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HOW FISHES PLAY [http://submode.com/fishes/]
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Song: Face and Ghost (The Children's Song)
Performed by: LIVE
Album: The Distance To Here
Tabbed by: Fredrik J (fredrik.j@schoolsucks.com)
Modified by: Sebastian Rönnlund (sebbe@submode.com)
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[Em] [Asus2] (2x)
Em Asus2 Em
You got it bad, you got it good
You saw the sun, like you knew that you would
We gotta make this better, gotta make this right
Ainīt no peace in the valley baby, ītil the darkness turn to light
G F#m Em
Can you hear the childrenīs song? Can you take me to that place?
F# G
High above the lamentation up on the desert plane of me
F#m Em
Do you hear the childrenīs song? Can you take me there?
Em Asus2 Em
Lost in the maya, overboard in the sea
There was void and then that water broke, then something called "me"
Now a trip to the desert, to look at the sky
Itīs like never-ending mirrors, playing tricks on my eyes
Can you hear...
Em G D Am C
The face and ghost my guide
Em G D Am
I must move on
Em G D Am
Itīs the face of one ravaged by love itīs both dead and alive
Em Asus2 Em
You got it bad lover, no you got it good
You saw the sun, like you knew that you would
In spite of my confusion, up above all my pain
I gotta death-grip on this vision, here we go again
The face and ghost...
G F#m Em
Shalalalalalala, shalalalalalala, shalalalalalala
F# G
Can you hear them singinī?
G F#m Em
Shalalalalalala, shalalalalalala, shalalalalalala
(Can you hear them singinī?)
G F#m Em
Can you hear the childrenīs song? Can you take me to that place?
Do you hear the pilgrimīs song? Can you take me there?
[Em] [F#] [G]
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Rhythm Player |
#1 by riotsk8team001 (jason) at May 15, 1979 at 11:39 AM EST |
| A boy who never learned his own way through life, maybe he never had any dignity, seeing the pretty woman you can buy, but always getting cheated or abused? 'the scalpel dives into the skin Good doctors never leave a scar No proof again' Getting lured by whores and exploited by organ donors who leave no sign of the wrong done? pretty weird but I wouldn't put it past Live, damn diverse band if you ask me. 'where did I go wrong? I never needed this before I need a woman to help me feel' a real emotional need, maybe the Buddhist or Hindu culture's belief that a man is only a man once he's been with a woman (actually, almost any culture's belief). Trying to buy something that can't be bought and getting hurt in the end. Alot of the other lyrics and peices of the chorus refer to the way you can have an entire world inside your head, a dream 'like a world tattoo' that has nothing or very little to do with reality, so you keep making moves that are foolish and unenlightened. Somewhat Biblical, 'losing rib' , Adam's body as used to create Eve, perhaps he puts a part of him into the woman (he actually does get her) or symbolically, and afterwards he realizes 'boy loses rib as he's summoned to the mud Flat on his back Cryin' where did I go wrong?' that it isn't really what he wanted, it's false it's empty it's without real meaning or EMOTION, which he seems to need so much from his attempts to get a 'woman', which may be symbolic for the feminine side of a person. God I'm long-wined. Oh well, it's probably because no one here really listens to me besides my boyfriend and my 12-year-old brother. Enough once again of the gloom...... | |
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Green Day rocks Average |
#2 by Green Day rocks!!!! at Feb 24, 1999 at 9:59 PM EST |
| I think this is a song about human weakness, both physical and mental, and the realisation that this weakness damages us in some way. The boy is inoccent and wide eyed when he goes out into the world...but temptation lures him to the whores under the bridge. In giving in to this temptation he injures a part of himself, and his wide eyed confidence and enthusiasm is shattered by his mistake. "Where did I go wrong?" When he was young, he could feel that everything was great and beautiful just by playing with his parents, going fishing, whatever it may have been for him. But now, he can only feel this way with a woman, and this leaves him disillusioned and confused. The scalpel image is to do with the physical weakness of humanity and how easily we can be hurt or damaged, and how easy it is to essentially lie to the world. "Good doctors never leave a scar...no proof again." It could also be to do with people undergoing plastic surgery to "improve" themselves, and in doing so damage themselves by not being true to who they are. "Everybody has ghost, who sings like you do...yours is not like mine, but it's alright, keep it up." Everyone has their own issues, problems, or emotinal/physical damage, and not everyone's is the same...but it's ok to be hurting, it's ok to be different or depressed, it's all part of life and we have to live every day as it comes. "I'll take the myth, you take the blood, it's all the same to the world dreamer...it's all the same in the end." To people who realise that their problems are not theirs alone, and don't make them different or wrong, then blood and sweat and pain and tears are as useless or as useful as beliefs and superstition in solving their problems. What they need to do is realise that they are the people who can change things for themselves, for better or worse. "Boy loses rib, as he's summoned to the mub flat on his back, crying where did I go wrong?" People who can't realise this will be "summoned to the mud"; they will be stuck in a life that's unfulfilling and empty.....anyway that's my take on it | |
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