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"Night on the Sun" by Modest Mouse
From the album: Everywhere & His Nasty Parlour Tricks
tab by: bbkeen
Guitar key:
h = hammer on
p = pull off
/ = slide Note: this tab is for the bass parts ( but played on guitar )
x/ = use your left and the rest of the bass and guitar parts.
index finger to mute the
note, giving it a clicky sound
PM = palm mute
* Intro *
e|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------------| x 3
A|----------------4-h-5-p-4----------------------------------------|
E|--0--4--6--4---------------7-h-5-p-7--4--------------------------|
This song is played with overlapping combo of guitar and bass,
so have someone play bass over the guitar [ remember
that basses make the same sounds on different
strings]. so if you're not happy with the intro just remember
that there is a bass overlapping to cause a " fullness " to the notes.
But then again, it was recorded in a freaking studio...
* verse 1 *
e|----------------------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------------------------|
G|----------------------------------------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------------------------------| x 1
A|--4--6--7--6--4--2-2--------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------4--0-----------------------------------|
Play : Intro x3
Verse1 x3
Intro x3
and then...
e|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--4--6--7--6--4--2-2-----------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------4--0---7--9/0--14/7-----------------------|
another guitar is playing harmonics over the bass
over the 0---7--0--7 parts.
Gently lay your index finger over the 7 and 12th fret...
e|-----7-------12------7--------12-----------------------------------|
B|-----7-------12------7--------12-----------------------------------|
G|-----7-------12------7--------12-----------------------------------|
D|-----7-------12------7--------12-----------------------------------|
A|-----7--------12-----7---------12----------------------------------|
E|-----7--------12-----7---------12----------------------------------|
Then when the drums kick in start palming these notes:
e|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-PM--0--0-0-x/0-0--0-0-0-x/0-0--7--7-7-x/7-7--7-7-7-x/7-7----------|
So, turn off the lights cause it's night on the sun y'all
Hopelessly hopeless I hope so, for you...
Freeze your blood and then stab into in two
Stab your blood into me and blend
I eat my own blood and I get filled up, I get filled up and then
* guitar solo *
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-4-------4-4--6------------------------------------------------------|
D|----6-4--------------------------------------------------------------| x2
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-88888h9p8--6-4---88888-9-8-6-4--------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------| x1
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
e|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-4-6-8-9-8-6-4---4-6-8-9-8-6-4/-11-9p8h9p8-4--11-9p8h9p8-6-4-------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|----8----6----8----6----8----6-----8-11-8-6--------------------------|
D|-9----9----9----9----9----9----9-------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
Well it's one thing to know about this town, it's five hundred miles underground
That's all right, that's all right
Well there's one thing to know about this globe, it's bound up and willing to explode
That's all right, that's all right
There's one thing to know about this earth, we're put here just to make more dirt
That's all right, that's all right
And thats pretty much it! A fairly simple song but awsome when you master it.
I would get the cd to listen to the order and stuff.
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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brad Average |
#1 by brad everett at Nov 21, 1972 at 10:04 PM EST |
| Chaswick ~ I think you're right about the "freeze your blood" line. When you die a belt around your arm to inject heroin... you're essentially freezing your blood (since it is unable to move around). So I'm thinking you are correct on the shared heroin needle use. | |
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josh Average |
#2 by josh stagel at Dec 1, 1974 at 9:49 PM EST |
| This song is about taking hydrocodone and the experience of being under the influence. If you don't agree take 60 mg and listen to this song and you will get it, but I doubt it. | |
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Dunnie Average |
#3 by Dunnie at Dec 22, 1980 at 9:43 AM EST |
| yeah. this is a hard hitter if i ever heard one. freeze your blood and then stab it into me is a killer. but just i love that modest mouse songs or so long. i could just put this song on repeat and die happy. | |
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Jaime Average |
#4 by Jaime at Jan 3, 1981 at 4:37 AM EST |
| My God, most amazing fucking song ever. -jess | |
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Rhythm Player |
#5 by riotsk8team001 (jason) at Mar 3, 1987 at 4:53 PM EST |
| modern-era hippie mumbo-jumbo..aha | |
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kelson Average |
#6 by kelson white at Nov 13, 1991 at 11:39 PM EST |
| This is almost easy to understand, correct me if i'm wrong but... I think it is about a shitty town that he probably moved to when he was young and it kind of fits me... I moved to the town about 2 miles over and EVERYONE hates my guts... but i hate this town too. This is told in two perspectives. The "You're hopelessy hopeless, i hope so, for you," is in one along with the "it's alright". The rest is told in the first person. When he says that it is night on the sun and stab your blood into me, he is saying that he wants one of the ruthless and careless people of the town to just end his life and kill him. "Get filled up" is a way of saying getting drunk so he gets drunk and he wants someone to kill him. Near the end when he is saying "There's one thing to know about this..." he starts saying "Not a single person doesn't want me underground," meaning that not a single person wants him alive/ they want him dead. When he says the town is five hundred miles underground he probably means that it is in hell or the town IS hell. And finally when he says "The globe is bound and willing to explode" or something like that he is saying that eventually the entire earth will become like this and explode. That is my interpretation! ---- Dragon 1629 (Since signatures are overrated) | |
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anthony Average |
#7 by anthony clark at Aug 17, 1994 at 9:42 PM EST |
| what a beautiful song by the mouse. I can listen to these guys everyday and not get bored. "your hopelessly hopeful" | |
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Forrest Average |
#8 by Forrest at Mar 3, 1995 at 10:41 PM EST |
| is it hopeful or hopeless? a friend of mine maintains that it's hopeless... i need to hear the song for myself. | |
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Erik Lead Player |
#9 by Erik StJimmy at Sep 17, 2002 at 1:29 AM EST |
| uh, i really don't know if this song is about or written under the influence of drugs, i was just fucking around | |
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hamadi Wanna Be |
#10 by hamadi alameddine at Jul 22, 2007 at 12:47 AM EST |
| at the very least, on Everywhere and His Nasty Parlor Tricks it sounds like hopelessly hopeless, i try to hear hopeful but its just not there | |
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