Trains Guitar Tab

		
		Ver 1 Ver 2 Ver 3 Ver 4 
	

In Absentia Tabs:

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This is such a great song and I wanted to play it, couldn't find it on UG so found it
and put it up.
Thanks to Mike for tabbing such a great song.
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My son and I have had many heated discussions on how to play the opening riff, this
is what I've got so far.  The banjo/acoustic interlude is a work in progress, hope
to spend some more time on this soon and work on the solo also!  Mike
Trains Porcupine Tree


(Capo 5th. fret)

Intro:Repeat for verse

verse
e|---------------|---------------------------|-0---0-0-0----||
B|-3---3-3-3-3-3-|-3---3-3-0---3---3-3-0-3-0-|-0---0-0-3----||
G|-0---0h2-0h2-0-|-0---0-0-0---0---0h2-0h2-0-|-0---0-0-0----||
D|-0---0---0---0-|h2---2-2-2---0---0-0-0-0-0-|-2---2-2------||
A|---------------|h3---3-3-3-----------------|-2---2-2------||
E|---------------|---------------------------|-0---0-0------||

prechorus
e|--------0-0-0-|-0-0--0-0--0-0-0----------|-0-----------0--||
B|-1-1--1-2-2-2-|-2-1--1-1--1-0-0--3-3-3-3-|-3--3-3-3-3--0--||
G|-0-0--0-0-0-0-|-0-0--0-0--0-0-0--0h2-0h2-|-0--0h2-0h2--0--||
D|-2-2--2-2-2-2-|-2-2--2-2--2-2-2--0-0-0-0-|-2--0-0-0-0--2--||
A|-3-3--3-0-0-0-|-0-0--0-0--0-2-2----------|-3-----------2--||
E|-3-3--3-------|-------------0-0----------|-0-----------0--||

chorus  (simplified, strumming is easy to follow playing with CD)  Upstroke then change 
to next 

chord quickly!



e|--0-0-0-0---|-0-0-0-0--|-2-2-------|------||
B|--2-2-1-1---|-1-1-0-0--|-3-3--2----|-1-0--||
G|--2-2-2-2---|-0-0-0-0--|-2-2--2----|-0-0--||
D|--2-2-2-2---|-2-2-2-2--|-0-0--2----|-2-2--||
A|--0-0-0-0---|-3-3-2-2--|------0----|-3-3--||
E|------------|-3-3-3-3--|-----------|-3-3--||



[Dsus2]--------[C]---------[Dsus2]----[Em]--[Dsus2]- 
 

---[C]--------[Dsus2]--[Em]


---[Dsus2]----------[C]----[Dsus2]-------[Em]

[C]---------[A7]---------[Am7]---[Em]


[A]----[Am]--[C]------[Cmaj7]-------[D]-----[A]-[C]-[Cmaj7]


[Dsus2]----[C]--[Dsus2]-----[Em]---[Dsus2]------- 

[C]------[Dsus2]-[Em]

[C]------------[A7]-------[Am7]-----[Em]



[A]----[Am]--[C]------[Cmaj7]-------[D]-----[A]-[C]-[Cmaj7]


[A]-[Am]---[C]--[Cmaj7]-[D]-------[A]---[C]-[Cmaj7]


Cmaj7 - Fmaj7 (Repeat X times then play second line)

       
|-------------0|--------------|-------------|-0------------|
|----------0---|---0----------|------3------|-----3--------|
|-------0----0-|-0-----0-----.|----2---2---2|---2---2---2--|
|-----2---2----|-----2---2---.|0h3-------3--|---------3----|
|-0h3----------|--------------|-------------|--------------|
|--------------|--------------|-------------|--------------|

|-1------------|--0-----------|
|-----3--------|-----3--------|
|---2---2---2--|---2---2---2--|
|---------3----|---------3----|
|--------------|--------------|
|--------------|--------------|



|--------------|--------------|----------------|------------------|
|----------1---|--------1-----|-----------3----|---------3--------|
|-------4----4-|------4----4-.|-------0-----0--|------0-----0----.|
|-----2---2----|----2----2---.|-----4---4------|----4---4--------.|
|-0h3----------|-3------------|--2-------------|-2----------------|
|--------------|--------------|----------------|------------------|


D

|--------------|2------2----3-|------/5---2-|-------2---0-------0--|
|-----3---3----|----3---------|---3---------|---3-----------3------| 
|---2---2---2--|--2---2--2----|-2---2---2---|-2---2---2---2---2---2|
|-0------------|0-----------0-|-----------0-|-----------0----------|
|--------------|--------------|-------------|----------------------|
|--------------|--------------|-------------|----------------------|

|--------------|--------------|
|----------1---|--------1-----|
|-------4----4-|------4----4-.|
|-----2---2----|----2----2---.|
|-0h3----------|-3------------|
|--------------|--------------|



[A]--------------[Am]-----------[C]-------[Cmaj7]---- 



[D]--------[A]------------[C] [Cmaj7]

[A]---------------[Am]----------------[C]---[Cmaj7] 
 
-----[D]------[A]--------[C] [Cmaj7] 


{Transcribed by Mike Ferenczy} e-mail michaelferenzy@msn.com 
PORCUPINE TREE is the best new music since The Beatles and Floyd!!!!!!!
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture chris Wanna Be	#1 by chris valverde at Aug 5, 1971 at 1:26 AM EST
	truely beautiful... here's what gets me" i'm dying of love it's ok. mmmmm...

