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The End of the Tour
by They Might Be Giants
Transcribed by Gary Snegaroff (SnegG@aol.com)
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There's a [E]girl with a [B]crown and a [E]scepter [A]
who's on [F#m]W-[A]L-S-[B]D [B7]
and she [E]says that the [B]scene isn't [E]what it's [A]been
and she's [F#m]thinking of [A]going [B]home [B7]
That it's [A]old and it's [B]totally [A]over [B]now
and it's [E]old and it's [F#]over, it's [G#]over [A]now
and it's [A]over it's [B]over it's [A]over [B]now
I can [A]see [B]my-[A]self
At the [A]end [B]of the [E]tour
when the [A]road [B]disap-[E]pears
if there's [A]any [B]more [E]people [A]around
when the [F#m]tour runs a-[B]ground
and if [G#]you're still a-[C#m]round
then we'll [A]meet at the [B]end of the [E]tour
The [A]engagements are [B]booked throught the [G#m]end of the [C#m]world
so we'll [F#m]meet at the [B]end of the [E]tour
[E]Never a-[B]part since the [E]day we [A]met
out on [F#m]Interstate [A]91 [B] [B7]
I was [E]bent metal [B]you were a [E]flaming [A]wreck
when we [F#m]kissed at the [A]over-[B]pass [B7]
I was [A]sailing a-[B]long with the [A]people [B]driving
them-[E]selves to dis-[F#]traction in-[G#]side me [A]then came a
[A]knock on the [B]door which was [A]odd and the [B]picture
ab-[A]rupt-[B]ly [A]changed
At the [A]end [B]of the [E]tour
when the [A]road [B]disap-[E]pears
if there's [A]any [B]more [E]people [A]around
when the [F#m]tour runs a-[B]ground
and if [G#]you're still a-[C#m]round
then we'll [A]meet at the [B]end of the [E]tour [F#m]
The [A]engagements are [B]booked throught the [G#m]end of the [C#m]world
so we'll [F#m]meet at the [B]end of the [E]tour [B][E]
[A]This was the [B]vehicle [A]these were the [B]people
you [E]opened the [F#]door and ex-[G#]pelled all the [A]people
[A]This was the [B]vehicle [A]these were the [B]people
you [E]opened the [F#]door and ex-[G#]pelled all the [A]people
[A]This was the [B]vehicle [A]these were the [B]people
you [A]let [B]them [A]go
(instrumental bridge)
[A][B]|[E][A]|[F#m][B]|[G#][C#m]|[A addB]
At the [A]end [B]of the [E]tour
when the [A]road [B]disap-[E]pears
if there's [A]any [B]more [E]people [A]around
when the [F#m]tour runs a-[B]ground
and if [G#]you're still a-[C#m]round
then we'll [A]meet at the [B]end of the [E]tour [F#m]
The [A]engagements are [B]booked throught the [G#m]end of the [C#m]world
so we'll [F#m]meet at the [B]end of the [E]tour
[A]and we're never gonna [B]tour a-[E]gain
[A]No, we're never gonna [B]tour a-[E]gain [B][E]
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Kyle Average |
#1 by Kyle Lester at Jul 16, 1971 at 1:36 AM EST |
| This is what I think: The girl with the scepter is a news reporter on channel WLSD. She is reporting the tour of two wreck cars. All there is alot of people coming to see it, noting else and it is geing old for her. One of the cars can see itself at the end of the tour. There are way too many places for the tou to go, but if the other car is still there, it will meet up with it. They were always on the tour since the accident on the overpass. Where the other car hit the door on the singing car and caused the people inside to be thrown out of it. | |
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ryan Lead Player |
#2 by ryan harney at Jun 27, 1975 at 6:49 AM EST |
| hmph, well... since this didn't get posted before for some reason, I recently discovered that WLSD is a religious radio station. This sort of fuels an interperation of the song which suggests that "the tour" is just life, and seeing someone at the end of the tour means meeting them on the other side. I don't think that either of the Johns would write a song about a car accident that they'd caused... it just doesn't seem to fit who they are - it seems like it's more a pretty striking metaphor for death. | |
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Josh Average |
#3 by Josh Smith at May 13, 1986 at 7:31 AM EST |
| Wow, that might be right. Good call, dude. That explains the churchy references in the bridge. | |
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TOm Wanna Be |
#4 by TOm HIrsch at Aug 16, 1986 at 7:35 PM EST |
| all i know is that john linnell sang this to me at their latest tours | |
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Mike Wanna Be |
#5 by Mike at Mar 5, 1995 at 4:44 AM EST |
| To me this is a simple song with very little meaning. Its about a touring band and life on the road. its a hard job which can seem to go on till the end of the world. Guessing tmbg got sick of it on a tour bus one day and penned it, grand song though but doubt it has any relevance to life/death/religion/love. some people read too much into the painfully obvious | |
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Kazza Average |
#6 by Kazza at May 2, 2004 at 9:27 PM EST |
| It's about a couple torn apart by death. There's a man and a woman, very much in love. One day, though, the girl is killed (quite possibly in a car wreck). Obviously, the guy is crushed and shocked at the death of the person he loved. However, he winds up finding some degree of solace when he realizes that they'll "meet at the end of the tour"--in other words, when he dies, they'll see each other again. To go into more detail about their relationship, the "girl with a crown and a scepter" is the narrator's girlfriend/love interest--the person who dies. He describes himself as being "bent metal", while she's "a flaming wreck". She's the one who was killed; he was just crushed by it. At "the end of the tour", though, they'll see each other, and they're "never gonna tour again"--they'll never have to be apart anymore. A few other thoughts. It's possible the girl lingered for a while after whatever killed her, which is why she says that she's "THINKING of going home"--she was in serious condition, and they didn't know if she'd make it. I'm not sure of that, though. I've also always interpreted the part where he talks about how they "kissed at the overpass" to be about a literal kiss, not a head-on collision as many have suggested. In short, though... "The tour" = life. "The end of the tour" = death. "Home" = the afterlife. "A girl with a crown and a scepter" = the girl who dies. "A knock on the door" = the narrator discovering that the girl is dead. Maybe the police or someone came to his house to inform him that his girlfriend had been killed. It could also be a metaphor for him realizing that she's not coming back. "The vehicle" = again, probably life, or MAYBE a literal vehicle. "The people" = the girl. "[Opening] the door and [expelling] all the people" = the death of the girl, assuming that "the vehicle" is a metaphor for life. It's a deep, beautiful, amazing song. Definitely my favorite song of all time. | |
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NIK Average |
#7 by NIK blaszczyszyn at Apr 16, 2006 at 2:11 AM EST |
| This is what I think: The girl with the scepter is a news reporter on channel WLSD. She is reporting the tour of two wreck cars. All there is alot of people coming to see it, noting else and it is geing old for her. One of the cars can see itself at the end of the tour. There are way too many places for the tou to go, but if the other car is still there, it will meet up with it. They were always on the tour since the accident on the overpass. Where the other car hit the door on the singing car and caused the people inside to be thrown out of it. | |
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Justin Wanna Be |
#8 by Justin Neafsey at Jun 21, 2007 at 11:56 PM EST |
| "I was bent metal you were a flaming wreck when we kissed at the overpasss I was sailing along with the people driving themselves to distraction inside me then came a knock on the door which was odd and the picture abruptly changed" sooooooooooooo good! the end of the tour is the end of this girls life. she gets killed when the narrator (john l.) crashes into her on the highway. | |
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