THE PSYCHEDELIC SOUNDS OF THE 13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS (1966)
1) You're Gonna Miss Me Baby
2) Roller Coaster
3) Splash 1 (Now I'm Home)
4) Reverberation
5) Don't Fall Down
6) Fire Engine
7) Thru The Rhythm
8) You Don't Know
9) Kingdom Of Heaven
10) Monkey Island
11) Tried To Hide
1 - YOU'RE GONNA MISS ME BABY----------------------------------------------------------------
Intro: E D A G X4
E D A G
E D A G
You're gonna wake up one morning as the sun greets the dawn
E D A G
E D A G
You're gonna wake up one morning as the sun greets the dawn
E D A
You're gonna look around in your mind, girl,
G E D
You're gonna find that I'm gone
A G E D A
You didn't realiiiiize
G E D A
You didn't realiiiiize
G E D A
You didn't realiiiiize
G E D A
You didn't realiiiiize
G E D A
You didn't realiiiiize
G E D A
Oh you're gonna miss me, baby
G E D A
Oh you're gonna miss me, baby
G E D A G
Oh you're gonna miss me, child, yeah, yeah
D
I gave you the warning
But you never heeded it
How can you say you miss my lovin
When you never needed it
C Bb
You're gonna wake up wonderin'
G# Bb
Find yourself all alone
C Bb
But what's gonna stop me, baby?
F D
I'm not comin' home
F D
I'm not comin' home
F D
I'm not comin' home
Repeat ( E D A G ) Harmonica End
2 - ROLLER COASTER ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Intro ( X7 )
Am
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Am
Someone somewhere sometime ago
His eyes were clear to see
He put his thoughts into my mind
And gave myself to me
Dm
He stopped me from living so unsane
I can be just what I want to be
Am
Things appear as they really are
I can see just what I want to see
Em Dm
Come on and let it happen to you
Em Dm
Come on and let it happen to you
Am
You’ve got to open up your mind
G - Am G - Am
And let everything come through
Am
Oh well, it starts like a roller coaster ride
So real it takes your breath away
It slides you through your point of view
You look back to where you thought you’d stay
Dm
Your ride the changes outside you
While inside you’re like a neon ray
Am
And you find out you don’t have to search for words
For there’s nothing you need to say
Em Dm
Come on and let it happen to you
Em Dm
Come on and let it happen to you
Am
You’ve got to open up your mind
And let everything come through
G - Am G - Am
Am
After your trip life opens up
You start doing what you want to do
And you find out that the world you once knew
Gets what it has from you
Dm
No one can ever hurt you
Because you know more that you thought you knew
Am
And you’re looking at the world through brand new eyes
And no one can ever spoil the view
Em Dm
Come on and let it happen to you
Em Dm
Come on and let it happen to you
Am
You’ve got to open up your mind
And let everything come through
Repeat G - Am (End)
3 - SPLASH 1 (NOW I'M HOME) --------------------------------------------------------------------
Intro:
D
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D Dsus4 D Dsus4
G D
I've seen your face before
F C D Dsus2 Dsus4
I've known you all my life
G D
And though it's new
F C D Dsus2 Dsus4
Your image cuts me like a knife
F C D
And now I'm hooome.
F C D
And now I'm hooome.
F C D G
And now I'm hooome, to stay.
G D F C
D Dsus2 Dsus4
The neon from your eyes is splashing into mine
G D F C D
Dsus2 Dsus4
They´re so familiar in a way I can't define
F C D
And now I'm hooome.
F C D
And now I'm hooome.
F C D G
And now I'm hooome, to stay.
A D
And though this is awfull speedy
A D
We needn't bother sleeping
A D E G
All we might say is understood
Solo: G D F C D Dsus2
Dsus4 (Like Verses) G D F C D
F C D
And now I'm hooome.
F C D
And now I'm hooome.
F C D G
And now I'm hooome, to stay.
G D F C
D Dsus2 Dsus4
The fierceness of our feelings rocks me like a roar
G D F C
D Dsus2 Dsus4
It's good to know we won't be strangers anymore
F C D
And now I'm hooome.
F C D
And now I'm hooome.
F C D G
And now I'm hooome, to stay. (X2)
(End)
4 - REVERBERATION-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Intro: (X2)
Am
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Am G
You finally find your helpless mind,
Am C
is trapped inside your skin.
Am G
You want to leave, but you believe
Am C
you won't get back again.
Am C D C
You only know, you have to go but still you can't get out.
