New Adventures In Hi-fi Album chords by R.E.M.

How the west was won and where it got us,
The Wake-up Bomb,
 New Test Leper,
 Undertow
 E-Bow the Letter,
Leave
 Departure,
Bittersweet Me,
Be Mine,
 Binky the Doormat,
Zither,
 So Fast So Numb,
Low Desert,
Electrolite

HOW THE WEST WAS WON AND WHERE IT GOT US

From: dawhizz@aol.com (DaWhizz)


Piano riff:
E-14-14-14-14-15-14-14-14-14-12-|
B-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-|
G-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-|

Verse riff:
--4-2-4...--4h7p4-4-2-2\4----------|
--------------------------0-0\2----|
-----------------------------------|


{Verse riff}
Blood from a stone
Water from wine.
Born under earplay design.
A stroke of bad luck,
wrong place, wrong time.
This flyer is out of the lime.


D            G     Em
The story is a sad one, told many times.
D            G   Em
The story of my life in trying times.
D        G    Em
Just add water, stir in lime.
D                 A
How the west was won and where it got us.


{Verse riff}
Canary got trapped, the uranium mine.
A stroke of bad luck, now the bird has died.
a marker to mark where my tears run dry.
I cross it, bless it, alkali.

D            G     Em
The story is a sad one, told many times.
D            G   Em
The story of my life in trying times.
D        G    Em
Just add water, stir in lime.
D                 A
How the west was won and where it got us.


{Piano solo}


{Verse riff}
I didn't wear glasses cause I thought it might rain.
Now I can't see anything.
I made a mistake, chalked it up to design.
I cracked through time, space, Godless and dry.
I point my nose to the northern star,
watch the decline from a hazy distance.


D            G     Em
The story is a sad one, told many times.
D            G   Em
The story of my life in trying times.
D        G    Em
Just add water, stir in lime.
D                 A
How the west was won and where it got us.



WAKE-UP BOMB


{Verse: E D A G}

         E      D
I look good in a glass pack
        A   G
I look good and mean
        E         D          A   G
I look good in metallic sick wraparounds blackout tease
         E    D     A     G
I scud along the horizon chew some sweet tree
           E      D
I get high in my low-ass boot cut cheap
       A   G
I like being seen
          E       D
I look good with my drink eat no sleep
            A  G
Take a leap, longevity
         E       D     A   G
I look good in my attitude, latitude, 1973
I'm in deep


C G     C    G  C    D
My head's on fire and high esteem
C    G   C      G         D
Carry my dead, bored, been there, done that, anything
E    D
Oh, the wake-up bomb
A    G
Oh, the wake-up bomb
E    D
Oh, the wake-up bomb
A    G
Oh, the wake-up bomb

C G     C    G  C    D
My head's on fire and high esteem
C  G     C  G    D
Get drunk and sing along to Queen

C      G   C     G    D
Practice my T-Rex moves and make the scene
C    G   C      G         D
Carry my dead, bored, been there, done that, anything

I had to knock a few buildings over
I make an ugly mess
I had to blow a gasket
Drop transmission
I had to decompress
I had to write the great American novel
I had a neutron bomb
I had to teach the world to sing by the age of 21
I wake up (I wake up)
I wake up (I wake up)
I threw up when I saw what I'd done


Oh, the wake-up bomb
Oh, the wake-up bomb
My head's on fire and high esteem
Get drunk and sing along to Queen
Practice my T-Rex moves and make the scene
Yeah, I'd rather be anywhere doing anything


{Solo}: e -12----10---/--9----7--|
     b ----12-----/-----10----|


I've had enough, I've seen enough, I've had it all, I'm giving up
I won the race, I broke the cup, I drank it all, I spit it up
I've had enough, I've seen enough, I've had it all, I'm giving up
I won the race, I broke the cup, I drank it all, I spit it up

Yeah, atomic, Supersonic
What a joke, I'm dumb
See ya, don't wanna be you
Lunch meat, Pond scum

My head's on fire in high esteem
Get drunk and sing along to Queen
Practice my T-Rex moves and make the scene
Yeah, I'd rather be anywhere doing anything
Yeah, I'd rather be anywhere doing anything
Yeah, I'd rather be anywhere doing anything

New Test Leper

D    A     G  A
I can't say that I love Jesus
D     A      G
that would be a hollow claim.

