Drunkship Of Lanterns Guitar Tab

		
		Ver 1 Ver 2 Ver 3 
	

De-Loused In The Comatorium Tabs:

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e------------------1--------------------------------------------------------
B-0----------------2--------------------------------------------------------
G-0----------------3--------------------------------------------------------
D-0----------------0--------------------------------------------------------
A-0----3--5--0--0--0--x2 repeat---------------------------------------------
E---------------------------------------------------------------------------

  burn.... a shovel picks mother cries...
e---------------------------------------------------------------------------
B---------------------------------------------------------------------------
G---------------------------------------------------------------------------
D-------5-7------------------0-5-0-4---0-5-4-4---0-5-0-4---0-5-4-7----------
A-5-5-7-----7-four times----------------------------------------------------
E---------------------------------------------------------------------------
(pay attention to how he plays it in the song. the rhythm is way off)
you repeat this part until the distortion kicks in. that's when you go to....


DISTORTION!
			 	..nooo  baahdee is  heard....
e-0--0--1----------0--------8-----7-----5---------------7-------5-----------
B-1--1--2----------0-----6----6-5---5-6-----5-6---5---5---6---5---5-6-------
G-2--2--3----0--0--0-------7--------------7-----7---7-------7---------5-7-0-
D-2--2--0----2--2--2--------------------------------------------------------
A-0--0--0----2--2-----------------------------------------------------------
E------------0--0-----------------------------------------------------------
(these chords are probably wrong)

..dead.                           transoceanic....
e------------------1--------8-----7-----5---------------7-------5-----------
B------------------2-----6----6-5---5-6-----5-6---5---5---5---5---5-6-------
G-4^^--------------3-------7--------------7-----7---7-------7---------5-7-0-
D------------------0--------------------------------------------------------
A------3--5--0--0--0--------------------------------------------------------
E---------------------------------------------------------------------------
you repeat this part as many times as in the song.

...
(no words)
e---------------------------------------------------------------------------
B-------------------------2---0-----GO NUTS!--------------------------------
G-2-----2-----2-----2-------2-----------------------------------------------
D---4-----4-----4-----4-----------------------------------------------------
A-----4-----4-----4-----4---------------------------------------------------
E---------------------------------------------------------------------------
repeat this part 4 times


...(incomprehensible)???? counting the toll! counting the toll!!
e--5--3-------5-3-----------------------------------------------------------
B--x--x--4----x-x-4--etc. etc.----------------------------------------------
G--2--0--x----2-0-x---------------------------------------------------------
D--------1--------1---------------------------------------------------------
A---------------------------------------------------------------------------
E---------------------------------------------------------------------------


e---------------------------------------------------------------------------
B---------------------------------------------------------------------------
G---------------------------------------------------------------------------
D---------------------------------------------------------------------------
A---------------------------------------------------------------------------
E-5-3-5---------5-3-5---------5-3-5---------5-3-5---------------------------
uhhhhh as far as i can tell it's just these notes on string 6. at least until....


the SOLO!!!!!!! i just play it all on string 1 but it can be done differently
e--7-8-7-8-7-8-7-5-3-12----7-8-7-8-12-7-8-7-10-12-14-12-10-8---7----0--3-0--

e--3-5-7-8-10-12------15-17-20-17-15-17-20-17-15-17-15-12-------------------

e--20-20-20-22-20-17-----------10-12------15----19-17-15--------------------

e--10-12-10-12-10----8------5-----------------------------------------------


and then, it's a rehash of the "counting the toll" part like this:
e-5-----3---------
B-x-----x-4-------
G-2-----0-x-------
D-2-----0-1-------
A---------0-------
E-----------------
repeat that until the end.

atdi

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Gary Wanna Be	#1 by Gary Rossington at Mar 6, 1974 at 10:06 PM EST
	Maybe a different angle: The submarine trapping is metaphor for being stuck to the hospital bed. After finally, freeing himself, seeing all the other patients of every race and body type. The whole comatose state is the mental journey to the bridge and the final decision to snuff it, masked under hallucinations.

