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City Of Blinding Lights Tab

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City of blinding lights

For this tab is recomendable the following efect

Drive: Pvy drive (heavy distorcion)
Compresor: 6
Delay: 100 oms
Reverb 10

Intro: the piano part

E----------------------------------
B---9--8-----4--6-------9--8---6--4
G----------------------------------
D----------------------------------
A----------------------------------
E----------------------------------

then start the guitar
intro: guitar

E----------------------------------------------------
B--14--13---------14--13-----------------14--13------    (play this until the
G----------13--15--------13------13--15---------15/10          verse starts)
D----------------------------------------------------
A----------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------

verse: this part is muted

E------------------------------------------------------------11-11-11-
B--9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9--8-8-8-8--11-11--8-8---9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9--9--9--9
G---------------------------------------------------------------------
D---------------------------------------------------------------------
A---------------------------------------------------------------------
E---------------------------------------------------------------------

then start the pre-chorus (play this part like the chorus)

Chorus

E-----------------------------------------------------------------
B---------------------------------------------------------14-13---
G--15-15-15--13--15-15-15--13--15-15-15--13--15-15-15--13-------13
D-----------------------------------------------------------------
A-----------------------------------------------------------------
E-----------------------------------------------------------------

bridge:

G--4/10---4/10---4/15

City Of Blinding Lights Tab

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture The Mexican Who Average	#1 by The Mexican Who's Living Under Satan's Wing at Apr 13, 2006 at 6:01 PM EST
	Best song off the album, can't believe people haven't commented on it...beautiful, beautiful song.

No Picture silent Rhythm Player	#2 by silent support at Sep 12, 2006 at 10:47 PM EST
	This is a beautiful song with only one musical misstep, IMHO (the awkward bridge of "Time... time won't leave me as I am..."). It takes the classic circular structure that I particularly love, starting with a three-line stanza beginning with "The more you see the less you know" and ending with a three-line stanza beginning with "The more you know the less you feel." The final message is classic U2 in both its religious and ecumenical thrust, reminding us that God loves us all, even the unfaithful. It's also classic U2 in its earnestness, emerging from faith that love and reason will see us through troubled times. The stanzas "Neon heart dayglo eyes / A city lit by fireflies" remind me of "In God's Country": "Sad eyes, crooked crosses / In God's Country." Many of the reviews of this album dwelled on U2's era of irony / self-awareness / self-indulgence (Achtung-Pop). If this song is indeed a paean to NYC, it's also a word of encouragement and advice to not let self-awareness become self-doubt, as these critical lines tell: "Don’t look before you laugh / Look ugly in a photograph." These words are painful, evocative of a teenager whose sudden realization of identity leads her to mug for the camera to avoid the reality of her true beauty. If, like that girl we all know, NYC is waking up to itself, it needs the reassurance that "Oh you look so beautiful tonight." Audaciously, unashamedly, U2 offers it that assurance. Those same lyrics also evoke, for me, U2's era of pretentious facadism. In confessing "All that you can't leave behind," U2 acknowledged that the act of remaking yourself is both impossible and inherently self-indulgent. Personally I feel like they are coming to peace with the realization that "The more you know the less you feel."

No Picture Drennan Professional Badass	#3 by Drennan Bragg at Mar 6, 2007 at 1:20 AM EST
	Bono has stated that the song is about 9/11