D   A     G   A
He did make some observations
D    A      G
and I'm quoting them today.
D   A    G    A
"Judge not lest ye be judged."
D   A     G
what a beautiful refrain.
D   A     G   A
The studio audience disagrees.
D    A       G
Have his lambs all gone astray?


A B C# D  A     G
      Call me a leper
A B C# D  A     G
      Call me a leper
A B C# D  A     G
      Call me a leper
A B C# D


D    A    G    A
"You are lost and disillusioned!"
D    A       G
what an awful thing to say.
D   A     G    A
I know this show doesn't matter.

D     A     G
It means nothing to me.
D    A     G     A
I thought I might help them understand
D      A       G
but what an ugly thing to see.
D   A   G   A
"I am not an animal"
D     A     G
subtitled under the screen.

A B C# D  A     G
      Call me a leper

A B C# D  A     G
      Call me a leper
A B C# D  A     G
      Call me a leper
A B C# D


{Bridge}: Bm D
      Bm D
      Bm D A


D   A    G    A
When I tried to tell my story
D        A     G
They cut me off to take a break.
D   A   G    A
I sat silent 5 commercials
D       A    G
I had nothing left to say
D       A    G    A
The talk show host was index-carded
D   A      G
All organized and blank
D     A      G      A
The other guests were scared and hardened
D   A  G
What a sad parade.

A B C# D
      What a sad parade
A B C# D  A     G
      Call me a leper
A B C# D  A     G
      Call me a leper
A B C# D  A     G
      Call me a leper

Bridge 1
E
B     2      3       2       3
G     2      4       2    2  2
D   2      4       2     0
A 0      2       0

UNDERTOW

chords:

  E5 D5 F# C#m A5
e|--0---x---x----0---0-|
B|--0---3---x----0---x-|
G|--x---2---3----6---2-|
D|--2---0---4----6---2-|
A|--2---x---4----4---0-|
E|--0---x---2----x---x-|


riff 1a
E||----------------------|---------------------|--------------------|
B||----------------------|---------------------|--------------------|
G||----------------------|---------------------|--------------------|
D||--4h---6p---4---------|--4--------4----4/---|--7----7------------|
A||--0---------0----7----|--0--------0----0----|-------0------------|
E||----------------------|---------------------|--------------------|


riff 1b
----------------------|---------------------|------------||
----------------------|---------------------|------------||
----------------------|--2--------2----2----|------------||
--4h---6p---4---------|--2--------2----2h---|--4----0----||
--0---------0----7----|--0--------0----0----|-------0----||
----------------------|---------------------|------------||



    riff 2a
E||----------------------|----------------------|-------||
B||----------------------|----------------------|-------||
G||----------------------|----------------------|-------||
D||--6\---4----4----0----|--4----4----4/---7----|--7----||
A||--0---------0----0----|--0----0----0---------|--0----||
E||----------------------|----------------------|-------||

       riff 2b
E||----------------------|----------------------|-------||
B||----------------------|----------------------|-------||
G||----------------------|--2----2----2---------|-------||
D||--6\---4----4----0----|--2----2----2h---4----|--0----||
A||--0---------0----0----|--0----0----0---------|--0----||
E||----------------------|----------------------|-------||

chorus:
E5 A5  E5  A5
  I'm drowning

bridge
F# D5(x3) C#m(apreggiated)
F# D5(x3) C#m("")

outro:
C#m apregiated repeatedly

E-Bow the Letter

From: DJ Allan (greedo@newmail.net)

Intro:
{RHY FIG 1A + RHY FIG 1B x4}
gtr. 1(acous)
rhy fig 1a
e||-------------0--0----0--0--|------------0--0----0--0---||
B||---3----3--3-3--3----3--3--|--0----0--0-0--0----0--0---||
G||*--0----0--0-0--0-0--0--0--|--0----0--0-0--0----0--0--*||
D||*--0----0--0------0--0--0--|--2----2--2------2--2--2--*||
A||---2----2--2------2--2--2--|--2----2--2------2--2--2---||
E||---3----3--3------3--3--3--|--0----0--0------0--0--0---||

gtr. 2(elec w/E-Bow)
rhy. fig 1b
e||---------------------------|---------------------------||
b||---------------------------|---------------------------||
G||*--------------------------|--------------------------*||
D||*--12----------------------|--9-----------------------*||
A||---------------------------|---------------------------||
E||---------------------------|---------------------------||

