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Operation Ivy Room Without A Window Guitar Tab

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From:   wbknox@unity.ncsu.edu
Sent:   Saturday, December 27, 1997 8:01 PM

Song: Room Without a Window
Band: Operation Ivy
Album: Energy (1989)
Written by Jesse Michaels, Lint Armstrong, Matt Freeman and Dave Mello
Transcribed by Luke Knox (lukeknox@iname.com)

Intro/Verse/Toast break chords used:
   G   D   C   F
E--3---2---3---1---|
B--3---3---5---1---|
G--4---2---5---2---|
D--5---0---5---3---|
A------------------|
E------------------|

Chorus chords used:
E-----------------|
B-----------------|
G--3--------------|
D--3---4---3------|
A--1---4---3------|
E------2---1------|
   Bb  F#  F

[Intro:]
      G                     G                        G
The position being taken is not to be mistaken for attempted
   D         G                     G                   G
education or righteous accusation. Only a description, just
                       G          G         G     G    G  G
an observation of the pitiful condition of our degeneration.

[Verse:](played with ska upstrokes)
C                               F                  G
Walls made of opinions, through which we speak and never
           C                      F                G
listen. Ceiling made of pride, vicious and self-satisfied.
C                         F                G      C
Door that's made of rage, hard and slowly aged, always
                     F            G
closing tighter with every war we wage.

[Chorus:]
        Bb                    F#        F    Bb
In this room without a window can't see out. Room without a
           F#             F
window, Can't see out! Can't see out!

[Verse:]
C                              F            G
Floor is made of lives, we'll gladly end to stay inside.
C                            F                G
Corners made of borders, and borders made of law and order.
C                             F              G
Painted with the words of politicians and religion,
C                                  F           G
plastered with the wreckage of our cultural division.

[Chorus]

[Toast break:] (C - F repeated.)
Ha ha ha ha ha   Oh, we so stupid!  Killing each other.
Don't we learn nothin'?
[Bridge:](2x) (continue C - F)
Got a room inside our minds, yeah we gotta, we can't see out because
we're blind, but I got to choke. Gotta make ourselves drink (all right)
from a room without a window to a different way to think.

[Intro]

Then play the verse chords, with the words from the chorus.
End on a C.

That's it! I hope this sounds right to you. E-mail me with any comments, etc.
Luke

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pat smear Apr 17, 2006 at 4:02 PM PST

This is the song I let my friends listen to first if I'm trying to get them in to OpIvy. It has all of the elements of a true OpIvy song. I love the metaphor the song uses, comparing various facets of our culture to a windowless room. Very thoughtful.

Eric Phillips Aug 28, 2006 at 7:10 PM PST

how the media doesn't tell the citizens of america everything bad that happens, because we are all living in a room w/o a window where we just cant see out. operation ivy is the mofo-ing shit. thank you. bye

Mike Murphy Sep 1, 2006 at 11:30 AM PST

I think the song is just a brillant way of describing all the things in the world that hold us back and destroy all put together in a way symbolically representing a room without a window

♥brian♥ ******** Feb 18, 2006 at 12:32 AM PST

I don't think it has anything to do with the media. Its more like, the room we build around ourselves that stands in the way of any real unity.

Johan Soderberg Nov 28, 2006 at 2:34 PM PST

hell yeah

Josh Braun Jun 17, 2006 at 1:12 PM PST

my fav. operation ivy song!

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