Tell The King Guitar Tab

		
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Up The Bracket Tabs:

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Band: The Libertines
Song: Tell the King
Album: Up the Bracket
Thom Mills dustbin_man@hotmail.com

Intro  EM X 4, AM X4, EM X4 AM,    G, D, G, D, C
Ive got a little secret for ya 

C                  D            G    
Even now theres something to be proud about
AM                         EM                       
If you come up the hard way they remind you every day
       G          C
You're nothing
C                 D                G     
My words in your mouth are mumbled all about
AM                                          C                 
You're like a tabloid journalist the way you cut and paste and twist
         EM7      C    EM7      
You're awful 
C                              G              C      
Go and tell it to your king, tell him everything
      AM                                     G            D
Tell him you know how i feel tell him you know how i feel
AM                                                      
At the palace gates when im all levered of my face
                             G
And i can work out what its not about
           AM                            G  HOLD G
And see snakes in eyes and a million danger signs 

(REPEAT VERSE BIT)
If you come late you shouldnt dare complain
And you wont like this at all theres nothing to break your fall
And you know how i fell out of place
Until im levered off my face 

G                     D          C         D
DRINKS AND SMOKES HIS CARES AWAY....(?) 

               C         D              G
LIVING IN THE RUINS OF A CASTLE BUILT ON SAND

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Alexander Wanna Be	#1 by Alexander Taule at Oct 20, 1975 at 1:41 AM EST
	No clue what this is about, I just love the line "And you know how I feel out of place"

No Picture ToRRi Average	#2 by ToRRi L at Oct 25, 1981 at 10:34 PM EST
	Seems to me that it's about someone who came up from nothing to have "something to be proud about", but people will still put them down. The first verse suggests that, plus later in the song it's talking about being "out of place"

No Picture Jordan Rhythm Player	#3 by Jordan at Oct 25, 1982 at 6:39 AM EST
	I can't believe noone has commented on this song!! Definately the best Libertines song. I really can't work out exactly what it's about however..

No Picture Punk Rock Princ Wanna Be	#4 by Punk Rock Princess at Feb 11, 1985 at 9:07 PM EST
	as for sloathy, not everything is about Pete's drug addiction. And you are DEFINETLY wrong, as Pete wasnt even on drugs until AFTER "Up The Bracket"s success.

No Picture Eric Average	#5 by Eric Phillips at Mar 29, 1987 at 11:56 PM EST
	Correction, the line should be 'Jack drinks and smokes his cares away.' I think this song is about a shitty friend, anmed at the end as Jack. This friend gossips behind your back, and acts superior. However, the singer can't help but still love Jack, and pleads with him. However, Jack is up in his castle, and won't hear the singer's cries. However, then Jack's superiority complex begins to screw him over, and the castle begins to crumble, and the friend falls. Then, at the end of the song, it turns out Jack is just on the beach, ignoring the world, after having fallen from his castle built on sand. I love this song. Another underrated Libertine favourite.

No Picture phil Average	#6 by phil gdfgr at May 8, 1995 at 3:37 PM EST
	the king is petes dad, who grew up relitavely poor but achieved the highest ever rank in the army for someone to come from a working class background, however he was never allowed to get any higher because of his working class background

No Picture THE RONANATOR ( Average	#7 by THE RONANATOR (aka.Ronan) downer at Dec 25, 2003 at 2:41 PM EST
	I've no idea what this song is about and wouldn't even like to hazard a guess, but it's so brilliant and one of my fave Libs songs - I love the way the lead guitar bounces along with the vocals during the verses, great musicianship, great band.

No Picture Colin Wanna Be	#8 by Colin Gauld at Feb 19, 2007 at 5:45 PM EST
	I think it sounds like being about Pete's drug addiction, or at least descension for 'decent society' into the drug underworld. The first verse carries a theme of paranoia in which reality is inverted ('your nothing') and dettachment and suspicion reign, 'you're like a journalist, the way you cut and paste and twist, you're awful'. The lines begin to lash out angrily at the judgemental listener, bitterly suggesting they can tell the king for all he cares, and ironically accusing people of not knowing what they are talking about, 'Tell him you know how I feel'. However, the glory of this recklessness is short-lived, as again paranoia sets in 'See snakes in eyes and danger signs'. 'You won't like this at all' he warns, 'there's nothing to break your fall'. Pete's last two lines are tragic in their resignation to the conventional. Whether or not they are prophetic is yet to be proven, we have yet to read the last chapter of the Pete Doherty story. 'Didn't they explain? You have to play the game.' The final verse is the lyrics of another writer. An observer. His voice is tender as he remembers how the hero 'is in a lonely way, living in the ruins of a castle built on sand'.