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its about 100% accurate
^=bend 1/2 step
*Wah-wah, slapback delay, whammy pedal and heavy reverb
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|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-
|-P.M-----------------------------------------------------|
*Digitech whammy pedal set for b7, slowly rock back and forth.
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|-6-------------------------6----------------------12^-----
|-5-------------------------5----------------------12^-----
|-x-------------------------x------------------------------
|-5-------3-----5p3-x-0-----5-----0---10-0-5p3-x-0---------
|---3h5-0----0------x-0-5p3---3h5-0-7-10-0-----x-0---------
|-10-x-x-10-x-x-10-x-x-10-x-x-10-x-x-10-x-x-10-x-x-10-x-x--
|-x--x-x-x--x-x-x--x-x-x--x-x-x--x-x-x--x-x-x--x-x-x--x-x--
|-7--x-x-7--x-x-7--x-x-7--x-x-7--x-x-7--x-x-7--x-x-7--x-x--
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Solo
+ o
|-----5-------5----5---5-xxx----5-----
|-6----------------------xxx----------
|-x-----------------------------------
|-x--------5-----5---5-------5-----5--
|-5-----------------------------------
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+ o
|-5-----5-5-----5---5--5------5----------
|-6--------------------------------------
|-x--------------------------------------
|-x---------x-5---5----------------------
|-5-----------------------x-5----x-------
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digitech xp100, patch:+=toe down, o+toe up
+ o
|-5-------5--5----5-----5--x-5----5----
|-6------------------------x-----------
|-x------------------------------------
|-x------------5-----5-------x-5-----5-
|-5------------------------------------
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+ o
|-5-------5----5----5----5----
|-6---------------------------
|-x---------------------------
|-x---------5----5----5----5--
|-5---------------------------
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|--10--------5-------------------
|--10--------5-------------------
|--8---------3---------0---------
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|--12^(12)-12^(12)-12^(12)-12^^(12)-
|--12^(12)-12^(12)-12^(12)-12^^(12)-
|--12^(12)-12^(12)-12^(12)-12^^(12)-
if u cant figure out the arrangement urself or have any general questionsm,
then e-mail me at: The_pressed_rat_and_warthog@hotmail.com
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Gabe Professional |
#1 by Gabe Hawkins at Sep 22, 1976 at 1:08 AM EST |
| i think this is about being in the dark and not being able to trust any one, as the truth has been bent many times. this is also a song about dependance on oil, and how america would kill lots of people and the truth has been bent to make it worthwhile rage must have felt insecure and in the dark during this, well the always are the are bloody brilliant...hail satan! | |
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Dylan Rhythm Player |
#2 by Dylan Fitzgerald at Jan 2, 1977 at 2:25 PM EST |
| This song is obviously about our dependency of oil and automobiles. "Yes the car is our wheelchair" That one is pretty straightfoward. "We found your weakness/And its right outside your door " That one means the same thing. "With precision you feed me/My witness Im hungry " "With precision you feed me", in my opinion is talking about filling up at the gas station. The whole witness thing is a little hard to understand. The way I see it is he is using "Witness" in the way that religious groups use it. If you think about it our obsession with the automobile is almost a religon in itself. This also relates to "testify," a word religious groups use when they profess their beliefs. All of the references to war and "Bagdad Burning" are talking about American imperialism in the Middle East where we invade to secure our oil interests. "Mass graves for the pump and the price is set, and the price is set " That also relates to our Mid-East oil interests too. Mass Graves for the pump means that people are being killed so you can inexpensively fill up your gas tank. Excellent Song | |
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Trey Average |
#3 by Trey smith at Dec 23, 1978 at 7:56 PM EST |
| I'd agree with you guys on most things but the facts about George Orwell being a communist are all wrong. He was a socialist. While they seem similar they really aren't. He despised communism because of what happened in Russia and he only really felt it worked in a less extreme form aka Socialism. | |
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Dusty Wanna Be |
#4 by Dusty Delonge at Oct 2, 1984 at 10:11 PM EST |
