Artist Rocky Votolato
Album: Suicide Medicine
Song: Suicide Medicine
capo on 1st fret
Chords Used (relative to capo):
E|--0--|--3--|--0--|--5--|--1--|--3--|
B|--1--|--3--|--1--|--6--|--1--|--3--|
G|--0--|--0--|--2--|--7--|--2--|--4--|
D|--2--|--2--|--2--|--7--|--3--|--5--|
A|--3--|--3--|--0--|--5--|--3--|--5--|
E|-----|-----|-----|-----|--1--|--3--|
| C | C5 | am | dm | F | G |
Intro (palm mute): C ///////
C am dm F
a brain that never stops ticking
sometimes an on-off switch would sure come in handy
a mind that's constantly cutting up and dissecting
looking for answers committing murders along the way
am F
is it the red wire or the blue wire
(arpeggiated picking)
C5
just pick one and cut
G/B
it just doesn't matter anymore
(palm mute)
am F
or did it ever
(arpeggiated picking)
C G/B C
cause I could never control when the bomb would explode
G
oh god I love you
am
I mean forever
F C
I left my body behind to break the news
G
looks like it's over
am F C
please remember all of the things I never got a chance to say
G am
like you look smashing in your fourth grade picture
F C
the one that we hung by the door
G am
in our house that was so beautiful
F
there in our little home
(palm mute)
C am dm F (4x)
if this medication upsets your stomach
take it with crackers bread or a small meal
we understand it won't do much towards the cure
but if you buy this I promise you're gonna like
the way it makes you feel
am F
is it the red wire or the blue wire
(arpeggiated picking)
C5
just pick one and cut
G/B
it just doesn't matter anymore
(palm mute)
am F
or did it ever
(arpeggiated picking)
C G/B C
cause I could never control when the bomb would explode
G
oh god I love you
am
I mean forever
F C
I left my body behind to break the news
G
looks like it's over
am F C
please remember all of the things I never got a chance to say
G am
like you look smashing in your fourth grade picture
F C
the one that we hung by the door
G am
in our house that was so beautiful
F
there in our little home
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transcribed by Doug Barnwell
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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SLUT Badass |
#1 by SLUT at Oct 2, 2007 at 1:56 PM EST |
| my most current ex and i broke up about a week ago, he is already dating someone new but he sent me the chorus to this song last night? any takers on what that could mean? | |
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♥WeEzY Average |
#2 by ♥WeEzY♥ at Oct 4, 2007 at 2:40 AM EST |
| god, I havent been here for a really long time. and I actually am not sure about what this song is about either. at the moment I would really like to believe this song is more than just about the normal boy meets girl situation. but besides that, it seems abvious that everyone sometime is in need of some medication that keeps you from giving up. even though it feels like he s quite close. but who isnt close to giving up or quitting from time to time. only beeing close doesnt mean youre really going to do it. for me it describes the moment between realizing how hopeless everything is and how exhausted you really feel, not knowing from where the hell to take the strength to go on, you just want to quit, period, but then its clear that you are going to carry on... somehow. maybe its not about suicide in anyway after all, maybe its just about resting your head on thinking of the possibility... | |
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Lyssa CHAOS Average |
#3 by Lyssa CHAOS at Oct 9, 2007 at 9:20 AM EST |
| i love you has become such a bs line. this song takes you back to the first time someone said it to you | |
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Maggot Man Wanna Be |
#4 by Maggot Man at Oct 15, 2007 at 3:11 AM EST |
| I saw him live once on accident. Pretty much the best accident I've ever had. | |
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Justin Average |
#5 by Justin Ruiz at Oct 15, 2007 at 3:50 AM EST |
| this song is so beautiful... and quite the emotional rollercoaster haha, i always giggle when he says "crackers" but tear up when he says "oh god i love you." in any case, this song is gorgeous. | |
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Dylan Average |
#6 by Dylan Ruiz at Oct 15, 2007 at 10:30 AM EST |
| My big sister gave me this song just the other day when we were on our way to a funeral. And she told me it reminded her about me. I wanted to cry. | |
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Rob Average |
#7 by Rob Jones at Oct 15, 2007 at 3:25 PM EST |
| i agree fully with brightestfirefly, i love that line. but i also don't understand how any suicide can't be a "really sick and in pain suicide," i think anyone who goes through with it would have to be in that state. | |
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brandon Rhythm Player |
#8 by brandon q at Oct 17, 2007 at 4:04 AM EST |
| yeahh i agree with burnddrumma about the first verse and the chorus.. the second verse is like him being confused and upset about how all the medicine in the world couldn't cure his feelings about his life, just fix physical problems (you're gonna like the way it makes you feel) this song really seems like it is trying to show people how ugly suicide can be. maybe rocky had a personal experience with it? i dont know.. but he really shows both sides of suicide in the chorus. at first he's trying to explain how he really couldn't help the way he was feeling and how he just doesn't feel like his life matters anymore. but he's confused because he is so in love. when he talks about the house that was so beautiful it's like he's trying to remind us that suicide messes people up, like maybe if he gets them to think about what other people are going to feel about his death that maybe they won't commit suicide. | |
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Subhash Average |
#9 by Subhash Shady at Oct 19, 2007 at 12:51 AM EST |
| what an amazing song... it obviously has many meanings for everyone, but this is just what I got from it: he is having issues or mental instability that he is having too much trouble and pain dealing with. the first verse describes how he spends much of his time dealing with this issue and thinking of suicide, and ways of how to make everything work out, for him and the one he loves. but in the chorus, he feels like there was never really a cure or a way for him to be at peace with himself, even though he was deeply in love, so he commits suicide, even thought he knows how much it will crush the one he loves. he "left his body behind to break the news" that his fight was too unbearable and he's sorry there was no other way. the second verse I don't necessairly get, but it's almost as if this whole song could be a note that he left behind after committing suicide for the one he loves to read. he knows "it won't do shit toward the cure," the cure being that he would still eb alive and they would live happily ever after, but he leaves the note/song explaining everything in an effort to console her. this could be me just going out on a limb though, but I like my idea of it :-) this song, being the name of the album, is almost literally what it is for me: suicide medicine. and I don't mean to the extreme of suicide, but when I listen to the album, all of the songs have a way of lifting a person up when things look down, and ultimately, suicide medicine is the things you have to look forward to: friends, family, loved ones, the future, many things. even though many of the songs on the album are kind of depressing, the come together in a way that makes the listener happier after having listened to it. | |
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