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Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box Tab

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Song-Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box
Artist-Radiohead
Tabbed by Overdrivejam

Tuning-Drop D
(DADGBe)


There is actually guitar in this song and its really just feedback and effects so I’m 
just going to tab out the keyboard for guitar and the chorus guitar part. Remember it's 
in Drop D tuning.

Intro: Guitar 1 is arranged for the bass keyboard notes
	  Guitar 2 is arranged for the high notes 


Guitar 1
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--3h5-3 3-2-2-0----------------------------
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Guitar 2

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--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7----------------
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Verse

Guitar 1

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--3h5-3 3-2-2-0-0-3-0-5---------------------
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Guitar 2

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------7--7---7---7---7----------------------
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--3h5---3---0---3---5-----------------------


Chorus

Guitar 1: Carry on playing the Intro riff

Guitar 2

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(Mess around with this riff)

Repeat Verse but with Guitar 2 using feedback and palm muting and then the Chorus

Bridge has no guitar except feedback and palm muting

Play Chorus one more time

There you have it. Any mistakes and I’ll correct them.

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture spence Average	#1 by spence o'brien at May 18, 1971 at 7:25 PM EST
	I know this is like, a sinful thing to say, but Thom sounds so god damned sexy in this song. He sounds so covertly pissed it's friggin' awesome. The pan drums at the beggining are (in my opinion) an awesome way to open an album.

No Picture Ryan Average	#2 by Ryan Noffke at Jan 6, 1974 at 1:43 PM EST
	How are you supposed to play both simultaneously?? I can sorta do it, playing packt on the PC and Everything on the CD player...but it's not quite right

No Picture ian Average	#3 by ian mckinly at Jun 8, 1977 at 7:06 PM EST
	this song, to me, is about being in a state of denial. always waiting for something and it never comes but you always have that small shread of hope. "im a reasonable man get off my case" seems to be directed to the ignorant people always trying to shatter your illusion that what ever you are waiting for is never going to happen and they repeatedly tell you, your in denial and you just want them to shut up but they wont

No Picture Obtuse Professional	#4 by Obtuse at Dec 29, 1977 at 7:29 PM EST
	I'm pretty sure this song is about someone who wastes their money on the lottery. "After years of waiting (to win the lottery), nothing came (ie, I didn't win the lottery)." Then someone questions him, asking "Why are you wasting your money on the lottery?" The speaker becomes beligerent, replying in anger, "I'm a reasonable man, get off my case!!"

No Picture metalis4ever Average	#5 by metalis4ever at Mar 15, 1978 at 11:46 PM EST
	This song makes absolutely no sense, which isn't necessarily bad, but for some reason it kind of annoys me. The album version strikes me as boring as hell. I have a live version that's a bit more lively, though. By the way, playing two radiohead songs at once sounds like it could be interesting...

No Picture *Lee Average	#6 by Lee at Sep 23, 1978 at 4:54 PM EST
	This is by far one of the most interesting songs that they've done lately. I love the rythyms and Thom's lyrics.

No Picture Joey Wanna Be	#7 by Joey at Apr 8, 1979 at 12:03 AM EST
	This song to me represents doing the right thing. Day after day, night after night, putting others before yourself. After years of waiting, what does it get you? I think Tom is the person here, talking about after you die, you realize all of the good things you did are for naught. He tries to justify something going in his favor by the phrase "I'm a reasonable man, get off my case." I think he may have wrote it for someone, not about himself.

No Picture Joe Average	#8 by Joe Miller at May 7, 1979 at 2:05 PM EST
	i think this song uses rush hour as an example for how we waste our lives waiting for something that's never going to happen or really isn't worth it... or both. like people who go to college and become buiness or economics majors just because there's a better chance of a job, even though they'll hate their work. what is their reward in the end? knowing that they wasted their lives being unhappy.

No Picture Venti Average	#9 by Venti at Jul 18, 1983 at 3:52 PM EST
	I agree with rx2kONE, for me, I have that same meaning for it. I don't care about the name- why people make fun of it, whatever. I don't make fun of your name, lardass. I like rush hour. I love sitting in a car, and having nothing to do, nowhere to go, no stresses on me, seeing the roadside trees, its relaxing for me. I fear I'm the only one. "After years of waitin nothing cam," but that, that's fucking serious, few words get me so badly as those, they get me deep deep down thank god the song isn't any longer, and the first on the album otherwise I would be crying my eyes out thinking of lost opportunities and various fuck-ups I've made for being pig-headed and full of pride and horrible.

No Picture Nick Average	#10 by Nick Vanderstelt at Sep 27, 1984 at 7:46 AM EST
	Fun Fact: If you play this song and "Everything in Its Right Place" from Kid A at the same time, they synchronize. Thom's voice on "Everything" acts as the lead vocals, while on "Packt" he sings back-up. It's very cool.

