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Petey D.
(song starts with guitar hum and bending the string above the neck so the hum will bend,
or you can do this with a tremolo bar)
|Verse
|Guitar 1 (every other time dont play the part beyond the |)
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|--------------------------------------|-12-12-
|------12h11-11---7-7h9-------12/11-11-|-12-12-
|---14-----------------9---14----------|-14-14-
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|--------------------------------------|-------
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|Guitar 2
|----2---------------7~-----2---------------7~-
|-0~---0~-8~-8h7-8h7-----0~---0~-8~-8h7-8h7----
|-4~---------------------4~--------------------
|-5~---------------------5~--------------------
|-7~---------------------7~--------------------
|-0~---------------------0~--------------------
|Pre-Chorus
|Guitar 1 x2
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|-------------12-12-12-14-14-14-11-11-11-11-14h12-14b----------12-12h11------------------
|-14-14-14-14-----------------------------------------14-14-14----------12-12-12-12/14-14
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|Guitar 2 x4
|-----------------------------------
|---------8-8-8-10-10---------------
|-9-9-9-9-------------7-7-7-7-7-7-7-
|-----------------------------------
|-----------------------------------
|-----------------------------------
|Chorus
|Guitar 1 x2
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|-17-17-17-17--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|-------------16-16-16--14-14-14-14-14-14h12-14b--------------12-11--------------------
|-------------------------------------------------14-14-14-14--------12-12-12-12/14-14-
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|Guitar 2 (Can’t hear second guitar so just play along with bass)
|--------------------------------------------------------
|--------------------------------------------------------
|--------------------------------------------------------
|--------------------------------------------------------
|--------------------------------------------------------
|-0-x7--5-x7--3-x7--5-x7--0-x7--5-x7--3-3-3-7-7-7-7-5-x7-
|Pre-Verse
|Guitar 1
|----------------------------------------
|----------------------------------------
|--7-7-7-9---7-7-7-9---7-7-7-9---7-7-7---
|-9-9-9-----9-9-9-----9-9-9-----9-9-9----
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|Verse
|Guitar 1 (every other time dont play the part beyond the |)
|--------------------------------------|-------
|--------------------------------------|-12-12-
|------12h11-11---7-7h9-------12/11-11-|-12-12-
|---14-----------------9---14----------|-14-14-
|--------------------------------------|-------
|--------------------------------------|-------
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|Guitar 2
|----2---------------7~-----2---------------7~-
|-0~---0~-8~-8h7-8h7-----0~---0~-8~-8h7-8h7----
|-4~---------------------4~--------------------
|-5~---------------------5~--------------------
|-7~---------------------7~--------------------
|-0~---------------------0~--------------------
|Pre-Chorus
|Guitar 1 x2
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|-------------12-12-12-14-14-14-11-11-11-11-14h12-14b----------12-12h11------------------
|-14-14-14-14-----------------------------------------14-14-14----------12-12-12-12/14-14
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|Guitar 2 x4
|-----------------------------------
|---------8-8-8-10-10---------------
|-9-9-9-9-------------7-7-7-7-7-7-7-
|-----------------------------------
|-----------------------------------
|-----------------------------------
|Chorus
|Guitar 1 x2
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|-17-17-17-17--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|-------------16-16-16--14-14-14-14-14-14h12-14b--------------12-11--------------------
|-------------------------------------------------14-14-14-14--------12-12-12-12/14-14-
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|Guitar 2 (Can’t hear second guitar so just play along with bass)
|--------------------------------------------------------
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|--------------------------------------------------------
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|-0-x7--5-x7--3-x7--5-x7--0-x7--5-x7--3-3-3-7-7-7-7-5-x7-
|Guitar 1+2 (Hum while bass does its thang)
|Outro
|Guitar 1 x8 (It sounds like only the top note is played but you can play the whole chord
if you want)
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|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-10-10-10-10-10-10-9-9-9-9-9-9-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-
|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-10-10-10-10-10-10-9-9-9-9-9-9-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-
|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--8--8--8--8--8--8-7-7-7-7-7-7-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-
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|Guitar 2
