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/ Thom Yorke / I think this song is about how many people live their
/ Analyse / lives in such a hurry and pace that they miss all the to
/ The Erasor / stop and think why they’re actually running and stressing
/_____________/ themselves all the time. They know that it "gets them down"
but they don't have the time to stop and "think things
through". They're like pretty cows as Thom calls them – unfortunately many
live that way and it's a waste of life.
Chords:
/*
E|---0----4-----4----3---1----------0----
B|---1----1-----4----3---1----------0----
G|---0----1-----5----4---1----3-----4----
D|---2----1-----6----5---3----3-----2----
A|---3----3-----6----5---3----1-----2----
E|--------------4----3---1----------0----
*you can call it Fm/C if you want to
In the very bottom of the tab you'll find "The Geek's Corner",
where we'll extend the chords to something a little more exotic
and add fills to spice things up - only for the hardcores/geeks.
1st Verse:
A self-fulfilling prophecy
/
Of endless possibility
You roll in reams across the street
In algebra, in algebra
2nd Verse:
The fences that you cannot climb
/
The sentences that do not rhyme
In all that you can ever change
The one you're looking for
Pre-Chorus:
It gets you down
It gets you down
There's no spark
No light in the dark
It gets you down
It gets you down
You traveled far
What have you found
Chorus:
That there's no time
There's no time
To analyse
To think things through
To make sense
3rd Verse:
Like cows in the city
/
They never looked so pretty
By power carts and blackouts
Sleeping like babies
Pre-Chorus:
It gets you down
It gets you down
You're just playing a part
You're just playing a part
Chorus:
You're playing a part
Playing a part
And there's no time
There's no time
To analyse
Analyse
Ana-lyse
Analyse
Outro:
(note that the key changes from Cmajor to Cminor)
||------------------|-----------------|---3-3-3---3-3-3-|
||o-----4-4-----4-4-|-----4-4-----4-4-|-----3-------3---|
||----0-------0-----|---0-------0-----|-----3-------3---|
||------------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||o-3-------3-------|-3-------3-------|-1-------1-------|
||------------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|---3-3-3---3-3---|---4-4-4---4-4-4-|---4-4-4---4-4-4--||
|-----3-------3-3-|-----3-------3---|-----3-------3---o||
|-----3-------3-3-|-----------------|------------------||
|-----------------|-----------------|------------------||
|-1-------1-------|-----------------|-----------------o||
|-----------------|-1-------1-------|-1-------1--------||
- 22nd /July /06
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* "The Geek's Corner" *
***********************
Throughout the entire song Thom plays mainly a bass note and and high
melody notes that really fucks up the harmonies and gives that weird and
frustrating sound, which is very characteristic for Radiohead as well.
"Hail To The Thief" (recommended!) is a great example of this. If these
weird notes were to be added the chords, it'd really spice things up:
/ / *
--4--->--1---- --4-->--4--- --3-->--3--- ------>--1---- --0-->--9---
--1--->--4---- --4-->--6--- --3-->--6--- ------>--1---- --0-->--9---
--1--->--1---- --5-->--5--- --4-->--4--- --3--->--3---- --4-->--9---
--1--->--1---- --6-->--x--- --5-->--3--- --3--->--3---- --2-->--6---
--3--->--3---- --6-->--6--- --5-->--5--- --1--->--1---- --2-->--7---
------>------- --4-->--4--- --3-->--3--- ------>------- --0-->--0---
*The G7 can even be extended to a G7b9 as the flat 9th also is played as a
melody note. It's rather hard to pull this one off, but I've added fingers:
---4--- - 2nd finger (middle)
---6--- - 4th finger (pinky)
---4--- - 1st finger (index)
-------
---5--- - 3rd finger (ring)
---3--- - thumb
...All these chords can be played instead of the regular chords from above.
You can also add these (and your own!) melody notes to the chords:
---0---0-1-3--- ---1-----------
---1----------- ---1---1-2-1---
---0----------- ---1-----------
---2----------- ---3-----------
---3----------- ---3-----------
--------------- ---1-----------
These notes are played in the verses and prechorus at some point, but just
add as many small melodies (these are very small) as possible as it gives
this extra momentum to the guitar that usually only play chords, go for it!
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