John Frusciante - The Past Recedes
G D Am Em x3
G D Am
G D Am Em
And then the past recedes
G D Am Em
And I won't be involved
G D Am Em
The effort to be free
G D Am
Seems pointless from above
G D Am Em
Yor're looking down at' me
G D Am Em
I'd rather stay below
G D Am Em
Than have you staring up at me
G D Am B7 B7+5
Theres nowhere I want to goooooooo
C F#dim7 Em D
Ay, this business of how long we try to stay alive
C F#dim7 Em
Why to be here you've first got to die
D
So I gave it a try
C G/B
And what do you know
Am F#dim7
Time was so long ago
G D Am Em
And thinks come back you see
G D Am Em
To where they don't belong
G D Am Em
And every drop of sea
G D Am B7 B7+5
Is the whole ocean oooooooohhh
C F#dim7
I lied to the greatest thieves
Em D
About anything and everything
C F#dim7 Em
I'm a figure of forgotten speech
D
I'm our of reach
C G/B
I can't play it safe
Am F#dim7 B7
But I might just in case
Solo (use verse chords)
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C F#dim7 Em
I'm disguised as a reaching hand
D
I'm working man
C F#dim7
I dont understand why clock-out
Em D
Comes so slow every time
C G Am
That's one line I stay right behind
C G Am B7
That's one line I stay right behind
G D Am Em x3
G D Am B7(+5) G
Chords:
B7 (+5) F#dim7 G/B
--2--(3) --2--- --7--|
--0---0 --1--- --8--|
--2---2 --2--- --7--|
--1---1 --1--- --9--|
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Lever Pulled
Fm C#
You're the feeling of hurting
Fm C# Eb
More, is what i'm asking
Bbm C# Fm
For... little lies cross over...
Bbm C# Eb
board... wait for the crying
Love to aim at besides
Lever Pulled
Go where you are little pond
Never be seen by your saw
we'll work it out
Fm C# Eb (2x)
Bbm C# Fm
Bbm C# Eb
Now the feelings are right where you saw
Forever is right where we were
Never be clean
Lever pulled
Be where you are
Anne
Anne you can't hide You know we'll find your
It's a matter where pride flies out the window
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I never got the weight off the ground
I just forgot what's up and what's down
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How many get the way I feel now
There's no regret There's just the sense that
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Nothing is coming my way
There's so much that happened today
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The Gods of the city have called my name
It means more to them than it means to me somehow
I left my bodyI left my fate
But it is so hard to keep away now
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Nothing is final because it seems all the while
There wasn't anything for me I always faked my smile
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There's so many careless angels responsible for me
They give me disease
They give me a pain in my neck to feed off me
Saying pay us the cost and we'll be gone
Now they shut my eyes and I can't see
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now
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(Guitar Solo...)
These are the times I was scared of
These are the fares I pushed out of my way
Now they've come back here to haunt me
Its plain to see who the winner and loser will be
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The Real by John Frusciante
F#m Bm A E
I dont know the real from what i thought i saw
I cant remember where i went, where i was
F#m Bm A E F#m2x
F#m Bm A E F#m
I'm gonna move toward a point in time
F#m Bm A E
Where where you are is a state of mind
Bm A E F#m Bm A E F#m
And anytime I can read your thoughts, Some of them yours and some I thought of
F#m Bm F#m Bm A
Theres no good reason for a heartbreak, nothing's repeating every Monday
F#m Bm A F#m
Its no good saying you'll always be mine
F#m Bm A E F#m
These jokes life's playing they make me so tired so tired.
F#m Bm A F#m
F#m Bm A F#m
F#m E A E
It's already to much to always see you off
F#m E A E
The sense that hours go back is enough
F#m Bm A E F#m2x
F#m Bm A E F#m
I like to fade when I write this line
F#m Bm A E
There's every reason to paint a decline
Bm A E F#m Bm A E F#m
And every mile i walk is five I'll get where I'm going in the next life
F#m Bm F#m
And all the while there's a false face
F#m Bm A
This every killing is left untraced
F#m E A E
This kind of falling saved my son
F#m E A E
This constant longing for what's gone
F#m Bm A E 5x
Whats gone
F#m
A Name
B F# G#m
These don't have a name
B F# G#m
I've been a fool to let it out that way
C#m G#m
And it'll keep on coming back
B F# G#m
A fool gets laughed at
B F# C#m G#m
And I'll go on and on and on
B F# C#m G#m
Letting it out when the feeling's strong
B F# C#m G#m
I wonder who in the single thing
B F# C#m G#m
Made this night and this ugly dreams
B F# G#m
These all pass away
B F# G#m
It is clear that one can see through a day
C#m G#m
And i may have met my match
B F# G#m
Completely unattached
B F# C#m G#m
With no one no one no one
B F# C#m G#m
On whom to rely let's sing that song
B F# C#m G#m
Well I didn't read the last page
B F# C#m G#m
You thought of me at that final stage
G#m E F# G#m
eenie meenie miny moe
G#m E F# G#m
It's about time about time to go
G#m E F# G#m
eenie meenie miny moe
G#m E F# G#m
It's about time about time to go
Harmonica
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Control
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It's not the way I go
It's not the way I go
No one here hears me
I'm sick of people knowing me
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Life's confusing me
There's so much I don't see
Something's controlling me
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[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/j/john_frusciante/curtains_tab_ver_2.html ]
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It's no way to live
I haven't got a thing to give
And as those signs trad off
I'm a line from loud to soft
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For what I have to say
I wanted to build a stage
I wanted to feel this way
this way
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All these things are real
I don't know my own field
You will prove me wrong
I don't know one