gtr. 1:
Rhy fig. 2a
  C        G    Em     Bm
C     G
e|--0----0--0--3----3--3--|--0----0--0--2----2--2--|--0----0--3--3----3--3--|
b|--1----1--1--3----3--3--|--0----0--0--3----3--3--|--1----1--3--3----3--3--|
G|--0----0--0--0----0--0--|--0----0--0--4----4--4--|--0----0--0--0----0--0--|
D|--2----2--2--0----0--0--|--2----2--2--4----4--4--|--2----2--0--0----0--0--|
A|--3----3--3--2----2--2--|--2----2--2--2----2--2--|--3----3--2--2----2--2--|
E|-------------3----3--3--|--0----0--0-------------|----------3--3----3--3--|

 Em
--0----0--0--0--0--0--0--||
--0----0--0--0--0--0--0--||
--0----0--0--0--0--0--0--||
--2----2--2--2--2--2--2--||
--2----2--2--2--2--2--2--||
--0----0--0--0--0--0--0--||

gtr. 2:
rhy. fig 2b
   C      G       Em
Bm
E||--------0-----------3-----|--------0-----------2-----|
B||-----------1-----------3--|-----------0-----------3--|
G||-----0-----------0--------|-----0-----------4--------|
D||--------------------------|--------------------------|
A||--3-----------------------|--------------2-----------|
E||--------------3-----------|--0-----------------------|

 C      G
Em
--------0-----------3-----|--------0------------||
-----------1-----------3--|---------------------||
-----0-----------0--------|-----0---------------||
--------------------------|---------------------||
--3-----------------------|---------------------||
--------------3-----------|--0------------------||



rhy. fig 2c
gtr. 2 w/e-bow
   C     G
E||----------------------|
B||----------------------|
G||----------------------|
D||--10--------12--------|
A||----------------------|
E||----------------------|

 Em    Bm      C      G
Em
----------------------|------------------------|-------------------||
----------------------|------------------------|-------------------||
------------9p-----7--|------------------------|-------------------||
--9------9------------|--10----10----12--------|--9----------------||
----------------------|------------------------|-------------------||
----------------------|------------------------|-------------------||

VERSE 1:
{RHY FIG 2A + 2B x2}
{RHY FIG 2A + 2C x2}
   C
Look up, what do you see?
G
All of you and all of me
Em
Fluorescent and starry
Bm
Some of them, they surprise
C           G
The bus ride, I went to write this, 4:00 a.m.
   Em
This letter
             C
Fields of poppies, little pearls
G               Em
All the boys and all the girls sweet-toothed
        Bm
Each and every one a little scary
C  G     Em
  I said your name
             C
I wore it like a badge of teenage film stars
   G           Em
Hash bars, cherry mash and tinfoil tiaras
Bm
Dreaming of Maria Callas
C     G     Em
  Whoever she is
             C
This fame thing, I don't get it
         G
I wrap my hand in plastic to try to look through it
Em         Bm
Maybelline eyes and girl-as-boy moves
C
I can take you far
G          Em
        This star thing, I don't get it

 Rhy. fig. 3A(acous.)
E||-------------------------|------------0--0----0--0--||
B||--3----3-2-----------0---|--0----0--0-0--0----0--0--||
G||--2---------2-----2------|--0----0--0-0--0----0--0--||
D||--0------------4---------|--2----2--2------2--2--2--||
A||-------------------------|--2----2--2------2--2--2--||
E||-------------------------|--0----0--0------0--0--0--||

rhy. fig 3B(elec w/e-bow)
E||-------------------------|--------------------------||
B||-------------------------|--------------------------||
G||-------------------------|--------------------------||
D||--10---------------------|--12----------------------||
A||-------------------------|--------------------------||
E||-------------------------|--------------------------||

CHORUS:
{rhy. fig 3A + 3B x4}
(I'll take you over, there)
(I'll take you over, there)

Aluminum, tastes like fear
Adrenaline, it pulls us near

(I'll take you over)
(It tastes like fear, there)
(I'll take you over)


