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Leave It Alone Tab

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Leave it Alone

Tabbed by:Mark Makoway
Written by:Moist


Mark Makoway

Because I can't write rhythm notation using my Powerbook, you are going to
have to listen to the CD and figure out how the notes are played. The
rhythm in this song is pretty straight forward and consistent throughout
the song. This is not a difficult song to play, the key is to make
everything flow.

Intro (This is the section of the song before the singing starts. It is
played over the pulsing E's played on the bass.) The part consists of an Em
arpaggio partern.

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--0------------------------------------------------------0----------------
--2------4---4-----4---4-----2---2-----2---2----4---4---4--2-------2---2--
--2----2---2-----2---2-----2---2-----2---2----2---2---2------2---2---2----
--0--0---------0---------0---------0---------0------------------0---------

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---2---2-----2---2----2---2----
-2---2-----2---2----2---2------
0--------0--------0------------


Verse. This riff/chord part repeats 4 times in each verse; it accompanies
the vocals until the prechorus. (Again, listen to the CD for the rhythm.)
"ho" means hammer on.

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-9--9--9--9--9----------------------------------(7)-(7)-(7)-(7)--(7)-------
-9--9--9--9--9----9-----9---9---9---9---9----7---7---7---7---7----7---7---7
-7--7--7--7--7----9-ho-11--11--12--11---9----5---5---5---5---5----4---4---5
-0--0--0--0--0----0-----0---0---0---0---0----5---5---5---5---5----5---5---5

-----------R
-----------E
-----------P
---7---7---E
---4---0---A
---5---5---T

Prechorus (I came to burn the sky...) This part repeats twice.

--0--0--0--0--0----0--0--0--0--0----4--4--4--4--4----0--0--0--0--0---R
--5--5--4--5--5----0--5--4--5--5----4--5--4--5--5----5--5--5--5--5---E
--6--6--6--6--6----4--4--4--4--4----4--4--4--4--4----6--6--6--6--6---P
--6--6--6--6--6----4--4--4--4--4----6--6--6--6--6----7--7--7--7--7---E
--0--0--0--0--0----0--0--0--0--0----0--0--0--0--0----0--0--0--0--0---A
---------------------------------------------------------------------T


Chorus. This chord pattern repeats 2 times (strum each chord for 1 bar--4
beats)

---9-----9-----6-----7--------R
---9----12-----9----10--------E
---9----11-----8-----9--------P
--11-----9-----6-----7--------E
------------------------------A
------------------------------T

Solo. "s" means slide. "b" means bend up. "ho" means hammer-on. "po" means
pull-off.

-----------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------
---1-2s4---4s7-5-4---7-5-4--------2---2----1-2s4---4s7-5-4---4s7-
-2-------2---------5---------5-4-4---4----2-------2----------5---
-----------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------

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-5-4--7--9-9-9-9-9
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-14--14--14--14--14--16--16b--16--14--16--16b--16---14--16--16-po-14s12-14-
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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--12s11--12--------
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------15-----15--
---------------------------------------------------14----12--14b----14b----
--14--14--14--14--14--16--16b--16--14--12-ho-14----14----------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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---15-------
14b---14b---
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Outro. This repeating theme begins with the lyrics "And it takes me back...."

--9---9---9---9-----9---9---9---9---9---9------11---11---11---11---
--9--12--10---9----12--10---9---9---9---9------12---12---12---12---
--9---9---9---9----11--11--11--11--11--11------13---13---13---13---
-11--11--11--11-----9---9---9---9---9---9------13---13---13---13---
----------------------------------------------(11)-(11)-(11)-(11)--
-------------------------------------------------------------------

--12--11---9---9----9---9-----R
--10--10--10--10---10--10-----E
---9---9---9---9----9---9-----P
---9---9---9---9----9---9-----E
------------------------------A
------------------------------T

