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Author/Artist: Tpye O Negative
Title: I Don't Wanna Be Me
Album: Life Is Killing Me
Transcribed by: Liam Doorley
Email: irish8722@aol.com
tuning low-high - a-e-a-d-g-b
Note: I'm still working on the solo, hard to hear cuz it's not real loud...email
me if you want to see what i have so far.
Intro part 1 (guitar 2)
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pm.............. volume swell
Intro part 2 (guitar 2)
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Riff 1 (guitar 2)
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Riff 1 (guitar 1 with chorus and wah)
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Verse (guitar 2 while guitar 1 plays pick scrapes and feedback in background)
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Chorus (both)
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Pre-bridge (both)
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End of bridge (guitar 1)
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Song structure
Intro part 1
Intro part 2
Riff 1
Verse
Chorus
Riff 1
Verse
Pre-bridge
Bridge (no guitar)
End of bridge
Solo
Bridge
Chorus
Pre-bridge
Outro is guitar 2 playing chorus and pre-bridge while guitar 1 plays riff 1.
That's all.
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Sally Average |
#1 by Sally Gray at May 6, 1990 at 6:09 AM EST |
| I heard this song on the Cinema mod for Max Payne 2 and it's just a great song. | |
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Micke Lead Player |
#2 by Micke Nordin at May 3, 1998 at 7:03 PM EST |
| "I don't wanna be me anymore" That should be pretty self-explanitory. "Ever throwing at his home Two glass houses, twenty stones" There are two sides (each represented by a glass house) to what's going on with the band when it comes to audiences. One, you have the people who like the (realitively speaking) unpopular style of music that they do, the slow, dragging, dark music that Type O Negative is most often associated with. The other, the side that is most often commericalized, put on the radio, and sold to the masses for profit, the side with the big record labels, airplay, touring and often "selling out" side of music. Because they are always (ever) caught between the two a step towards one is a step away from the other, hence the throwing the stones at his home. "Fourteen yellow, six are blue Could it be worse.. quite doubtful" When you mix yellow and blue you get green, the color of the onstage attire that is attributed to them, as you can see in the music video. "Two steps forward, three steps back Without warning, heart attack" Every step forward in their Peter's career is also a step back because he hates publicity at times. He doesn't enjoy live shows because he's self conscious about himself when infront of people. On top of that, when he was interviewed by one of the members of Anthrax he mentioned how his music was being exploited by the recording label (Roadrunner?) to make money. He recieved pressure from the label to create more songs with a mainstream style after the commercial success of this song and album. He saw it comming. "He fell asleep in the snow Never woke up, died alone" He also mentioned that they don't have true fans that stick with them over time (between albums, sounds, after one hit, etc.) and they forget about the band, and once you lose a following it's hard to get them back, which is why they've lost popularity over the years. "Please don't dress in black When you're at his wake" He's speaking out against the stereotype of rock bands struggling to maintain popularity and then only being heard of every now and again. "Don't go there to mourn But to celebrate" He's saying that he's not doing it for the popularity. Hell, like his idol (and mine) Kurt Cobain of Nirvana who felt the need to isolate the band from the masses of fans, he feels that if fewer people listen to him then he's not out anything. In a sense, it's actually what he wants. Side note: The music video is about how the music company wants them to be something that they're not, a money making sellout. The man that walks into he house looks like he works in an office and it shows that Type O Negative being a commercially successful band for the company is just a pathetic fantasy and that it's not going to happen, which explains the last scene where the man acts as though he can't believe what's happening and he becomes trapped. | |
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chOxY Rhythm Player |
#3 by chOxY at Feb 8, 2001 at 2:09 PM EST |
| I'd personally say that it means that he feels his life is getting crappier by the day and that he's doing nothing really to stop it. The idea of throwing stones in glass houses generally means that you're doing or saying something to harm yourself. I'd also read at one point on Type O's homepage that Peter had an addiction to Hagen Daas at one point, it could be in response to that and his attempt to "kick the habit". | |
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John Rhythm Player |
#4 by John McElyea at Feb 15, 2005 at 8:07 PM EST |
| this song means nothing because it is not very cool a cool song is scar because of its meaning | |
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