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King of Pain - Police
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Tabbed by: Jesse Benedick
Email: Cartguysam@aol.com
Tuning: Standard
e|--------9-10-12-12-------10-12-12--------9-10-12-14-12-------10-12-12------|
B|--10-12------------10-12-----------10-12---------------10-12---------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
e|--------9-10-12-12-------10-12-12--------9-10-12-10-9----------------------|
B|--10-12------------10-12-----------10-12--------------12~------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| / slide up
| slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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niles Wanna Be |
#1 by niles lewis at Mar 31, 1978 at 9:39 PM EST |
| I wasn't aware that anyone was ever tortured in a Nazi prison camp in Iran. | |
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JUSTIN Lead Player |
#2 by JUSTIN LOCKHART at Jul 29, 1985 at 3:58 PM EST |
| Hopefully shauncreaney has chilled and found a bit of tolerance in his life. It’s not enough to just dislike the song—he’s got to roll into go-to-hell-bastard. Hope he manages to exorcize his jealousy demons … This is a very creative song with loads of well constructed imagery. I dismiss any references to Satan and think this is a song about depression. The black spot on the sun is a day that starts out good but is destined to tank and he knows it. The owner of the hat might also have felt his day tanked. And this has happened often. It’s the same old thing as yesterday. The rain is pouring, the wind won’t stop, the world is doing circles—life sucks. The end of the reign refers to a desire for this crappola to stop and the destiny is his doubt that it will. The remaining images are examples of having a piss-ass frustrating day. We all have them. Songwriters can immortalize feelings that do not necessarily continue in a steady, daily flow. I didn’t know Iran had Nazi prisons and I’m sorry—I shouldn’t have said that—but I couldn’t resist. | |
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metal-cat Average |
#3 by metal-cat stepheria at Aug 7, 1992 at 4:26 AM EST |
| I have had episodes of clinical depression (the suicidal kind, not just being in a sad mood) all my life, and if anybody ever asked me to describe how it feels, I would play them this song. The images are so detailed and acute, the music so funereal. It's not even like a cry of pain, it's the total vacuum of hopelessness. An outstanding song. | |
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brandon Rhythm Player |
#4 by brandon q at Jun 6, 1993 at 7:30 PM EST |
| shauncreaney - the song 'de do do do" is pointing at you! Now wonder i like this song so much when i'm depressed! | |
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† james † Average |
#5 by † james † at Oct 26, 1997 at 7:45 PM EST |
| I don't see the link to Jung. There could definitely be one, though. Sting's a well-read guy. I love this song, by the way. The instrumetation isn't whiny, and Sting's voice isn't, either, but the words carry a lot of weight. | |
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Harry Average |
#6 by Harry Johnson at Aug 15, 1999 at 9:12 PM EST |
| [Stephen Holden—Rolling Stone 1983] The rejected narrator in "King of Pain" sees his abandonment as a kind of eternal damnation in which the soul becomes "a fossil that's trapped in a high cliff wall/ ... A dead salmon frozen in a waterfall." | |
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katie Average |
#7 by katie focner at Nov 25, 2001 at 3:28 PM EST |
| shut yer hole...it has something to do with Carl Jung...i'm not sure what. any ideas, parapsychologists? | |
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Dan Wanna Be |
#8 by Dan Z at Feb 2, 2005 at 10:35 PM EST |
| … god bless Mr Sting. 'King Of Pain'. 'There's a little black spot on the sun today'. Beatles-quality vocal melody, 'nuff said. [George Starostin] | |
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David Average |
#9 by David Gilmour at Aug 22, 2006 at 10:25 PM EST |
| Yeah... basically it is a guy saying how depressed he is... but it's a surprisingly beautiful song if you really listen. It's about a man saying he's destined to always be hurting, that the pain will never go away no matter what he does or where he goes. He's asking for someone to help him but ultimately knows they can't. | |
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