7 /
Sixteen years through knife fights and danger
C / / / Bm / / / Am / / / C / / C/D
Strangely why his life not mine
II (Break):
Bm Am9 Bm/D Bm Am9 Bm/D Bm Am9 Bm/D G
-|-7--7-|-7--7-|-5--7-|-7--7-|-7--7-|-5--7-|-7--7-|-7--7-|-5--7-|--3---|
-|-7--7-|-5--5-|------|-7--7-|-5--5-|------|-7--7-|-5--5-|------|--3---|
-|-7--7-|-5--5-|-7----|-7--7-|-5--5-|-7----|-7--7-|-5--5-|-7----|--4---|
-|------|------|------|------|------|------|------|------|------|--5---|
-|------|------|------|------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
-|------|------|------|------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
(Same as II above)
Guit: Bm/D Am9 Bm/D Bm Am9 Bm/D Bm Am9 Bm/D
G
West side skyline crying - Fallen angel dying - Risk a life to
make a dime
Bass: D / B A / B D C B / D A B D C B / D A D
G
(Same chords as first verse)
Lifetimes spent on the streets of a city - Make us the people we are
Switchblade stings in one tenth of a moment - Better get back to the car
(Lead-in notes to Chorus, bass & guitar):
--|--------------|--------------|--
--|--------------|--------------|--
--|--------------|-4-5-4--------|--
--|---------4----|--------------|--
--|-0-1-2--------|--------------|--
--|--------------|--------------|--
III (Chorus):
3/4 time
Guitar --|--------------|--------------|--
(Only) --|--------------|--------------|--
--|------4-5-----|-----4-2------|--
--|----------4---|---2-----4----|--
--|--2-3-------2-|-3---------2--|--
--|--------------|--------------|--
(Repeat 15 Times)
Guitar --||--------------|--------------||--
--||--------------|--------------||--
--||*-----4-5-----|-----4-2-----*||--
--||*---2-----4---|---2-----4---*||--
--||--3---------2-|-3---------2--||--
--||--------------|--------------||--
Bass C / / B / / C / / B / /
Fal - - - - - - - - len (on repetition 2, 4, 11, 13)
An - - - - - - - - gel (on repetition 3, 5, 12, 14)
back to 4/4 time
Guitar --|----------|---------|---------|---------|--
--|----------|---------|---------|---------|--
--|--4-2---2-|-4-2---2-|-4-2---2-|-4-2---2-|--
--|------4---|-----4---|-----4---|-----4---|--
--|----------|---------|---------|---------|--
--|----------|---------|---------|---------|--
Bass B / / / B / / / B / / / B / / /
(Chords):
Em / / / Asus4 / A / D / C Bm Em / / /
Em / / / Asus4 / A / D / C Bm Em / / /
Em / / / Asus4 / A / D / C Bm Em / / /
(Similar to Break II):
Bm Am9 Bm/D Bm Am9 Bm/D Bm Am9 Bm/D
West side skyline crying For an angel dying Life expiring in the ...
G / / / ... (Same chords as first verse I)
Snow white side streets of cold New York City - Stained with his blood,
all went wrong
Sick and tired, blue wicked and wild - God only knows for how long
B / / / B B C B
3/4 time
Guitar
--|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|--
(Only)
--|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|--
--|------4-5-----|-----4-2------|------4-5-----|-----4-2------|--
--|----------4---|---2-----4----|----2-----4---|---2-----4----|--
--|--2-3-------2-|-3---------2--|--0---------2-|-3---------2--|--
--|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|--
(Repeat until fade, Vocals twice, Varying bass lines through
ending)
Guitar
--||--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------||--
--||--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------||--
--||*-----4-5-----|-----4-2------|------4-5-----|-----4-2-----*||--
--||*---2-----4---|---2-----4----|----2-----4---|---2-----4---*||--
--||--3---------2-|-3---------2--|--0---------2-|-3---------2--||--
--||--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------||--
Bass C / / B / / C / / B / / A / / B / / C / / B / /
Fal - - - - - - - - len An - - - - - gel
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