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Serpentine Pad Tab

by Pavement



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Serpentine Pad
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from Pavement's album "Wowee Zowee"


The verse:

A5 power chords, tickling a G5 power chord at the beginning of every
couple measures, and at the beginning of each measure during the
second part of the verse.  Here's the gist with a lame attempt at the lyrics.

                             
Frequently called nothin' buts 
                            
Snorin' when you snap it back
       
Everyone
             
Knows it's you
              
Why won't you admit it, scream

You

That E5 is:
G--9--
D--9--
A--7--
E-----

Then, the little bridge-riff is:

 A--7----8--7-
And take it all

Verse again, then the chorus, which goes like this:

 
single-note  (7th fret on )  
                          I be-lieve,
          -note               
that I'll never  leave              your serpentine pad.

(just in case yr wondering, all the chords are barre)

My interpretation of the lyrics:

Frequently called nothin' buts
Snorin' when you snap it back
Everybody, knows it's you, why won't you admit it, scream!
You
And take it all

Corporate integration
From the corporation
I don't need this corporation attitude
Tude tude tude

--Chorus--
I believe,
That I'll never leave
Your serpentine pad

Darlin' when you wake up
Better ask the grown-ups
If they have, hose and twine, leave the man who needed the lice
Think it might

Be another scene, bet
I don't wanna know, but
I don't know, if I should, if I could or if I would, anyway
(serpentine pad)

--Chorus--

End.