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Live They Stood Up For Love.
Tabbed by Joe Opiela opie11@aol.com.
They Stood Up For Love
by Live
on
The Distance to Here
I have looked everywhere for a tab to this song unsuccessfully so
I tabbed it myself pretty accurately. This is tabbed to play rhythm.
I'm sure this will help anyone who wants to tab either the lead or bass parts.
I think I have named my chords correctly. If not, still follow the chords
fingerings and you will understand.
Please email me any comments: opie11@aol.com
Tune guitar down 1/2 step (like all Live songs)
Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb
Chords used
F#m E B G#m7 Bm F# C# Ebm A#m
-3- -1- -0- -0- -3- -3- -2- -0- -2-
-3- -1- -1- -1- -4- -0- -3- -0- -3-
-3- -2- -0- -0- -5- -0- -2- -0- -4-
-5- -3- -2- -2- -5- -0- -0- -2- -4-
-5- -3- -3- -0- -3- -2- -x- -2- -3-
-3- -1- -x- -x- -x- -3- -x- -0- -X-
Verse
lternates between three chords as follows
F#m F#m E B
F#m F#m B G#m7
Verse
F#m F#m E B
Naked lovers feel the blood beneath their veins
F#m F#m B G#m7
Electric nerves communicate with tiny explosions through our brains
F#m F#m B G#m7
Who is this energy that never left or came?
F#m F#m E B Bm
Gives rise to passion the only glory of this human story
Pre-Chorus
I give my heart and soul to the one
Chorus
F# C#
We spend all of our lives goin' out of our minds
B B
Looking back to our birth, forward to our demise
F# C#
Even scientists say, everything is just light
B B
Not created, destroyed but eternally bright
F# C#
Masters in everytime lord in everyplace
B B
Those who stood up for love down in spite of the hate
F#m F#m E B
In spite of the hate
F#m F#m B G#m7
2nd Vers
Who put the flower in the barrel of that gun?
Who lit the candle that started the fire,
Burnt down the fortress, the throne?
Who could house all the refugees in a single shack
Or a lowly bungalow?
Who lives in a different dimension, free from the
struggles we know?
Pre Chorus
I give my heart and soul to the one
2nd Chorus
We spend all of our lives goin' out of our minds
Looking back to our birth, forward to our demise
Even scientists say, everything is just light
Not created, destroyed but eternally bright
Masters in everytime lord in everyplace
Those who stood up for love down in spite of the hate
We spend all of our lives goin' out of our minds
They live in the light
C# Ebm
we made it to the moon
A#m
but we can't make it home
B
waitin' on a rescue that never comes
C# Ebm
made it to the moon
A#m
but we can't make it home
B
maybe home is where the heart is given up
F# C# B
to the one
F# C# B
to the one
Rest of song follows this progression
F# C# B
we spend all of our lives goin' out of our minds
lookin' back to our birth, forward to our demise
we spend all of our lives goin' out of our minds
they live, they
they stood up for love
stood up for love
stood up for love
they stood up for love
stood up for love
stood up for love
we spend all of our lives goin' out of our minds
masters in everytime
we spend all of our lives goin' out of our minds
stood up for love
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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No Picture
The Masta The Muther F*ing Masta! |
#1 by The Masta at Nov 10, 1976 at 12:24 AM EST |
| Aside from the meaning, check out the radio mix. It's so much better than the album version! | |
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Jimmy Average |
#2 by Jimmy Dresbach at Jan 13, 1978 at 4:56 PM EST |
| Also consider the musical climax of the song, where Ed laments that we made it to the moon but we can't make it home in a raging crescendo (I haven't heard the acoustic but I don't know how well this would work in that version) that suddenly drops away to a peaceful revelation that we already are home if only we surrender to love, i.e. wherever we are (in the broad sense) we can be at peace, if only we can understand how to get through "the distance to here" (the title of the album). | |
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rockman Average |
#3 by rockman the sequel at Feb 15, 1984 at 9:57 PM EST |
| The phrase "simple as that" doesn't describe any Live song I've ever heard. As katerxdaisy points out, this song is a continuing consideration of the philosophical question of whether there's more to existence than physical reality, a question at the heart of the album _The Distance to Here_. The description of "naked lovers" recalls the opening of the album, "The Dolphin's Cry." Ed then transitions through the observation that however we might physically describe reality, there's no denying the power of the intangible, of love, something you can't measure like you can a nerve impulse. Furthermore, it is scientific fact that everything *is* light (literally true, e = mc^2), existing eternally. This transcendence transitions to the transcendent nature of Jesus (love personified) himself, appearing in the "masters in everytime, lords in everyplace: those who stood up for love down in spite of the hate." All this is why he gives his heart and soul to the one, as those others have done before him. Musically this determination to give himself to love/Jesus is contrasted with the directionless despair of what it's like to now know all this, to go out of your mind looking back to your birth and forward to your demise, seeing nothing in your life but a physical lifespan and then a meaningless end. | |
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cody Wanna Be |
#4 by cody westermier at Sep 18, 1984 at 6:51 AM EST |
| It's about realising that love transcends all other emotions, and once you find true love then you are a better person for it. | |
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Kazza Average |
#5 by Kazza at Jan 9, 2000 at 7:06 AM EST |
| I think that this song is trying to say that love is the greatest power we knew and we should fight for it no matter what. | |
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