THE ROOM
/= slide up
\= slide down
p= pull off
h= hammer on
b= half bend
^= full bend
^^= bend 2 frets
v= bring bend down
pm= palm mute
Top song
Intro:
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"In a room you can build a home,
plant the seed, and life begins to grow.
When it's outgrown life inside,
How will it live, and will it survive?
On it's own outside?"
Verse 1:
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I wonder if the world is just the same."
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"And does the life that I knew still remain."
Post Verse:
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Journey to the life outside,
return to those I left behind."
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"Behind. Cause I'm ready to go now.
Yes I'm ready to go now."
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pm............................
"I wanna get back to the city,
get on with my life,
'cause I've done my time."
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pm..... .
"And I'm ready to go now."
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Verse 2: Mostly upstrokes
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"So now it's time to leave the room,
and not for one minute too soon."
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"If you'd spent sixteen years,
then you'd almost understand."
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"That time waits for no man to return,
a whole new set of rules to learn."
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"It had been sixteen years,
since they put me in the cell, put me in the cell."
Chorus:
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"We will never leave,
we ain't ever gonna leave the Room."
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"We could be here for life,
We will never leave the Room."
Post Chorus:
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Verse 3:
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"And as it all gets re-arranged,
You find that everything has changed. "
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/t/the_living_end/room_tab.html ]
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"And there's no place for you,
in this foriegn world."
(In this next bit, there's a second guitar in the backround)
Guitar 1
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pm........................................................................
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pm...........
Guitar 2
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"You always believed,
one day we'd be free,
and never return so soon,
to what was left inside the room."
Chorus
Post Chorus
Bridge:
Guitar 1
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pm...................
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Guitar 2
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Bridge Continued (Acoustic bit):
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"And if I lent my arms to you,
would you hold me and emrace me?
Or replace me?
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Solo:
Rythem (F is always played from the 8th fret)
F, Dm, F, Dm,
F, Bb, Dm, C, x2
Dm, C, A
Lead
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Chorus
Outro: Just keep playing the Chorus until the song fades out.
There's a guitar playing a solo in the backround too.
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