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TRANSCONTINENTAL
By PEDRO THE LION
Off the new album ACHILLES HEEL
C              Am7   Em               F          Fm         C
Engine severs lower legs, I feel my bruised heart beating - Spinal cord
Am7      Em                 F      Fm       Am              Am/G
remains in tact, still sending and receiving - Laying back on shoulder
F                    C  C/B Am            Am/G        F
blades, cargo rushing past - Missing limbs beneath the cars, twitching on
G      C/E    F         D/F# G    G/G#    Am       F
the tracks - Clic clack, now handicapped, north am transcontinental -
C               Am            Em    F G G/G# Bb
C          Am     Em            F         Fm      C
I remember as I bleed, certain tales of bravery - A man who's legs were
Am       Em             F     Fm         Am         Am/G         F
trapped beneath, a fallen evergreen tree - He decided he would chop them
C C/B Am                Am/G     F
off above the knee - To sacrifice his shins and feet, and set his torso
G      Dm      Am         F                 Em   E/G#   Dm
free - The luxury of having been spared the hard part - You'd think would
Am            F              G     C/E      F       D/F#     G  G/G#
be enough for me to pull this off - But I'm left to bleed to death - Now
Am       G       F     C           Dm       G          G#  Bb  C
all the man I've ever been - North am transcontinental.
THAT'S ALL FOLKS
Submitted by eric starrs.
fieldinglane@hotmail.com

Source: http://www.guitarmasta.net/p/pedro_the_lion/356396.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Jesus Professional	#1 by Jesus at Oct 12, 1984 at 5:17 PM EST
	I think this song expresses the singer's feelings of inferiority, and that he has no desire to live. Even though he knows he could live if he wanted to, he decides he would rather just lay on the railroad tracks and bleed to death.

No Picture Avinash Average	#2 by Avinash Dutta at Jul 31, 1985 at 6:16 PM EST
	I never thought pedro the lion was so sadistic until I actually listened to the lyrics...very eerie..has a sort of elliott smith feel about it, depressing yet beautiful lyrics.

No Picture Guitar Master Wanna Be	#3 by Guitar Master J at Oct 5, 2002 at 5:16 AM EST
	Why aren't there more comments on this song? Seriously, these are some of my favorite Bazan lyrics ever, they're so perverse. David has said that they were all written from that first line. The song seems to pretty much be about a man's revelation about the way he has led his life framed by extremely strange circumstances. I love it.

No Picture CJ Wanna Be	#4 by CJ West at Oct 6, 2007 at 5:27 AM EST
	This song means a lot to me. For me, it's about this feeling of almost insisting to succumb to weakness. It's this shame in feeling that you know you could actually go out and live your life but something deep inside wont let you. He compares himself to other people with enough will and passion to live, and for that he feels pathetic. You know how it is; you read stories of extraordinary circumstances, self-sacrifice, and triumph over despair. This is the 'hard part,' which is accepting the pain and struggle. I know how this feels. You feel like your life issues could not compare to those of other, stronger people. The feelings of inadequacy and personal failure are so profound. I think this song is a beautiful rendering of these feelings. It brings tears to my eyes...

No Picture inaki Wanna Be	#5 by inaki laris at Oct 13, 2007 at 3:07 AM EST
	"click-clack, now handicapped", it sounds funny and yet is very serious

No Picture David Average	#6 by David Eldridge at Oct 17, 2007 at 12:13 PM EST
	he said at a show that this song just started when the phrase "engine severs lower legs" popped into his head so he just wrote a song from there... no real deep meaning just a great song