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**THE COMPLETE PORNOGRAPHY’S CHORD CHART **
compilated by: graph_sas
Words by: Robert Smith
Music by: The Cure
From the recognized 1982’s album “Pornography” from The Cure
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++++++++++++DATE: April 11th, 2009+++++++++++++++
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WARNING: The following compilation of chords is personal and free on the album published
Fiction Records in 1982 for The Cure and only with didactic and philanthropic purposes.
songs are copyrighted by the publishers and these tabs are property of his respective authors.
The Tabbers are:
graph_sas [tabs: 2,3,4,7,8] graph_sas@hotmail.com
Winston Campbell [tab 1]
Mario Dorion [tab 6] Mario.Dorion@canada.Sun.Com
Unregistered [tab 5] (please, send me your name and mail ‘cos your tab is great!!)
The Songs are:
1. 100 years
2. A Short Term Effect
3. The Hanging Garden
4. Siamese Twins
5. The Figurehead
6. A Strange Day
7. Cold
8. Pornography
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“100 YEARS”
Words by: R.Smith Music by: The Cure published by: Fiction Records, 1982
Tabbed by: Winston Campbell
Main Riff: Cm, B
It doesn't matter if we all die
Ambition in the back of a black car
In a high building there is so much to do
Going home time
A story on the radio
Something small falls out of your mouth
And we laugh
A prayer for something better
A prayer for something better
Please love me
Meet my mother
But the fear takes hold
Creeping up the stairs in the dark
Waiting for the death blow
Bridge: Bb
Waiting for the death blow
Waiting for the death blow
Repeat Main Riff: Cm, B
Stroking your hair as the patriots are shot
Fighting for freedom on the television
Sharing the world with slaughtered pigs
Have we got everything?
She struggles to get away
The pain and the creeping feeling
A little black haired girl
Waiting for Saturday
The death of her father pushing her
Pushing her white face into the mirror
Aching inside me
And turn me around
Just like the old days
Just like the old days
Bridge: Bb
Just like the old days
Just like the old days
Caressing an old man
And painting a lifeless face
Just a piece of new meat in a clean room
The soldiers close in under a yellow moon
All shadows and deliverance
Under a black flag
A hundred years of blood
Crimson
The ribbon tightens round my throat
I open my mouth
And my head bursts open
A sound like a tiger thrashing in the water
Thrashing in the water
Over and over
We die one after the other
Over and over
We die one after the other
Bridge: Bb
One after the other
One after the other
One after the other
One after the other
Crd: Gb
It feels like a hundred years
A hundred years
A hundred years
A hundred years
A hundred years
One hundred years
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“A SHORT TERM EFFECT”
Words by: R.Smith Music by: The Cure published by: Fiction Records, 1982
Tabbed by: graph_sas
Main Riff: Dm, C, G, F
Dm
Movement
No movement
C G F
Just a falling bird
Dm C G F
Cold as it hits the bleeding ground
Dm
He lived and died
C
Catch sight
G F
Cover me with earth
Dm
Draped in black
C
Static
G F
White sound
Here is the brige:
Bb
A day without substance
C
A change of thought
Bb C
An atmosphere that rots with time
Bb C
Colours that flicker in water
Dm C G F
A short term effect
Repeat the main riff over the verse:
Scream
As she tries to push him over
Helpless and sick
With teeth of madness
Jump jump dance and sing
Sideways across the desert
A charcoal face
Bites my hand
Time is sweet
Derange and disengage everything
Bb
A day without substance
C
A change of thought
Bb C
An atmosphere that rots with time
Bb C
Colours that flicker in water
Dm C G F
A short term effect
Repeat Main Riff: Dm, C, G, F
A short term effect
A short term effect
A short term effect
An echo
And a stranger's hand
A short term effect
An echo
And a stranger's hand
A short term effect
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“THE HANGING GARDEN”
Words by: R.Smith Music by: The Cure published by: Fiction Records, 1982
Tabbed by: graph_sas
Dm C Dm C
Creatures kissing in the rain
Dm C Dm Bb
Shapeless in the dark again
Dm C Dm C
In the hanging garden please don't speak
Dm C Dm Bb
In the hanging garden no one sleeps
Riff: Dm, C, Dm, Bb, C (x2)
Catching haloes on the moon
Gives my hands the shapes of angels
In the heat of the night
The animals scream
In the heat of the night
Walking into a dream...
Am
Fall fall fall fall
Bb
Into the walls
Am Bb
Jump jump out of time
Am
Fall fall fall fall
Bb
Out of the sky
Am Bb
Cover my face as the animals die
Dm C Dm, C,
In the hanging garden
Dm Bb
In the hanging garden
Creatures kissing in the rain
Shapeless in the dark again
In a hanging garden
Change the past
In a hanging garden
Wearing furs and masks...
