R.E.M , Green Album
Green
POP SONG 89
Riff by: Jeremy Price (etljype@etlxdmx.ericsson.se)
{intro: A A D D A A D D D x 3}
{intro riff}
--3-- --3--
1 A & A 2 A & A 3 A & A 4 A & A A 1 A & A 2 A & A 3 A & A A 4 A & A
e-----8-----------------------------|-----------------------------------|
B---------5-------------------------|-----------------------------------|
G-------------7-----------7---6h7p6-|5---7-s-9---7-------7h9p7-5--------|
D-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
A-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
E-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
A D A D
Hello I saw you I know you I knew you
A D A D
I think I can remember your name...name
A D A D
A D A D
Hello I'm sorry I lost myself
A D A D
I think I thought you were someone else
E G D BaddE
Should we talk about the weather?
E G D B
Should we talk about the government?
{break: B / / / B / / / E / / / E7 / / /
B / / / B / / / E / / / D/Dsus4 }
Hello my friend are you visible today?
And no one ever knew that it could be so strange...strange
Hello I'm sorry I lost myself
I think I thought you were someone else
GET UP
{intro: E B C G A E B C G Bb}
A D
Sleep delays my life
A
Where does the time go...go
D
I don't know
A
Sleep sleep sleepy head
D
Wake it up...up
A
You've got all your life
D
Way up ahead
E B C G A
Dreams they complicate my life
E B C G Bb
Dreams they compliment my life
I've seen you laying pined
I've seen you laying pined
Life is rough...rough
I've seen you laying down...down
With the loving kind
I know life is hard...hard
Well now
Where to turn?
{break A D A D w/ 12 music boxes going off at once}
This time there's no escape
To dreamtime
YOU ARE THE EVERYTHING
{intro Am}
G D
Sometimes I feel like I can't even sing
G
I'm very scared for this world
D
I'm very scared for me
G
Eviscerate your memory
G
Here's a scene
D
You're in the back seat laying down
G
The windows wrap around you
D
The sound of the travel and the engine
C G C
All you hear is time stand still in travel
G
You feel such peace and absolue
C
The stillness still that doesn't end
G
But slowly drifts into sleep
D
The stars are the greatest thing you've ever seen
D
And they're there for you
D G
For you alone you are the everything
G D
I think about this world a lot and I cry
G D
And I've seen the films and the eyes
G
But I'm in this kitchen
D
Everything is beautiful
G
And she is so beautiful
D
She is so young and old
C
I look at her and I see the beauty
G
Of the light of music
C G
The voice is talking somewhere in the house
C
Late spring and you're drifting off to sleep
D
With your teeth in your mouth
D
You are here with me
D
You are here with me
D Am
You have been here and you are everything
STAND
Riff from _Guitar from the Practicing Musician_
{Intro:}
(bend A up to B gradually,then release back
organ intro down to A--listen to the record.)
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h+q E E
{Verse riff}:
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|--------------4-|-4-4-4-4--4--0-|--------------4-|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4--|
|--------------4-|-4-4-4-4--4----|--------------4-|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4--|
|------2-0-0-4-2-|-2-2-2-2--2----|------2-0-0-4-2-|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2--|
\-0--4-----------|---------------|-0--4-----------|----------------/
q E E E E E E+++E E E q q E q E E E E E E E E E E E E q
{Chorus riff}:
/-----0---0-------|-----------------|-----0---0-------|-----------------\
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|---4-4---2-2---0-|-----------------|---4-4---2-2---0-|-0-0-2-2-4-4-4---|
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|-----------------|-4-4-3-2-0-2-2-0-|-----------------|-----0-0-2-2-2-0-|
\-0---------------|-----------------|-0---------------|-3-3-------------/
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
{Verse riff}
Stand in the place where you live
Now face North
Think about direction
Wonder why you haven't now
{Verse riff}
Now stand in the place where you were
Now face West
Think about the place where you live
Wonder why you haven't before
{Chorus riff}
If you are confused check with the sun
Carry a compass to help you along
{Chorus riff}
Your feet are going to be on the ground
Your head is there to move you around
{Verse riff}
So stand in the place where you live
Now face North
Think about direction
Wonder why you haven't now
{Verse riff}
Now stand in the place where you were
Now face West
Think about the place where you live
Wonder why you haven't before
{Chorus riff}
Your feet are going to be on the ground
Your head is there to move you around
{Chorus riff}
If wishes were trees the trees would be falling
Listen to reason
The reason is calling
{Verse riff}
Stand in the place where you live
Now face North
Think about direction
Wonder why you haven't before
