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Commercial For Levi Tab

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F, Bb, Eb, G#, C, C.

Intro:

C  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
C  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
G# --------9--9--9-----------9-9-9/-13---------------9-9-9-9----------------11--9
Eb -9--11--0--0--0--9-9--11--0-0-0--0---9-9-9--11----0-0-0-0--9-9-9--11-----0---0
Bb -0--0------------0-0--0--------------0-0-0--0--------------0-0-0--0-----------
F  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------


"Sleep maybe the enemy..." bit
Keyboard notes:

D E F Bb Bb A G D E F Bb Bb A Bb 

C  ------------------------------------------------
C  ------------------------------------------------
G# --------------14-13-11----------------14-13--14-
Eb -11-12-14-----0--0--0----11-12-14-----0--0---0--
Bb -0--0--0--0--------------0--0--0---0------------
F  ------------------------------------------------


"I understand the facination..."

C  ---------------------------------------------------------------
C  ---------------------------------------------------------------
G# -----------------------------11-11---------11-11--9-9-9--7-7-7-
Eb -12-12-11--11--11-11--12-11--11-11--12-11--11-11--9-9-9--7-7-7-
Bb -0--0--9---9---9--9---0--0---9--9---0--0---9--9---7-7-7--5-5-5-
F  ---------------------------------------------------------------

"Please don't die..."

C  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
C  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
G# --------------7-7-7-7---------------7-7-7-7---------------7-7-7-7------------------
Eb -11-11-11-11--0-0-0-0--11-11-11-11--0-0-0-0--11-11-11-11--0-0-0-0---7-7-7-7---11-12
Bb -0--0--0--0------------0--0--0--0------------0--0--0--0-------------7-7-7-7--------
F  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Commercial For Levi Tab

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Kieran Average	#1 by Kieran Molloy at Nov 28, 1970 at 1:59 PM EST
	St. Francis of Assisi was a monk in Italy in the Middle Ages.. you know, the one that cared for animals.

No Picture ` niki * Average	#2 by ` niki * at Jul 3, 1972 at 3:17 AM EST
	There was a figure that was around the glam era of the 80's, went by the name of Trojan and died of drugs. Boy george mentions Trojan in the autobiography Take It Like A Man...

No Picture Roman Rhythm Player	#3 by Roman Malik at Oct 13, 1973 at 7:16 AM EST
	This song reminds me of my best friend who is really going to fuck up her life if she doesn't stop what she's doing. Also the boy I love, but he turned around, thank god.

No Picture zach Wanna Be	#4 by zach lilly at Jan 19, 1975 at 10:56 PM EST
	Plain and Simple: dont lose yourself when you get caught up in things. A warning about the self-destructivness of fame and fortune.

No Picture kevin Rhythm Player	#5 by kevin jeung at Feb 5, 1978 at 5:04 AM EST
	ahhh. i get it. clever.

No Picture Sam Average	#6 by Sam at Apr 25, 1982 at 9:32 PM EST
	I love this song.....I agree with the poeple here as to what its about....its about a guy (brian) warning his friend that if he doesn't smarten up soon, hes not gunna end up so well.....I absolutely love it it has a great message for teens if you think about it - Drugs will kill you - Yay for Placebo and Brian Molko :)

No Picture NICK Wanna Be	#7 by NICK COGHLAN at Jan 22, 1983 at 3:43 AM EST
	Hmmm i always thought the song was about the self destructiveness of the steryotypical gay male clubber lifestyle. Hence the choking trojan and drug references.

No Picture Sam Average	#8 by Sam at Nov 22, 1984 at 1:14 AM EST
	whats the commercial for levi gotta go with anything? great song seen them live. absolutely brilliant

No Picture Elizabeth Wanna Be	#9 by Elizabeth Greer at Mar 11, 1985 at 12:38 AM EST
	"Sleep may be the enemy" This line to me makes me think that its not Brian telling someone to get their act together but someone telling Brian too. This is mainly because I read in an interview that Brian hates to sleep because when his asleep, he can't stop the truthful thoughts he has. This line got me thinking the song is about him, getting bollocked and havnig to get his act together.

No Picture nick Average	#10 by nick coffeen at Aug 10, 1998 at 11:04 PM EST
	to me brian is showing how people can get involved in thinks that are wrong or dangerous with out realising how it will effect them , thats why they uses happy music, its almost showing how people can get this false image that it is all merry when realy its not.

No Picture Ahhma Average	#11 by Ahhma Yomamma at Jun 23, 2003 at 8:31 AM EST
	While he was praying on the mountain of Verna, together with his close friend Thomas, St. Francis received the Stigmata on 17 September 1223. Suddenly he saw a vision of an angel on a cross. This angel bore holes into St. Francis's feet, hands, and chest. This is the first account of Stigmata in history. However, no one knew about this occurrence until after his death, when Thomas told a crowd of Franciscans that he had witnessed this account.

