Bass tabs
The Enemy Within
As recorded by Rush
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(In B minor)
Music by Lee & Lifeson
Lyrics by Peart
Transcribed by Brendan Cahill ([email protected])
***Note: I'm not sure if all this is 100% accurate. It will sound like the song because the chords are right and stuff--some of it is just my improvisation though. However, most of it is basically what Geddy plays. Enjoy:
Tab notes:
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R = Rest / = slide up % = repeat last bar
/3\ = Triplet grouping \ = slide down %|% = repeat last 2 bars
x = Muted note + = tie * = repeats
. = Dotted note @ = coda mark *
& = fine mark = staccato
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(Play 4x)
w w w w e s s e e s s s s e e e s s e e e s s e e
+--------+-----+-----+------+------------------------+----------------------+
|4:*-----|-----|--2--|-----*|*-----------4-4-4-4-2-0-|---------------------*|
|4:*--2--|--5--|-----|--0--*|*-2-2-2-2-2-------------|---------------------*|
+--------+-----+-----+------+------------------------+-3-3-3-3-3-5-5-5-5-5--+
@
e s s e e s s s s e e e s s e e e s s e e
+-----------------------+---------------------+------------+------------+
|-----------4-4-4-4-2-0-|---------------------|-----------%|%-----------|
|-2-2-2-2-2-------------|---------------------|------------|------------|
+-----------------------+-3-3-3-3-3-5-5-5-5-5-+------------+------------+
1.Things crawl in the darkness that imagination spins
2. picious looking stranger flashes you a dangerous grin
+-----------------------+------------------+--------------+-------------+
|----------------------%|%-----------------|-------------%|%------------|
|-----------------------|------------------|--------------|-------------|
+-----------------------+------------------+--------------+-------------+
Needles at your nerve ends crawl like spiders on your skin Pow-pow-pow-
Shadows across your window--was it only trees in the wind? Every
+-----------------------+-----------------+--------+--------+
|----------------------%|%----------------|-------%|%-------|
|-----------------------|-----------------|--------|--------|
+-----------------------+-----------------+--------+--------+
Pounding in your temples and a surge of adrenaline Every
breath a static charge that tastes like tin Steely-
+----------------+------------+--------------+-------------+
|---------------%|%-----------|-------------%|%------------|
|----------------|------------|--------------|-------------|
+----------------+------------+--------------+-------------+
muscle tense--to fence the enemy within...
eyed outside--to hide the enemy within...
q e e q e e q e e e e e e q e e q e e e e e e e e e e
+-------------+---------------+-------------+-----------------+
|---R-----R---|---R-----------|---R-----R---|-----R-----------|
|-2---2-2---2-|-2---2-5-5-5-5-|-0---0-0---0-|-4-4---4-5-5-7-7-|
+-------------+---------------+-------------+-----------------+
I'm
&
q e e q e e q e e e e e e q e e q e e
+-------------------+-------------------------+--------------------+
|*----R--------R----|------R------------------|-----R--------R-----|
|*-2-----2--2-----2-|---2-----2--5--5--5--5---|--0-----0--0-----0--|
+-------------------+-------------------------+--------------------+
not giving in to security under pressure I'm not missing out on the
not giving up on implausible dreams -- Experience to extremes--ex-
D.S. al
(TO CODA) coda @
(TO FINE) /H^P\
e e e e e e e e w h h w e s s e e e e e e
+-------------------------+-------+-----+---+---+---+---+-----+-------------------+
|-------R----------------*|-------|-----|--%|%--|--%|%--|-----|-R-2-4-2-0---------|
|-4--4-----4--5--5--7--7-*|---2---|---0-|---|---|---|---|--2--|-----------4-2-4-0-|
+-------------------------+-------+-3---+---+---+---+---+-----+-------------------+
promise of adventure I'm
perience to extremes Sus-
(CODA)
(Play 6x) w w
+-----+-----+------+------+-----+-----+-------------------+--------------+
|-----|-----|*-----|-----*|-----|-----|-------------------|--------------|
|--2--|---0-|*--2--|---0-*|--2--|---0-|--2----------------|--5-----------|
+-----+-3---+------+-3----+-----+-3---+-------------------+--------------+
tremes To you--is it movement or is it action?
w w w
+--------------+-----------------+-----------------+----------------+---------------+
|--2-----------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------|--2------------|
|--------------|--0--------------|--2--------------|--5-------------|---------------|
+--------------+-----------------+-----------------+----------------+---------------+
Is it contact or just reaction and you--revolution or just resistance Is it living or
e e e e e e e e h.. s s w w
+-----------------+----------------------+-------------------+----------------------+
|-----------------|------------------0-2-|-4-----------------|--2-------------------|
|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|--2-------------------|-------------------|----------------------|
+-----------------+----------------------+-------------------+----------------------+
just existence yeah you--it takes a little more persistence to get up and go the dist-
q h. q e e q e e q e e e e e e q e e q e e
+----------+-------------------+-------------------------+-------------------+
|----------|*----R--------R----|------R------------------|----R--------R-----|
|-0-0------|*-2-----2--2-----2-|---2-----2--5--5--5--5---|-0-----0--0-----0--|
+----------+-------------------+-------------------------+-------------------+
ance I'm not giving in I'm not missing out
not giving up on implausible dreams -- Experience to ex-
D.S. al
fine & (FINE)
e e e e e e e e w h h h+e e e e +e e e e +e e q w
+-------------------------+-------+-----+-----7-9-11-+-11-7-9-11-11-9-7-+-----+
|-------R----------------*|-------|-----|------------|------------------|-----|
|-4--4-----4--5--5--7--7-*|---2---|---0-|-2-2--------|------------------|--2--|
+-------------------------+-------+-3---+------------+------------------+-----+
tremes I'm tremes
/H^P\
h h h+e e e +e e e +e q q q q q w e s s e e s s e e e
+-----+-----+---16-16-14-16-16-16-+---------+-----+---2-4-2-------------+
|-----|-----|---------------------|---------|-----|-R-------4-2-4-2-0---|
|---0-|--2--|---------------------|-2-----2-|--5--|-------------------4-|
+-3---+-----+-7-------------------+---2-5---+-----+---------------------+
Hey hey hey
(Repeat and fade out)
e s s e e s s s s e e e s s e e e s s e e
+------------------------+----------------------+
|*-----------4-4-4-4-2-0-|---------------------*|
|*-2-2-2-2-2-------------|---------------------*|
+------------------------+-3-3-3-3-3-5-5-5-5-5--+