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|-------10-x17--8-x15--------10-x16--13-x9--12-x7--------10-x17--8-x15--------10-x16--15-x9--13-x7----
|-9-x32----------------9-x32-----------------------9-x32----------------9-x32-----------------------9~
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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alex Lead Player |
#1 by alex beaulieu at Oct 13, 1971 at 5:46 PM EST |
| beautiful indeed. | |
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dylan Average |
#2 by dylan pesino at Oct 16, 1971 at 5:57 PM EST |
| Then how do you explain his constant use of the word, "she"? | |
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JJ Average |
#3 by JJ at Apr 25, 1972 at 3:20 AM EST |
| It would be one thing, however, if he referred to this she as temptation, lust, sin, or things along those lines. He does not use this language, though, when he speaks of his "Sweetheart" moving away. I just think that if he were speaking of the devil he would use more filthy imagery than "sweetheart", which doesn't necessarily have anything to do with sin or temptation. | |
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The Random Rock Average |
#4 by The Random Rocker at May 29, 1979 at 10:55 AM EST |
| Uh, you put "licking at the leaves." Isn't it looking? Just making sure. | |
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♥Chicken Average |
#5 by ♥Chicken On Heroine Shots♥ at Feb 8, 1980 at 8:06 AM EST |
| he is searching for God but gets distracted/weighed down by sin. He is then bound by the sin (tied up) and God forgives him (unties him) and he then sins again. The seemingly beauty of sin distracts him from where he needs to be going and he ends up distancing himslef from God. (sweet heart being swept away) He finally finds what he is looking for (his hidden pearl) but thinks he is unworthy as he is so unclean. he is unsure that God has forgiven him as he continually sins after being "untied" just thoughts, take it or leave it | |
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nick Wanna Be |
#6 by nick at Mar 20, 1980 at 5:49 PM EST |
| I don't think the song has anything to do with a girl. Similar to who Geoff from Thursday is notorious for writing about love while using political metaphors, Aaron is notorious for writing what often appears to be pertaining to a girl as a metaphor for God. To me, this song is all about overcoming adversity, and finding that one "guiding light" to believe in, in Aaron's case that would be God. 'I was looking at the leaves climbing to the tops of the trees but you were nowhere to be found. Just beneath all the green you were buried like a little seed among the roots and underground." Aaron is talking about how, through his life he has spent numerous hours searching for something to believe in, and after looking long and hard enough he has finally found his faith. I look at this as somewhat of a follow-up of sorts to "Nice and Blue" off of A-->B Life, which contains the lyric "God became the glass and all things left were emptiness." Once you find what it is in life that you were looking for, everything else seems somewhat meaningless. It is also possible to see the evolution and growth of Aaron as a person throughout this song. "Tie me up! Untie me! All this wishing I was dead is getting old... it goes on but it's old." Is just once again reaffirming the fact that he was once without anything to truely believe in until he found God. The song concludes by saying "But you untie me - didn't you untie me, lord? And now I haven't even thought about killing myself in almost five months" which really just shows how full circle he has come. This really isn't an amazingly deep lyric, since if you take my perspective on the meaning of the song, he is obviously talking about being saved by God. This was the part that definitely convinced me that the song is in no way a song about a girl/person or a relationship of any kind, since it so clearly pertains to the Lord. I could pick more parts of the song to disect and ramble on and on for much longer, but I think those are the real main points. | |
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Nick Average |
#7 by Nick Vanderstelt at Jul 24, 1981 at 3:33 PM EST |
| xJordanX said "Clearly this was before he found God and was still in a life of temptation." I disagree very much with that. "finding God" does not take away temptation. Watch this talk with Aaron Weiss. very good stuff. in one part he explains what a lot of this album is about. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1659411387590078694&q=aaron+weiss&pl=true | |
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Badass |
#8 by guess wha' i suck at Aug 7, 1982 at 9:14 AM EST |
| This song is so rich in imagery. The images of trees and the leaves, the oceans and the waves and pearls and fish..you can tell those boys know thier poetry. | |
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katie Average |
#9 by katie focner at Aug 6, 1983 at 7:04 PM EST |