Verse 2:
{RHY FIG 2A + 2B x2}
{RHY FIG 2A + 2C x2}
C        G
Will you live to 83?
Em      Bm
Will you ever welcome me?
     C            G       Em
Will you show me something that nobody else has seen?
Smoke it, drink
C       G
Here comes the flood
Em     Bm
Anything to thin the blood
     C           G     Em
These corrosives do their magic slowly and sweet
        C
Phone, eat it, drink
G
Just another chink
Em          Bm
Cuts and dents, they catch the light
C       G      Em
Aluminum, the weakest link
              C
I don't want to disappoint you
    G
I'm not here to anoint you
    Em
I would lick your feet

      Bm
But is that sickest move?
       C           G
I wear my own crown and sadness and sorrow
            Em
And who'd have thought tomorrow could be so strange?

CHORUS:
{rhy. fig 3A + 3B x4}
My loss, and here we go again

(I'll take you over, there)
(I'll take you over, there)

Aluminum, tastes like fear
Adrenaline, it pulls us near

(I'll take you over)
(It tastes like fear, there)
(I'll take you over)

BRIDGR:
{RHY FIG 1A + RHY FIG 1B x4}

VERSE 3:
{RHY FIG 2A + 2C x2}
   C  G
Look up, what do you see?
Em         Bm
All of you and all of me
        C
Fluorescent and starry
G           Em
Some of them, they surprise
C        G
I can't look it in the eyes
     Em           Bm
Seconal, spanish fly, absinthe, kerosene
        C
Cherry-flavored neck and collar
        G
I can smell the sorrow on your breath

 Em
The sweat, the victory and sorrow
The smell of fear

CHORUS:
{rhy. fig 3A + 3B x12}
I got it

(I'll take you over, there)
(I'll take you over, there)

Aluminum, tastes like fear
Adrenaline, it pulls us near

(I'll take you over)
(It tastes like fear, there)
(I'll take you over)
Pulls us near
Tastes like fear..

Nearer, nearer
over, over, over, over
Yeah, look over
I'll take you there, oh, yeah
I'll take you there
Oh, over
I'll take you there
Over, let me
I'll take you there..
There, there, baby, yeah

LEAVE

* CAPO ON 1st FRET TO PLAY WITH THE ALBUM!!!


Guitar Riff:
       (put pickup selector switch in middle position)

s = slide to..  h = hammer on..   p = pick off to..

e ---------------------------------------|
B ------------------------ 7 s 9 -- 6 ---|
G -- 2 s 3 -- 3 s 5 -- 6 ----------------|
D ---------------------------------------|
A ---------------------------------------|
E ---------------------------------------|

e ------------------------------------------------|
B ------------------------- 7 s 9 -- 6 h 7 p 6 ---|
G -- 2 s 3 -- 3 s 5 -- 6 -------------------------|
D ------------------------------------------------|
A ------------------------------------------------|
E ------------------------------------------------|

Verses:

Am 012200
F 112331    REMEMBER!! CAPO ON 1st FRET !!!!
G 330023
C 010230
F* 000330

 Am            F
 Nothing could bring me closer.
 G          G Am
 Nothing could bring me near.
 Am          F
 Where is the road I follow
 G    G Am
 Leaving, leave


    Am      F
 It's Under, under, under my feet
   G          G Am
 The sea spread out there before me.
G Am          F
 Better I go, and the land touches sea.
 G         G Am
 There is _________ in what I believe.

Chorus:


C
  That's what keeps me,
Am
  That's what keeps me,
  C           G
  That's what keeps me down.
   C      Am  G
  To leave it, to leave it,
         F    F* F
  Leave it all behind.

Shifting the dream
Nothing could bring me further from rougher tide.
We're shifting the dream.
It's charging the sea.
I know where I marked the signs.

Suffer dreams of a world gone mad
I like it like that and I know it.
I know him well, ugly and sweet
A temper madness who believed in extreme.

That's what keeps me
That's what keeps me
That's what keeps me down
I say they aren't gonna like me
I say they don't know thier plane
Never left the ground.

(Chorus) x 1

Lift me, lift me,
I'll attain my dream.
I lost myself, I lost the,
Heartache calling me.


I lost myself in sorrow.
I lost myself in pain.
I lost myself in gravity.
Memory, leave, leave, leave.

(Chorus) x 2

In my hands my eyes are still
I walk into the sea
Shoot myself in a different place
And leave it.

