Rebel, Sweetheart by The Wallflowers (2005)
All songs by Jakob Dylan.
This is just how I play the songs, there are some repeats and if you don't like my
version there a few other ones of some of them on here. Enjoy! Ian
Days of Wonder
standard tuning
no capo
Chords:
G-32003x
Em-022000
Am-x02210
C-x32010
D-xx0232
F-133211
Dm-x57765
Fm-x8-10-10-9-8
this riff is repeated throughout the song
e-----------
B-----------
G-2/4--2--0-
D-----------
A-----------
E-----------
here's the intro riff after the band comes in (it's also repeated later)
e-------10----------------------------10--------------------
B-12h13-----13p12p10------------12h13-----13p12p10----------
G--------------------12-12~~~-----------------------12-12~~-
D-----------------------------------------------------------
A-----------------------------------------------------------
E-----------------------------------------------------------
G
Cherry picking through the stars
Em
And falling cannonballs
Am
Waiting for the break of dawn
C
To start its morning crawl
G
Polluted rays of filtered light
Em
Tropical and warm
Am
Making shadows through
C D
The snow white resin covered skulls
C D Em D
Happy birthday to the war
C
Standing by the wall
Am
A rainbow made of stars
G
Under seven different shades of grey
F
Spreading out across the arc
C
Days of wonder spent
Am
Out there killing time
Dm
Now this may not leave a mark on me
Fm
But I sure as hell was there
(intro G, and the intro lick thing)
G
Caravanning on the moonlit
Locust covered trail
C
We came out like a stream of bats
Em D
Exploding from the well
G
Slipping through the whirlpools
Em
Of trees and floating cars
Am
Behind a winter coated mule
C D
Down record breaking falls
C D Em D
Into oblivion's open jaws
Standing by the wall
A rainbow made of stars
Under seven different shades of grey
Spreading out across the arc
Days of wonder spent
Out there killing time
Now this may not leave a mark on me
But I sure as hell was there
D...G....C (x3 then) Em....D
e----------------------------5-7b-5-----10p8p7--8p7\5---------------------5---7b-7-5------
B-7--8~-----------------7--8---------8----------------7h8-----------8p7h8---8---------8~~-
G-7------7-5-4----------7---------------------------------7\0-------7---------------------
D--------------5/7--5~--------------------------------------------------------------------
A-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------------0------------------------
Happy Birthday to the war
Days of wonder spent
By a rainbow made of stars
Under seven different shades of grey
Spreading out across the arc
Standing by the wall
Out there killing time
Now this may not leave a mark on me
But I sure as hell was there
(piano interlude..chords same as guitar solo then..)
G
Educated under God
To walk a neutral line
C
Give me neither poverty
G
Nor riches in my time
Take my body and my mind
My heart is far behind
C
With a dozen poems in my ears
Em D
Ricocheting wild
(Intro chords and lick to fade out)
The Passenger
standard tuning (alt version at bottom)
capo IV
Chords (relative to capo)
G-320003
C-x32010
D-xx0232
F-133211
G...C....D...G.......C...D.....C..G
G C
Permission now to let this thing land
D G
I'm too far gone to know where I am
C
Conditions are worse than we planned
D C G
Permission now to let this thing land
G C
Heading straight into the blackness
G C
Beyond the point of ever turning back
G C
Slipping off the radar through a hole in space
D C G
Goes the passenger sitting backwards
Adam took the apple, I was not involved
I'm not responsible for how lost we are
Batten down the hatches, extinction calls
But Adam took the apple, I was not involved
Heading straight into the blackness
Way beyond the point of ever turning back
Slipping off the radar through a hole in space
Goes the passenger sitting backwards
D
May be a rumble
G C
Maybe nothing more
D
Maybe a thunder
G C
There before she blows
F
Maybe not a big bang
D
But just a little white noise
Bb.....Eb.......F.....Bb....Eb.....F.....D (back to verse)
Into the furnace of red twilight
Threading like a needle through searchlights
Fading further and spinning right
Into the furnace of red twilight
Heading straight into the blackness
Too far gone, now there's no turning back
Slipping off the radar into a hole in space
Goes the passenger sitting backwards
