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"My Tourniquet" - Written by Soul Embraced, Arranged and performed by Evanescence
Tabbed by: Jesse Davies (Malaise0@hotmail.com)
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Tuning
standard E tuning, 1/2 step up
e ---
B ---
G ---
D ---
A ---
E ---
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Chords used
E5 G/C5 A/D5
e -------------------
B -------------------
G -------------------
D --2---2----4-------
A --2---3----5-------
E --0---3----5-------
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Intro/Chorus
- Rhythm Guitar:
E5
e --------------------------------------------
B --------------------------------------------
G ------0----------------------0--------------
D --22-2--22--2-4--0-------22-2---22--2-4--0--
A --22----22---------------22-----22----------
E --00----00---------------00-----00----------
G/C5 A/D5
e --------------------------------------------------
B --------------------------------------------------
G ------0-------------------------------------------
D --22-2---22--2-4--0------4--7--5-4--7-5--4h5p4----
A --33-----33--------------5---------------------5--
E --33-----33--------------5------------------------
- Another guitar plays this after the rhythm goes through once.
e --------5~--|--------------
B --8~-7~-----|--8~--7-------
G ------------|--------7-----
D ------------|----------7~--
A ------------|--------------
E ------------|--------------
E5
My god, my tourniquet
G/C5 A/D5
Return to me salvation
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Verse
e ---------------------------
B ---------------------------
G ---------------------------
D ----------[ ]------------
A ---------------------------
E ---------------------------
Rest through "I tryed to kill the pain...."
E5 G/C5 A/D5
e -------------------------------------------
B -------------------------------------------
G --------0--------------------0-----------5-
D ------2--------2---------2-------------4---
A ----2--------2---2---------3---------5-----
E --0--------0-----------3-----------5-------
Played somewhat clean, lightly
E5 G/C5 A/D5
"So much more...." I may die and im pouring out crimes of regret and betrayal
E5 E5 G/C5 A/D5
e ----------------------------------------0--
B ------------------------------------4------
G --------------------------------------1----
D --22x2--2-22x2--2-22x2--2-44x4--4----------
A --22x2--2-22x2--2-33x3--3-55x5--5----------
E --00x0--0-00x0--0-33x3--3-55x5--5----------
E5 E5 G/C5 A/D5
I'm dying, praying, bleeding, and screaming
E5 E5 G/C5 A/D5
Am I too lost to be saved? Am I too lost?
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Bridge
E5
e ------------------------------------
B ------------------5^----------------
G ------------------------------------
D ------------------------------------
A --22-222-22-2-222-------------------
E --00-000-00-0-000-------------------
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Aleksandar Average |
#1 by Aleksandar Radošević at Dec 22, 1970 at 7:14 PM EST |
| Everyone on here has been saying how this band is a Christian band. I recently bought the album after hearing it on the radio. I wan't aware that this band had anything to do with church. I looked over the band's web site, read the insert in the album, and looked at their publisher. Nowhere could I even find a hint that this was a gospel band. Now is this really a gospel/christian band, or is this just a case of people seeing what they want to see? | |
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andrew/JESUS Lead Player |
#2 by andrew/JESUS roman at Oct 20, 1974 at 3:31 PM EST |
| wow this song rules. actually this band rules. Specifically, in this song, I have to agree with lostinadyingworld and Gonzalesaurus, it's about suicide. She's obviously talking about a sin, and the first lines "I tried to kill the pain / but it only brought more" really support this. Of course, all of their songs involve "wounds" of some kind and it's usually metaphorical so who can really tell. Still, there has to be something to the fact that it's called "Tourniquet." A touriquet is more than just a bandage. It's a makeshift field dressing in which you tie a rag or something around a limb to cut off the flow of blood to a wound. It's a dangerous practice because it often results in severe tissue damage from lack of blood. I don't see what that means in the song but I'm convinced that there is significance in the desperate method of a tourniquet and in that it causes damage as it prevents blood loss. | |
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Tim Average |
#3 by Tim Zichy-Woinarski at Mar 17, 2001 at 12:56 PM EST |
| Evanescence is my favorite band, and Tourniquet is definately one of their best songs! I personally think that the meaning of this song is pretty basic. I would have to say that I disagree with lostinadyingworld and sometimes23 as well as some others. But, hey, each song and poem is open to interpretation. :-) Also, the band is playing in Nashville on April 19th, I've heard that there is an age limit and I've also heard that there isn't. . . does anyone know? | |
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Nic Average |
#4 by Nic Bosco at May 21, 2001 at 9:09 PM EST |
| To me, this song has biblical and Christian intonations. The woman singing is looking to be saved from her life of "death," or sin rather. The first verse refers to her own attempts to stop the pain of her own sinful life and the fact that it just caused more pain. So it seems she turned to God and now, she's looking to Him as a tourniquet, which is a device to stop bleeding, to prevent her from the self destruction from a sinful life. The "crimson regret and betrayal" refer to the action of sin. In other words, she feels she betrayed God with her sin and she regrets it. She also asks God whether she is too lost to be saved, and whether He remembers her, because she's been away from Him for so long. The last verse which refers to death and suicide may refer to the metaphorical "dying to the world" when a Christian decides to commit their life to God. In short, "Tourniquet" is a song about a woman seeking the Salvation of Christ to deliver her from sin and death. This, of course, is my take on it; this is what the song means TO ME. You're free to disagree, but this is what I think, anyway. | |
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Ryan Wanna Be |
#5 by Ryan . at Apr 24, 2004 at 7:48 AM EST |
| Soul Embraced is a christian death metal band...Soul Embraced - My Tourniquet does not sound all that much like this version. much heavier and add deep scream like singing...they are trying to spread the word of "Salvation through Jesus Christ" | |
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