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Road Movie To Berlin Tab

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Song: Road Movie to Berlin
Band: They Might Be Giants
CD: Flood
Transcribed by: Mark Taylor MTaylor@Data.Basix.Com
[Uploaded: Thu Jun  2 20:28:44 PDT 1994]

        F (1 measure)   A (1 m.)   D (2 m.)
--------1---------------0----------2----|
--------1---------------2----------3----|
--------2---------------2----------2----|
----0-2-3---------------2----------0----|
--3-----3---------------0---------------|
--------1-------------------------------|

  Bb Bb Bb  A      Bb Bb Bb  A
--1--1--1---0------1--1--1---0----------|
--3--3--3---2------3--3--3---2----------|
--3--3--3---2------3--3--3---2----------|
--3--3--3---2------3--3--3---2----------|
--1--1--1---0------1--1--1---0----------|
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  Bb Bb Bb  C  B  Bb  A
--1--1--1---3- 2--1---0----------|
--3--3--3---5--4--3---2----------|
--3--3--3---5--4--3---2----------|
--3--3--3---5--4--3---2----------|
--1--1--1---3--2--1---0----------|
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(no notes) F                A
We're in a road movie to Berlin.
      D                          Bb
Can't drive out the way we drove in.
         A
So sneak out this glass of bourbon
          Bb
and we'll go.

(no notes) F                A
We were    once so close to Heaven.
      D                    Bb
Peter came out and gave us medals.
  A                            Bb
Declaring us the nicest of the damned.

F                   A
Time won't find the lost.
      D
It'll sweep up our skeleton bones.
   Bb                 A               Bb
So take the wheel and I will take the pedals.

BREAK

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(no notes) F                A
We're in a road movie to Berlin.
      D                          Bb
Can't drive out the way we drove in.
         A
So sneak out this glass of bourbon
          Bb
and we'll go.

Road movie to Berlin by They Might Be Giants

[Convention: each chord is four beats/a full measure.  A dash indicates that
 the chord is held for another measure; two chords with a slash between
 them are held for two beats/half a measure each.]


1.
|:          F               A                  D                   Bb
We're in a road movie to Berlin - can't drive out the way we drove in

          A                  -               Bb  -  :|
so sneak out this glass of bourbon and we'll go

We were once so close to heaven - Peter came out and gave us medals
declaring us the nicest of the damned


 F                   A            D                    -
Time won't find the lost, it'll sweep up our skeleton bones

    Bb                A                Bb    -
so take the wheel and I will take the pedals

Instrumental:
/-3-
C/B/Bb  A / F
G / E  D
Bb  - / A     /-3-
Bb  A     Bb  C/B/Bb  A

We're in a road movie to Berlin
can't drive out the way we drove in
so sneak out this glass of bourbon and we'll go


-E.M.

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Road Movie To Berlin Tab

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Angus Rhythm Player	#1 by Angus Young at Mar 30, 1986 at 6:49 AM EST
	I've always thought that this song might be from the point of the german soldiers retreating back to Berlin and realizing that they were mislead by their superiors. They now know they did bad things but they themselves are not bad people. It seems that the song is a sad reminicesnse of how they thought they were so close to victory for Germany but now they drink a toast to what could have been.

No Picture dylan Average	#2 by dylan markus at Oct 17, 1993 at 7:17 AM EST
	The silence and then "Time won't find the lost" is my favorite TMBG moment.

No Picture LJ Average	#3 by LJ at Nov 25, 1994 at 8:06 AM EST
	I always thought it was about WWII, but the holocaust in particular. For example, it taliks about "THe nicest of the damned." And "can't go out the way we drove in" is sort of a weird way of talking about the gas chambers... gruesome, but an interesting salute to the victims. If this is the case, that is.

No Picture TAMARA Musical Genius	#4 by TAMARA at May 1, 1997 at 11:05 PM EST
	Done well, but one of the few songs done better on the hello radio album. Much better, actually. Frank black does a damn good job.

No Picture marc Professional	#5 by marc at Sep 17, 2001 at 11:35 AM EST
	honored to be #1. song is a nice touch to end the flood album. i think its about a guy who has given up on life, and thinks there is no hope left for himself.