Fall fall fall fall
Into the walls
Jump jump out of time
Fall fall fall fall
Out of the sky
Cover my face as the animals die
In the hanging garden
In the hanging garden
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“SIAMESE TWINS”
Words by: R.Smith Music by: The Cure published by: Fiction Records, 1982
Tabbed by: graph_sas
Am F Dm7 F }*4
Am F Dm7 F
I chose an eternity of this
Am F Dm7 F
Like falling angels the world disappeared
Am F Dm7 F
Laughing into the fire, is it always like this ?
Am F
Flesh and blood and the first kiss
Dm7 F
The first colors the first kiss.
Am F Dm7 F }*2
(repeat Am F Dm7 F throughout the verse)
We writhed under a red light
Voodoo smile, siamese twins
Girl at the window looks at me for an hour
Then everything falls apart
Broken inside me, it falls apart.
C Dm7 Am
The walls and the ceiling move in time
C Dm7
Push a blade into my hands, slowly up the stairs
Em
And into the room
Em
Is it always like this ?
Am Fmaj7
Dancing in my pocket
Am Fmaj7
Worms eat my skin
Am Fmaj7
She glows and grows with arms outstretched
E7
Her legs around me, in the morning I cried.
Am F Dm7 F }*4
(repeat Am F Dm7 F)
Leave me to die, you won't remember my voice
I walked away and grew old
You never talk, we never smile
I scream you're nothing
And I don't need you anymore
You're nothing
It fades and spins
Fades and spins.
C Dm7 Am
Sing out loud we all die
C Dm7
Laughing into the fire
Em Bb
Is it always like this ?
Em Bb
Is it always like this ?
No Chord
Is it always like this ?
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“THE FIGUREHEAD”
Words by: R.Smith Music by: The Cure published by: Fiction Records, 1982
Tabbed by: unregistered
C5 Bb5 F5 G#5
Sharp and open, leave me alone and sleeping less every night
C5 Bb5
As the days become heavier and weighted
F5 G#5
Waiting in the cold light
C5 Bb5 F5
A noise, a scream tears my clothes as the figurines tighten
G#5
With spiders inside them
C5 Bb5
And dust on the lips of a vision of hell
F5 G#5
I laughed in the mirror for the first time in a year.
C5 Bb5 F5 G#5
Bridge (Figure 1) 2x
*1:06*
e|-----------------|
B|--1-3-4-1-3-4----|
G|--------------1--|
D|-----------------|
A|-----------------|
E|-----------------|
Verse 2: *1:23*
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C5 Bb5 F5 G#5
A hundred other words blind me with your purity
C5 Bb5 F5 G#5
Like an old painted doll in the throes of dance I think about tomorrow
C5 B5b F5 G#5
Please let me sleep as I slip down the window freshly squashed fly
C5 Bb5 F5 G#5
You mean nothing, you mean nothing.
C5 F#5 C5 Bb5 F5
Bb5 F5 G#5
Bridge (Figure 2) 4x Bridge (Figure 1) 1x Bridge (Figure 3) 1x
*1:58* *2:16* *2:24*
e|--------2-3-2--| e|-----------------| e|----------------3--1------|
B|--1-3-4--------| B|--1-3-4-1-3-4----| B|--1-3-4-1-3-4--------4-3--|
G|---------------| G|--------------1--| G|--------------1-----------|
D|---------------| D|-----------------| D|--------------------------|
A|---------------| A|-----------------| A|--------------------------|
E|---------------| E|-----------------| E|--------------------------|
C5 Bb5 F5 G#5 C5 Bb5
G#5
Bridge (Figure 4) 1x Bridge (Figure 3) 1x
*2:33* *2:41*
e|--------1-----------1--------| e|----------------3--1------|
B|--1-3-4---4-3-1-3-4--4-3-----| B|--1-3-4-1-3-4--------4-3--|
G|-----------------------------| G|--------------1-----------|
D|-----------------------------| D|--------------------------|
A|-----------------------------| A|--------------------------|
E|-----------------------------| E|--------------------------|
Verse 3: *2:50*
C5 Bb5 F5 G#5
I can lose myself in Chinese art and American girls
C5 B5b F5 G#5
All the time lose me in the dark please do it right
C5 Bb5
Running into the night I will lose myself tomorrow
F5 G#5
Crimson pain, my heart explodes
C5 Bb5 F5 G#5
My memory in a fire and someone will listen at least for a short while.
C5 F#5 Eb5 F#5
F5 F5 F5 F5 F5
Bridge (Figure 2) 4x Bridge (Figure 5) 4x Bridge (Figure 6) 5x
*3:25* *3:43* *4:00*
e|--------2-3-2--| e|--11--14—-11--2--3--2---| e|-----------|
B|--1-3-4--------| B|-------------(7)(8)(7)--| B|--6--9--8--|
G|---------------| G|-------------11-12-11---| G|-----------|
D|---------------| D|------------------------| D|-----------|
A|---------------| A|------------------------| A|-----------|
E|---------------| E|------------------------| E|-----------|
*4:10*
F5
(I can never say no)
F5 F5
I can never say no to anyone but you.
