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Thursday
Asleep in the Chapel
tuning(low to high: dadgbe)
intro
gtr1
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gtr2
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gtr1
|-2-2--2-2--2-2--0-0-----
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gtr2
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|-0-0--0-0--0-0--0-0-----
|-4-4--0-0--4-4--0-0-----
|-4-4--4-4--5-5--5-5-----
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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| "three chalk outlines sleep in the dirty street and in our beds, under the sheets, they're the halo of guilt hanging around your neck, next to the rosary you count, falling asleep" To me the three chalk outlines on dirty streets are homeless people, and we are guilty because we're not helping them, and yet we have a rosary around our necks but we are not living out the duties of our faith, sadly only wearing it. | |
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Dylan Rhythm Player |
#2 by Dylan Fitzgerald at Feb 10, 1977 at 4:06 AM EST |
| As many have said before me, this song is definetely about people relying on religion for various things. "and we're praying, these are the symptoms of letting go of all our hope" - means when we lose hope, we turn to god. "someday we'll be complete like modern saints, baptize our kids in gasoline " - is what highly religious people believe will happen when they go to heaven,(completion) and that baptizing their children is like preparing them for death(salvation), the same thing goes for the martyred saints and hanging from lampposts thing. "wake up!! wake up in an outline and try to speak...have we slept too long?" - when we die(outline, you can't speak when youre dead) we will realize that there is no god and we had been blind(asleep) to the fact our whole life "they ring for you" - at your funeral "we woke up this morning to a sky with no erring, and all the streets are filled with a thousand burning crosses" - someday people will find out there is no god and therefore there will be no sin(erring) and people will burn their crosses(a thousand of them in fact)(or maybe it means hell?) "still the choir girls sing..." - when were dead, our children (stress on girls(not women)) will still have these beliefs and will continue the neverending chain of religious dependency And just so everyone knows, I go to church every sunday, so dont rant at me for being an atheist. | |
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Max Wanna Be |
#3 by Max Contreras at Feb 12, 1978 at 5:20 AM EST |
| i think it's about a battle with yourself. having a hard time giving up your life to God and fully believing in what you can't be garaunteed to be true. | |
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micheal Lead Player |
#4 by micheal mceachern at Mar 15, 1980 at 5:30 AM EST |
| this is song means to me that at a certain point. The glass that embodies ur religious beliefs are shattered. Life begins to make less sense when religion is not the reason for life. This is how i felt for a long time, and when i heard this song, and Before rupture and rapture, i didnt feel so alone anymore in my pain. | |
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Frost Wanna Be |
#5 by Frost Bite at Mar 22, 1982 at 9:49 AM EST |
| evilclown is an effin idiot! I agree with chihuahua. | |
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rockman Average |
#6 by rockman the sequel at Jan 10, 1983 at 5:14 PM EST |
| I think that this song is criticizing what religion has come to mean in many people's lives. It's saying that it has become something that some people use as a crutch in life or to attempt to gain significance when there seems to be none, rather than them having sincere beliefs like the saints of old days. "three chalk... under the sheets," I the three chalk outlines symbolize the Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, and how they are dead in this society (a body at a crime scene is outlined in chalk.) "they're the halo of guilt hanging around your neck, next to the rosary you count, falling asleep" The famous symbol of holiness, the halo, has fallen to rest around the neck of society since they are no longer holy. A rosary is a string of prayer beeds. It's saying you count them to fall asleep, as in you use them for your own comfort, like you would count sheep to fall asleep. "and we're praying... all our hope." Prayer, or religion, once again used as a comfort blanket "since we can't compete... into bright lights" We don't come anywhere near the standards of old day martyred saints, so we try to gain significance other ways. I think the part about dousing ourselves in gasoline and hanging from lampposts means that we try to go out burning brightly so that after we die, we are remembered "so that our shadows turn into bright lights" Ya but this is a lot to put for one submission, i will finish my translations some other time. I've been pondering over this song for a long time now, feel free to email me if you want to discuss this or anything else because i really enjoy analyzing things. | |
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Matt Wanna Be |
#7 by Matt Sakrosky at Mar 9, 1983 at 3:00 PM EST |
| their latest album is all abot war... i think this song about a war and what they see in it... just listen to the lyrics and try to understand...maybe you get it... | |
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floyd Lead Player |
#8 by floyd lloyd at Jul 7, 1983 at 7:24 PM EST |
| you're an idiot. the album may have war like images and yes maybe some songs are subtley touching on current issues but the majority of the album is nothign to do with war. war all the time is simply tackling the issue of the conflicts we face everyday in our lives. geoff has said this in many interviews. and this song clearly isn't about war, it's about religion. it's critique of people who blindly follow religion without any true thought into the matter. the only songs on the album that could possibly have anything to do with a war are marches and maneuvers and war all the time but they still only really use that imagery to convey a far more social message. | |
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Brad Lead Player |
#9 by Brad Vincent at Apr 23, 1996 at 5:31 PM EST |
| this song is about using religion to back up violent acts (War in Iraq!). "slept too long between the bullet holes" "all the streets are filled with burning crosses", etc. This song once again shows an anti-violence message. -Peace- | |
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The Crow Rhythm Player |
#10 by The Crow at Dec 3, 1996 at 5:11 AM EST |
| its all about war! hallelujah | |
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the white hendr Badass |
#11 by the white hendrix at Feb 6, 2005 at 4:32 AM EST |
| Actually Marches & Maneuvers is about abortion(administer the pill, before the cell divides; threats and picket lines are forming around our beds). Although you are correct that it uses images of war to convey their message. You're also right that evilclown is an idiot :) | |
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