Silverstein
Medication
Rescue
2011
Submitted by: paramore_fans@yahoo.com
Key: E
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
C#m - x46654
A - x02220
E - 022100
B - x24442
B/Eb - x698xx
F#m - 244222
G#/C - x365xx
G#m - 466444
Intro: C#m--A-- x4
Verse 1:
Sing:
E B/Eb E
We'll keep calm and carry on
Growl:
F#m
With good intentions!!
Sing:
E B/Eb
They'll prescribe
E
the rights and wrongs
Growl:
F#m
Until we're perfect!!!
Sing:
C#m A C#m
So maybe one day we'll be safe
A C#m
In control and full of grace
A E
Never making a mistake
Growl:
F#m
So flawless!!!
Verse 2:
Sing:
E B/Eb E
Cut us deeper to the core
Growl:
F#m C#m
We won't feel a thing!!!
B/Eb E
Imperfections weighing more!!!
F#m
Repressing difference!!!
Sing:
C#m A C#m
I wish this wasn't all so hard
A C#m
To be yourself and not on guard
A E
To stop the racing in your heart
Growl:
F#m
We'll fight it!!
Chorus 1: Growl
C#m
Put me under
G#/C B/Eb E
Now I'm powerless
G#/C C#m
I'll take it all
G#/C C
I'll Take it all
G#/C C
I'll take it
F#m A G#m
I can't breathe without you
C#m
You won't trust me
G#/C B/Eb E
I won't trust you too
G#/C C#m
Bring me back and
G#/C C#m
Bring me back and
G#/C C#m
Bring it
F#m A G#m
Medicate me
Verse 3:
Sing:
E B/Eb E
Hide me deeper in my shed
Growl:
F#m E
Until I'm all a---lone!!!
B/Eb
I'm hearing voices!!!
E
in this sound!!!
F#m
Hallucinating!!!
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/s/silverstein/medication_crd.html ]
Sing:
C#m A C#m
I could have sworn I heard it too
A C#m
A sudden beautiful adieu
A E
It's telling me what I should do
Growl:
F#m
I follow!!!
Chorus 2: Growl
C#m
Put me under
G#/C B/Eb E
Now I'm powerless
G#/C C#m
I'll take it all
G#/C C
I'll Take it all
G#/C C
I'll take it
F#m A G#m
I can't breathe without you
C#m
You won't trust me
G#/C B/Eb E
I won't trust you too
G#/C C#m
Bring me back and
G#/C C#m
Bring me back and
G#/C C#m
Bring it
F#m A G#m
Me-di-cate me now!!!
Breakdown: beat switch from 4/4 to 3/3
C#m--E-B/Eb-C#m--E-
Bridge: Growl
B/Eb F#m G#m
As I'm turning into!!!
A
disreflection!!!
C#m E B/Eb
You!!
C#m E B/Eb
can't slow me!!!
F#m G#m A
My body and my mind!!!
F#m G#m A A(hold)
My emotions and my pride!!!
Interlude: Guitar Plucking silence, Beat switch
C#m--A-- x2
Outro: Sing
C#m
The simplest things
A
became the hardest part now
C#m
The easiest parts have
A
taken all my dreams
E F#m
I'm afraid
C#m A
I'll never be okay
I'm afraid
C#m
I'm scared I
A
can't be happy
E F#m
I'm afraid
C#m
This silence you feel is
A
not a way to be sincere
(I'm afraid)
C#m
And it's a way to cope
A way to heal (I'm scared
I can't be happy)
A
But not for me when
E F#m
I can't feel (I'm afraid) <-Growl
C#m
The subtleties that
make me want to
(I'll never be okay)
A
Be alive and not a
statue (I'm afraid)
C#m
Breathe the air
Be me to talk to (I'm scared
I can't be happy)
A E
I'm afraid I'll never
F#m C#m(hold)
be the same