No Picture Gary Wanna Be	#2 by Gary Rossington at Aug 24, 1974 at 7:35 AM EST
	steve wilson (singer) grew up right next to trains. youll hear samples of trains and references in a few other songs.

No Picture Bobby Rhythm Player	#3 by Bobby McCorkle at Feb 7, 1981 at 2:10 PM EST
	Hey hil... the when i hear the engine pass, i'm kissing you wid, the hissing subsides , and i'm in luck always gets me too ( ;

No Picture Zach Rhythm Player	#4 by Zach at Jul 19, 1988 at 5:13 AM EST
	Totally agree with you on this.

No Picture Jay the Hellrac Average	#5 by Jay the Hellracer... at Jun 14, 1989 at 2:45 PM EST
	I've always understood the first verses simply as a description of a place, where the character has spent his summers. The second verse I think is the whole "Trains" thing, "a 60 ton angel-- piece of old metal" is literally a train. "scars in the country" are railroad tracks ruining the beautiful countryside.

No Picture Venti Average	#6 by Venti at Aug 7, 1995 at 5:38 PM EST
	Ok, here's another interpretation: the song IS talking about trains, but the 60 ton angel falling from the sky sounds much more like a plane crashing into the country side. Perhaps the cousin in the song is one person who died in the plane crash, hence, why the aircraft is called an "angel." The train in his room reminds him of when he used to visit his cousin in the summers (when they had time off), and the rumbling from the train makes him feel (due to the sound of the bed rumbling possibly) like his cousin is there in the room causing the memories to be much more vivid causing him to be "dying of love." "But, it's ok" because he has good memories of them being together in summers that they would spend together. For instance, the following part: When I hear the engine pass I'm kissing you wide The hissing subsides I'm in luck is about how the memories the train brings makes him jovial. But the next part: When the evening reaches here You're tying me up I'm dying of love It's OK talks about how the memories are killing him. It's like he's tied up on the train tracks being run over by the train, but it's ok- the memories of the good times are worth the pain. Far fetched interpretation? LOL That's what I get from it at the moment.

No Picture camilo Average	#7 by camilo velasquez at Nov 18, 1998 at 4:51 PM EST
	I'd actually agree with EmpyreanVagrant. Seeing as the song before this one (Blackest Eyes) on the album seems to be about a mentally unstable man who commits rape, it makes sense that this song carries on in the same vein. All the songs on In Absentia seem to be about a mental guy, so I don't think it's likely that the song is about love or anything like that.

No Picture Razor wrist Lead Player	#8 by Razor wrist at Feb 22, 2002 at 12:32 PM EST
	This song definitely is meant to be percieved in different ways by different people. It's about nostalgic childhood memories of summers at cousins' houses that ended too fast (SW frequently refers to having fond memories of trains as a child) but some of the lyrics also have a darker tone which bring to mind the themes of the rest of In Absentia--serial killers, rapists, child abusers, etc. However most of IA's songs are meant to have multiple meanings.

No Picture brian Average	#9 by brian haun at May 1, 2003 at 6:26 PM EST
	^^^ haha how does that explain 'Sound of Muzak'? Anyway, I guess that it could be tied into the main theme of the album, in which case you could say that the person abuses/has an S&M type relationship (Scars in the country, the summer and her) with a relative and the cries are drowned down by the sound of the train passing by.

No Picture tom Average	#10 by tom jenkins at May 11, 2005 at 11:42 PM EST
	This song is so eerie yet incredible at the same time. The content is extremely deep. The lyrics are so odd that the song is definitely hard to interpret. This might be a big stretch but I think the train is a metaphor for a relationship in ruins. The first few verses describe the loud sound of the train and how it scars the beauty of the countryside. Keeping this in mind, the relationship dysfunction (or train) is destroying the beauty of the relationship. "Always the summers are slipping away Find me a way for making it stay" These lyrics make the song. Here, one of the lovers is looking for a way to save the relationship. When he or she does, the train passes through and everything is back the way is was. Yes, it's a big stretch but that's how I see the song.

No Picture Bobby Rhythm Player	#11 by Bobby McCorkle at Feb 24, 2007 at 8:13 AM EST
	He's screwing his cousin?