artist: smashing pumpkins
song: behold! the nightmare
album: adore
Tuning: open Dminor (low to high) D, A, D, F, A, D
intro: just stay on the same chord for about four bars I think
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"I've faced the fathoms in your deep" "withstood the
quiet siege"
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"pulled down the heavens just to please you, appease you the wind blows, and I know"
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play these two chords over and over until:
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"the coarse tide reflects sky and the"
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"night-mare rides on" play x4
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"what I fear, is lost here, the wind blows, and I know"
time signature change, to 6/8
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play this through once and then repeat with the lyrics
"all you have to do, is run away and steal, yourself from me, become a mystery
to gaze into"
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x2
"your so cruel, in all you do"
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"but still I believe, I believe, you"
time signature change back to 4/4
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-----0----------2-----------------------------| just these two chords back and forward for a while
I can't be bothered to transcribe the guitar solo, but I will tell you that it is tuned to drop-D one
1/4 tone below standard pitch, with the maximum signal level you can possibly get
next is
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"so may you come with your own knives, you'll never take me alive
with all the force of what is true, is there nothing I can do"
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---7-----2-----------------|these two back and forth again
and repeat this until the end
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