Drowning By Numbers Guitar Tab

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			    Drowning By Numbers - Placebo                      
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Tabbed by:Daspop
Email:schep_vreugde_en_leef@hotmail.com

standard placebo tuning: CAPO 1° FRET
(all relative to capo)

intro + verse 1(bass)+
e|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-5~----------5~--------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|

Chorus
e|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-6-6-6-6-6-6--6-6-6-6-6-6-6--------------------------------------------|
D|-6-6-6-6-6-6--6-6-6-6-6-6-6--------------------------------------------|x4
A|-4-4-4-4-4-4--4-4-4-4-4-4-4--------------------------------------------|
E|--------------5-5-5-5-5-5-5--------------------------------------------|

verse 2
E|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-6-6--9--7--6-6--9--7--6-6--9--7--6-6--9-7-----------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|

chorus
bridge("drowning")
e|--------------------------------x-x-x-x--------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------x-x-x-x--------------------------------|
G|-------6-6-6-7-7-7-6-6-6--------x-x-x-x--------------------------------|
D|-4-4-4-6-6-6-7-7-7-6-6-6--------x-x-x-x--------------------------------|x4
A|-4-4-4-4-4-4-5-5-5-4-4-4--------x-x-x-x--------------------------------|
E|-2-2-2--------------------------x-x-x-x--------------------------------|

verse 3
e|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------7-7-10--8--7-7-10--8-----------------------------|
G|----------------------6-6--9--7--6-6--9--7--6-6--9--7--6-6--9--7-------|
D|-5~--------5~----------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|

bridge = outro
end on
e|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-6~--------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|

| ~  vibrato
| x  Mute note

Have fun, it's a cool song, it's a cool band, and a sexy singer (:P)
chears!
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Jarrett Lead Player	#1 by Jarrett Sandlin at Aug 15, 1975 at 6:25 PM EST
	my favorite part is when he's singing drowning, it's sooooooo gooooooood :D

No Picture Zach Wanna Be	#2 by Zach Pain at Jul 15, 1976 at 10:28 PM EST
	man...bo one's commented on what this song means just yet....its been up for 3 years! well I personally don't quite know what brians trying to say here but I think it might be about love and drowning in the emotions and sacrifices towards love......thats just my thought.......anyways yeah....more poeple should comment cause this is an awesome song and Placebo and Brian Molko ROCK!! :D

No Picture Peter Wanna Be	#3 by Peter Lambden at Aug 23, 1977 at 4:47 PM EST
	Hm, I really like this song, but I'm not too sure what it means. Maybe the 'big, big blue' is like the gene pool, and he wants to come back as a woman... or genderless... or maybe the person he speaks of he wants this to happen to. A song about changing peoples minds and perceptions of the roles of genders? Hell I don't know, but I really like the 'Open up your heart, let me slip inside. part. Great song Auto-flagellation always helps the ghost to hide.'

No Picture Dan Average	#4 by Dan Johnson at Jun 23, 1980 at 7:28 AM EST
	"Try losing, this chromosome. It's my choosing, down to the bone." he was veeery androgynous when he wrote this song... maybe it means like the XY chromosones, losing one of them, becoming female, more androgynous... how it was his choice alone...

No Picture Beaver Average	#5 by Beaver Butt at Oct 5, 1982 at 4:04 PM EST
	"Such determination always tries to turn the tide" "Such imagination always helps the feeling slide." i just love those lyrics so much. & i think everyone can relate to them tbh, we've all been in that situation where the person we're craving just aint interested & we've still kept trying, ignoring the fact they're not. mm. agree with Luna about the rest of the song.

No Picture Devin Average	#6 by Devin Moreno at Sep 13, 1985 at 4:59 AM EST
	yer Brian re-used the lyrics. (similarly in Kitsch Object to Peeping Tom). i agree, the best part of the song is when he's saying 'drowning'

No Picture bogex Rhythm Player	#7 by bogex luna at May 28, 1986 at 8:29 AM EST
	i guess this song has something to do with greenaway film with the same title.

No Picture adam Average	#8 by adam humphreys at Aug 11, 1990 at 8:58 PM EST
	mh, I'm a bit clueless here "try losing this chromosome" reminds me of men having XY and women XX. Maybe he's in love with a man for the first time and doesn't really want to realize it and wishes that his guy could lose the Y chromosome and be a woman. "such imagination always helps the feeling slide" could mean that it's easier for him to love his guy when he imagines he's a woman... :-/ sick interpretation anyway.... did anyone realize that the part "such imagination always helps the feeling slide" is almost exactly like in "Without you I'm nothing"??? --> "such imagination seems to help the feeling slide"???

No Picture dann Average	#9 by dann at Jan 30, 2003 at 10:22 AM EST
	my favorite part is when he's singing drowning, it's sooooooo gooooooood :D