C5 Bb5 F5 G#5 C5
F5 G#5
Bridge (Figure 7) 2x Bridge (Figure 4) 1x
*4:17* *4:34*
e|-----------------6--4--| e|--------1-----------1--------|
B|-----------6--8--------| B|--1-3-4---4-3-1-3-4--4-3-----|
G|--5--7--8--------------| G|-----------------------------|
D|-----------------------| D|-----------------------------|
A|-----------------------| A|-----------------------------|
E|-----------------------| E|-----------------------------|
C5 Bb5 F5 G#5
Bridge (Figure 8) 1x
*4:43*
e|-----------------6--4--3--1--------------|
B|-----------6--8--------------4--3-----1--|
G|--5--7--8--------------------------3-----|
D|-----------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------|
Verse 4: *4:51*
C5 Bb5 F5 G#5
Too many secrets, too many lies writing with hatred
C5 Bb5 F5 G#5
Too many secrets, please make it good tonight
C5 Bb5 F5
But the same image haunts me in sequence, in despair of time
G#5 C5
I will never be clean again
Bb5 F5
Touched her eyes, pressed my stained face
G#5 C5
I will never be clean again (Figure 1)
Bb5 F5
Touch her eyes, press my stained face
G#5 C5 Bb5 F5
I will never be clean again
G#5 C5 Bb5 F5
I will never be clean again
G#5 C5 Bb5 F5
I will never be clean again
G#5
I will never be clean again.
Outro: Drums *6:02-6:13*
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“A STRANGE DAY”
Words by: R.Smith Music by: The Cure published by: Fiction Records, 1982
Tabbed by: Mario Dorion SSE Sun Montreal
A B G
Give me your eyes that I can see
A B G
The blind man kissing my hands
The sun is humming
My head turns to dust as he plays on his knees
As he plays on his knees
F G
And the sand and the sea glows I close my eyes
F G
Move slowly through drowning waves
A B
Going away on a strange day
And I laugh as I drift in the wind
Blind
Dancing on a beach of stone
Cherish the faces as they wait for the end
Sudden hush across the water
And we're here again
And the sand
And the sea grows
I close my eyes
Move slowly through drowning waves
Going away
On a strange day
F G
And the sand and the sea glows I close my eyes
F G
Move slowly through drowning waves
A B
Going away on a strange day
E F
My head falls back and the walls crashed in
G A
And the sky and the impossible explodes
B C
And for one moment I remember a song
D
An expression of sounds
E
And the everything is gone forever
Fig.1
1 - 3 1 0 3 1 0 0 1 3 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 3 1
2 - 3 3 3 1 0 1 3 3 1 0 1 0
3 - 2 0
4 -
5 -
6 -
A B G
A strange day
Repeat fig.1
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“COLD”
Words by: R.Smith Music by: The Cure published by: Fiction Records, 1982
Tabbed by: graph_sas
SYNTH PROGRESSION CHORDS: C, C#, A#, G#, F, F#
GUITAR PROGRESSION CHORDS: Bbm, A, F, F#,
F, Bbm
Bbm
Scarred
Your back was turned
A F F# A F Bbm
Curled like an embryo
Take another face
A F F#
You will be kissed again
A F# Bbm
I was cold as I mouthed the words
A F F# A F
And crawled across the mirror
Bbm
I wait
A F F#
Await the next breath
Your name
A F
Like ice into my heart
Main Riff: Bbm, A, F, F#, A, F (x2)
Bbm
A shallow grave
A F F# A F
A monument to the ruined age
Bbm
Ice in my eyes
A F F# A F
And eyes like ice don't move
Bbm
Screaming at the moon
A F F# A F Bm
F
Another past time
F#
Your name
A F
Like ice into my heart
Main Riff: Bbm, A, F, F#, A, F (x2)
Repeat the progression chord through the verse:
Everything as cold as life
Can no one save you?
Everything
As cold as silence
And you never say a word
Your name
Like ice into my heart (x2)
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“PORNOGRAPHY”
Words by: R.Smith Music by: The Cure published by: Fiction Records, 1982
Tabbed by: graph_sas
The basics chords are:
Dm, Bb, A, Bb
A hand in my mouth
A life spills into the flowers
We all look so perfect
As we fall down
In a n electric glare
The old man cracks with age
She found his last picture
In the ashes of the fire
An image of the queen
Echoes round the sweating bed
Sour yellow sounds inside my head
In books
And films
And in life
And in heaven
The sound of slaughter
As your body turns
But it’s too late
The Brigde chords are:
F#m, G (x3)
F#m, F
One more day like today and I’ll kill you
A desire for flesh
And real blood
And I’ll watch you drown in the shower
Pushing my life through your open eyes
I must fight this sickness
Find a cure...
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