Note: this song can also be done without a capo use the following chord changes from
above
Capo IV No Capo
G B
C E
D F#
F A
Bb D
Eb G
The Beautiful Side of Somewhere
standard tuning
Capo I
Chords (relative to the capo, some names may be incorrect), after the verse and chorus
it basically repeats
G-32003x
Bm-x24432
Em-022000
Cm-x35543
C-032010
D-xx0232
Dsus-xx0230
Dsus2-xx0233
Intro (use slide if you can, without capo)
e------------------11-------------------13------------------------------------------
B-13~--13\11----------13~~--13\11-----------13~~-13\11-------11/13------------------
G-----------13-13----------------13-13-----------------13-13-------13\12\10/12-13~~-
D-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
E-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
G Bm
Tomorrow is gonna make you cry
Em
It's gonna make you kneel
Cm
Before it breaks you from inside
G
Still pressing on
Bm
Arm over arm
Em Cm
Still trying to get both feet back on to the ground
C
They are harvesting these fields in autumn
G D
We're different now than when we started
G Em
I am ready to wake up
Am
There in the exodus
Dsus2 D Dsus D
On the beautiful side of somewhere
There on the pavement underneath the yellow moon
I think of you and just how easily we bruise
A folded address in my pocket I have stopped
Trying to believe for you that the bottom didn't drop
I am on the platform, covered with dust
I pray they take the both of us
I am ready to wake up
There in the exodus
On the beautiful side of somewhere
I am ready to come down
And see us both somehow
On the beautiful side of somewhere, someday
I am lighting matches for the rescue
Some are candles, some are fuses
Acting on my best behavior
Switching over every breaker
C
As we're plowing through these laws of nature
G D
Disregarding every acre
C
I'm lying in my Sunday best
G D
Assuming this was not a test
I am ready to wake up
There in the exodus
On the beautiful side of somewhere
I am ready to come down
And see us both somehow
On the beautiful side of somewhere, someday
On the beautiful side of somewhere, someday
Here He Comes (Confessions of a Drunken Marionette)
standard tuning
no capo
Chords (mostly power chords, but I'll list the full chord)
E-022100
A-002220
B-x2444x
C#m-x46654
G#7-464544
Intro E...A....B....E....A....B....E..(to verse) this intro isn't
exact, i don't think they use double stops on the record but it sounds
kind of good to me, you can just take the top note to get the melody
e-4--2--0-2/4--5-5--4\2---0---0-
B-----------------------4---4---
G-4--2--1-2/4--6-6--4\2---------
D-----------------------4---4---
A-------------------------------
E-------------------------------
A B E
Here comes your drunken marionette
A B E
Dragging his mess of threads
A B E A
There at the bar pulling smoke to his lungs
B E
He says, "Who will ignore me when you're gone?"
Come on lift me up
I wanna dance by your tin cup
A tower of beauty with a split in your tongue
"Who will ignore me when you're gone?"
He says, "Who will ignore me when you're gone?"
A B E
Here he comes
A B E
Here he comes
A
Be still the wooden heart
B
That wouldn't ever part
A E
With the drunken marionette
Been mainlining bad thoughts
Been drinking things I wish I'd not
Intoxicated with sad songs
"Who will forgive you when I'm gone?"
They sing Auld Lang Syne
I've got mutiny on my mind
A guilty conscience means at least you've got one
"Who will forgive you when I'm gone?"
He says, "Who will forgive you when I'm gone?"
Here he comes
Here he comes
Be still the wooden heart
That wouldn't ever part
F#m B
Who's waiting on a spark that hasn't happened yet
A E
For the drunken marionette
C#m G#7 A E
Carry on and turn the lights low when you go
C#m G#7
In the hours left
A
I hope you feel
B E
The things that I know I won't
e-------0---------0---0---0------------------------------
B------0---2/5--4---2---0----7h9--7h9p7-----9b--7--------
G-1h2------------------------------------9--9-----9p8\6~-
D--------------------------------------------------------
A--------------------------------------------------------
E--------------------------------------------------------
What you give is what you get
These days I worry about your debt
Who carries evil out
Evil will come
"Who will defend you when I'm gone?"
He says, "Who will defend you when I'm gone?"
