Tempted Guitar Tab

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From: rogers@sasuga.Hi.COM (Andrew Rogers)
Subject: CRD: Squeeze, "Tempted"

	                  "Tempted"
		     (Difford - Tilbrook)

intro:

	B       B/A      E/G#      E
	/ / / /  / / / /  / / / /  / / / /	[2x]

verse 1:

	            B              D#m/A#          G#m
	I bought a toothbrush, some toothpaste, a flannel for my face
	C#/F                       Em
	Pajamas, a hairbrush, new shoes and a case
	   Bm                               F#m               G/A   A
	I said to my reflection, "let's get out of this place"
	  D         E                            G
	Passed the church and the steeple, the laundry on the hill
	 B
	Billboards and the buildings
	A/E            C#/F
	Memories of it still keep
	Bm/F#         E
	Calling and calling
	    Bm/F#         G/F           E    E/D
	But forget it all     I know I will

chorus:

	B               B/A       E/G#      E
	Tempted by the fruit of another
	B                B/A        E/G#     E
	Tempted but the truth is discovered
	             C#
	What's been going on
	         F#
	Now that you have gone
	             B     B/A
	There's no other
	E/G#             E         B     B/A
	Tempted by the fruit of another
	E/G#              E          C#m       Em
	Tempted but the truth is discovered

verse 2:

	I'm at the carpark, the airport, the baggage carousel
	The people keep on grabbing, ain't wishing I was well
	I said, "It's no occasion, it's no story I can tell"
	At my bedside, empty pocket, a foot without a sock
	Your body gets much closer
	I fumble for the clock
	Alarmed by the seduction
	I wish that it would stop

	[repeat chorus]

verse 3 [half-length]

	I bought a novel, some perfume, a fortune over you
	But it's not my conscience that hates to be untrue
	   Bm                              F#m                  G/A A D
	I asked of my reflection, "tell me what is there to do"

	[repeat chorus to fade]

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture ¿Josh Rhythm Player	#1 by ¿Josh Kirkpatrick? at May 17, 1978 at 11:23 AM EST
	It's about how he's cheated on his girl and she kicked him out so he decided to leave town (hence him buying the toothbrush, toothpaste, etc., etc., and a suitcase and going to the airport). And he starts missing his girl and realizing that "there's no other". He even dreams about her (which are interrupted by the alarm clock going off ("i fumble for the clock alarmed by the seduction" - i.e. he was having a dream of him and her and the alarm clock went off)). It's pretty much a song about regret.

No Picture Master Shaïtan Wanna Be	#2 by Master Shaïtan at Mar 24, 1981 at 4:28 AM EST
	the images in this song are great, yeah i have not come to the full conclusion on what this song is about, but there is some sort of infiedelity going on.

No Picture julian Average	#3 by julian at Jun 16, 1982 at 5:58 AM EST
	Thanks to radio, I must have heard this song 1,000 times in my life yet I don't even own it. It really bugged me that I didn't know what this song was about - all the suitcase imagery and the idea of cheating blah blah... Well thanks fellow posters for clarifying it for me.

No Picture anthony Average	#4 by anthony clark at May 21, 1988 at 5:46 AM EST
	I think this song is about someone moving to another town and is "tempted" by the "fruits" which the other location offer. However he/she realizes that nothing will ever replace what the first town offered (namely a lost love).

No Picture Trent Average	#5 by Trent Zelasney at Sep 2, 1988 at 1:45 PM EST
	"Past the church and the steeple, the laundry on the hill" I think the imagery in the song can be read literally, in which case it's about a businessman travelling out of town and having an affair there. However, I also think that they have more significant symbolic meanings, While he may simply be passing the "church and the steeple" as he drives/flies/rides the train out of town, he's also leaving behind what they represent, his marriage. Likewise, the "laundry on the hill" represents his domestic, married life.

No Picture Mike Average	#6 by Mike Murphy at Jul 21, 1998 at 4:46 AM EST
	i think it's about him, or someone else cheating on their spouse when they were out of town. that seems dumb to me, but it's the only thing that comes to mind.

No Picture Satan SAF! Rhythm Player	#7 by Satan SAF! Lucifer at Jun 5, 2002 at 4:39 PM EST
	I think the protagonist is in a relationship, yet tempted by someone else. They actually end up cheating on their partner, but once its all over, they realise what they've done, and he wants to go back to his partener. The packing is an extended metaphor for getting up and leaving, getting away from the place, i.e., getting away from his partner and going somehwere new, i.e. going to a new partner/going to cheat. However, the memories of the old partener keep haunting him, and all through the song he's trying to forget her, but cant. The last verse is a way of trying to get his ex back, or trying to make up for cheating on her by buying all these things. His conscience is spoken about, because he feels bad for what he's doing.