Am C D Am
You try and try, you die and die. You're stopped by your own doubt.
Intro X2
Am
Reverberation,
reverberation.
Am G
You find no peace, it doesn't cease,
Am C
it's deadly irritation.
Am G
It keeps you blind, it's there behind,
Am C
your every hesitation.
Am C D
C
It holds your thought, your mind is caught, your fixed with fascination.
Am C D Am
You think you'll die, within the lie, it's backward elevation!
Intro X2
Am
Reverberation,
reverberation.
Am D
You see reverberation,
Am D
is your latest incarnation,
Am D
You think it's a sensation,
G E7 Am Intro X2
but it's just reverberation.
Am G
You start to swerve, the downward curve,
Am C
that catches up your fears.
Am G
Each thing you do, comes home to you,
Am C
and pounds inside your ears.
Am C D
C
Your start to fight against the night, that screams inside your mind.
An C D Am
When something black it answers back, and grabs you from behind!
Intro
Am
Reverberation,
echoing through your brain.
Reverberation,
driving your mind insane.
Reverberation,
causing your blood to drain,
Am G X4
leaving just charred remains. (End)
5 - DON'T FALL DOWN -------------------------------------------------------------
Intro Bass: E|---1/3--3--1/3--3---0--0-0----| X2
Intro Guitar:
C G F G
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C G F G
Don't fall doooown (Backing Vocals) X8
When you see her, ease up by her side
When you're near her, if your voice is tied
Don't deceive her, tell her what you feel
She'll receive you if your voice is real
D F#m G Em
Every time you need her, she is there to ease the pain that fogs you
D F#m G
A
And when you don't need her calm her stare, she says she's needing you
C G F G
Don't fall doooown (Backing Vocals) X8
As you love her, she loves only you
As you lift her, she believes in you
From beside her keep behind her eyes
They're behind you past the thought of lies
D F#m G Em
If you want to rise you must place someone else where you are standing
D F#m G
A
Everything she learns is on her face, your strength is all she's demanding
C G F G
Don't fall doooown (Backing Vocals) X8
Do you feel it? Feel it! Feel it! (Backing Vocals) X8
When you leave her give her promises
When you greet her give her all your kisses
As you warm her never disapoint her
As you hold her do all that you told her
D F#m G Em
Every time you need her, she is there to ease the pain that fogs you
D F#m G
A D
And when you don't need her calm her stare, she says she's needing you
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6 - FIRE ENGINE------------------------------------------------------------------
Intro: Em Em Am Em B7 Am
Em B7 (Blues Structure 12-bar)
Em
Let me take you to the empty place in my fire engine
Am Em
Let me take you to the empty place in my fire engine
B7
It can drive you out of your mind
Am Em B7
Climb the ladder of your own design in my fire engine.
Am D
Don't tell it to go slow or stop
Am D
You're got to work it right up to the top
Am D
A piercing bolt of neon red
B7 C#m
Explodes on fire inside your head
Solo: C#m F#m C#m A7 B7 Em B7
Em
Let me take you to the empty place on my fire engine
Am Em
Let me take you to the empty place in my fire engine
B7
Blow it in rhythms making you
Am Em B7
Round in the corner you can feel the ring on my fire engine
Am D
Close your eyes and you will raise
Am D
Your image you no longer taste
Am D
A fiery flood engulfs your brain
B7 C#m
And drowns your partner (?)
Solo: C#m F#m C#m A7 B7 Em B7
Em
Let me take you to the empty place on my fire engine
Am Em
Let me take you to the empty place on my fire engine
B7
It can drive you out of your mind
Am Em B7
Climb the ladder of your own design in my fire engine.
Em (End)
7 - Thru The Rhythm -----------------------------------------------------------
Intro:
F#m B
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F#m B
Through the rhythm of darkened time
F#m B
Painted black by knowledge crimes
F#m B
And repetitions pointless mine
F#m B
Instilling values the sick define
F#m B
That weaves the fabric that keeps you blind
F#m B
And ties your hands and cloaks your mind
F#m B
But on my stilts I´m above slime
F#m B F#m B
F#m B F#m
Come on up if you can make the climb but Who am I! Who Am I! Who Am I!
F#m B
I've smelt the stench from the fumes that rise
F#m B
From the books that rehash the same old lies
F#m B
I felt the panic that they disguise
F#m B
In the forms of laws of every size
F#m B
I've heard the teachers whine and make you drop off like flies
F#m B
But you know they're teaching nonsense, 'cause they catch you on your eyes
F#m B
I have seen the fool's gold they pawn off as their prize
F#m B
To the average standard the norm supplies but
F#m B F#m B F#m B
Where Am I! Where Am I! Where Am I!