Here he comes
Here he comes
Be still the wooden heart
That wouldn't ever part
Who's waiting on a spark
that hasn't happened yet
Here he comes
Here he comes
Be still the wooden heart
That wouldn't ever part
Who's waiting on a spark that hasn't happened yet
For the drunken marionette
We're Already There
standard tuning
no capo
Chords (this song is mostly that, there are a few lead parts but doing
all of them would require lots of patience)
C-x32010
G-320003
B7-x21200
Em-022000
Cm-x35543
C/b-x20010
Am-002210
C G B7 Em
Quarter moon on a city grown thick
C G B7
With good advice that won't stick
Em D
From the ballrooms to the suburbs
C
And the abandoned mines
B7
Atlantis may be rising but we're all out of time
Colored lights on the fire escape
Bodies move behind drapes
The light is uneven and we're safer in pairs
And we're no match for what's waiting
For each of us out there
G Cm
Whistle baby, while we walk
G Cm
Don't say anything, do not talk
C C/b Am C/b
The journey is over, it is time to exhale
C C/b
Wherever we were going
D C...G....B7....Em
We're already there
It's over the turnstiles and through the guardrails
And into Washington Square
Cause no amount of nightmares would ever compare
To the thought of only silence in this ghost filled air
Whistle baby, while we walk
Don't say anything, do not talk
The journey is over, it's too late to prepare
Why can't you see that, baby
We're already there
Here comes your silhouette
And more pillow talk
Here comes the ticking of these clocks
They say the quickest way to end a war is just to lose
Another chamber locks and I already withdrew
Here comes the booming and the hunger of each night
Here comes the burden of might
This day was not divinely made to leave you impressed
We may become someone someday, but we haven't yet
Whistle baby, while we walk
Don't say anything, do not talk
The journey is over, it's time to repair
Whatever we were building
We're already there
God Says Nothing Back
standard tuning
Capo III
Chords (relative to the capo)
Am-x02210
C-x32010
G-32003x
F-133211
G/g#-40003x
Am C
Seems like the world's gone underground
G F
Where no gods or heroes dare to go down
Am C
As teardrops from a hole in heaven come
G F
Overhead like ravens dropping down like bombs
C G (G/g#)
Through the morning silver-frosted glow
Am F
God says nothing back but I told you so
Am
I told you so
i told you so
e-5p3--------------
B-----5--3h5-------
G------------5-4-2-
D------------------
A------------------
E------------------
God bless the void of my daydreams
Head back in the snow making angel wings
As slow motion dancing lights at dawn
Sail beneath a burning yellow sun
I'm calling out from the deep ends of my bones
Time says nothing back but I told you so
I told you so
Still waters rising in my mind
Black and deep, smoke behind my eyes
Last night I could not sleep at all
I hallucinated that you were in my arms
To be in your heart I failed my own
Love says nothing back but I told you so
I told you so
(acoustic guitar solo, maybe someday i'll attempt it. Theres a lot
of double stops and it eases into a pentatonic i think)
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/w/wallflowers/rebel_sweetheart_crd.html ]
Still here reclimbing every rung
Someone saw something
Someone speak up
Back over the rotted bridge I cross
Open up these graves, let these bodies talk
Buried under leaves blood red and gold
Death says nothing back but I told you so
I told you so
Notes: This song sounds great if you use arpeggios during the chords
Back to California
standard tuning
Capo II (alt version below)
Chords:
Em-022000
B7-x21200
C-032010
G-320003
C/g-3x2010
Em..B7...C...G (x4) to verse Em
Em
Feels like a ghost here in this room
Not the kind that rides a saddle in a costume
All around me, all around you
In from the window for a drag of your perfume
B7 C G
Let's move back to California
Em B7
Let's make a promise, baby
C G
Let's both be there
Em B7 C G
Put our feet deep in the sands
A
This garden's only got four corners
C D Em (intro)
Back to your trenches, back to California
The days keep coming and the years overlap
Been crawling all over each other like wet cats
I hear the rebels yelling out in the dunes
And I don't think it's half as funny as I used to
Let's move back to California
