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The Other Side Tab

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Title: The Other Side
Artist: Smile Empty Soul
Album: Smile Empty Soul
Tuning: 1/2 step down (Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb)
Tabbed by: Chris Williams (Aphonic369)

Sorry for the confusion...I guess some people just forgot how to read the credits on 
top of the tab. I clearly stated that this song was in Eb tuning (a 1/2 step down), but I 
chose to write the strings as they are named, not how they are tuned. As for the Eb5 chord 
in the break, if you listen carefully to the song you can hear that the guitarist subtly 
hits the second Eb5 chord before doing the octaves.


(0:00) Acoustic
eb|---------------0------------------------------|
Bb|---------------0------------------------------|
Gb|---9---7---5---2------------------------------| Verse 4x's
Db|---9---7---5---2------------------------------|
Ab|---7---5---3---0------------------------------|   
Eb|---0---x---x----------------------------------|

(0:28) Clean Electric w/ Chorus effect
eb|----------------------------------------------|
Bb|----------------------------------------------|
Gb|----------------------------------------------| Chorus 4x's
Db|---2---4---5---7---10---7---------------------|
Ab|---2---4---5---7---10---7---------------------|   
Eb|---0---2---3---5---8----5---------------------|

(0:56)
eb|---------------0------------------------------|
Bb|---------------0------------------------------|
Gb|---9---7---5---2------------------------------| Verse 4x's
Db|---9---7---5---2------------------------------|
Ab|---7---5---3---0------------------------------|   
Eb|---0---x---x----------------------------------|

(1:23)
eb|----------------------------------------------|
Bb|----------------------------------------------|
Gb|----------------------------------------------| Chorus 4x's
Db|---2---4---5---7---10---7---------------------|
Ab|---2---4---5---7---10---7---------------------|   
Eb|---0---2---3---5---8----5---------------------|


(1:51) Distorted
eb|----------------------------------------------|
Bb|----------------------------------------------|
Gb|------12--11--9-------12--11--9--7-/-9-----| 
Db|-2-2---x--x---x--2-2---x---x----x---x---x-----|
Ab|-2-2--10--9---7--2-2--10--9---7--5-/-7-----|   
Eb|-0-0-------------0-0--------------------------|
  |                                              | 1st Solo
eb|----------------------------------------------|
Bb|----------------------------------------------|
Gb|-------12--14---12---------16~~---------------| 
Db|-2-2----x---x----x----------x-----------------|
Ab|-2-2---10--12---10---------14~~---------------|   
Eb|-0-0------------------------------------------|

(2:05)
eb|---------------0------------------------------|
Bb|---------------0------------------------------|
Gb|---9---7---5---2------------------------------| Verse 4x's
Db|---9---7---5---2------------------------------|
Ab|---7---5---3---0------------------------------|   
Eb|---0---x---x----------------------------------|

(2:33) Distorted
eb|----------------------------------------------|
Bb|----------------------------------------------|
Gb|------12--11--9-------12--11--9--7-/-9-----| 
Db|-2-2---x--x---x--2-2---x---x----x---x---x-----|
Ab|-2-2--10--9---7--2-2--10--9---7--5-/-7-----|   
Eb|-0-0-------------0-0--------------------------|
  |                                              | 2nd Solo
eb|----------------------------------------------|
Bb|----------------------------------------------|
Gb|------12--11--9-------12--11--9--7-/-9-----| 
Db|-2-2---x--x---x--2-2---x---x----x---x---x-----|
Ab|-2-2--10--9---7--2-2--10--9---7--5-/-7-----|   
Eb|-0-0-------------0-0--------------------------|

(2:47)
eb|---------------0------------------------------|
Bb|---------------0------------------------------|
Gb|---9---7---5---2------------------------------| Verse 4x's
Db|---9---7---5---2------------------------------|
Ab|---7---5---3---0------------------------------|   
Eb|---0---x---x----------------------------------|

(3:15)
eb|----------------------------------------------|
Bb|----------------------------------------------|
Gb|------12--11--9-------12--11--9--7-/-9-----| 
Db|-2-2---x--x---x--2-2---x---x----x---x---x-----|
Ab|-2-2--10--9---7--2-2--10--9---7--5-/-7-----|   
Eb|-0-0-------------0-0--------------------------|
  |                                              | Outro Solo
eb|----------------------------------------------|
Bb|----------------------------------------------|
Gb|------12--11--9-------12--11--9--7-/-9-----| 
Db|-2-2---x--x---x--2-2---x---x----x---x---x-----|
Ab|-2-2--10--9---7--2-2--10--9---7--5-/-7-----|   
Eb|-0-0-------------0-0--------------------------|

This is a great song with awesome lyrics. The whole album is great so I recommend going 
out and getting it. PEACE!

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Jon Lead Player	#1 by Jon Shuffler at Jan 6, 1977 at 3:02 AM EST
	what i get from it in parts is you want something u dont have or want something different then how it is but when you realize it, you dont have it bad and its better then u think. and what you think is "perfect" isnt so good. but i dont know...thats me. "maybe it's not so good on the other side maybe it's not so good on the other side but it always seems so good, on the other side it always looks so good .... it always seems so good"

No Picture bethan Average	#2 by bethan jones at Nov 27, 1989 at 11:20 PM EST
	I can relate to this song all too much ...

No Picture Celebrimbor Rhythm Player	#3 by Celebrimbor Calaelen at Feb 24, 1991 at 10:31 AM EST
	I think that this song is about living at home and hating your parents, and wishing you had a better family. I think "the other side" refers to his neighbours, on the other side of the fence. He looks next door, and sees the light in his neigbours window, and perhaps he sees his neighbours to be the family he wishes for. But then, he realises that though on the outside, the family next door look so perfect, but they have their own secrets and flaws too. For example, the father is abusive towards the son.

No Picture dan Average	#4 by dan evans at Oct 28, 1998 at 9:08 AM EST
	I love this song. You can tell Sean really puts a lot of emotion in it. The first time I heard it I cried..it gave me a vision of the little boy being beat by his father.

No Picture James Rhythm Player	#5 by James T.H. at Dec 14, 2000 at 10:21 AM EST
	I agree its about the whole grass is greener on the other side thing, but the fact that its about your abusive family makes it so much easier to learn that lesson though. Also I love this song and it has inspired a few of my short stories.

No Picture Rich Average	#6 by Rich Frazer at Jul 6, 2002 at 11:32 PM EST
	amazing song

No Picture ALEX Lead Player	#7 by ALEX FOWLER at Oct 22, 2006 at 8:05 PM EST
	wiredmonkiekiller is right, this is an easy song to understand basically his life is hard and he thinks his life would be better if he would be in the neibors shoes that the grass would be greener on his side then when the neibor boy comes up to him all bruised he realizes maybe its not so good on the other side that his life may be better the way it is