| dude. this song is so wicked. mewithoutYou rocks my socks... anyway. i agree that the song is about a personification of temtation "she" (dont you notice that temtation and/or lust... is ALWAYS a girl?) but the way he says "didn't you untie me Lord?/and now i haven't thought of killing myself" it kinda sounds like he knows hes gonna be tempted again... its kinda like how... christians pray for God to fix things... but when he fixes them, we break them ourselves. | |
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Marks Average |
#10 by Marks at Aug 20, 1984 at 10:14 AM EST |
| I agree with the majority of what q.zus has to say, except for the fact that he feels the song is entirely about a girl. I see it more as him having this "addiction" to the girl that is bad for him, and finding a solution, hope, or answer in God. The bright colored fish are actually the girl that he can't take his eyes off of and wants so badly, and God is not as overtly attractive on the surface. To him, God and his faith are almost hidden in a dull, boring shell next to all the other sins and attractions of the world. Yet if he takes the time to open the shell and pursue religion, he finds a wonderful suprise, "You, my hidden pearl of pure and perfect love and I'm living example of 100% the opposite of this." And the line towards the end, "But you untie me - didn't you untie me, lord?" is basically him saying that God is what saved him from this woman, and other distractions in life. God untied him from all his misery and the thread that this woman lead him by and tied him up with. | |
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Hudson Lead Player |
#11 by Hudson Ryan at Oct 28, 1984 at 2:02 PM EST |
| This song rocks my world. I think its about a girl making him want to kill himself and then its over and now he "hasn't even thought about killing myself in almost five months" i might be wrong but hey i tried. | |
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Maggot Man Wanna Be |
#12 by Maggot Man at Jan 31, 1987 at 6:39 PM EST |
| "You, my hidden pearl of pure and perfect love and I'm living example of 100% the opposite of this. " I forgot this lyric last time, but this really does summarize the whole song into just one line. God = the pearl. He has spent a long time searching and has now found it. How symbolic is it that Aaron decides on a pearl for this lyric? Since we all know that pearls are some of the rarest, and purest things on this earth. Then he talks about being "100% the opposite." Clearly this was before he found God and was still in a life of temptation. | |
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ashley Wanna Be |
#13 by ashley pudding at Apr 1, 1993 at 12:40 PM EST |
| I agree with you SickandTired, he wants the girl and she distracts him from God - "like a needle she leads me away from everything good (Well, I follow like a thread)". He knows he shouldn't follow her and that he should trust in God and His love thus the meaning for the song (Tie Me Up! Untie Me!), it's an internal struggle. At the end where he says "But you untie me - didn't you untie me, Lord?" is another reference to the needle and thread lyric from before. He is no longer attached to the needle (the girl) and he can began to follow God. This is just what I think - great song though. | |
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Ben Rhythm Player |
#14 by Ben Jammin at Apr 12, 1993 at 8:46 AM EST |
| I do think he could be calling the devil "sweetheart" because sometimes we really get attatched to satan and get caught up. we get decieved, so could be something that aaron was feeling. awesome song! | |
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Mike Wanna Be |
#15 by Mike at Jul 28, 1993 at 11:16 PM EST |
| I think it's supposed to be satirical (maybe that's the wrong word), but I believe he's trying to show he's blinded by love for the person in the song, and even though she's a bad person/influence he still is happy to see her.. I believe this because when he talks about her he always shows her somewhere low, or deep, or beneath other things such as "Just beneath all the green you were buried like a little seed among the roots and underground.", and he also calls her a sickness that he caught, not by choice, but like an addiction (undesirable) and when he uses the analogy of her being a needle and him the thread, he says " she leads me away from everything good". He also refers to her as garbage, and that's another derogeratory phrase. Then he mentions swimming in the ocean and again he shows her beneath everything, and generally rising up or being above is that desirable way to be (and also the reference of God being up in the sky and the Devil being down below), which shows, to me at least, he's going after what he knows he shouldn't, but he can't resist her. He then uses a juxtaposition with the bright colored fish and the person in the song, when previously he called her a sickness, garbage, and all the references to her being below everything else, which shows a struggle, in my opinion. It's as if he sees the bright colored fish and pays particular attention to them, and then he sees her, and he thinks 'Do I prefer the bright , vibrant, happy look of the fish, or this person that I shouldn't go for?' and unfortunately