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True Faith Tab

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This is true faith my New Order. This is the bass through the song which Peter Hood plays. 
I dont play keyboard so im not gonna work that out. I just play guitar over the bass instead, 
its on a E-major scale, so you could probably improvise over it.


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True Faith Tab

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture ryan Average	#1 by ryan oh at Jan 8, 1971 at 10:18 AM EST
	this is from the songwriter, Bernard Sumner himself, during an interview for Q magazine in 1999. "(True Faith) is about drug dependency. I don't touch smack but when I wrote that song I tried to imagine what it's like to be a smackhead and nothing else matters to you except that day's hit. There's a line in the song, 'When I was a very young boy, very young boys played with me/Now we've grown up together, they're afraid of what they see." The original was, 'Now they're taking drugs with me,' but Stephen Hague our producer made us change it because he said it wouldn't be a hit if we kept that line in. He was right. It was a very big hit, but we chickened out. I change it back sometimes live."

No Picture [ßĩη& Average	#2 by [ßĩηŁ@Ðэń] at Mar 25, 1975 at 3:32 AM EST
	how could no one have commented on this yet? this song is so awesome. what it's about..i don't know. i guess just how he had a rotten childhood and then someone came along and he became a stronger person...but then the person left(took my time and you took my money) but he's still a stronger person because he was left standing..

No Picture matt Average	#3 by matt spolsky at Sep 30, 1977 at 6:33 AM EST
	I find that this song has highly depressing undertones. The subject, possibly Bernard, has lived a life full of fear and emotional pain. The following lines seem to support this assumption- "I used to think that the day would never come I'd see the light in the shade of the morning sun My morning sun is the drug that brings me near To the childhood I lost replaced by fear" "A sudden sense of liberty" This person has lived in a prison of his own fears and has discovered a drug that finally makes him feel free and OK for the first time in his life. It could be ecstasy, but that's not the big picture. However, these lines make me think ecstasy: "I feel so extraordinary Something's got a hold on me I've got this feeling I'm in motion A sudden sense of liberty" Not only does taking ecstasy makes you feel euphoric, but it makes you feel like you're in motion, which is why people refer to the experience as "rolling". It gives you a feeling of emotional freedom and was used for psychotheraputic purposes before it was made illegal. "Again and again I've taken too much Of the thing that costs you too much" Clearly these lines can be interpreted to mean drug use. Bernard Sumner has said in interviews that this song is about drug use, and the lyric "Now that we've grown up together They're afraid of what they see" was originally, "Now that we've grown up together They're all taking drugs with me". This doesn't really change the meaning of the song though, it only serves to make it more subtle. These "boys" are in that prison of fear and they're using drugs in an effort to make themselves feel OK.

No Picture evan Average	#4 by evan at Dec 26, 1979 at 11:46 PM EST
	i think it's obvious what this song is about by the title alone. it's about the perception of faith in the world. does a supreme omnipitent being exist and does believing in him/her/it bring enlightenment during and after death. the "I feel so extraordinary..." verse is feeling that feeling somehow and the chorus goes on into how he couldn't believe he of all people would feel whatever feeling it is described by others but he feels it now. and how that feeling he has now is carefree and enlightening, much like the feelings he had as a child. the second verse talks about how the people around him have reacted to him differently because of his enlightenment. they don't know how to react. even he doesn't. he's not sure if there's infinite life after this feeling or if everything told to him is really true. The last verse seems like a condemnation of organized religion and how his enlightenment didn't come from going to the church and adding to the collection plate every sunday. and all the rules established by the church have made him an outcast, even though he has experienced true faith. of course that's just my opinion, i could be wrong.

No Picture alex Lead Player	#5 by alex beaulieu at Oct 28, 1983 at 2:04 AM EST
	I think the title is more about obsession than anything. One can dedicate their life to a religion and that is socially acceptable. In a way their looking at someone whose life is dedicated to addiction and that person sees no problem with it, they're not searching for rehabilitation or any help.

No Picture btotherizzad Average	#6 by btotherizzad moriznad at Jul 28, 1990 at 3:29 PM EST
	I doubt this song has to do about religion, despite the title being true faith. I think faith in that sense, is him being an addict, and how faith applies after a hit, he could really die at any moment. I used to think that the day would never come (I guess he never thought he would be addicted to this substance) I'd see the light in the shade of the morning sun (He must hide in order to do drugs) My morning sun is the drug that brings me near (morning sun is an adverse effect) To the childhood I lost replaced by fear (bad childhood, maybe he's using drugs to get over his past problems) I used to think that the day would never come That my life would depend on the morning sun

No Picture gabby Professional	#7 by gabby at Aug 12, 1994 at 1:47 PM EST
	this song is about organized religion just being another drug

No Picture Average	#8 by Fig at Jul 2, 1999 at 11:12 PM EST
	I'm not sure what this song means, though I think the video clip hints at a lot of the meaning. BTW Morning Sun possibly refers to the meaning of "Lucifer" as in the "Devil" - i.e. Morning Star. Though notice that Jesus is also named that way as well... interesting no? And that the Jews name Jesus 'The great comforter'... maybe by having faith in Jesus it makes you feel good. i.e. like a drug. I think this song is to do with how most people are oblivious to reality (I'm most probably one of them). In the video clip it appears as if the 'boy' in question is undergoing some kind of inner conflict, that's clouding his vision. In the end this conflict is resolved and the boy escapes his prison of faith to face the real world.

No Picture Razor Wanna Be	#9 by Razor Edge at Jul 28, 1999 at 6:47 AM EST
	I think you're spot on with your interpretation raid357. I can speak from personal experience over the meaning of the song because I've lived it. "My morning sun is the drug that brings me near to the childhood I lost replaced by fear" ... and the psychological dependency on ecstasy as the relief from mental suffering... "I used to think the day would never come that my life would depend on the morning sun" The feeling is something I've never forgotten. For a few hours, I could be the person I felt I was inside. The inner and outer worlds matched and all in the Universe was "right"... I literally pilled myself stupid, but despite that I still miss the little blighters! In the most literal sense, Ecstasy was "My chemical romance".

No Picture dylan Average	#10 by dylan pesino at Jul 4, 2006 at 11:27 PM EST
	Even though the songwriter has commented, it's important to remember that even the maker of a thing isn't in control of it's meaning; either the meaning it takes through nuance when it's first created, or the meaning it takes through time as different people interpret it. Or was everyone happy with George Lucas' Star Wars prequel trilogy? It's kind of funny how no one's really tried to synthesize the two common interpretations- substance abuse and organized religion. The song is about addiction more than it's about drugs- and the highs produced by fervent religious faith are little different than those produced by chemical use. Really, any addiction or controlling behavior could apply to this song... or anything that takes away one's innocence and one's destiny. As much as anything, to me, this song is about growing up and trading away dreams for short-term happiness.

No Picture paddy Average	#11 by paddy coscoran at Aug 21, 2007 at 4:05 AM EST
	the video's awesome! The slapping parts are the best.