No Picture Thomas Average	#11 by Thomas Reuter at Nov 27, 1986 at 3:25 PM EST
	I think unemployed daysleeper is right. It must be about traffic jam. All the tin boxes (cars) are completely packt on the road. You can't go anywhere. And after what seems like years of waiting you realize the road you want to turn onto is closed. And then you realize there was another road you could've taken which would have been quicker. And then the cOps make you pull over. And you just keep thinking look I'm a reasonable mAn, I've been driving for hours get the hell off my case.

No Picture silent Rhythm Player	#12 by silent support at Aug 26, 1987 at 5:43 PM EST
	This song goes out to the critics. It had been awhille since O.K. Computer came out and they were wondering when they would hear radiohead again. They questioned if they were even coming back at all. Thom then wrote this song, I'm a reasonable man, get off my case that basicly is to tell the critics to piss-off in a nice Thom kind of way

No Picture ¿Josh Rhythm Player	#13 by ¿Josh Kirkpatrick? at May 26, 1988 at 11:16 AM EST
	you should all to go www.followmearound.com and look at the REAL lyrics/meanings there... just a thought

No Picture Dan Professional Badass	#14 by Dan Hudspith at Nov 4, 1989 at 12:43 AM EST
	El Tea: Just put Amnesiac in one stereo and Kid A in another and hit Play on both at the same time.

No Picture Sawyer Rhythm Player	#15 by Sawyer Hildebrandt at Jul 20, 1991 at 12:50 AM EST
	i think the band said publicly that the song was about rush hour traffic tho im not sure. ive always thought it was about how many people die in car accidents, and how the jaws of life cut a car so it can be opened like a can of sardines or is a reference to someting some existentialist said i think sartre about 'the most common human experience is waiting for a bus' and how most people always seem to be looking for a way to 'ride along' with someone elses ideals, or popular trends and activities, rather than finding the courage to live their own life and give their own life meaning. i'm also reminded of something i saw on the radiohead website that said " I live a wallpaper life "

No Picture Kyle Wanna Be	#16 by Kyle Kom at Sep 1, 1992 at 9:33 PM EST
	Don't you think "I'm a reasonable man get off get off my case" is what the politicians are saying to the media and the ordinary people everyday? Do you think it's political? Maybe I'm just being stupid...

No Picture nate Average	#17 by nate eastman at Nov 24, 1992 at 12:53 AM EST
	I think its about death, and how when you die, you realize what you thought or believed was all wrong.

No Picture Francesco Lead Player	#18 by Francesco DeVito at Jun 10, 1994 at 8:04 PM EST
	What this song means to be is about being disappointed in something or someone, whoever or whatever that may be after you've had so much faith but you don't want anyone to mess with you because you're feeling a little angry about it.

No Picture lindsey Average	#19 by lindsey Rogogo at Mar 6, 1996 at 7:48 PM EST
	I think this song is about wanting something or someone for a logn time, but then realizing you're never going to get it, and just giving up and moving on to something else.

No Picture brian Average	#20 by brian haun at Feb 23, 2002 at 5:35 AM EST
	i like the song, but the name???

No Picture jessie Wanna Be	#21 by jessie sinanan at Sep 8, 2002 at 8:06 PM EST
	Does anyone really know why the title isn't spelt right? It's just a guess but I think it's to 'packt' to fit all the letters in. Not all songs have to have meanings. I often write songs which don't. It would seem quite experimental which is what they seem to mainly be doing now.

No Picture Tye Musical Genius	#22 by Tye williston at Jun 6, 2004 at 2:04 PM EST
	I think this song is about asking for help (especially economical help) and getting nothing, it's easy to see even a political meaning in it (asking the politicians for realiability and being fooled just like the other times). "lookin' in the wrong place" could mean that you're simply asking someone that would never help you. "After years of waiting" could be meaning exactly that: living on promises without getting anything.

No Picture Maggotkill Average	#23 by Maggotkill at Jul 2, 2006 at 11:26 PM EST
	Until you have not found your way tou are just paked like a sardine in a crushd tin box....... But most of the times youre scared in admitting that all youve done is wrong and you refuse the idea of choosing the right path, that seem so different from the one youve gone through up to now..... "Blessed who chooses in his heart to go along the holy path". Ok, this phrase is evidently christian, but what I mean is that you have to find the right place to look in.

No Picture Mike Average	#24 by Mike Fraguglia at Apr 11, 2007 at 12:58 AM EST
	Yeah it does kinda sync if you play em together. Also does followmearound.com still exist? Everytime I try and go on it, it says it's under construction. Does anyone know if/when it's coming back?

No Picture Vinnie Rhythm Player	#25 by Vinnie Valium at May 12, 2007 at 2:16 PM EST
	The image is the uptown A train any weekday between 7:30 AM and 9:30 AM. The oft repeated metaphor of the lab rat in the maze of corporate / consumer culture. Would I chose to take the A train to work each morning unless I had to? Probebly not.