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Subject: tab/n/nin/hurt.rzr
Reply Me: si1g01@irit.arenes.fr (95)
This Tab:
Phil Coval si1g01@arenes.irit.fr 1995
Previously realised Tab:
Mike Dare. daremj@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
? dan.zink@estate.wa.com
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H U R T [#14] ( NiN/_TDS_ halo 8 )
si1g01@arenes.irit.fr (May 95) :-#
[INTRO] White Noise Sample Loop (Even is the whole song: Easy to sample)
[VERSE] Riff-1 x4
e|-{B}------------{D}---------{E}---10------------------------------|
b|---------------------5------------------------------------5-------|
g|-----10-------------7--------------------10--------------7------9-|
D|---------9___------7----------9--------------9___-------7------9--|
A|---9--------------5----------7----------9--------------5------7---|
E|-7------------------------------------7---------------------------|
I______ hurt myself today to see if I still feel
I____ focus on the pain the only thing that's real
the needle tears a hole the old familiar sting
try___ to kill it all away but I remember everything
[CHORUS-P1] {A Bmin G D} Riff-2a x4
(later this is done with vibrato or tremelo)
e---------------------------------------------------
b-{A}---------{B}---------{G}---------{D}-----------
g---------------------------------------------------
d--7--7--7--7--7--7--7--7--7--7--7--7--7--7--7--7---
a--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--5--5--5--5---
e--5--5--5--5--7--7--7--7--3--3--3--3---------------
A---A---A---A--Bmin-Bm--Bm--Bm-G---G---G---G---D---D---D---D---
what have I become? my sweetest
friend everyone I know goes away | (in the end)
[CHORUS-P2] Riff-2b x2 (done by piano) w/ Riff-2a
A B
e|:|-12-12--12-12---12-10---9--10--|-10-10--10-10---10-9-7-9-----| ==
in the end You could have it
- - - I will let you
G D
== e|-9--9---9--9---7--------------|--5--5---5--5---?7-9-10?---|:|
all___________, my empire of dirt,
down_____ I will make you hurt
[VERSE] Riff-1 x4
I wear my crown of shit on my liar's chair
full of broken thoughts i cannot repair
beneath the stain of time the feeling disappears
you are someone else i am still right here
[CHORUS] {A-Bmin-G-Dx2} {distorded sound}
A
B G D A
what have I become? My sweetest friend ,
everyone I know goes away in the end
,you could have it all_____ my empire of dirt
i will let you down____ i will make you hurt ||
[OUTRO] {distordion w/Riff-2 ABGD}
if i could start again
a million miles away (A-x355xx
i would keep myself (D-355xxx
i would find a way si1g01@arenes.irit.fr
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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patrick Wanna Be |
#1 by patrick at Oct 7, 1975 at 11:55 AM EST |
| oh, early nineties and late eighties.. | |
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black Rhythm Player |
#2 by black rose at Nov 11, 1978 at 4:50 AM EST |
| .. another beautiful song. There are four musical Gods out there; Trent is one of them. The other three are McLachlan, Alanis, and Maynard. I don't really think this song relates to drug use. Yes, it does say 'tear a hole' with a needle-- [the needle tears a hole the old familiar sting try to kill it all away but I remember everything ] --but I believe that, again, as usual, it's a metaphor for unwanted memories. You try to block them out because, at one point, they were so beautiful but now they're simply.. a painful reminder. Or, hell, not even beautiful. Maybe just painful. And you don't want to remember anymore, but you can't help yourself.. I agree with lorienmariene [this song is about self loathing] and primusboy [this song is about not being good enough.] The reference to the empire of dirt, crown of shit; maybe things that were once beautiful, or at least valuable, but now worthless. You can have them all--they don't mean anything to me anymore. And then there are the references to another person, someone I'm sure he was once close to, but who is now moving on with their life--but while they move on, he is "still right here." A painful, painful song. In short: Maybe there was something beautiful in your life once, but someone tore it away from you, and destroyed it. Nothing matters anymore. All you have is the memory, and the hurt. But if you had to do it all again, you would. | |
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aleXeXeX Rhythm Player |
#3 by aleXeXeX at Jun 13, 1980 at 8:43 AM EST |
| To me, this song is about regret. About making the wrong choices and trying to right them. At some point, the narrator made a choice that game him alot, but hurt someone he cared about. Realizing that the person he hurt is more important, he offers to give up his "empire of dirt". The end of the song (last 4 lines) clearly states that if the narrator could go back and make different choices, he would. | |
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HammerOffFreak Professional |
#4 by HammerOffFreak at Nov 12, 1982 at 1:37 PM EST |
| sigh.....people miss this song entirely. in the "storyline" of the downward sprial this is the end, the death, the suicide. so of course the character inflicts pain upon himself and dies in the end (the loud guitars and synths are the end of the song followed by the white noise) and the hope it leaves right as the person dies....as for heroine, i doubt it, trent wrote the lyrics in like 5 mins. with the guitar line and the rest came in the next 10 mins. everyone in the studio was crying at the end cause the song related to them, and for your gf cutting herself to that song?? thats just sick...and sad | |
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Perfect Pervers Rhythm Player |
#5 by Perfect Perversion™ at Nov 5, 1983 at 6:34 PM EST |
| I agree with everyone on this song in that it expresses that low's that ppl go through. Although it seems as if he's saying it's an all time low for him. But I think it also says a lot about drug use. If you listen to the particular part where he says " the needle tears a hole, the old familar sting, try to kill it all away". Most likely some heroin use up in here :) But it's a great song, and one of my all time favorites. I appreciate it much more since I saw him preform it last year while I was at his Fragile Tour. Trent is great!! | |
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Obtuse Professional |
#6 by Obtuse at May 16, 1985 at 1:00 AM EST |
| I think this song is purely tragic | |
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hamadi Wanna Be |
#7 by hamadi alameddine at May 31, 1986 at 10:10 AM EST |
| ...why does everyone hav to say a song has somethin to do wit drugs whenever its says somethin about a needle or somethin?? ...idiots | |
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SOCIETY DWELLIN Average |
#8 by SOCIETY DWELLIN MOTHER FUCKER! at Feb 14, 1990 at 7:29 AM EST |
| there is one perticular line in this song that speeks to me "you can have it all my empire of dirt" i think it means everything i have in my life means nothing to me, i dont do it to please myself, and id give it up in a heartbeat that describes my whole life | |
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Reece Wanna Be |
#9 by Reece Brown at Oct 25, 1994 at 5:03 AM EST |
| The lyric that gets me everytime:'everyone i know goes away in the end' | |
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Anthony Wanna Be |
#10 by Anthony Amell at Jul 5, 1995 at 7:54 AM EST |
| sometimes i wonder if it is a tori ref, (some of you might get that), just can't help wonderin', it seems like the right time | |
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Aaron Average |
#11 by Aaron Smith at Jul 12, 1998 at 2:36 AM EST |
| this song makes me sick to my stomach...cuz of one reason...that my g/f used to cut herself to this song...makes me want to cry every time i hear it and thinking about what she used to do.. | |
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chris Wanna Be |
#12 by chris calle at Nov 23, 2000 at 11:36 AM EST |
| As said, TDS is a story. Without this song TDS would be pro-suicide. But this story is the big twist at the end that I think shows TDS wasn't about suicide, rather that it was showing a story of a person who committed suicide and as only as a story can do, show what was felt after the death. So all in all, maybe that album and most of all, this song is a good reason for anyone serious about suicide and/or a self-destructive lifestyle to take a second look on it. | |
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