Wait for this to take me,
It longed for my release.
Waited for the calling,
To leave, leave

Leave, leave, leave, leave
Leavin', Leavin'

DEPARTURE

{Verse Riff:}
  D                 G
E--0-0-0--0-0----0-0-0--0-0-0-0-0-|
B--3-0-3--3-3----3-3-3--3-3-3-3-3-|
G--0h2-2--0h2-2--0h2-2--0h2h4p2p0-|
D--0-0-0--0-0-0--0-0-0--0-0-0-0-0-|

{Verse Riff}
Just arrived Singapore, San Sebastian, Spain, 26-hour trip.
Salt Lake City, come in spring.
Over the salt flats a hailstorm brought you back to me.
Salt Lake City, come in spring.
Over the salt flats a hailstorm brought you back to me.

A    G
Here it comes (I'm carried away)
A    G
Here it comes (I'm carried away)
A    G
Here it comes, back, back.


{Verse Riff}
Departure, godspeed, bless his heart, good boy.
What a f*ck-up, what a fighter.
Free-fall, motorcycle, hang-glider,
Hung on the vine like a poison spider.
Win a eulogy with William Greider,
car crash, ptomaine, explosion-provider,
bus plunge, avalanche, poison spider.
Free-fall, motorcycle, hang-glider.


A    G
Here it comes (I'm carried away)
A    G
Here it comes (I'm carried away)
A    G
Here it comes, back, back.


B      G
Go, go, go, yeah.
B      G   A
Go, go, go, yeah.


{Verse Riff}
Everybody is young forever.
There's so much to tell you, so little time.
I've come a long way since the whatever,
shit, I still see a word, think of you.
There's so much that I can't do, yeah.
You will be young forever.
There's so much that I can't do.
There isn't so much that I can't do.

A    G
Here it comes (I'm carried away)
A    G
Here it comes (I'm carried away)
A    G
Here it comes, back, back.

BITTERSWEET ME

original tab by Steve Vetter [vettersj@mindspring.com]
Corrections, etc. from: amorse@waterw.com and Joshua J.B. Smith

		      Cmaj7     C
{Riff A}: E-------------------0--------------------0-----|
     B-------------------0--------------------1-----|
     G-------------------0--------------------0-----|
     D-------4--5--4-\2--2--------4--5--4-\2--2-----|
     A--0-h5-------------3--0-h5--------------3-----|
     E----------------------------------------0-----|

Riff B:
E-----------------------------|
B-----------------------------|
G-------0---------------------|
D-0--2-----2--0---------------|
A-----------------------------|
E-----------------------------|

(w/ Riff A)
I move across, innocence lost
All flashing pulsar
I move across the earth in my new pattern shirt
I pass satellites

"You're so bitter," your complaint
I can't give you anything.
I don't know who you're livin for
I don't know you at all anymore

F     Bb
I'd sooner chew my leg off,

Dm    C
Than be trapped in this cell
F      Bb       Dm      G
How easy to think of all of this as bittersweet me

Am  C  G   (Riff B)
I can't taste it
I'm tired and naked.
I don't know what I'm hungry for
I don't know what I want anymore

Move across, candy floss
I move like a tank
Move across the room
With heart full of glue, I'm stronger than you think

Oh my peer,
Your venier is wearing thin and cracking.
The surface and forms underneath,
Underneath is lacking

I'd sooner chew my leg off,
Than be trapped in this cell
how easy to think of all of this as bittersweet me

I couldn't taste it
I'm tired and naked.
I don't know what I'm hungry for
I don't know what I want anymore

You move across, innocence lost,
All static and desire,
You're blue in the face from a makeup case,
You set yourself on fire

You strip down, lay yourself out
I know you can't fake it,
But are you tired and naked?
Are you tired and naked? Well,

I'd sooner chew my leg off,
Than be trapped in this cell
how easy to think of all of this as bittersweet me


I couldn't taste it
I'm tired and naked
I don't know what I'm hungry for
I don't know what I want anymore