Let's make a promise, baby
Let's both be there
Put our feet deep in the sands
Let's leave behind these maps and handguns
We're on our way back to California
G C/g
We've got California in our eyes
G
Come on and catch us if you can
C/g
With California in our eyes
(intro)
Passing down through a valley full of lost sheep
Straight is the gate, narrow is the walkway
Mercury rising and poppies in bloom
This is the kind of thing that I can get used to
Let's move back to California
Let's make a promise, baby
Let's both be there
Put our feet deep in the sand
There's still no shortage in creating bad blood
We're on our way back to California
We've got California in our eyes
Come on and catch us if you can
With California in our eyes
Fast as we can
Back to California
Come on and catch us if you can
Back to California
Fast as we can
Back to California
(repeat and fade, played without capo)
e-------12-----------------------
B-14h15----15p14p12--14-14p12----
G-----------------------------14-
D--------------------------------
A--------------------------------
E--------------------------------
Capo II No Capo
Em F#m
B7 C#7
C D
G A
C/g D/A
I Am A Building
standard tuning
Capo V (alt version below)
Chords:
Bm-x24432
G-320003
D-xx0232
A-002220
Daug5-xx0332
D6-xx0432
D7-xx0212
E7-020100
Bm G
I'm here by my window
D A
I am waiting for your parade
Bm G
I will salute you
D
From above the crowd
A
As you make your way
D
You won the battle
Daug5
You've won the war
D6
I admit it now
D7 G
I could not give any more
E7
My condition is your reward
G
I Am A building
A Bm
Here without doors
Bm
The altitude is now
G
Getting to me
D
As they applaud you
A
On the boulevard
Bm
The whole valley looks like
G
Someone's body
D
All the people look like
A
Little scars
D
This day is taking
Daug5
Forever
D6
I will never say
D7 G
Never say never again
The flesh around me
E7
Is only pretend
G
Return to sender
A
Every letter
Bm
That is yours
E7
I am sure
G
That I am a building
A Bm
Here without doors
Bm
Fire blazing
G
On the overpass
D
Cattle grazing
A
In fields of dead grass
Bm G
Last summer was earthquake weather
D
By November
A
This too should have passed
D
I am not moving
Daug5
I am landlocked
D6
I am looking through
D7 G
A thousand windows spread across
E7
A thousand floors
G
There in a landfill
A Bm
Where Eden was before
E7
But not anymore
G
I Am A building
A Bm
Here without doors
D G
Did you see me waving to you from above
Things are looking clear now
D G
My eyes are wide enough to see the way a sniper does
(back to verse chords)
Behind the barrel of a good gun
D
For worse or better
Daug5
I surrender
D6
It may not matter
D7 G
But I'm sadder than you'll ever know
E7
I am your inferno
G
Here all in yellow
A Bm E7
With embers blowing north
G
No sense in returning
A Bm E7
I'm not worried anymore
G
I Am A building
A Bm
That is here without doors
Capo V No Capo
Bm Em
G C
D G
A D
Daug5 Gaug5
D6 G6
D7 G7
E7 A7
Note: This has some cool steel guitar (or slide guitar)
and it's easy to find the notes on the capo version
From The Bottom of My Heart
standard tuning
Capo IV
Chords
Em-022000
C-032010
G-320003
B7-02120x
Em
Fire on the porch on a summer's night
C
All of my things are there inside
G B7
Black smoke rise up, burn on burn higher
Em
I smell leaves and burning tires
C
Dogs in the meadows barking wild
G B7
Blackbird rise up, tell me what have you done
I'm not drunk and I'm not sad
There's nothing inside that I want back
Let me touch your lips, let me see where you're at
Do you wonder how I am tonight
Then don't lose time looking in my eyes
Not every tear means you're gonna cry
C
From the bottom of my heart
G
Comes a cold dark feeling
B7
There is nothing but dust
Em
In the layers I'm peeling
From the bottom of my heart
Beats a rattling drum
Coming up from the depths
Into the rays of the sun
Now under crushing skies of grays
Paralyzed with phantom pains
Before this room became just a place
Where I just sleep through endless days
Spinning webs and carving names
Where thoughts break up, exploding in space
But I once crossed a quarter mile
Through black pools of razor wires
And cut through steel with the edge of a file
While singing rhapsodies in stride
Hell-bent and dignified
Now my time has come, "now who you fooling and why?"
