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Robot Tab

Send "Robot" Ringtone to your Cell Phone

Author/Artist: Nada Surf
Title: Robot
Album: Proximity Effect
Transcribed by: Nick Oddo
Email: Noddo522@aol.com

Standard Tuning
EADGBE

Capo on 1st fret

-|---------------------------------------------------------------|------------|
-|---4---4---4---4---4---4---4---4---4---4---4---4---4---4---4---|------------|
-|-5-------5-----------------------5-------5---------------------|------------|
-|-----5-------5---6---5---6---5-------5-------5---6---5---6---5-|------------|
-|---------------------------------------------------------------|------------|
-|---------------------------------------------------------------|------------|
  Intro and Verse                                             14x

-|-3-3-3--3-3--3-3-3--3-3--0-0-0--0-0--0-0-0--0-0--3-3-3--3-3--4-4-4--4-4-|---|
-|-4-4-4--4-4--4-4-4--4-4--3-3-3--3-3--3-3-3--3-3--4-4-4--4-4--4-4-4--4-4-|---|
-|-3-3-3--3-3--3-3-3--3-3--3-3-3--3-3--3-3-3--3-3--5-5-5--5-5--5-5-5--5-5-|---|
-|-0-0-0--0-0--0-0-0--0-0--3-3-3--3-3--3-3-3--3-3--5-5-5--5-5--6-6-6--6-6-|---|
-|-------------------------0-0-0--0-0--0-0-0--0-0--3-3-3--3-3--6-6-6--6-6-|---|
-|-------------------------------------------------------------4-4-4--4-4-|---|
  Chorus                                                                1x

-|---------------|----------------|---------------|---------------------------|
-|---------------|----------------|---------------|---------------------------|
-|---------------|----------------|---------------|-----------------5-5-5-5/--|
-|---------------|----------------|---------------|-3-3-3-3-6-6-6-6-5-5-5-5/--|
-|---------------|----------------|---------------|-0-0-0-0-6-6-6-6-3-3-3-3/--|
-|---------------|----------------|---------------|---------4-4-4-4-----------|
   Verse Riff 4x   Chorus Riff 2x   Verse Riff 4x   Bridge

---------|-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-|-------------------------------------------------|
---------|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-|-------------------------------------------------|
-8-8-8-8-|-5-3-5-3-5-3-5-3-|-------------------------------------------------|
-8-8-8-8-|-6-0-6-0-6-0-6-0-|-------------------------------------------------|
-6-6-6-6-|-6---6---6---6---|-555555555555555555555/666666666666666666666666--|
---------|-4---4---4---4---|-333333333333333333333/444444444444444444444444--|
      4x   "One night..."   "I still remember..."

-|-----------|-3-3-3--3-3--4-4-4--4-4-|---------------------------------------|
-|-----------|-4-4-4--4-4--4-4-4--4-4-|---------------------------------------|
-|-----------|-5-5-5--5-5--5-5-5--5-5-|---------------------------------------|
-|-----------|-5-5-5--5-5--6-6-6--6-6-|---------------------------------------|
-|-----------|-3-3-3--3-3--6-6-6--6-6-|---------------------------------------|
-|-----------|-------------4-4-4--4-4-|---------------------------------------|
   Chorus 4x   Outro                8x

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Robot Tab

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture isaac Average	#1 by isaac fritsch at Dec 29, 1985 at 3:25 AM EST
	this song is amazing. i like how matt includes dialogue in a few of his songs. a very real meaning behind it, too. i've gone through something very simliar to this so it really hits home.

No Picture Sal Average	#2 by Sal With The Lights Out at Jul 11, 1992 at 12:01 PM EST
	I tend to agree with the perspective adopted in Mother's Day.

No Picture Keegan Average	#3 by Keegan at Aug 2, 1992 at 4:20 AM EST
	I think that the situation in this song is the same one that inspired "Mother's Day". This is about the guy that raped his girlfriend and you can feel the hatred for him in lyrics: for hurting the girl and the current relationship. What he had done to her may now be playing a part in the current relationship (trust, intimacy, etc). Matthew, I assume it's his experience, is disgusted that any one, especially a man, could do something so terrible ("an imitation of a man") and feels unjust for himself and his girlfriend.

No Picture RoBsN Average	#4 by RoBsN Stalder at May 25, 1997 at 2:18 AM EST
	This is an amazing, beautiful song. I think it is clearly about the same event (or at least topic) as Mother's Day, but there is a fundamental disparity between the two. Mother's Day addresses the man in question as if he was indeed another human being, with thoughts and feelings, just trying to make his way through life like everyone else. It says what it says assuming it is addressing a rational fellow person, trying to persuade him that what he did was wrong. This song, however, takes the opposite stance--the man it addresses is not a person, but rather something far less. The man in Robot is just that--he has no feelings or rational thought. There is no point in trying to convince him of anything, because he will never learn.

No Picture brian Average	#5 by brian haun at Sep 12, 1999 at 1:03 PM EST
	compare the start of this track with the start of delays hideaway....surely the same