{Verse riff}
Now stand in the place where you were
Now face West
Think about the place where you live
Wonder why you haven't before
{Solo}:
E-|---------------------------|--------------0--0-|-3--3-----0----------------|
B-|-3p0-5p0-3p0-5p0-3p0-0-3p0-|-0-0---3-5--3h5--3-|-3--3--5--0--3--0----------|
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D-|---------------------------|-------------------|---------------------------|
A-|---------------------------|-------------------|---------------------------|
E-|---------------------------|-------------------|---------------------------|
/h-p-sl\
E-|-----------------------|----------------------|----------------------------|
B-|-0h5--0h5--3-----3--5/-|-8--7--8--8b--8b--8b--|-8b8--7--5--5--7--5\3--0----|
G-|--------------4--------|----------------------|----------------------------|
D-|-----------------------|----------------------|----------------------------|
A-|-----------------------|----------------------|----------------------------|
E-|-----------------------|----------------------|----------------------------|
E-|-----------0--------------------|---------------------0--2/3---|
B-|-0--0h3p0-----0--5p0--3p0--0--5-|-(5)--3--0--0--h3p0-----------|
G-|--------------------------------|------------0-----------------|
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{Chorus riff}
If wishes were trees the trees would be falling
Listen to reason
The reason is calling
{Chorus riff}
Your feet are going to be on the ground
Your head is there to move you around
{Verse riff}
So stand!
Now face North
Think about direction
Wonder why you haven't now
{Verse riff}
So stand!
Now face West
Think about the place where you live
Wonder why you haven't before
{Verse riff}
Stand in the place where you live
Now face North
Think about direction
Wonder why you haven't now
{Verse riff}
Now stand in the place where you were
Now face West
Think about the place where you live
Wonder why you haven't before
{Verse riff}
Stand in the place where you are
Stand in the place where you are
Your feet are going to be on the ground
Your head is there to move you around
So Stand!
WORLD LEADER PRETEND
{between the Em and Bm chords play this ----
(D) -0-2-4-2-0- }
{intro Em Bm Em Bm Em Bm G A }
D G C D
I sit at my table and wage war on myself
D G C D
It seems like it's all...it's all for nothing
D G C
I know the barricades, and
D D
I know the mortar in the wall breaks
G C D
I recognize the weapons, I used them well
Em Bm
Em Bm
This is my mistake. Let me make it good
Em Bm G A
I raised the wall, and I will be the one to knock it down
I've a rich understanding of my finest defenses
I proclaim that claims are left unstated,
I demand a rematch
I decree a stalemate
I divine my deeper motives
I recognize the weapons
I've practiced them well. I fitted them myself
It's amazing what devices you can sympathize...empathize
This is my mistake. Let me make it good
I raised the walls, and I will be the one to knock it down
{I lose track of where the chords occur over the words. They just
switch between Am and C until the last part of this section...}
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/r/rem/green_tab.html ]
Am C Am C
Reach out for me and hold me tight. Hold that memory
Am C Am A G
Let my machine talk to me. Let my machine talk to me
This is my world
And I am the world leader pretend
This is my life
And this is my time
I have been given the freedom
To do as I see fit
It's high time I've razed the walls
That I've constructed
It's amazing what devices you can sympathize...emapathize
This is my mistake. Let me make it good
I raised the walls, and I will be the one to knock it down
You fill in the mortar. You fill in the harmony
You fill in the mortar. I raised the walls
And I'm the only one
I will be the one to knock it down
{end on Em}
THE WRONG CHILD
Chords by: Winston Campbell (jieuryli@eden.rutgers.edu)
The Riff is:
E ------------------0-0---
B ------------------0---0-
G ---2-4-----2-4----2-----
D -5-----5-4-----4--2-----
A ------------------0-----
E ------------------------
Em
I've watched the children come and go
A2 Em
A late long march into spring
A2 Em
I sit and watch those children
A2
Jump in the tall grass
Em
Leap the sprinkler
A2
Walk in the ground
Em A2
Bicycle clothespin spokes
Em A2
The sound the smell of swingset hands
D (Riff)
I will try to sing a happy song
D (Riff)
I'll try and make a happy game to play
Come play with me I whispered to my new found friend
Tell me what it's like to go outside
I've never been
Tell me what it's like to just go outside
I've never been
And I never will
I'm not supposed to be like this
I'm not supposed to be like this
But it's okay
Hey those kids are looking at me
I told my friend myself
Those kids are looking at me
They're laughing and they're running over here
They're laughing and they're running over here
What do I do?
