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Backwater Tab

by Meat Puppets


MEAT PUPPETS RULE

Intro (E-C#m-C-D) with solo guitar melody line


			
And when I wake up in the morning
			    
To feel the daybreak on my face
					   
There's a blood that's flowin' through the feeling
		   		  
With a knife to open up the sky's vein

				 
	Some things...will never change
		
	They just stand there looking backwards
		
	Half unconscious from the pain
			
	It may seem...rearranged
					   
	In the backwater swirling there is something that'll never change

And when I shoulda' been gone a long time
Laughs...and says I find ways
Just when we're sheltered under paper
The rockets come at us sideways

				 
	Some things...will never change
		
	They just stand there looking backwards
		
	Half unconscious from the pain
			
	It may seem...rearranged
					   
	In the backwater swirling there is something that'll never change

	-		
		Hey...I'm blind
		
		Good...fine
			
		Roll the time
		
		On whose dime?

	-Solo-(over ---D)

And when I wake up in the morning
To feel the daybreak on my face
There's a blood that's flowin' through the ceiling
With a knife to open up the sky's vein

	Some things...will never change
	They just stand there looking backwards
	Half unconscious from the pain
	It may seem...rearranged
	In the backwater swirling there is something that'll never change

	Some things...will never change
	They just stand there looking backwards
	Half unconscious from the pain
	It may seem...rearranged
	In the backwater swirling there is something that'll never change

-Solo outro-

Chords

E   -0-   C#m   -4-   E5  ---   F#5  ---   C5  ---
    -0-         -5-       ---        ---       ---
    -1-         -6-       ---        ---       ---
    -2-         -6-       ---        ---       -5-
    -2-         -4-       -2-        -4-       -3-
    -0-         ---       -0-        -2-       ---


----------3------|
--------5---5----|
------5-------5--|
----5------------|
--3--------------|
-----------------|


----------5------|
--------7---7----|
------7-------7--|
----7------------|
--5--------------|
-----------------|


-------------8--------|
----------10---10-----|
-------10---------10--|
----10----------------|
--8-------------------|
----------------------|


--------------10--------|
-----------12----12-----|
--------12----------12--|
-----12-----------------|
--10--------------------|
------------------------|


----------2------|
--------4---4----|
------4-------4--|
----4------------|
--2--------------|
-----------------|

Intro lick (approx.)

E---------------------------------------------------------------|l
B-------------------------12------------------------------------|l
G-----------------11b(12)----12r11--9-11-9---------------9------|l
D---------9-11-9----------------------------11-11--9-11-----11--|l
A------9--------------------------------------------------------|l
E--/12----------------------------------------------------------|l

E-----------------------------------------------------------|l
B-----------------------------------------------------------|l
-9-11-11b(12)-11b(12)r11-9-11-11b(12)r11-9-11b(12-|-l
D-----------------------------------------------------------|l
A-----------------------------------------------------------|l
E-----------------------------------------------------------|l

E major pentatonic (for reference)

E-----------------------------9--12------|
B-----------------------9--12------------|
G-----------------9--11------------------|
D-----------9--11------------------------|
A-----9--11------------------------------|
E--12------------------------------------|