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From: Heikki Rita
Subject: Without a Face by Rage Against the Machine
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 12:52:29 +0300 (EET DST)
Rage Against the Machine
Without a Face
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Riff A
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harmonics
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|-555555-555555-555555-555555-|
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Riff A (Bass)
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|-2--------------3--------------2-0-|
|--------0---1---3------------------|
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Riff B
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w/wah
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|-3-1-3-1-3-1-3-1-3--------------|
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Riff C
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w/wah
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|---------------------------------------3-------|
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|---------------------------------------1-------|
|-3-1-3-1-3-1-3-1-3-1-3-1-3-1-3-1-1--3----------|
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Riff D
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|-5---3---5---3---5---3---5---3-----|
|-3---1---3---1---3---1---3---1-----|
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Ben Rhythm Player |
#1 by Ben at May 3, 1987 at 1:08 PM EST |
| ' "Por vida" and out name up on tha stall ' I think he says "our" not "out", probably just a typo. Still, does anyone understand this line? I know "por vida" means something like "for life". | |
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Steve Wanna Be |
#2 by Steve Williams at Mar 29, 1989 at 7:40 AM EST |
| "They say that as soon as the wall in Germany fell that the US government was busy building another one at the border between the US and Mexico. Since 1986 as a result of a lot of the hate talk and histeriam that the government of the United States has been speaking, 1500 bodies have been found on the border. We wrote this song in response to it. It's called Without a Face." -Zack de la Rocha (Live & Rare album) | |
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Joe Average |
#3 by Joe Fitzpatrick at Feb 13, 1998 at 12:59 AM EST |
| this song is definetely about the holocaust," Strangled and mangled another SS ",an SS was a nazi soldier in a concentration camp,"Walk unseen past tha graves and tha gates",walking past the crematories and the gates out of the concentration camp,trying not to be seen in fear of death, and when ur in a concentration camp,you have absolutely no say,"born Without a face "... | |
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mat Wanna Be |
#4 by mat bar at Mar 12, 1998 at 2:13 PM EST |
| This song is not about the holocaust or Berlin.....it is about mexican migrant workers and illegal aliens. All of the lyrics below point to this...... "Got no card so I got no soul, life is prison no" -Obvious green card reference "So I'm sendin' paper south under tha barbed wire" -Concerns sending money back across the border to family "I took a death trip when I tried ta cross tha White wall" -Mostly white americans live behind the "white" wall of the border.....Master state vs. Slave state....US vs. MX "Maize was all we needed to sustain, now her Golden skin burns, insecticide rain" -Maize was a staple, pre-european, grain crop in mexico, i.e. corn......mexican skin tone, ecological problems of mexican expansion "To survive one motiveno hope, it's hard ta Breathe wit Wilson's hand around My throat" - Reference to then govenor of California Pete Wilson | |
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Christina Average |
#5 by Christina Anderson at Nov 15, 2001 at 6:54 AM EST |
| no, delta joy is right, because if you had "Live and Rare" that's exactly what he says before they play it. well, more or less | |
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Dan Professional Badass |
#6 by Dan Hudspith at Jun 19, 2005 at 9:36 PM EST |
| this song was written in response to the building of a wall, constructed as soon as the Berlin wall fell, between the border of the US and Mexico. there is a history of conflicts along this border concerning immigration. 'wilson's hand round my throat' refers to the republican governor who campaigned entirely on an anti-immigration platform. there are various references here to Latin history &culture, like 'path is Luminoso' which refers to the Shining Path, a revolutionary group in Peru, or Kid Cisco, a Mexican cowboyish type of hero among others. | |
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Max Average |
#7 by Max Benton at Oct 6, 2007 at 11:16 PM EST |
| Word. Borders mean nothing, the world belongs to everyone. Too bad most of these "leaders" don't do shit about saving it though. | |
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Bodom Lake Murd Average |
#8 by Bodom Lake Murderer at Oct 12, 2007 at 12:21 AM EST |
| nouse4ausername is rite about it being about an illegal mexican "got no card so i got no soul" and i think the free trade bit is about nafta and how mexican framers are losing their land because of nafta | |
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Nick Rhythm Player |
#9 by Nick Carrasco at Oct 12, 2007 at 4:00 PM EST |
| wow you know a lot. i love the drums in the chorus of this song. | |
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