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I see now what I've got
It reveals just what it's not
Someday I'll take it away
There's nothing for me anyway
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Love don't choose me
Wide don't see a thing Wide don't see a thing
A thing
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I don't know what it's about
I wander through the dawn
So much goes on
Who will make me run
I admit I might be wrong
These letters shelter me now
I wonder how
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Your Warning
G C Em C
You're warning me to get out of the way
G C Em D7
Was the safest thing to say
G C Em C G
This trying to get out of a tight spot
G C Em D7
Isn't even worth a shot
G C
And all of the world calls out at once
G C
give us pain
Em D
It's a friend to us
G C
And we don't decide for ourselves very much
G C Em D
what we are we owe to the fear of love
G C Bm
Don't bring it around
C G
I've reached for that
C Bm C
Iv reached for that
G C Bm
Once it is found
C G
It turns its back
C Bm C
It turns its back
Em Bm
Once it is called when you're married
Em G D
and you've fallen out of love
Em Bm
What's it called when the family
Em G D
you raised you don't know at all
Bm D C Em
Give us a point to miss
endings are killing me slow
E|-------------------------|
B|-8-10-8---5-7-8---0---0--|
G|------------------0--0--|
D|------------------2--2--|
A|-7--------5-------3--3--|
E|------------------0---0--|
Bm D C Em
I only ask for this
empiness replace my soul
E|-------------------------|
B|-8-10-8---5-7-8---0---0--|
G|------------------0--0--|
D|------------------2--2--|
A|-7--------5-------3--3--|
E|------------------0---0--|
(the piano melody)
E|----------------10-----7---7-|-------------------------|
B|-8-10-8--5-7------------------|-8-10-8--7-5-3-----5---5-|
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HOPE
G#m B F# G#m C#m G#m Eb2 G#m
I feel the hope running low We never found our way home
G#m B F# G#m
There is no more world the land is gone
C#m G#m Eb2 G#m
Water is all that survived that one
G#m
There are no escapes, no escapes, no escapes
E B Eb G#m
Gone are the days of mis- takes Our mis- takes
G#m B F# G#m
And did you see The night wore on
C#m G#m Eb2 G#m
And became the days that never begun
G#m B F# G#m
The disappearing day You know where I'm from
C#m G#m Eb2 G#m
Is the only place that forever stays young
G#m
Lost at sea We're lost at sea
E B Eb G#m
I wouldn't know my face if you all were me
G#m
All we have is all we see
E B Eb G#m
There is no more hope There are no dreams
E B Eb G#m
The chords are like this:
G#m B F#
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B]---------4---------- ------------4----------- ----------2-------------|
G]---------4---------- ------------4----------- ----------3-------------|
D]-------------------- ------------------------ ------------------------|
A]-------------------- -----2-------------2---- ------------------------|
E]---4------------4--- ------------------------ ---2-------------2------|
C#m Eb2 (?) E
e]------------------- ------------------------ ------------------------|
B]---------5--------- ------------------------ ------------------------|
G]---------6--------- ------------9----------- -----------9------------|
D]------------------- ------------8----------- -----------9------------|
A]--4------------4--- ------6------------6---- -----7------------7-----|
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(G#m) (Eb) (C#m)
e]-----------4-------------3---------------------------|
B]-----------4-------------4-----------5---------------|
G]-----------4-------------3-----------6---------------|
D]-----------6-------------------------6---------------|
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ASCENSION
one, two
Em
Em
Coming up to the end
A7
These feelings weren't always pretend
Cadd9
Re view your whole life
Dadd9 Em
and you don't even have to die
Em
Life would never leave me alone
A7
A choice which way I wanted to go
Cadd9
And everything I've seen is
Dadd9 Em
wrong to make me what I'll be
Em B
All men
Cadd9 G
You don't need anyone
A7
Just hold on to the end
Cadd9 Em D
And you don't even have to look goo-ood
Em B
Wo - man
Cadd9 G
You do fine on your own
A7
You're free to cry
Cadd9 Em D
and you don't have to wipe your ey - es
Em
Oom la la la Oom la la la Oom la la la Oom la la la
Em G D
Oom la la la ooh ah ooh ah
Em
Oom la la la Oom la la la Oom la la la
G D
Ooh ah Ooh ah
Em G D Em
Oom la la la Oom la la la You once saved me - ee - ee
Em G D Em
Oom la la la Oom la la la You once saved me - ee - ee
Cadd9 G
You once saved me and
Cadd9 G
now I'm where you want me to be
A7 Cadd9 Em
Ascending endlessly and I don't even have to try
A7 Cadd9 Em
Ascending endlessly and I don't even have to try
A7 Cadd9 Em
Ascending endlessly and I don't even have to try
A7 Cadd9
Ascending endlessly and I don't even have....
Em
to try
the chords are:
Em A7 Cadd9 Dadd9 B G D
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B]--0----2-----3-----3-----4---0-----3-------|
G]--0----2-----0-----2-----4---0-----2-------|
D]--2----2-----2-----0-----4---0-----0-------|
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Time Tonight
For changing lines I've got no time tonight
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In these times the wind surpassed the tide
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When the wake up's hard to find Dreams make up for your
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1. 2.
life
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This crazy shine it never lets you die
Going up we become what you want
Again the moon rises up too high
And we don't need the sky
Interlude
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Wonder what it is that makes the world turn slower Wonder what it is that makes me feel so mad
Everyone that talks to me I so which wouldn't I wouldn't even care except I feel so bad
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so bad
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Why is there no one in my life
Time
There's no time tonight
Wide
There's no room to see wide
Time
There's no time tonight
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