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From mpbrown1@edisto.cofc.edu Sun May 4 10:42:53 1997
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 16:58:53 -0500 (EST)
From: Mason Brown
To: guitar@olga.net
Subject: Venus in Furs by The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground
"Venus in Furs"
>from the album Live MCMXCIII
Main Rift:
E|---------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------|
G|------5--------5--------3----------------5--------5------|
D|----5---5----5---5----5---5------------5---5----5---5----|
A|--3--------5--------6-------5-6-5-3--3--------5----------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------|
B|-----------------------|
G|------3----------------|
D|----5---5--------------|
A|--6----------6---6-----|
E|-----------3---3---3---|
Chorus Part 1, repeat 3 times:
E|-------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------|
G|--3---3--3--------------------------3---3--3--3--|
D|--5---5--5---6---6--6----8---8--8---5---5-5h6-5--|
A|--6---6--6---6---6--6----8---8--8---6---6--6--6--|
E|-------------4---4--4----6---6--6----------------|
Chorus Part 2:
E|-------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------|
G|------5--------5----------------5----|
D|----5---5----5---5----5---5---5---5--|
A|--3--------5--------6---5---3--------|
E|-------------------------------------|
Venus in Furs
Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather
Whiplash girl-child in the dark
Comes in bells, your servant, don't forsake him
Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart
Downy sins of streetlight fancies
Chase the costumes she shall wear
Ermine furs adorn the imperious
Severin, Severin awaits you there
Chorus:
I am tired, I am weary
I could sleep for a thousand years
A thousand dreams that would awake me
Different colors made of tears
Kiss the whip of shiny, shiny leather
Shiny leather in the dark
Tongue of thongs, the belt that does await you
Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart
Severin, Severin, speak so slightly
Severin, down on your bended knee
Taste the whip, in love not given lightly
Severin, taste the whip, now plead for me
Chorus
Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather
Whiplash girl-child in the dark
Comes in bells, your servant, don't forsake him
Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart
Transcribed by Mason Brown mpbrown1@edisto.cofc.edu
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Marks Average |
#1 by Marks at Dec 4, 1971 at 7:36 PM EST |
| Ooh I do love a good gimp-whipping. Incredible song, my favourite Velvet Underground song. | |
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Zach Wanna Be |
#2 by Zach U haft 2 ask 1st at Mar 15, 1976 at 7:05 PM EST |
| I'm so glad to see Last Days fans. Everyone I showed it to thought is was too incomprehensible and boring. | |
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patrick Wanna Be |
#3 by patrick at Feb 20, 1978 at 2:14 PM EST |
| This has got to be the sexiest song of all time. So psychadelic and beautiful. It's always seemed to me to be about BDSM, pleasure in pain | |
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amy Average |
#4 by amy at Sep 10, 1978 at 10:54 PM EST |
| the purpose behind it all seems to be significantly altered when the large overtones are psychedelic. it appears that would be the domination in question, more or less a submission to substance. this is however however openly opinionated. (But there was factually an abundance of chemicals in the factory) | |
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Derek Lead Player |
#5 by Derek O'Kanos at Jun 14, 1981 at 9:20 AM EST |
| actually, that author's name was sacher-masoch! | |
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David Average |
#6 by David Turner at Dec 5, 1982 at 9:20 PM EST |
| I wasn't into this song until I saw "Last Days" There's a scene where a character puts this song on, sits down and sings to it. It's very beautiful, and was my favorite scene in the film. The lyrics work very well with the plot as well. | |
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Niks Average |
#7 by Niks at Jun 30, 1985 at 6:21 AM EST |
| I think there's more levels in it than just S/M. In Last Day there's some kind of dominating releationship between the main character and the guy listening this song in one scene of the movie. I think it's also about relationship where man is dominated and humiliated mentally by woman - or other way around - mainly by sex. I also thought the images of the song like venus in furs, boots of leather, Downy sins of streetlight fancies etc.I understand venus as a feminive symbol - read "pussy" - and venus in furs, well, you get the point. Also I thought that maybe "boots of leather" and "streetlight fancies" refer to a prostitution. Well anyway, it's a great song. | |
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Aaron Average |
#8 by Aaron Smith at Nov 8, 1987 at 2:46 PM EST |
| I had just started listening to the Velvet Underground when I saw Last Days and heard this song in it. At the time, I didn't know what the song was, but I loved it straight away. Awesome song. And awesome movie. I am tired, I am weary I could sleep for a thousand years A thousand dreams that would awake me Different colors made of tears I love those lyrics. | |
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ryan Lead Player |
#9 by ryan harney at Jan 24, 1988 at 5:32 AM EST |
| Venus in Furs was, off the top of my head, a book written by Baron Sadler-Masoch about his unusual relationship with a girl that eventually gave birth to the term 'Masochism', i.e., to gain sexual enjoyment from being hurt. I think 'Severin' might have been the name of a character from the book. Anyway, it's about S & M isn't it? | |