What can I do?
What should I do?
What do I say?
What can I say?
I said I'm no supposed to be like this
Let's try to find a happy game to play
Let's try to find a happy game to play
I'm not supposed to be like this
But it's okay...okay
ORANGE CRUSH
{Riff}
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| ssssssssssssssss E q E+h E E E q E E E E E E+q q E q q E E s s
| (slight mute) (repeat)
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| (guitar 2 overdub harmonics)
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{Solo riff}
( --- Harmonics --- ) (----- Harmonics _---- )
e(1) ------12----|--------|
B(2) 12----------|--------|-----5------|-----7------|
G(3) |----------5-|----------7-|
D(4) |5-----------|7-----------|
{Intro: Riff x2}
{Riff}
Follow me don't follow me
I've got my spine I've got my orange crush
Collar me don't collar me
I've got my spine I've got my orange crush
We are agents of the free
I've had my fun and now its time to
Spread your conscience overseas
Coming in fast over me
E B F# B
Aaahhhhhhhhhhh
E B F# B
Aaahhhhhhhhhhh
{Riff x2}
{Riff}
Follow me don't follow me
I've got my spine I've got my orange crush
Collar me don't collar me
I've got my spine I've got my orange crush
We are agents of the free
I've had my fun and now its time to
Spread your conscience overseas
Coming in fast over me
E B F# B
Aaahhhhh(Paid in full)
E B F# B
Aaahhhhh(Paid in full)
{Spoken over Helicopter sounds, etc}
We'd circle and we'd circle and we'd circle to stop and consider and
sitting there on the pavement stacked up all the trucks jacked up and
our wheels in slush and orange crush in pocket and all
{Solo riff begins}
this here county hell any county it's just like heaven here and i was
remembering and i was just in a differnet county and all then this
whirlybird that i headed for i had my goggles pulled off i knew it all
{Riff}
i knew every back road and every truck stop
{Riff}
Follow me don't follow me
I've got my spine I've got my orange crush
Collar me don't collar me
I've got my spine I've got my orange crush
We are agents of the free
I've had my fun and now its time to
Spread your conscience overseas
Coming in fast over me
E B F# B
Aaahhhhh(Paid in full)
E B F# B
Aaahhhhh(Paid in full)
E B F# B
Aaahhhhh(Paid in full)
E B F# B
Aaahhhhh(Paid in full)
End on -0--0--0--0-
-5--5--5--5-
-4--4--4--4-
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TURN YOU INSIDE-OUT
From: John Fail (fail@oberon.pps.pgh.pa.us)
Intro riff by: Bob Troutman (Bob_Troutman@kaplan.com)
Intro:
e-------2-----------
B--open-------------
G------------4------
D------------4------
A---x---------------
E---x---------------
Verse:
B A D
Divide your cultured pearls and paste
I'm looking for to lay to waste
Of all the things I cannot taste
This is not the wasted race
They spoke loud
E
I believe in what you do
I believe in watching you
It's what you do
B A D
I could turn you inside out
I could turn you inside-out
But I choose not to do
Given the choice
Given the heart
Given the tool
Given the word
Given the cheers
HAIRSHIRT
{This song repeats these 8 measures throughout the verses:
G / / / G / / / A7 / / / A7 / / / C / / / C / / / G / / / G / / /}
I am not the type of dog
That could keep you waiting
For no good reason
Run a carbon-black test on my jaw
And you will find it's all been said before
G A7 C Am
I can swing my megaphone and long arm the rest
Am
It's easier and better
C C
To just beat it from the chest
Of desire G
{verse}
I could walk into this room
And the waves of conversation are enough
To knock you down in the undertow
So alone so alone in my life
Feed me banks of light
And hang your hairshirt on the lowest rung
It's a beautiful life
And I can hang my hairshirt
Away up high in the attic of the wrong dog's life chest
Or bury it at sea
All my life I've searched for this
Here I am here I am in your life