BE MINE

From: Marc (marc@football.demon.nl)


intro:
e:------------|
B:------------|
G:------------| just figure out some place on the fretboard
D:-x--x--x--x-| where you get the right sound
A:-x--x--x--x-|
E:------------|

verse:
e:-------------------------------------|
B:-------------------------------------|
G:-------------------------------------| riff A
D:-9h11-11-11---9-11--13--14---14-13-\-|
A:-0-----0--0---0--0-0-0-0-0----0--0---|
E:-------------------------------------|

e:-------------------------------------|
B:-------------------------------------|
G:-------------------------------------| riff B
D:-------------------------------------|
A:-9h11-11-11---9-11-----11----11-11-x-|
E:-0-----0--0---0--0------0-----0--0-x-|

Repeat several times

then:
e:------------------0-let-------------|
B:------------------0-ring------------|
G:-11---11--11-11-\-8---8-8-8-8-8-8-x-|
D:-12---12--12-12-\-9---9-9-9-9-9-9-x-|
A:-12---12--12-12-\-9---9-9-9-9-9-9-x-|
E:-10---10--10-10-\-7---7-7-7-7-7-7-x-|



chorus (the You & Me part):
e:-0-------0-0-----0-let-------------|
B:-0-------0-0-----0-ring------------|
G:-1-------1-1--/--8---8-8-8-8-8-8-x-|
D:-2-------2-2--/--9---9-9-9-9-9-9-x-|
A:-2-------2-2--/--9---9-9-9-9-9-9-x-|
E:-0-------0-0-----7---7-7-7-7-7-7-x-|
  D    D U   D  D - - - - - U

e:-0-----0--0-0---0-0-0-0-0-0---|
B:-0-----0--0-0---0-0-0-0-0-0---|
G:-4-----4--4-6---6-6-6-6-6-6-x-|
D:-6-----6--6-7---7-7-7-7-7-7-x-|
A:-6-----6--6-7---7-7-7-7-7-7-x-|
E:------------------------------|
  D   D U D  D - - - - - U

e:-0---0-------(0-0-0-0-0-0)--|-0---0--x-x-2/4-4-4-2--x-x-|
B:-0---0-------(0-0-0-0-0-0)--|-2---2--x-x-2/4-4-4-2--x-x-|
G:-2---2--2-3---3-3-3-3-3-3-x-|-4---4--x-x-2/4-4-4-2--x-x-|
D:-4---4--4-4---4-4-4-4-4-4-x-|-4---4--x-x-2/4-4-4-2--x-x-|
A:-4---4--4-4---4-4-4-4-4-4-x-|-0-let-ring----------------|
E:----------------------------|---------------------------|
  D  D D U  D - - - - - U  D  D D U D  D U U D U

Repeat a lot of times


Lyrics:

I never thought of this as funny
It speaks another world to me
I wanna be your Easter bunny
I wanna be your Christmas tree.

I'll strip the world that you must live in
of all its godforsaken greed.
I'll ply the tar of your feathers
I'll pluck the thorns out of your feet.
You and me.
You and me.
You and me.

And if I choose your sanctuary.
I'll want to wash you with my hair.
I'll want to drink of sacred fountains
and find elixirs hidden there.

I'll eat the lotus and peyote.
I'll want to hear the caged-bird sing.
I'll want the secrets of the temple.
I'll want the finger with the ring.
You and me.
You and me.
You and me.

And if you made me your religion.
I'll give all the room you need.
I'll be the drawing of your breath.
I'll be cup if you should bleed.
I'll be the sky above the Ganges
I'll be the vast and stormy sea.
I'll be the lights that guide you inland.
I'll be the visions you will see.
Visions you will see.
You will see.
You will see.
You and me.
You and me.
You and me.

BINKY THE DOORMAT

From: Joshua J.B. Smith


{Main Riff}:  e---44--44-----4-|---22--22-----2-|
        B----------------|----------------|
        G-4---4----3/4---|-2---2----1/2---|


{Main Riff}
This is horror movie stuff.
the muffin is peach, you're 'makin' love'.
You mean this opera involves handcuffs?
I lay defeated.

Yeah, sour milk mouth, horseradish sweet.
she's a girl and she's loving me
but distance is my tendency.
I am defeated


A5    C5    G5    Bb5 / / / A5
/ A5 /
Have you lost your place?
A5    C5   G5
I wore my doormat face.
A5    C5    G5    Bb5 / / / A5
/ A5 /
I hung my this or that.
A5    C5   G5
I laid my welcome mat.


