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Author/Artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers
Title: Breaking The Girl
Transcribed by: The2ndPerson
Email: box_full_of_junk@hotmail.com
This is the best transcription of this song you'll find on the 'net. This is close
to how Frusciante plays it - especially the Chorus. 12-string acoustic, tuned down
a half-step. No Capo. And most importantly: hit the strings as hard as humanly possible.
VERSE 1:
I am a man cut from the
rarely do friends come and then
she was a girl soft but
we were the two our lives re-
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know
go
estranged
arranged
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PRE-CHORUS:
C G Am
Feeling so good that day
C G F
A feeling of love that day
Chorus:
Twisting and turning your feelings are burning your
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breaking the girl
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--0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---
She meant you no
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harm
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Think your so clever but now you must sever your
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breaking the girl...
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--9---9---9---9---9---9---9---9---9---9---9---9---9---9---9---9---9---9---9---
--9---9---9---9---9---9---9---9---9---9---9---9---9---9---9---9---9---9---9---
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He loves no one
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else
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VERSE 2:
Raised by my dad
Girl of the day
He was my man
That was the way
She was the girl
Left alone
Feeling the need
To make me her home
PRE-CHORUS 2:
C G Am
I don't know what, when or why
C G F
The twilight of love had arrived
Repeat Chorus with this fill at the end, right before the "pots and pans" break:
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"Pots and pans" break: (repeat many times, I'm too lazy to count)
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Outro is the same as the Chorus with this fill played over top, fading out:
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----14------14------14------14---13---14---13---14---13---14---13---14--------
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
blake Average |
#1 by blake pratt at Jan 3, 1971 at 2:44 PM EST |
| i agree with redhedrocker ANTHONY KIEDIS IS SEXCELLENT!!!!!!! ( not to sound like a brainless teenager) | |
brent Rhythm Player |
#2 by brent west at May 16, 1971 at 9:36 PM EST |
| hey! where's zephyr song from RHCP?it's one of their best songs! | |
edwin Wanna Be |
#3 by edwin henrriquez at Jan 30, 1993 at 12:34 AM EST |
| I heard that she came onto him, and that he was 12 at the time. | |
Crystal Average |
#4 by Crystal at Jan 28, 1999 at 4:00 PM EST |
| i think that everyone mostly has it right about him being a player and u get this from the lines " raised by my dad girl of the day" which basically shows his dad taught him to play the ladies and he 's met this girl and he feel in love with her and she desperately loves him backl but in tha end he jsut can't break the mold of being a player , it's all he knows- which is proven in the line "feelings are burning" which shows he can't stya tied down. So instead of breaking his player pattern , his breaks the girl. I don't know, maybe i got that completely wrong, But it was worth a shot. | |
sephiroth Average |
#5 by sephiroth at Apr 23, 2005 at 1:59 AM EST |
| you have to think about who anothony kedis was when he wrote this song.. i totally think its about getting a girl addicted to drugs | |
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