Tarantula
Smashing Pumpkins
Tabbed by Flyages
Tune strings down a semi tone (Eb,Ab,Db,Gb,Bb,Eb)
Intro
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Verse
I don't wanna fight,
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Ev 'ry sin gle night,
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Ev 'ry thing I want is in your eyes.
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You would beat your path,
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To places I don't know to care. The
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spoils of all I got were left for scraps
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Pre-Chorus
Don't let me say this but
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you're no worse than me,
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it's cra zy. We
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Chorus
all look real but real ly who was?
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Just be - cause we
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all are real, we feel we had to know.
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We all look real 'cause
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|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3|
some- one gave us some.
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Bridge
I wanna be there when you're happy,
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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I wanna love you when you're sad.
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Can't stand the morning rain.
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Get out and take you're place then.
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Can't stand the blazing sun.
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The angel dust.
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|---------|----------|you'll see |--5-5--7-7|--8-8--9-9|
|-5-5--7-7|--8-8--9-9| |--5-5--7-7|--8-8--9-9|
|-5-5--7-7|--8-8--9-9| |--3-3--5-5|--6-6--7-7|
|-3-3--5-5|--6-6--7-7| |--3-3--5-5|--6-6--7-7|
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SOLO 1
E G C
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E G C
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E G C E (E)
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Verse
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I don't wanna be an-y-thing but me
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a million watts of sound can't compare
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Bridge
Come alongyou'll seetheworld
G C E5 G5 C5 E5
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the pulse triples, the crowd unfurls. thecurrentstopstheflowingveinurown.
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Pre-Chorus oh it's
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|Guitar 2
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the white hot show they want, it's
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shameful. We
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Chorus
all look real but real ly who was?
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Just be - cause we
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all are real, in ev 'ry living soul.
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the acid real, cause
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some- one gave us some.
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SOLO 2
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Don't break the oath.
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G5 A5
E5 I wanna love you when your're happy
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don't break this oath. I wanna be there when you're sad
C5 D5 E5 G5
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A5
please bring back the pouring rain
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G5 D/F# Em C
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G/B Am
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Chords: G, D/F#, Em, C, G/B, Am, A5, B5
all are real, as real as any laws, so easy now. we all are real in every living
soul. A young day you know.
(E) (G) (C)
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(E) (G) (C) (E)
Can't stand the blazing sun. Can't stand the morning rain.
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(G) (C) (E) (G) (C) (E)
oh get out and take your place again. I dont wanna be
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(G) (C) (E) (G) (C) (E)
alone. I don't wanna be alone. I don't wanna be
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(G) (C) B5 D5 D#5 E5
alone,alone. If its the
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G E F#5 A5
white hot show they want
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A#5 B5
the black hot they'll get.
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natural harmonics
ENJOY.