{Main riff}
If I'm your oyster, where's the war?
You leave me gasping, tattered and torn.
I know you can't find a fork.
I am just a little acorn.

Well, acorns grow to mighty trees.
You've got sauce, but you don't have knees.
Now look who's asking pretty please.
I lay defeated.


A5    C5    G5    Bb5 / / / A5
/ A5 /
Have you lost your place?
A5    C5   G5
I wore my doormat face.
A5    C5    G5    Bb5 / / / A5
/ A5 /
I hung my this or that.
A5    C5   G5
I laid my welcome mat.




{Bridge}:    D----|C--B-A| 4 Times

{Main riff}
Call your bathroom friends around.
I will fake a little frown.
I will be your little clown,
easily defeated.

Yeah, shut the door and open wide.
seconal and astroglide.
fuck with me and traumatize.
don't you see I love your hide?

All the beauty that's trapped inside.
Can't you see I love your hide.
Can't you see I love your hide.
Can't you see it?


A5    C5    G5    Bb5 / / / A5
/ A5 /
Have you lost your place?
A5    C5   G5
I wore my doormat face.
A5    C5    G5    Bb5 / / / A5
/ A5 /
I hung my this or that.
A5    C5   G5
I laid my welcome mat.

A5    C5    G5    Bb5 / / / A5
/ A5 /
Have you lost your place?
A5    C5   G5
I wore my doormat face.
A5    C5    G5    Bb5 / / / A5
/ A5 /
I hung my this or that.
A5    C5   G5
I laid my welcome mat.


ZITHER (Instrumental)

From: David Wagner (102017.1777@CompuServe.COM)


F#: 244322  E: 022100     B: X24442  A: X02220


verse:

e-2--3--7---5\3----2--3--7--5--3--5-|
b-3--5--8---7\5----3--5--8--7--5--7-|


chorus:

e--5--3--2----2----||:--2h3-2-0-----2---:||--2h3--2--0------------|
b----------3-----3-||:-----------3----3-:||-------------3---------|
g-----------------------------------------------------------3-----|
d--------------------------------------------------------------3--|

b--2--3 /5--1----------0--3--3--3--3--3----|
g----- ----------2----2-----2--2--2--2--2--|
d----- -------------3--------0--0--0--0--0-|


(2nd ending)
b---0-3---3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3-------------|
g------2---2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2------------|     then go to the bridge
d------0---0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0------------|


bridge:
F#  B E A

ending:   e--2-----3-----7-----5-|
      b--3-----5-----8-----7-|




SO FAST, SO NUMB


D       F       C      G
You're movin' through rough waters motel boy,
D     F     C
and swimming in your sleep.
D     F    C     G
How could I be so blind, mis-sighted,
D         F         C
not to see there's something wounded deep?


D      F      C    G
Anyone could scratch your surface now,
D    F   C
it's all amphetamine
D      F      C     G
you're blasting yourself into the present
D     F      C
learn some vast indignity, say that,


F      G
You say that you hate it,
F      G
you want to re-create it
Em    C    G       D
I've been around, I've been your lover.
Emm   C   F
I let it go at Kill Devil Hill,
Em      C       G      G
You're coming onto something so fast, so numb
          C
that you can't even feel.

You're drinking the raw Drano baby,
You do-si-do, saddo
You're you in cartilage, shark-eyed, shock horror, all present tense,
and boy your blood is running cold.
Listen, this is now, this is here, this is me,
this is what I wanted you to see.
That was then, was that, that is gone, this is past,
you cast yourself cast, passed by, gone down fast, you say,


F      G
You say that you hate it,
F      G
you want to re-create it
Em    C    G       D
I've been around, I've been your lover.
Emm   C   F
I let it go at Kill Devil Hill,
Em      C       G      G
You're coming onto something so fast, so numb
          C
that you can't even feel.


{Solo}: F  G
     Bb C

(b: bend 1/2 step, then release)
e:-----------------------------------------8--10b--12b--|
B:------8--10b--8------8--10b--12b--8--11---------------|
G:--10-------------10-----------------------------------|


You love it. You hate it.
You want to re-create it.
Now, this is here, this is me,
This is what I wanted you to see.
That was then, was that, that is gone.
That is what I wanted you to feel.

You love it. You hate it.
You spit it out, the bitter pill.
I've been around, I've been your lover
I let it go at Kill Devil Hill.
You're coming onto something so fast, so numb
that you can't even feel.