No Picture Angus Rhythm Player	#12 by Angus Young at Sep 17, 2005 at 3:26 AM EST
	In the word's of the great Brian Molko: "That's a song about grabbing your mate by the scruff of the neck and telling him that he's walking down a rocky road to ruin. It's basically, "You're my mate and I love you, but if you don't watch out you're going to fuck up pretty bad." It's autobiographical in the sense that there have been certain points in my life where the band or other friends have had to do that to me. Which was very beneficial. I love that song because musically it's like a really sweet lullaby and lyrically it's quite a filthy number. It puts a smile on your face." "Levi's our sound man. There was this one time in Milan when I got a bit too drunk at dinner and left the restaurant which was right opposite the venue and there were some fans waiting outside, and I climbed on top of this Fiat Uno, and started screaming 'Nancy Boy', doing a performance for the fans. And Levi dragged me off the Fiat Uno, as the owner was approaching and waving the keys. I thought I was going to cross this road in between the two parked tour buses and took off, and Levi just grabbed me as a car zoomed by. So it's quite possible that he did save my life. If I was a Samurai, I would have to follow him around for the rest of my life and take care of him until I saved his life. But my little payback for that is to put his name in a song."

No Picture James Wanna Be	#13 by James Makowiecki at Sep 24, 2006 at 10:43 PM EST
	Don't read into this too deep; Risky's quote pretty much sums it up. Brian says it's about warning a friend and being saved himself, so that's what it's about. BDSM references and so on are inconsequential to that central meaning.

No Picture Patrick Wanna Be	#14 by Patrick Wade at Nov 25, 2006 at 1:02 PM EST
	"choking Trojan"-masturbation reference? Very mellow. wouldn't've expected this from them.

No Picture Austin Average	#15 by Austin Schrauben at Jan 27, 2007 at 1:56 PM EST
	This is a really difficult song.. i think it is about some-one who is destroying his/her-self and that brian don't want that person to do it.. but i dont know :S

No Picture Josh Average	#16 by Josh at Mar 7, 2007 at 2:08 AM EST
	does anyone know what assissi means?

No Picture Basstard Professional	#17 by Basstard at Mar 11, 2007 at 8:00 PM EST
	I like this song because if you listen to the lyrics their serious and like the refernces to golden showers and beasiality are kinda filthy (in my opinion), but the music is quite happy and u know the bit in the background at certain points of the song (sorry that was vague, dnt kno how to describe it but you all know what im talking about) makes it sound almost like a christmas song. so its quite strange really.

No Picture Rockstar Professional	#18 by Rockstar at Apr 9, 2007 at 8:44 AM EST
	"You're the one whose showers always golden" As a sexual fetish, a "golden shower" is the bathing in/with/ urine.

No Picture IM A MAN WHO C Rhythm Player	#19 by IM A MAN WHO CHANGED INTO A BEAST at Apr 18, 2007 at 8:02 PM EST
	I don't know if it's just me, but it seems it has SM written all over it. ['The dream that comes alive at night..'] SM night clubs and stuff. You could say, that it's a dream because in the eyes of many people, it's not normal. But to that someone that twisted dream can come alive at night. ['Showers golden..'] Golden shower is a thing SM mistresses do to their slaves. ['You're the one who's always bruised and broken..'] As if the song was to someone who likes being submissive in SM sex. Gets beaten up by his mistress. ['Drunk on immorality..'] SM sex is immoral to most people. But then again my point of view doesn't go together with what someone quoted Brian saying. So I wouldn't know what this song actually is about. But SM is what it has always seemed to me. Maybe I'm just wicked twisted. [a]

No Picture josh Rhythm Player	#20 by josh groocock at May 7, 2007 at 3:21 AM EST
	I think this song is about a friend trying to help you out from alot of common dangers etc. and I feel this song is also about hypocracy and how these problems are so hard to avoid.

No Picture Dan Wanna Be	#21 by Dan Z at Jun 16, 2007 at 6:51 PM EST
	Its about a guy, Levi, the sound dude, shaking Brian by the back of his collar and saying wise up boy. pumkinhead- to choke Trojan is to give someone a BJ while they're wearing a condom

No Picture †§ean† Average	#22 by †§ean† at Jul 21, 2007 at 1:07 AM EST
	I love this song.....I agree with the poeple here as to what its about....its about a guy (brian) warning his friend that if he doesn't smarten up soon, hes not gunna end up so well.....I absolutely love it it has a great message for teens if you think about it - Drugs will kill you - Yay for Placebo and Brian Molko :)

No Picture josh Average	#23 by josh meador at Aug 31, 2007 at 11:11 AM EST
	WOW I just discovered this song and you know what makes me like it even more- it's like Song to say goodbye is the sequel of it - because it has the same thematic - so it's like Commercial for Levi is about making the friend quit and then Song to say goodbye is about almost giving up... Amazing. Both songs are great. GREAT!

No Picture Braxton Lead Player	#24 by Braxton Overby at Sep 20, 2007 at 3:00 AM EST
	this song reminds me of myself at some times and made me realise what some people had done to help me in the past...i jus like the beat on it aswell

No Picture cody Average	#25 by cody champion at Sep 28, 2007 at 8:26 PM EST
	Yeah I think its like about some dude that is like destroying his life with drugs and all that shit but the other guy cares about his druggie friend and wants him to change because he has been down that road once and that road was not the most pleasant road to take.