Vapour Trail Guitar Tab

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From: 3EV1@QUCDN.QUEENSU.CA
Subject:      Vapour Trail, by Ride

I doubt that anyone out there has even heard of Ride, but if you have maybe you
will like this tab.  This is unquestionably their best song...here it goes.

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|--11--------9---------7------------9---  ------2--------2------2----2------|
|--11--------9---------7------------7---  ----4--------2------0-------------|
|---9--------7---------5------------0---  ----------------------------------|

- Well, that's basically it.  To properly simulate the sound on the "Nowhere"
CD, you'll need to buy a flanger and either a chorus or a compressor, and a
cello while your at it. :)

First you look so strong,
Then you fade away,
The sun will blind my eyes,
I'll love you anyway,

Thirsting for your smile,
I loved you for a while,

You are a vapour trail,
In a deep, blue sky,
la la la laaaaah

Tremble with a sigh,
Glitter in your eye,
You seem to come and go,
I never seem to know,
And all my time,
Is yours as much as mine,
We never have enough time to show our love...
la la la laaaaah

Van Vekris - 3ev1@Qucdn.QueensU.CA

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Micke Lead Player	#1 by Micke Nordin at Feb 9, 1970 at 4:46 PM EST
	i heard about this song from the perks of being a wallflower. wonderful song.

No Picture matt Average	#2 by matt spolsky at Dec 4, 1973 at 8:17 PM EST
	It's in the way that the tone doesn't seem to be happy or sad...it seems uplifting at time, and at others it seems like a kind of hopeless, whistful reflection. I totally know what velmaxcorgan is talking about - sometimes, I wish I could be alone more often to enjoy this song (being in highschool, it's hard to escape). But I love walking alone on those cold, moonlit nights, with this song. It's just so...right. Anyway, lyrically it needs no explanation. The words themselves aren't important - Andy's voice speaks more in tone than words ever will. It's a shame he ended up in Oasis, of all bands. And yeah, I'm gonna buy the book too, just cause you guys told me to. Cheers!

No Picture by fires light Rhythm Player	#3 by by fires light she cried at Feb 25, 1977 at 12:21 PM EST
	i have this imagery of a beautiful 'deep blue sky' day with the song's persona sitting down (or riding in a car, down the freeway) as he/she ruminates about his/her relationship with the object of the song. but in essence, i really think this song is a beautiful piece on the transient aspect of love. the seemingly (bitter)sweet melancholy illuminates the pure bliss that one feels when listening to this song. i honestly love this song. and i have to buy this book everyone seems to be talking about here.

No Picture Chris Wanna Be	#4 by Chris H at Dec 12, 1979 at 1:55 PM EST
	I used to have a friend who lived by me, and our apartment complexes were seperated by a golf course. There were many nights when I listened to this song on my walkman, in the cold breeze of the night. Just me, the stars, and this AMAZING song. I just can't tell you what this song does to me. I feel bliss...the bliss that comes from falling in love. I also feel a little longing, because I wish I had someone to share this song with. Oh, and the end when everything drops out and it's just the viola (I've been told it's a viola...I'm not too literate on string instruments)...oh my god. The song just enters a new dimension of beauty and feeling. God, this song is amazing. I get choked up every time I listen to it.

No Picture chris Average	#5 by chris nagel at Oct 29, 1983 at 5:21 AM EST
	Nice words sweetness. I cant really decide if the lyrics are sad or trying to be an expression of love. Well, obviously they are an expression of love. But is the about the end of a loveship, or one in instability? hmmm. It IS one of the most delicately beautiful love songs ive ever heard. And it does make me sad.

No Picture brandon Rhythm Player	#6 by brandon q at Aug 22, 1984 at 1:49 AM EST
	this song was on the tape that charlie made in the perks of being a wallflower. i love that book and when i downloaded this song i fell in love with it. i alwasy imagine this song when sam is in the back of the truch goign through the tunnel. lovely.

No Picture nick Wanna Be	#7 by nick at Jun 21, 1986 at 3:18 AM EST
	Makes me feel old to remember when this song was actually a hit here in America..Never even heard of the Perks book until now..Ugh. Beautiful song that has passed the test of time. Simple song about the impermanance of things...even Love.

No Picture mike Average	#8 by mike duncan at Jul 2, 1987 at 11:46 AM EST
	I am like punkybun46, whenever I hear this song I think of Sam standing up in the back of a picktruck going through a tunnel as illustrated in The Perks of Being A Wallflower. I myself play it when I go through the tunnel that leads to the skyline of Chicago and when I do "I feel infinate"

No Picture Average	#9 by nirvana at Oct 23, 1989 at 11:31 AM EST
	love love love this song the divine comedy's version is amazing also

No Picture Kyle Average	#10 by Kyle Bish at Dec 9, 1994 at 6:53 PM EST
	I can never get over how amazing this song is...whenever i hear it, i get so sad yet so happy at the same time. I love it...

No Picture Phillip Wanna Be	#11 by Phillip Doucette at Mar 12, 2001 at 3:27 AM EST
	perks is my favorite book. and it's really rad because someone made me a mix... "songs for the broken hearted.. UK" and this was on it. some major hand holding can come from this. ah if only..

No Picture Average	#12 by Fig at Nov 5, 2005 at 2:33 PM EST
	ive sung that tune in a hotel room with mark gardener

No Picture Doolittle Lead Player	#13 by Doolittle at Mar 19, 2006 at 6:21 PM EST
	god, i love this song, and i love the perks of being a wallflower, it's such an amazing book. theres just no words to express it.

No Picture Jimmy Rhythm Player	#14 by Jimmy at Feb 8, 2007 at 3:44 PM EST
	I discovered this song through Perks also.. that is the best book, truely.. it was so... real, for lack of a better word. "I feel infinite" when I listen to the songs on the mixtape that Charlie made for Patrick. "We accept the love we think we deserve" is truely the best quote from the book, in my opinion.