G#m C#
G#m C#
You gobble all the blessings they tossed you to digest
G#m C#
They may be hard to swallow, but they keep your tongue depressed
G#m C#
Your scattered whims were born depressed
G#m C#
So when something slams your chest
G#m C#
You flutter about your sleep distressed
G#m C#
And then you stop to ease your breast
G#m C#
A scattered rim leaves you obsessed
G#m C#
While solid thoughts are soon suppressed
G#m C# G#m C# G#m
But Where Are You? Where Are You? Where Are You? REPEAT
(END)
8 - YOU DON'T KNOW -------------------------------------------------------------
Intro: Bm Em Em/Am Am/G G Em
Intro 2: D|---5--5--5/3--3---3/7--7--7/5---0---|
D C G Am X1
D C G Am
There you are again standing down below me
D C G Am
Honestly believe that there is something you can show me
D C G Am
While deep within your mind just what you give to even know me
G A
And you don´t know
G A
You don´t know
G A G E
You don't know how young you are
D C G Am
Your eyes are filled with coral snakes and liquid plastic castles
D C G Am
Your daily life revolves around a thousand petty hassles
D C G Am
Corney dots and window panes and pink and silver dazzles
G A
And you don´t know
G A
You don´t know
G A G E
You don´t know how young you are
D C G Am
If I knew what´s right for you you would not be without it
D C G Am
And if I knew the truth for you I’d surely stand and shout it
D C G Am
There´s better things that you can be, there is no doubt about it
G A
And you don´t know
G A
You don´t know
G A G E
You don´t know how young you are
Em
You don't know (You die young) Repeat
(End)
9 - KINGDOM OF HEAVEN -----------------------------------------------------------
Intro
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F Em F Em
Here you are at my place within your glistening eyes
F Em Dm G
I´m watching your reactions as the thing within you cries
Am Em Am
B7
And I´m bringing you this message ´cause I think it´s time you knew
Em Am Em
That the kingdom of heaven is within you
Intro x2
F Em F Em
The incense and the candles and the colors on the wall
F Em Dm G
Your image stands reflected as a princess come to call
Am Em Am B7
Your suspicions I´m confirming as you find them all quite true
Em Am Em
And the kingdom of heaven is within you
Solo: Em x 4
F Em F Em
Through the stained glass windows moonlight flashes on the choir
F Em Dm G
And splashes on the altar in glows of liquid fire
Am Em Am B7
Then it bathes you with its glory and you begin life anew
Em Am Em
And the kingdom of heaven is within you
Solo: Em (End)
10 - MONKEY ISLAND -------------------------------------------------------------
Intro Bass:
D G
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Chorus:
D G D G
Living home on monkey island, baby
D G D G
Right in the middle of a zoo
D G D G
Living home on monkey island, baby
C A7
Pretend to be a monkey, too
Verse 1:
G Bb
Well, here I am on monkey island
G Bb
Hiding behind a rock
G Bb
I'm all dressed up with my monkey suit
C A7
Pretending to be something I'm not
(Chorus)
Verse 2:
G Bb
Well there's one thing about these monkeys, baby
G Bb
They don't know I'm around
G Bb
But that's pretty good, 'cause if they knew
C A7
They'll probably come and put me down
(Chorus)
Verse 3:
G Bb
With my paisley tie and my one button suit
G Bb
I'm about as close as I can get
G Bb
I guess I must be doing okay
G Bb
'Cause they haven't come and got me yet
(Chorus)
(End)
11 - TRIED TO HIDE --------------------------------------------------------------
Intro
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B5
You think you´re strong when you´re all restraining
B5
You think you have when you´re only claiming
F#7 E7
When I got near all I saw was fear
B5 Bm
And I know that you tried to hide and you cried ´cause you lied about it
B5
You knew that you had when you tried to tell it
B5
You thought that you were when you tried to sell it
F#7 E7
And when I got near all I saw was fear
B5 Bm
And I know that you tried to hide and you cried ´cause you lied about it
B5
You used the words but you´re only guessing
B5
And you know I saw it was your brand new dressing
F#7 E7
Well, you know the song, but you live it all wrong
B5 Bm
And I know that you tried to hide and you cried ´cause you lied about it
(End)
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