| extract from nineteen eighty-four: "Falsification Of Past The Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened. The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowlede exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. And if all others accepted the lie whith the Party imposed -- if all records told the same tale -- then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' The largest section of the RECORDS DEPARTMENT, far larger than the one on which Winston worked, consisted simply of persons whose duty it was to track down and collect all copies of books, newspapers, and other documents which had been superseded and were due for destruction. The hunting-down and destruction of books had been done with thoroughness and it was very unlikely that there existed anywhere in Oceania a copy of a book printed earlier than 1960. Books were recalled and rewritten again and again, and were invariably re issued without any admission that any alteration had been made. Even the written instructions never stated or implied that an act of forgery was to be committed: always reference was to slips, errors, misprints, or misquotations which it was necessary to put right in the interests of accuracy. But actually it was not even forgery. It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another. Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in their rectified version. A great deal of the time you were expected to make them up out of your head. Sometimes he talked to Julia of the RECORDS DEPARTMENT and the impudent forgeries that he committed there. Such things did not appear to horrify her. She did not feel the abyss opening beneath her feet at the thought of lies becoming truths. He said, "Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished? If it survives anywhere, it's in a few solid objects with no words attached to them, like that lump of glass there. Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution. Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except in an endless present in which the Party is always right. I know, of course, that the past is falsified, but it would never be possible for me to prove it, even when I did the falsification myself. After the thing is done, no evidence ever remains. The only evidence is inside my own mind, and I don't know with any cerainty that any other human being shares my memories. If, for example, Eurasia or Eastasia (whichever it may be) is the enemy to-day, then that country must always have been the enemy. And if the facts say otherwise then the facts must be altered. Thus history is continually rewritten. The day-to-day falsification of the past, carried out by the Ministry of Truth, is as necessary to the stability of the regime as the work of repression and espionage carried out by the Ministry of Love. The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc. Past events, it is argued have no objective existence, but survive only in written records and human memories. The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. And since the Party is in full control of all records and in equally full control of the minds of its members, it follows that the past is whatever the Party chooses to make it." " | |
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Tye Musical Genius |
#5 by Tye williston at Dec 4, 1993 at 1:23 PM EST |
| *sniffle* i miss rage... COME BACK!!!! | |
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Frank Wanna Be |
#6 by Frank at Nov 11, 1994 at 10:56 AM EST |
| Euro-American dependence on life being easy and carefree The entire first stanza is the prettying up of war and violence, the propaganda that drives our ego, and the technology we depend on, cars and the such, which have made us what we are. Seconds stanza shows we are slaves to the system, ignorantly working our lives away to make the rich profitbale the end depicts rich america holding power over selecting what history we see, and what our future willl bring | |
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Cory Wanna Be |
#7 by Cory at Aug 13, 1995 at 4:53 AM EST |
| *sniffle* i miss rage... COME BACK!!!! | |
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Rockstar Professional |
#8 by Rockstar at Sep 18, 1997 at 12:45 AM EST |
| RATM is one of the best bands ever. damn shame they broke apart. this song is great | |
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Bobby Rhythm Player |
#9 by Bobby McCorkle at Feb 4, 2002 at 5:30 AM EST |
| OT, but the Google Ad I got for this page was amazingly ironic: Say thanks to Tony Blair Send a thank you note to the British for helping the USA in Iraq. | |
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Oliver Average |
#10 by Oliver Taylor at Mar 25, 2005 at 6:32 AM EST |
| Actually, George Orwell was a communist, he was just concerned with the intellegent elite overtaking the society and transforming it into a dictatorship. | |
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Mike Lead Player |
#11 by Mike at Jul 18, 2007 at 9:47 PM EST |
| I love this song, and i also think its about all the bullshit we are fed, but i think its mainly how te government covers up whats really happening in the middle east by giving us propaganda. They tell us whats happenign it bloodless and then goes on to say how boys are traveling in coffins. As citizens all we notice is the change in gas prices when all our soldiers overseas are getting slaughtered. | |
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