Guitar Solo.
Heavy reverb, Slight delay, Slight distortion.
Legend:
~ = Vibrato
B = Bend
R = Return Bend to...
P = Pull off
/ = Slide Up
/ = Slide Down
+ = Stop Note
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(While still holding bend)
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Colleen Average |
#1 by Colleen Shmeltin at Sep 30, 2007 at 12:25 AM EST |
| i agree with ballzofsno. i think this is one of the best floyd songs. | |
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NICK Wanna Be |
#2 by NICK COGHLAN at Oct 2, 2007 at 2:50 PM EST |
| This song is very very underrated... or simply unknown. Along with the next song on the album, "Not Now John". Excellent songs. But, eh? How could this song relate to adolescents? Roger is singing about himself as a big rock star and how he could never be truly loved by someone. | |
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john Wanna Be |
#3 by john dolmayan at Oct 3, 2007 at 7:49 PM EST |
| This was my anthem in adolescence. As I get older, I realize it might be everyone's. The story relates just about every insecurity we face through life. It is a song about being jaded so badly that one can't even enjoy the most beautiful of moments ("Far from flying high in clear blue skies/I'm spiralling down to the hole in the ground where I hide"). Roger Waters lays out the whole thing for us, starting with a guilty child who "makes love to girls in magazines" and wonders, "could anybody love him." He builds up an array of defenses, described in vivid detail at the beginning of the second verse, "If you negotiate the minefield in the drive ... " Finally, when faced with possible love later, he is so suspicious and distrustful that he is incapable of the feeling. He can "barely define the shape of this moment in time." He wonders, "If I show you my dark side, would you still hold me tonight?/If I open my heart to you and show you my weak side/What would you do?" This song basically sums up the entire previous Wall album in a beautiful and haunting picture of loneliness. | |
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Matt Average |
#4 by Matt at Oct 3, 2007 at 8:17 PM EST |
| ballzofsno.....pinkfloyd isnt marilyn manson...roger waters dont make songs to relate to teenagers ...and his audience is not ment for teenagers.....u mite be rite for relating the final cut to adolescence but it certainly wasnt writting to all the teenagers at the time to make them feel theres someone out there who understands this song isnt about adolescence at all its about a man...probably waters himself...whos life bares the scars of a sad childhood....mainly due to the fact that he lost his farther ur interpretation is rite if this was a single....but its part of a concept album about war....so anyone with comment since could figure out that the message is that war took his father....which fucked his childhood...and led him so be insecure and depressed wen he grew up | |
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paddy Average |
#5 by paddy coscoran at Oct 4, 2007 at 1:41 AM EST |
| Could this song be about trust? If you negotiate the minefield in the drive and beat the dogs and cheat the cold electronic eyes and if you make it past the shotgun in the hall dial the combination open the priesthole and if I'm in I'll tell you what's behind the wall If you do all this then you'll be able to see the real RW. He's asking you to gain his trust by 'beating' all these obstacles. And if I show you my dark side will you still hold me tonight and if I open my heart to you and show you my weak side what would you do would you sell your story to rolling stone would you take the children away and leave me alone and smile in reassurance as you whisper down the phone would you send me packing or would you take me home Again, seems to focus on the issue of trust | |
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Jay Dizzle Wanna Be |
#6 by Jay Dizzle holden at Oct 6, 2007 at 8:13 AM EST |
| But, hey, what di I know. After all, I'm just a teenager. | |
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Beaver Average |
#7 by Beaver Butt at Oct 6, 2007 at 8:47 AM EST |
| Possibly my favorite Pink Floyd song. It held a lot of truth to me when I was 17 (what's with this teenage identification crisis?) Extremely near bottom, 'The Final Cut' and 'Abbey Road,' hand in hand, none more than the other, both shoved lots of perspective onto my life. It was much needed resolution for me. Sure, I could've gotten over it without the albums, but it may not have been as intimate or special. Great musicians... | |
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by fires light Rhythm Player |
#8 by by fires light she cried at Oct 6, 2007 at 10:51 AM EST |
| "ballzofsno.....pinkfloyd isnt marilyn manson...roger waters dont make songs to relate to teenagers" im 16 (not a mosher) and i perfectly relate to almost 99% of his songs and understand the concept of his albums so i think roger walters and gilmour made these songs to appeal to a type of person not defined by age race or religion but a person in a specific state of mind or awareness. but hay what do i know im just a "teenager" | |
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DUMBASS Average |
#9 by DUMBASS Thomas at Oct 7, 2007 at 1:03 PM EST |
| I think he's being very subliminal on this one. and if I'm in I'll tell you what's behind THE WALL and if I show you my DARK SIDE (of the moon) | |
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kevin Rhythm Player |
#10 by kevin jeung at Oct 8, 2007 at 7:35 AM EST |
| I like Specle's above comment. It's very true, as I am almost 15, and I too relate to almost 99% of Roger Waters' songs. Also, has anyone noticed that this song's music bears striking similarities to the David Gilmour sung parts of Comfortably Numb. The Final Cut is a vastly underrated album (Gee I seem to say this about every PF album : Animals, The Final Cut, More, Obscured by Clouds, Meddle [not because people don't like it, most do, but because it's their best and get's very little credit for it]) The Final Cut is an excellent song, on an excellent album, by an excellent band. My case is thus excellently closed. | |
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Josh Average |
#11 by Josh at Oct 9, 2007 at 9:28 AM EST |
| This song would be the perfect ending to the movie The Wall, it sums up all the feelings and emotions that Pink feels, and the last line of this when he wants to kill himself, but never gets the nerve. | |
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More Cowbell Lead Player |
#12 by More Cowbell at Oct 11, 2007 at 5:05 AM EST |
| the song is more 3rd person. The character is about to slit his wrist but at the end he loses his nerve and never makes the "final cut" | |
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Mauricio Wanna Be |
#13 by Mauricio Tonon at Oct 13, 2007 at 4:41 AM EST |
| give the song more comments people! | |
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josh Average |
#14 by josh stagel at Oct 17, 2007 at 5:44 PM EST |
| this song was intended to be on The Wall (Floyd's previous album) but was rejected. The sound effects were dubbed in to disassociate the song from The Wall. Shame, really, it ties up a lot of loose ends from that album. | |
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