No Picture Scott Average	#2 by Scott Anderson at May 5, 1976 at 12:47 AM EST
	Just thought I'd comment on what "yall" had to say above... he/she was asking if there is a story behind the whole album which there is... It's about a friend(i think a past band member, i can't remember though) who injected so much rat poison that his body looked like a map and after the whole ordeal with rat poison he went into a coma for quite a long time. I can't remember all the small details so i'm being pretty general... Anyways the album is about this guy's life. They named it De-loused in the Comatorium after him and the fact that he was in a coma for such a long time. Anyways The Mars Volta kick ass-and ya it's true you gotta be in the mood for them. I saw them open for System Of A Down and I wasn't in the mood for their music before System, but aside from that they put on a wicked show.

No Picture Razor Wanna Be	#3 by Razor Edge at Sep 4, 1979 at 1:44 PM EST
	I love this song, there is so much going on it, every time you listen to it, you notice something new.

No Picture jo_silverhawk Average	#4 by jo_silverhawk at Feb 7, 1981 at 3:11 PM EST
	haha i like what bloodlabpunkrock said. "matadors" for sure, dude. matadors. this is my favorite song on the CD too, cerpin is getting ready for eria tarka....sort of an in-between phase of comatorious endeavors.

No Picture Jimmy Average	#5 by Jimmy Dresbach at Sep 29, 1987 at 12:17 PM EST
	this song creeps me out -- in a good way.. it makes my heart beat really fast. it makes me think of like wild beasts in the jungle running after people... lol

No Picture ian Average	#6 by ian mckinly at Jun 13, 1995 at 10:46 PM EST
	if anyone needs to know the backup vocals during "is anybody there" and "these steps keep on growing long" they are "spines in a row" and "spite as an arrow"

No Picture nick Professional	#7 by nick Sutliff at Feb 1, 1996 at 10:12 AM EST
	At this point in the album, there is a battle between good and evil going on in his dreams.

No Picture Rene Average	#8 by Rene Salojärvi at May 10, 1997 at 6:44 PM EST
	leave it to TMV to completely change the setting of a story with one rush/phish/rage/slipknot/thrice/john phillip sousa breakdown. sorry if the bands mentioned don't agree, but there is more conviction and imagination on this album than most "artists" have in their entire career. even conor oberst. he may believe in what he says... but this is for a friend and his troubles. crying doesn't cut it. these guys are the matadors, period.

No Picture jimmy Wanna Be	#9 by jimmy rodrigues at Feb 1, 1998 at 7:19 PM EST
	this song is about a group of lanterns that go out drinking and make a bad decision to drive afterwards...they get into a wreck and they all shatter to pieces....the moral is never to trust a bastard ass lantern cuz theyre burn-outs

No Picture The Mexican Who Average	#10 by The Mexican Who's Living Under Satan's Wing at Aug 24, 1999 at 1:19 PM EST
	The background vocals, "Spnies in a row", "spine like an arrow" are lines from much later in the book describing the way cerpin's anonymous form looks after the doctor changes him(this happens in the song eriataka)

No Picture jake Average	#11 by jake battkoo at Sep 3, 2002 at 11:11 AM EST
	i love this song a lot, i mean, there all good, nooo idea what its about, o ya, guess what, i saw a commercial for the mars volta, i know it sounds crazy, but this tower records commercial on like fuse or mtv 2 advertized the mars volta

No Picture Drennan Professional Badass	#12 by Drennan Bragg at May 13, 2003 at 5:28 PM EST
	Probably my favorite Mars Volta song behind Take The Veil. Definately about Cerpin Taxt being stuck inside an old submarine and the strange things that occur aorund it (every make and model of airplanes and submarines crashing around him) and he's questioning his sanity.