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Tune Half-Step down
e|--------------------------------------------
b|--------------------------------------------
g|---------0--------------------0------------- played 12xs
d|-------0---------0----------0------------0--
a|----9--------11---------12--------7---0-----
e|----7---------9----9----10--------5---------
then this right after, but just before the chorus
e|-----------------------------------
b|-----------------------------------
g|-----------------------------------
d|---------0-------0-------0------0--
a|----5--0----5--0---4---0---4--0----
e|----3-------3------2-------2-------
Chorus:
e|----3----0----3---3---3----0----3---3---3----3--3--3---3--0--0-----
b|----3----3----3---3---3----3----3---3---3----3--3--3---3--3--3--3--
g|----0----2----0---0---0----2----0---0---0----0--0--0---0--2--2--0--
d|----x----0----0---0---x----0----0---0---x----0--0--x---0--0--2--2--
a|----2----0----x---x---2----0----x---x---2----x--x--2---x--0--0--2--
e|----0---------3---2---0---------3---2---0----3--2--0---3--------0--
play this all over again......
guitare 2:
played over
e|---------------------2-----------
b|----2-------2^3-------2----2-----
g|------4--4-------4-------4----4-- 3xs
d|---------------------------------
a|---------------------------------
e|---------------------------------
e|----------------------2--------2--
b|----2--------2^3---------2-----3--
g|-------4--4--------4-------4---4-- once
d|----------------------------------
a|----------------------------------
e| ---------------------------------
At the end of the song, the end of the chorus carries on
with the same last 3 chords a couple more times
LYRICS!
There's a space man in my basement
there's an IV keeping time beside my bed
and a painting of Jesus wandering
for a dart board you know he's seen you naked a million times
I long to be dead and sleep with the fishes under the sea
they can swim through my head and stop all the traffic jams
stop all the traffic jams and there'll be no light tonight if I'm fated
There's a cartoon killer in my living room
cut you open like candy and pull out your little wound
like tv dinners for the third world and amputee dancing girls
you try but you fail cause you're bad at life and good in a vacuum
I long to be dead and sleep with the fishes under the sea
they can swim through my head and stop all the traffic jams
stop all the traffic jams and there'll be no light tonight if I'm fated
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Justin Wanna Be |
#1 by Justin Neafsey at Jan 6, 1970 at 8:51 AM EST |
| again another disappointment .. not the song... u fans . a brilliant freakin song and yet no comments. it isnt that good of a song to listen to when ure depressed cause it tends to make u feel even shittier but there is something about it that just makes u wanna put it on repeat and listen to it over and over... | |
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Alex Lead Player |
#2 by Alex at Jul 2, 1970 at 2:20 AM EST |
| nope its wound....haha and i love this song....and yes it does make you want to listen to it over and over | |
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eric Rhythm Player |
#3 by eric christian at Aug 29, 1983 at 11:05 AM EST |
| i love this song. it is my second favorite mgb song behind strange days. Their songs just have the best lyrics.... matthew good is brilliant.... | |
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simon Average |
#4 by simon cody simon at Jun 22, 1986 at 2:11 PM EST |
| isn't it 'pull out your little womb'? ps: i *heart* MGB. | |
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~Ivy Loves Shav Rhythm Player |
#5 by ~Ivy Loves Shavo~ at Feb 22, 1988 at 2:58 AM EST |
| it's definitely womb | |
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TAMARA Musical Genius |
#6 by TAMARA at Sep 6, 1993 at 1:16 AM EST |
| I think the song may be about someone who knows they are going to die soon. They just want to get it over with. But they know that they are not going to heaven when they go. "and a painting of Jesus wandering for a dart board you know he's seen you naked a million times" That kind of indicates he's not to close with god. They say that when you die there's a light and you follow it and go to heaven, he may be saying if he's fated to die tonight then he's not going to see that light. "and there'll be no light tonight if I'm fated" | |
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Aaron Wanna Be |
#7 by Aaron Howe at Jul 28, 1996 at 6:04 AM EST |
| yet another good song from mgb but still can't quite figure out what its about, i wish his songs werent so damn deep, sometimes we need help here matt. but i agree the lyrics to all of his songs are awesome, just confusing at times. | |
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Dan Average |
#8 by Dan Johnson at Aug 18, 2001 at 7:42 AM EST |
| wow, that song is addictive. as for the meaning, i guess it's about a sick man about to die ("IV keeping time beside my bed" /.../ "i long to be dead"). he's delirious half the time ("spaceman in my basement" /.../ "cartoon killer in my living room"), but still has stuff he's gotta say before he goes, i.e. the world is fucked = tv networks throw bigass charity balls for the third world, but how the hell do amputee girls get their limbs back? they probably don't give a flying fuck for the pity parties, so we should just stop trying to be the saviors and look good at the expense of their pride. they're carefree, legs or no legs, and we're not helping in any way at all, so let's stop trying to be heroes. aaaalllso, religion's a mighty fucked-up thing, if you got a jesus **dartboard** in your freaking room; as in, you're allegedly worshipping all things holy and sacred yet you don't think twice about nudity in front of *the* icon most representative of your supposed faith. what the hell is up with that? you really don't know jack, so please don't act to like you know it all ("you're bad at life but good in a vacuum"). and last and most obvious, the "traffic jams" are the restless thoughts running through his mind ceaselessly, driving him literally insane (which fits in the delirium theory)... wow, that was long-winded. but eh, that's what i think. | |
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chOxY Rhythm Player |
#9 by chOxY at Nov 15, 2002 at 5:01 PM EST |
| well i quite literally just got in the door from a matt good show... amazing solo acoustic tour but i must say i was dissapointed.. not by him in any way... but the crowd... he sang this song as if he were never going to get a 2nd chance to do it ever again with next to no reaction from the crowd.. mostly cus none of them were into his older stuff i guess... but still...i dont get how such a pasionate preformance could be so unappreaciated like that. But no worries i guess.. he made a coment afterwards dedicating the song to the 25 people in the crowd that sang along with him ... sorry its a pointeless story i guess but i was flabergasted | |
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Ryan Rhythm Player |
#10 by Ryan Ruegemer at Jun 20, 2003 at 9:54 PM EST |
| nice | |
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lindsey Average |
#11 by lindsey Rogogo at Jun 8, 2007 at 6:20 PM EST |
| Well after reading the lyrics a few times over it kind of seems like that song is about abortion or something. I know it's un Matthew Good like to have a song about that, but that is what it seems like. I am probably way off but meh. "There's a cartoon killer in my livingroom cut you open like candy and pull out your little wound like tv dinners for the third world and amputee dancing girls you try but you fail cause you're bad at life and good in a vacuum" That part of the song is what makes me think of it. Especially how some abortions are like sucked out by vacuums. | |
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