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«Rob» Average |
#10 by «Rob» at Feb 13, 1988 at 7:19 PM EST |
| Severin isn't the guy's name, it's what his abusive aunt used to call him. Later in life, he finds a domanatrix and gets her to dress like his aunt, call him "Severin", and treat him like she did, because it turns him on or somehing. | |
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btotherizzad Average |
#11 by btotherizzad moriznad at Mar 20, 1989 at 12:05 PM EST |
| Ugh. Am I the only one who absolutely hated the movie Last Days? But anyways, I love this song. I love the Velvet Underground. LOVE. | |
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steven Lead Player |
#12 by steven ratliff at Mar 22, 1989 at 10:23 PM EST |
| Great song from THE indie band. It's about bondage, sado-masochism and sex, if you hadn't guessed from the lyrics. | |
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IvZ Average |
#13 by IvZ at Aug 19, 1990 at 1:10 PM EST |
| i will slaughter weezer! play the velvet underground? uhuh. prepare for doom. | |
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Matt Lead Player |
#14 by Matt Spencer at Oct 26, 1990 at 10:32 AM EST |
| Another Velvets song with "underbelly of life" subject matter. I love the expression in this song. The way he draws out "cuuuure his heart" -- it sounds so sinister and subversive, just the perfect fit for the lyrics. | |
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Avinash Average |
#15 by Avinash Dutta at Mar 27, 1992 at 8:26 PM EST |
| Heeeh. Trash Palace covered this song. They're both beautiful | |
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Corey Average |
#16 by Corey La Plante at Jun 4, 1992 at 4:06 PM EST |
| Yeah, Last Days sure was something. Venus in Furs is one of the greatest psychedelic audio trips I've ever heard. Me and my girlfriend dazed off to this song in a weekend full of peyote and san pedro. I hate almost every neo-psychedelia band, mostly because alot of them think they're all that for stealing riffs from The Beatles. On Last Days, I noticed in the background that everyone was in some kind of trance, almost some ritualistic acid dance? Anyways, probably one of my favorite songs. Venus in Furs is all about hallucinogens and sex, from the 'shiny boots of leather' line to the Different colors made of tears line. Latex sex anyways. | |
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KELSO Wanna Be |
#17 by KELSO Is a COOL kid at Apr 30, 1994 at 3:03 PM EST |
| bocmaxima - me too.. I actually didn't know about this song at all until Last Days.. you're right, beautiful scene. It was almost a video representation of the song.. not a music video, but something more. Definetely a great song under pot etc.. and same with the visualizer, CowboyDanCarson1.. it's on my Realplayer right now. | |
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jake Average |
#18 by jake battkoo at Apr 4, 1996 at 9:49 PM EST |
| Yes, Last Days is a fanfuckingtastic movie at that, I'm also excited for "Factory Girl" Extremely excited. In fact, Weezer is to play the Velvet underground, I say bring back Yo La Tengo from "I shot Andy Warhol" Anyways, its obvious that this song is about S&M In fact, My friend and I threw a party with this song being the central theme, it was a ball. | |
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Ahhma Average |
#19 by Ahhma Yomamma at Jun 28, 1996 at 4:22 PM EST |
| I am tired, I am weary I could sleep for a thousand years A thousand dreams that would awake me Different colors made of tears ...the greatest stanza ever written by the velvets....by anyone for that matter...i find this song as a definition for so much in my life...mainly because an order follows a choice and i just get pissed off about it...why should i care what others want...why should i care what i want...perception is a blackhole...wdc | |
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Abe Lead Player |
#20 by Abe Watson at Jul 28, 1996 at 5:54 AM EST |
| Man, i just love this song, me and my friends get stoned and stare at the visualizer on our computers while this song is playing, what an exciting life huh? but it's fun as hell, pretty trippy too, yeah after you posted that thing, Chloe Le Fay, about him being dominated and what not, it all made perfect sense! | |
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aleXeXeX Rhythm Player |
#21 by aleXeXeX at Oct 19, 1996 at 9:49 AM EST |
| which version of the song do you guys think is the best? If you heard Lou Reed's version on his album Animal Serenade, its pretty amazing... | |
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UknownSoldier Lead Player |
#22 by UknownSoldier Nightmare at Aug 2, 2002 at 11:17 AM EST |
| Of course it's about S&M. "Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather..." Man, I LOVE this song. | |
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phil Wanna Be |
#23 by phil taylor at Oct 14, 2004 at 4:26 PM EST |
| This song is amazing. I love the intro that continues through out, it actually sounds like pain | |
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kev Average |
#24 by kev fitzgerald at Feb 22, 2005 at 12:28 PM EST |
| Speaking of covers: I think there's a universal law that says anyone covering this song is going to sound brilliant. Christian Death and Devotchka have both covered the song; the former with a sort of industrial sound to it, the latter with a more pop sound. They're both spectacular, and worth checking out. Regardless, this is Velvet Underground's best and one of the greatest songs ever written to this day. | |
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Randy Lead Player |
#25 by Randy Lott at Aug 31, 2006 at 9:02 AM EST |
| 'taste the whip in love not given lightly' hot. 0neL0vE | |
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