From the bottom of my heart
Comes a cold dark feeling
There is eminent death
To the promise I'm keeping
From the bottom of my heart
Comes an army of one
Marching back up the steps
Into the rays of the sun
Pale-faced and hollowed eyes
Buried under ruptured skies
Not every smile means I'm laughing inside
Two-faced and compromised
I've enraptured you with lies
Everything means nothing and tonight everything is mine
From the bottom of my heart
Comes a cold dark feeling
I have buried so much
In the layers I'm peeling
From the bottom of my heart
A battle will come
Coming up from the depths
Into the rays of the sun
From the bottom of my heart
Comes a cold dark feeling
Wrapped around tight
With no sign of leaving
From the bottom of my heart
A ballad is sung
Through a whisper she comes
Into the rays of the sun
Note: The chords are the same throughout, if there is a specific
lick or lead part you want to know, just leave a message and i'll add it
Nearly Beloved
standard tuning
no capo
Chords
G-32003x
D-xx0232
Em-022000
C-032010
B7-x24242
Bm-x24432
(intro)
G D Em C D Em
e----------------------0~----------------------------------------0~-
B---3-----3--3----3-1--0~-----------------1----------------------0~-
G-------0-------2------0~-2/4\2\0------0--0---2/4\2--2-2\0----------
D-----0------0---------2~---------0h2---------0------------0h2------
A----------------------2~---------------3---------------------------
E-3--------------------0~--------------------------------------0----
G D Em
Last night I dreamt one thousand lies
C D Em
I could see the dawn through a different set of eyes
G D Em
There in my slumber passing time
C D Em
Long live the world resting on its side
C G
I walked the orchard with you
D Em
Your hand in my mine
C G B7
In the evergreens drinking wine
Em D
I saw the snow fall in black and white
C G
From the auburn sky
B7 Em
Last night I lived more than one thousand lives
D G (to intro)
Not one of them survived
Up through the earth and at dawn I came
I crossed the kingdom through venom pouring rain
In the vacuum of my own brigade
Resurrected to make you mine again
Orpheus looked back once
She sailed the underworld
No second chances will be earned
I have returned as a phantom now
To walk the bow and stern
Last night I lived more than one thousand lives
Not one of them survived
Em Bm
If we could do better I know that we would
C G D
Maybe admit it now, we're not that good
Em Bm
We keep the needle between zero and one
C G D
You play your fiddle, baby, I'll play dumb
(piano solo use verse chords)
Into the pastures of our minds
Goes my nearly beloved and I
Blazing two parallel white lines
Through this broken heart spilt open wide
Time might be on my side
But it's mostly far behind
I was the apple of your eye
Now I'm the boy spinning on a wheel there
Stuck with knives
Last night I lived more than one thousand lives
Not one of them survived
Note: There are variations of the intial intro throughout the song
How Far You've Come
standard tuning
Capo II
Chords (essentially the same throughout)
B7-021200
B7(2)-x24242
Intro (not relative to capo)
e-----------------------------------------------
B-------10--9-10\7---10-9-10\5--10-10/12\10\9\7-
G---9-9-----------------------------------------
D-7---------------------------------------------
A-----------------------------------------------
E-----------------------------------------------
G B7 Em
You'd have a wonderful day
C G D C
If you could see how lucky you are
D G C
Now don't get carried away with your heart
D G
You're better where you are
You're not the only one
Who's failed to hang on to a moving star
Now don't be sorry, what's done now is done
And this is who you are
These days feel numbered and long
There's no one to speak of
There's no one at all
But you're not the reason that everyone's gone
That's not how they are
There is no system to change
No conditions are made
No permissions to start
Now don't go drawing lines in the sand
That's not who you are
G B7(2)
Sometimes a high wall is just a wall
C A7
Sometimes it's only there to make sure you feel small
C/g D
Or may be there to save you from the depths of a much deeper fall
(play intro then..) not relative to capo
e--------------------9-9h10p9-7----------------------------------
B-------7---7--10-9~~-----------10~~~----------------------------
G---7h9----7----------------------------11p9p7--9p7--6-----------
D-7-------7--------------------------------------------9--7p6h7--
A----------------------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------------
The truth will not set you free
It's okay to believe that you're not good enough
God is not angry, not blind, deaf or dumb
He knows how far you've come
All Things New Again
standard tuning
no capo
Chords: (verses mostly the same, and end chorus is just extended)
C#7-x464464
B7-x24242
A F#m E
New heaven over a brand new sky
A F#m
New breed of wonder on the vine
D
Among the living
A E
There is new promise in this night
New arms to hold back the revolution
New eyes to recognize what you've become
New blood to recover
C#7
A new will to honor all God's creations
D E F#m
All things are new again
Within and without
D E F#m
All things are new again
New shepherd roaming through the tall grass
A new temple rising through the falling ash
That buries the tracks
Of millions of boots marching in packs
Clearwater rolling through the dam's collapse
Out to the harbor where they're sailing back
New flag on the mast
Without any secrets, without any past
All things are new again
Within and without
D C#m F#m
Sooner or later the ending begins
B7 D E A
Just then it can be said that all things are new again
A C#m
New ghost returning to the earth beneath the haze
F#m Dm
New poets burning through the lines of every page
D A E
I'm an unpainted portrait
D A E
I am staring at a new sunset
C#7
Without any memories yet
All things are new again
Within and without
Sooner or later the ending begins
Just then it can be said that all things are new again
Within and without
Sooner or later every season ends
Then forever it can be said that all things are new again
