Frontwards Guitar Tab

Watery, Domestic [EP] Tabs:

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From: rte@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu

PAVEMENT "Frontwards"

Intro part       (X4)
e--------------------
B*-3------3---3-----*
G--2----2---2---0----
D--0-----------------
A*------------------*
E--------------------

                      (X3)
e----5-10---5----------||----|
B*-3----------3-3-3-3-*||-3--|
G----------------------||-2--|
D----------------------||-0--|
A---------------------*||----|
E----------------------||----|

VERSE

         D                       A
I am the only one, searching for you,

             G                          D
and if I get caught, then the search is through

        D                         
and the stories you hear, you know they never add up

A                                      G
I hear the natives fussin' at the data chart,


be quiet the weather's on the night news...


CHORUS

D            A              G             E
     Antique homes, plastic cones, stolen rims

                  D
are they alloy or chrome,

D                 A                G 
     Well Ive got style, miles and miles,

        E
so much style that its wasted,

D            E
     so much style that its wasted

D            E
     so much style that its waste--------

        G          E
--------ed

QUASI-SOLO-TYPE-THING
                                                           (X2)
e--------------------------------------------------------------
B-5~3~5~3~5~3--0-0--0-0------8~7~8~7~8~7~8-7-8-9--------------
G-----------------------2-------------------------------------


2nd VERSE
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She's the only one, who always inhales
Paris is stale
And it's war if we fail

And in the migrant hotels, they never sleep,
they never will
their souls are crumbling like a dirt clod hold,
your cigarette cuts to the inside

Antique homes, plastic cones, stolen rims,
are they alloy or chrome,
Well ive got style, miles and miles
So much style that its leavin
It's pattern's torn and we're weavin'
This battle's torn and we're weavin'

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Kyle Average	#1 by Kyle at Jan 7, 1973 at 8:43 AM EST
	"Stolen rooms, or the alloy of chrome "... actual lyric is "stolen rims are they alloy or chrome". Probably my favorite Pavement song... Like many of their early songs though, it's pretty hard to say what it is actually about. To me it appears to be a song about unrequited love...

No Picture Spanky Lead Player	#2 by Spanky Man at Mar 12, 1998 at 6:17 AM EST
	"Well I've got style- miles and miles, so much style that it's wasted." yeah, my favorite thing ever. i don't know why this never made it onto one of the albums.

No Picture Pasquale Average	#3 by Pasquale at May 23, 1998 at 4:24 PM EST
	It made it onto the wonderful Watery Domestic EP, which is awesome on it own. Last EP with Gary 2 Sniff... Anyways this song is about moving on, progressing past mistakes and negative emotions, and bad circumstances around you. Start with the chorus: Empty homes, plastic combs, stolen rims are they alloy or chrome? This is a snapshot of daily life, and one thats not very attractive. Using cheap plastic combs, empty abandoned houses, someone's rims got stolen.. were they alloy or chrome? "Be quiet the weather's on the night news" Parents yelling at kids while they watch monotonous weather reports. Who hasn't experienced these things? The rest of the lyrics echo this sentiment: migrant workers who slave away at cheap labor, souls are crumbling, in the way a dirt clod crumbles in a firm grasp, I like that simile btw ^_^. And the famous "I've got style" lines. SM says them as if its a burden, trying to have style, miles and miles... i take it almost as if he is tired of trying to have style; of trying to establish himself, and so the skills he does have are wasted. The fabric (his life) is torn ( hard times) but theres the hope of weaving something beautiful regardless, we are all still weaving it out. In the live version at Brixton Academy Sm says before they play: "Frontwords in the name of this song, it's about moving forward.... obviously" The live version is quite good as well.