It's a beautiful life
My life
It's a beautiful life
Your life
I REMEMBER CALIFORNIA
Main Riff from _Guitar for the Practicing Musician_
Riff #2 from Chris Bray (cbray@comp.uark.edu)
Riff #3 from Driver 9 (gt3677a@prism.gatech.edu)
{Main Riff}:
E-------------------------------
B----1p0-1p0----------3--1p0----
G-------------------------------
D-------------------------------
A-------------2-3---------------
e--0---------------1------------
{Riff #2}:
E--0------------
B-----0---------
G--------4------
D---------------
A---------------
e---------------
{Riff #3}:
e----------------------5--7------5--7-----------------------
B---------7-----5-------------5----------------------------- repeat
G-----/4-----/4-----4--------------------------------------- several
D----------------------------------------------------------- times
A-----------------------------------------------------------
E-----------------------------------------------------------
Intro: Main Riff (x 4)
{Bass}
I remember redwood trees, bumper cars and wolverines
The ocean's Trident submarines
Lemons, limes and tangerines
I remember this
I remember traffic jams
Motor boys and girls with tans
Nearly was and almost rans
I remember this
{Main Riff x 4}
{Riff #2}
History is made
{Riff #2} {Riff #2}
History is made to seem unfair
I recall that you were there
{Riff #2}
Golden smile and shining hair
{Riff #2}
I recall it wasn't fair
{Riff #2}
Recollect it wasn't fair
{Riff #2}
Remembering it wasn't fair outside
{Main Riff}
The willow at high tide
The lowest ebb and highest tide
The simple wave I must confide
I guess we took a slow ride
{Riff #3}
I guess it's just a gesture
{Bass}
I remember this defense
Progress fails pacific sense
All those sweet conspiracies
I remember all these things
{Riff #2}
I remember traffic jams
{Riff #2}
Motor boys and girls with tans
{Riff #2}
Nearly was and almost rans
{Riff #2}
I remember this
This
{Main Riff x 4}
{Main Riff}
The willow at high tide
The lowest ebb and highest tide
The simple wave I must confide
I guess we took a slow ride
{Riff #3}
I guess it's just a gesture
At the end of the continent
At the edge of the continent
(UNTITLED)
Riffs & corrections by: glenn cohen (grc105@psu.edu)
{riff 1a}:
E-----------------|---------------|
B--8-8-8-5---3---1|--------1-3-1-3| (slide back up to 8 and repeat)
G--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0|0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0|
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
{riff 2}:
E-----------------|---------------|
B--5-5-5-3--------|5-5-5-3---5-3-5| (slide back up to 8 and after this play riff
G--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0|0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0| riff 1b}
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
{riff 1b}: play riff as "to keep you strong" is sung.
E-----------------|---------------|
B--8-8-8-5---3---1|1-------3-1-3--| (go straight into chorus after this)
G--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0|0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0|
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
C
This world is big and so-awake
G C
I stayed up late to hear your voice
C
This light is here to keep you warm
G
This song is here to keep you strong
{break: F C F G}
I made a list of things to say
But all I really want to say
All I really want to say is
Hold her and keep him strong
While I'm away from here
{break: F C F G}
Hold her and keep her strong
While I'm away from here
Hold her and keep him strong
While I'm away from here
{break: F7 C F7 G}
I've seen the world and so-awake
And stay up late to hear me sing
Just hold her
I've seen the world and so-awake
And stay up late to hear me sing
Just hold him
Hold her and keep her strong
While I'm away from here
Hold him and keep him strong
While I'm away from here