I've played this round, I've played your lover.
I've played it out to the hilt.
You're comin' on with something so fast, so numb
that you can't even feel.

you played around, you played me lover,
I let it go at Kill Devil Hill.
You're moving so hard, so fast, so numb
that you can't even feel.


{End on D5}

LOW DESERT

From: DaWhizz@aol.com


Dropped D tuning

{Intro}:

E------2----0-------------------------------------------------|
B------3----1-------------------------------------------------|
G------2----0-------------------------------------------------|  for verse add:
D------0----2----              D--3-3-3--5-5-5---|
A-----------3----              A--3-3-3--5-5-5---|
D--0-------------              D--3-3-3--5-5-5---|


It happened fast, it's over quick.
a little dust and the engine kicks.
Did your hands drift down off the wheel?
roll out, hit your windshield


{Pre-chorus}:  E--2/4-4--0--|
        B--3/5-5--1--|
        G--2/4-4--0--|
        D--0-0-0--2--|
        A---------3--|
        D------------|


An eyelish or a little bit of sleep? Time stands still.
Just call it now and you're on your way (hey, hey, hey)


{Chorus}: E-----------------2--|
      B-----------------3--|
      G-----------------2--|
      D--3/5/5\3--0--0--0--|
      A--3/5-5\3--0--0-----|
      E--3/5-5\3--0--0-----|

All the ashtrays, cities and the freeway drives
Broken casino and waterslide
Eighteen-wheeler, payback dice.
Gravity pulls on the power line.

Jet stream cuts the desert sky.
This is a land could eat a man alive.
Say you'd leave it all behind.


{Bridge}: D, G


There's a radio tower that's egging me on
Back to the place where you never belong.
Where people thrive on their own contempt.
Whatever meaning is long gone, spent.
If you had to guess or make bet,
would you place yourself inside of it?
the mountains yawn, the clouds let out a sigh.
"Tricked again." Let go, okay.

ELECTROLITE

From: Jake Drennan. "Drennaj3102@UNI.edu"
Solo chords by: Justin Kestler (jkestler@fas.harvard.edu)


G           Cadd9       G
Your eyes are burning holes through me.
Cadd9   G
I'm gasoline.
Cadd9     G    Cadd9
I'm burnin' clean.

G       Cadd9      G
Twentieth Century go to sleep
Cadd9     G
You're plasticine.
Cadd9     G
That is obscene.
Cadd9     D
That is obscene.

   Am       D
You are the star tonight.
   Am        D
Your sun electric, outta sight.
         B                Em   G
Your light eclipsed the moon tonight.
  Am   Em   G   Am Em  G  D
Elecrolite. You're outa sight.


(Piano lead-in)
e--3--2--3--------|
B------------3----|


G   Cadd9    G
If I ever want to fly.
Cadd9     G
Mulholland Drive.
Cadd9  G
I am alive.

G   Cadd9       G
Hollywood is under me.
Cadd9    G
I'm Martin Sheen
Cadd9    G
I'm Steve McQueen
Cadd9    D
I'm Jimmy Dean

    Am         D
You are the star tonight.
         Am         D
Your sun electric, outta sight.
          B             Em   G
Your light eclipsed the moon tonight.
  Am  Em
Elecrolite.
G    Am  Em  G   D
You're outta sight.


Solo section:
B-Am (x3)
C-D


(Piano lead-in)


G   Cadd9    G
If you want to fly.
Cadd9    G
Mulholland Drive.
Cadd9   G
Up in the sky.
Cadd9    G      Cadd9     G
Stand on a cliff and look down there.
Cadd9    G    Cadd9    G
Don't be scared, you are alive.
Cadd9   D
You are alive.

    Am       D
You are the star tonight.
         Am       D
Your sun electric, outta sight.
         B             Em      G
Your light eclipsed the moon tonight.
  Am  Em
Elecrolite.
G    Am   Em   G   D
You're outa sight.


G        Cadd9    G
Twentieth century go and sleep
Cadd9    G
Really deep

Cadd9     G    Cadd9
We won't blink


G            Cadd9           G
You're eyes are burnin' holes through me.
Cadd9    G
I'm not scared
Cadd9    G
I'm outa here.
Cadd9    G
I'm not scared.