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Under The Gun »
Temple Of Love
Vision Thing
Walk Away

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THE SISTERS OF MERCY - "Under The Gun"

Comments, corrections, etc. welcome

Par Svensson, t89par@student.tdb.uu.se


Chords:

      E A D G B e
C     x 3 2 0 1 0
D5    x x 0 2 3 x
Bm    x 2 4 4 3 2
A     x 0 2 2 2 0
G5    3 2 0 0 x x
Em    0 2 2 0 0 0
A#    * 1 3 3 3 1
F     1 3 3 2 1 1
E5    0 2 2 x x x


C           D5                 Bm
  You don't have to say you're sorry

C            D5               Bm
  To look on further down the line

C   D5
  Into the sun

Bm
  Too close at heaven

A
  Love is fine

G5
  But you can't hold it like a...


Em  D5


  Em          D5         C      C-Bm-A
  Two worlds apart two together

            G5              Em
  Into that good night kiss away

Em              D5            C     C-Bm-A
  One takes the hard, one the other

G5 Em
  Kiss away


D                    G5
  Are you living for love?

D                    G5
  Are you living for love?

C                        G5
  When the road gets too tough

A#                     F
  Is your love strong enough?


E5
  Are you living?

                     D5
  Are you living for love?

                     E5
  Are you living for love?


  Are you living?

                     D5
  Are you living for love?

                     E5
  Are you living for love?

D5


Em                 D5              C        C-Bm-A
  Do you feel your head is full of thunder?

            G5    Em
  Questions never end?

Em      D5
  Empty nights alone?

     C      C-Bm-A
  No wonder

               G5   Em
  It all comes back again


D                    G5
  Are you living for love?

D                    G5
  Are you living for love?

C                     G5
  I've been under the gun

A#                   F
  I've lost and I've...

D                    G5
  Are you living for love?

D                    G5
  Are you living for love?

C                     G5
  I've been under the gun

A#                  F
  I'm lost and I've won...


(two, three, four)


     E5
  Forget the many steps to heaven


  It never happened and it ain't so hard

D5
  Happiness is a loaded weapon and a


  Short cut is better by far

    E5
  Explosive bolts, ten thousand volts


  At a million miles an hour

   D5
  Abrasive wheels and molten metals


  It's a semi-automatic, get in the car

  E5 (etc.)
  Corrosive heart and frozen heat


  We're worlds apart where we could meet

Where the street fold round and the motors start
And the idiot wields the power
Where the chosen hold the highest card
On the field of honour where the ground is hard
So the highest hand is joking wild
And the house soon fold and no one stand
I put my finger on and dialled
The tower, the moon, the gun and
Nine nine nine, singer down
Cloudburst and all around
The first are last, the blessed get wired
The best is yet to come
I put my finger on and fired
Heat-seeking, out of the sun
You can set the controls for the heart or the knees
And the meek'll inherit what they damn well please
Get ahead, go figure, go ahead and pull the trigger
Everything under the gun

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Berenice Average	#1 by Berenice Issaris at Mar 3, 1975 at 5:13 AM EST
	"Forget the many steps to heaven..." is probably a nod to the old Eddie Cochran number Three Steps To Heaven, "Happiness is a loaded weapon" echos Happiness Is A Warm Gun by the Beatles. "The meek will inherit what that damn well please" might be my favourite Eldritch lyric of all time. :)

No Picture metal-cat Average	#2 by metal-cat stepheria at Oct 25, 1989 at 5:04 PM EST
	Abrasive wheels are an Eighties Leeds band, contemparies of the Sisters. I think the whole thing is some sort of summary of Eldtrich's career and the Sisters but its all very abstract. I think its his way of tying things up for the greatest hits. The fact half of its a Berlin song is the Sisters long tradition of innappropriate covers coupled with Eldritch seeing what he can get away with.

No Picture NICK Wanna Be	#3 by NICK COGHLAN at Apr 29, 1991 at 10:45 PM EST
	"Heat-seeking, out of the sun/set the controls.." is a reference to the Pink Floyd song Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun. Given the space theme, "explosive bolts" might refer to the pod bay doors scene in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Oddysey. "the chosen" recalls "one of the chosen/one of the few" in Driven Like the Snow.