Mark Makoway


Intro
Verse
Prechorus
Verse
Chorus
Solo
Prechorus
Outro
Chorus
Outro


Lyrics

i'd walk the water to get back to you
and where i was complete
we found you scattered by the highway side too 
soon to be released
gathered the pieces up and clean the place
where you were undone
and washed the wreckage out unfinished all the 
thoughts that we'd begun
i came to burn the sky and tear away
the beauty that it sows
if i could rape the day and find the things i thought
i'd always known
leave it alone again tonight
i laid your arms out long untwisted there
and shaped what i could find
unmade the most of it then left the rest
the parts unrecognized
my reconstruction was the only way
for one last look at you
i lost the sense of it at the absolution
that we never knew
leave it alone again tonight
leave it alone again tonight
and it takes me back from this place here
it takes me back from this place here
i came to burn the sky and take away
the beauty that it sows
i came to rape the day and find the things
i thought i'd always known
leave it alone again tonight
and it takes me back from this place here
from this place here it takes me over
and it might be lost in this place here
from this place here it takes me on
leave it alone again tonight

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Leave It Alone Tab

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture John Wanna Be	#1 by John Merritt at Dec 28, 1971 at 4:27 PM EST
	I thought I heard it was about AIDS....maybe I misunderstood or got it mixed up with another song

No Picture Jon Wanna Be	#2 by Jon Leff at Jan 6, 1980 at 1:31 PM EST
	This song is about a friend of the author(david) was abusing drugs and this is davids outlook and story on it. there it is

No Picture Perfect Pervers Rhythm Player	#3 by Perfect Perversion™ at May 25, 1981 at 10:04 PM EST
	sorry for all my spelling errors, I didn't read over them. I simply wrote

No Picture chOxY Rhythm Player	#4 by chOxY at Jun 12, 1982 at 11:31 AM EST
	This song is just amazing. Like Yelraek said, the first few times I heard it, I never thought about what it meant. The lyrics are so poignant and so desperate. I really need to buy this CD. This is one of the best songs I've ever heard.

No Picture Marcus19 Rhythm Player	#5 by Marcus19 Doug at Mar 17, 1998 at 10:41 PM EST
	This song, like all of Moist, is true poetry. Like SOAD it has it's messages, but Moist hides them a lot better. The main effect of Moist is that you can listen to a song over and over, and your opinion on its meaning will change. Leave it Alone, first SOUNDS very serine and "nice" and usually you will have to have someone point out to you that the learics are very morbid. This "second shell" of the song tends to be very distastfull, being about cleaning up a car crash. But even that has it's poetry. The nest "shell" is that the song is a love story about the loss of ones loved one.

No Picture Jon Lead Player	#6 by Jon Zell at Nov 3, 1999 at 1:05 AM EST
	I don't know much about Moist; I heard this song on a sountrack, but it makes me want to listen to more of their stuff. I agree with Yelraek, at first this sounds like a calm, sweet song. I only recently started listening to the lyrics, and then it sounds like it's overtly about a car crash. I think it has more to do with a breakup or the drifting apart of two people, and the analogy of a car crash is used. I love this song--it's sung with such feeling. I think the chorus, "Leave it alone...again, tonight" is kind of about the person experiencing this hardship and sort of just making it through each day by not really dealing with the issue, not thinking about it, "leaving it alone" and obviously the "again, tonight" shows that they've been doing it for some time.

No Picture health risk Average	#7 by health risk at Dec 4, 1999 at 10:28 AM EST
	Lately however, there has been a certain part at the end of the song that gave me shivers in which I had to listen to over and over to see what it was. Finaly I discovered it was the diction. "From this place here it takes me OVER" The use of "over" implies a sense of uslessness and the controling nature of fate. "And it might be lost in this place here" The use of "it", being a pronown-antecedent error, gives an impression of not knowing exactly what is in control of your life. What is 'it'? What is fate? That is a scary aspect of life, which makes you "lost"? "From this place here it takes me ON" This is the line which I pinpointed my shivers to. When thinking of it I remembered it being almost yelled, but when I listened for it, it was just merely sang. This word demonstates what I know believe to be the last "shell", for as fate takes him "over", he rises up to meet it and forces fate to take him "on". This two letter word demands to take control of your own fate.

No Picture Matt Lead Player	#8 by Matt Beach at Mar 31, 2002 at 12:15 AM EST
	read Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen this song is very personal and extremely beautiful

No Picture marc Professional	#9 by marc at Jan 20, 2006 at 10:08 PM EST
	it's good to see people who respect the music moist is making....i don't see enough of it where i'm from.

No Picture D.J Wanna Be	#10 by D.J Mortensen at Jun 20, 2006 at 3:46 PM EST
	Once, I had deduced that the final "shell" was one of fate. That fate can take away what you truely love, and there is nothing you can do about it. Fate is just as final as the smear of a human body on the ashfalt after a car crash.