for him he chooses her yet again. And then he says "You, my hidden pearl of pure and perfect love and I'm living example of 100% the opposite of this" which shows that only he sees how good she is (or how good he thinks she is), reinforcing that love is blind, and he is unable to see through all her flaws and still desires her, and he says he's "100% the opposite of this", proving that he knows he's much better than her (about 100% better), but yet again is still going for her. There's a bit of conflict being established when he states "If I ask the same questions well maybe I repeat myself from time to time. But it's because everyone who answers me is a liar. " because, I imagine, he asks friends and family what they think of her and I'd also imagine they answer him honestly, and tell him how bad she is for him, but he can't/doesn't beileve it, and calls them liars, since he sees past all of her bad qualities. When he says "But you untie me - didn't you untie me, lord? ", I can't figure out what that means, a friend of mine says mewithoutyou always sings of a girl name Amanda who left the singer because she loved God more than him, I don't know if that's the case honsetly, but if it is then I believed he's thanking God for getting this girl out of his life and is showing his appreciation for untying the bonds of his love to her. | |
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†grave† Lead Player |
#16 by †grave† f at Apr 16, 1994 at 4:36 AM EST |
| wow i didnt think this song was about a girl at all. i thought it was about suicide. is sounds like he's gonna drown himself. like hes just aimlessly swimming in the ocean deciding if he should drown himself or not. then when he started sinking down, before he died god saved him. and the lord untied him because he tied his hands so he wouldn't be able to swim. idk, something like that. very cool song | |
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jordan Average |
#17 by jordan mcm at Apr 17, 1994 at 11:59 AM EST |
| i agree, i think it's great how he talks about faith so openly and yet can connect with atheists on such a great level at the same time. what i mean is despite being blatantly open about faith and having songs with this kind of meaning, it doesn't exclude anyone because the lyrics are quite open and based around imagery and landscape. amazing song, amazing band. | |
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Peter Wanna Be |
#18 by Peter Lambden at Jul 26, 1995 at 1:49 PM EST |
| But you untie me - didn't you untie me, lord? This line could be taken so many ways. Personally when you are living in sin it fells like you are tied up and arent going anywhere in your christian walk. | |
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Anthony Wanna Be |
#19 by Anthony Amell at Aug 25, 1995 at 9:00 PM EST |
| wow.. what "q.zus" said is like really deep.. they deff. have a good understaning for things.. cus they seem rite on.. everyone that has left what it means to them seems to be rite on the ball.. good job to you all. | |
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Kyle Average |
#20 by Kyle at Apr 29, 1997 at 5:28 PM EST |
| Hes strugglin with something in life. The emphasis is not that he overcame but that God pulled him out becuz he was unable to do it himself. "But you untie me - didn't you untie me, lord? And now I haven't even thought about killing myself in "almost five months." | |
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batman Average |
#21 by batman chum at Jan 9, 1999 at 6:39 PM EST |
| "i need more grace than i thought" lifted from Rumi! i love the guitar melody to this song. bop badah bop bop badah bop bop badah bop BOP BOP when i listen to this song with friends i push them twice on the shoulder on the BOP BOP part being healed is awesome | |
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Gary Wanna Be |
#22 by Gary Rossington at Jul 3, 2001 at 4:11 PM EST |
| i love the way he says "Tie me up! Untie me! All this wishing I was dead is getting old... it goes on but it's old." | |
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Beaver Average |
#23 by Beaver Butt at May 2, 2003 at 10:15 PM EST |
| i think this song is about him having to overcome something and strugging with that...it's beautiful | |
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Micke Lead Player |
#24 by Micke Nordin at May 27, 2004 at 12:21 AM EST |
| It's called a metaphor, lyricists use them from time to time. "She's like a hot cloth on my fevered head and like a needle she leads me away from everything good" She = the devil = temptation | |
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JJ Average |
#25 by JJ at May 9, 2005 at 9:50 AM EST |
| Magott, your not wrong. To me this is the what chrisitan music should be like. Instead of stuffing chrisitanity down poples throat he speaks so openely about christianity by showing life without God, and that is what non chrisitans can relate to and experience. The lyrics are there for interpretation, and the sometimes underlying chrisitan theme is there to be discovered. | |
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