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Song: Stealing Babies
Band: Our Lady Peace
Album: Happiness...Is Not A Fish That You Can Catch
Words By: Raine Maida
Music By: OLP & Elvin Jones
Tabbed By: Matt Finateri
TUNING - eb Bb Gb Db Ab Eb (1/2 step down)
There are a couple more versions of this song on the net, but this
one is more accurate. I taped the I&I on MuchMusic, and found that
this is the way Raine plays it...or very close to.
I?m not sure about the lyrics at the end of the song. I?m pretty
sure he says "I?ve been weighed down," though he could be saying
"I?ve been way down."
Chords Used:
G G# Cm F Eb
e--3---4---3---1---3---|
B--3---4---4---1---4---|
G--4---5---5---2---3---|
D--5---6---5---3---5---|
A--5---6---3---3---6---|
E--3---4---3---1---3---|
INTRO - Cm, Eb, G# - 2X
Cm G
I?m teething on the answers you?re saving
G# F
How are gonna make me sleep again?
Cm G G
I?m dreaming while you?re stealing babies
G# F
When are you gonna make me understand?
Cm Eb G#
How should I say "I?m so sorry?"
Cm Eb G# G
How should I pray, to know that we?re alive?
Cm G#
Eve stands alone by the knock on the door
F G# G
By the thin her bones, she?s courageous and loving
Cm G#
Exhausted & cold, she?s not ready to go
F
So the ghost on the phone
G# G
Helps her safely into her dream
REPEAT INTRO (1X)
Cm G
You?re leaving pieces of family
G# F
How are you gonna help them understand?
Cm G
I?m screaming while you?re stealing babies
G# F
Why do you want to knock us down again?
How should I say "I?m so sorry?"
How should we pray, to make us feel alive?
Ever stands alone by the knock on the door
By the thin in her bones
She?s courageous and loving
Exhausted and cold, she?s not ready to go
So the ghost on the phone
Helps her safely into her dreams
Cm G
Do do do do do do
G# F
Do do do do do do
Cm G
Do do do do do do
G# F
Do do do dooo
Cm G
Do do do do do do
G# F G F
Do do do do do do
Cm G F F
Do do do do do do, do do do do do do
Cm G
It must be our egos
G# F
It must be my lack
Cm G F
A fate that it might not come back
Cm G G# F
I?ve been weighed down again, (I)
Cm G F
Weighed down again
Cm G Cm G Cm G Cm G....
Weighed down, weighed down, weighed down, down, down....
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Trey Average |
#1 by Trey smith at Sep 23, 1970 at 5:29 AM EST |
| I also heard in an interview that this song was about AIDS. Raine said that he was once watching a documentary type show late one night about children who were suffering with AIDS, he said that he sat up all night crying and decided to write this song. | |
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phil Wanna Be |
#2 by phil taylor at Mar 19, 1972 at 6:53 AM EST |
| the jellybrick thing too sounds good. and yeah..there's not one RIGHT interpretation. If an artist wanted a specific message sent out, it wouldn't be so...thick, so to speak. | |
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Josh Average |
#3 by Josh Braun at Oct 28, 1976 at 1:48 PM EST |
| I saw OLP in concert just before their one man army cd came out and raine told the audience what the song was about before he sang it. He said it was about a real sick mother f$%^&*, a televangelist and by being a televangelist he was getting in our kids minds and in essence stealing babies be filling their heads with all the bible bullshit- intolerance, predjudice, homophobia, things like that. | |
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BeN-bEn Lead Player |
#4 by BeN-bEn Lesniewski at Feb 9, 1979 at 3:07 PM EST |
| i always thought it was about a man pleading to his suicidal girlfriend/wife to not kill herself. he describes in the first verse how he can't leave her alone anywhere or not worry about her, and asks how he could make it better. in the chorus, she keeps attempting to, but then is talked out of it by a friend on the phone. | |
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austin Rhythm Player |
#5 by austin ballard at Dec 20, 1984 at 1:49 AM EST |
| This is probably the most incredible OLP song to date. I had a hard time dealing with the weird jazz breakdown at first, but now I've come to love every single part of this amazing song. Oh yeah, if you think Gravity sucks, then you're crazy. Isn't a band allowed to change and evolve over time? Musicians are just like anybody else and they get really tired of just doing the same thing over and over again. Give OLP props for going out on a limb and taking the chance of working with a new producer and streamlining their sound a little bit. They've worked hard for a long time and deserve the success they are finally getting. | |
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Fatty [eats chi Average |
#6 by Fatty [eats children] kid at Apr 17, 1985 at 1:14 PM EST |
| thats nuts. either way its a very deep song, pretty intellectual, one of olp's bests [alon with naveed] in my opinion. | |
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Marks Average |
#7 by Marks at Mar 27, 1986 at 8:27 PM EST |
| wow, that adam/eve story is pretty interesting. I like it! The televangelist thing is pretty cool too. Now, i've heard a different version. At one conert, raine said that Eve was a little girl who developed HIV on her ninth blood transfusion and instead of getting busy dying, she traveled around the world and talked to other sick children and tried to explain to them why they were being taken away from the earth at such a young age. Anyways, whatever it's about, it's a great great song. And the little jazz breakdown at the end is one of the best parts of any song. | |
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Steve Wanna Be |
#8 by Steve Smyth at Nov 22, 1987 at 8:20 PM EST |
| Raine has stated numerous times on stage that this song is written to God (even though he has also stated he doesn't believe in a religious god), about how God can kill babies with AIDS and how it just doesn't make sense. And yeah, the lines in the epilogue portion should read: It must be our egos, it must be my lack, Of faith that it might not come back. x2 | |
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Joe Average |
#9 by Joe Fitzpatrick at Aug 25, 1996 at 3:41 AM EST |
| If you combine what anomalous3 says and what the_intermind says then it makes the most sense possible. | |
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Dark Lead Player |
#10 by Dark Avenger at Oct 5, 1998 at 2:28 PM EST |
| I heard somewhere that this song was about AIDS. When you listen to the lyrics it really seems like it could be. The AIDS crisis in Africa, well really the whole world but specifically Africa, with all the children being born infected, really reflects this song. This song is very powerful, I like the sound of it, for about the first two minutes, then it kinda gets weird. They are still my favorite band though. | |
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Grunge Hamster Lead Player |
#11 by Grunge Hamster at Mar 12, 2002 at 6:23 PM EST |
| Now, Ive always gone in a different direction with this song. I'm not really sure what it means but listening to the lyrics, I think of Eve as a mother getting a phone call and slowly going insane. Why? Well, it is because her son has been drafted into the army and has gone off to war to die. Maybe, who knows, a lot of interesting opinions about this song, I love the site, very helpful. But yeah, I think this is an anti-draft song. | |
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bogex Rhythm Player |
#12 by bogex luna at Mar 7, 2007 at 7:03 AM EST |
| Lilith is the woman who gives little boys "wet dreams".. in all seriousness. She has sometimes been said to be the devil. Adam didn't like that she was equal so God banished her from the garden and such.. I didn't know anyone else knew of that story. Oh well. | |
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