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* The Pixies *
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tab. by JeannotLeFou, lefeuvre@titan.ENST-bretagne.fr
BONE MACHINE
... Through whole song....
Slow bit:
Lead Guitar:
bend bend
This is a song for Carol
You're into Japanese fastfood
And I drop you off with your Japanese lover
And you're going to the beach all day
You're so pretty when you're unfaithful to me
You're so pretty when you're unfaithful to me
You're looking like
You've got some sun
Your blistered lips
Have got a kiss
The days are lit like everyone
Uh-oh, Uh-oh, Uh-oh, Uh-oh
Your bones got a little machine
You're the bone machine
I was talking to peachy-peach about kissy-kiss
You buy me a soda
You buy me a soda
You buy me a soda and you try to molest me in the parking lot
Yep, yep yep YEP!
I make you pray
You make me hard
Your Irish skin
Looks Mexican
Our love is rice and beans and horses lard
Your bones got a little machine
You're the bone machine
Uh-oh, Uh-oh, Uh-oh, Uh-oh (3x)
Uh-oh, Uh-oh, Uh-oh, Uh-oh
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BREAK MY BODY
avec un parfois
for the chorus the rhythm plays :
break my body hold my bones hold my bones
Lead guitar
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play above at end of verses
play above pattern through chorus and then
then play note on 5th fret in similar
way to the pattern on the 8th fret.
At the end of the song play
x 2
Lyrics :
I'm a hard loser
You'll find me crashing through my mother's door
I am the ugly lover
You'll find us crawling on the dirty floor
Break my body, hold my bones, hold my bones x 3
I'm a belly dancer
I'll shake forever and I'll never care
I'm a building jumper
Roof to roof you see me flying in the air
Break my body, hold my bones, hold my bones x 3
Somebody got hurt
Somebody got hurt
Somebody got her
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SOMETHING AGAINST YOU
(Barred chords)
B/Ebm/Abm/Ebm
Same riff thru the whole song with solo guitar:
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I have something against you
I have something against you
I have something against you
Break:
// B/Ebm/Abm/Ebm *2
Here, bass play B/Ebm/G#m/Ebm and lead guitar play
something like:
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I have something against you
I have something against you
And I'm gonna use it
I am one happy prick
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BROKEN FACE
I got a broken face
I got a
I got a broken face
I got broken face *2
There was this boy who had two
Children with his sisters
They were his daughters
They were his favourite lovers
I got no lips, I got no tongue
Where there were eyes there's only space
I got no lips, I got no tongue
I got a broken face, uh-hu, uh-hu
I got a broken face
There was this man who snapped his poke
In little pieces
And then they drilled holes
And then they put 'em back in there
I got no lips, I got no tongue
Where there were eyes there's only space
I got no lips, I got no tongue
I got a broken face
Uh-hu, uh-hu, uh-hu, uh-hu, ooo
I got a broken face
The little thing who loves my mother
Speaks no English
But if you saw her
You'd say "Hey isn't she lovely"
I got no lips, I got no tongue
Where there were eyes there's only space
I got no lips, I got no tongue
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GIGANTIC
main riff (on bass):
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And this I know
His teeth as white as snow
What a gas it was to see him
Walk her every day
Into a shady place
With her lips she said
She said
Feedback sur
Hey Paul, Hey Paul, Hey Paul, let's have a ball (3x)
Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
A big big love
Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
A big big love
Lovely legs they are
What a big black mask
What a hunk of love
Walk her every day into a shady place
He's dark, but I'd want him
Hey Paul, Hey Paul, Hey Paul, let's have a ball (3x)
Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
A big big love
Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
A big big love
Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
A big big love
Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
A big big love
after the second verse, there is a guitar break that goes:
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__2________________2_________3______5_______________|
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(bass) rest
|\ four times, then back to chorus main riff
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RIVER EUPHRATES
Bend to 5
Ride, ride, ride, ...
Pendant couplet,solo:
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Stuck here out of gas
Out here on the Gaza Strip
From driving in too fast 2,3,4
Let's ride a tire down river Euphrates
Ride ride,
Ride, ride, ride, ...
Dead sea make it float
One sip from the salty wine
Dead sea make you choke
Let's ride a tire down river Euphrates
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WHERE IS MY MIND?
[twice, then add this:]
With your feet in the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it Yeah,
Your head will collapse but there's nothing in it
And you'll ask yourself
Where is my mind?
Where is my mind?
Where is my mind?
......
Way out in the water see it swimmin'
I was swimmin' in the Carribean
Animals were hiding behind the rock
Except the little fish
But they told me, he swears
Tryin' to talk to me to me to me
[Repeat first verse]
[Repeat A ad lib to finish]
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CACTUS
^^^ ^^^
[Blues it up in the first verse by adding these
where appropriate]
Sitting here wishing a the cement floor
Just wishing that I had just something you wore
Put it on when I go lonely
Will you take off your dress and send it to me?
I miss your kissin' and I miss your head
And a letter in your writing doesn't mean you're not dead
Run outside in the desert heat
Make your dress all wet and send it to me
I miss your soup and I miss your bread
And a letter in your writing doesn't mean you're not dead
So spill your breakfast and drip your wine
Just wear that dress when you dine
Sitting here wishing on a cement floor
Just wishing that I had just something you wore
Bloody your hands on a cactus tree
Wipe it on your dress and send it to me
Sitting here wishing on a cement floor
Just wishing that I had just something you wore
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TONY'S THEME
This is a song about a superhero named Tony
It's called: Tony's Theme
She put the oil in the chain for a ride today, no boloney
Ride around on my bicycle like a pony
I'm wavin hi hi hi hi hi
Gimme gimme the beat
Oh Tony
To-ny (4x)
I can talk to my bicycle tire
I'm racin', speed by, turn and pop a wheelie and burn
People chasin'
I'm wavin' bye bye bye bye bye
I got a card in my spokes
I'm practicin' my jokes
I'm learnin'
/
This is a song about a superhero named Tony
It's called: Tony's Theme
I can get by this sort
If you give me some pass
Some glasses on the back of the road
He was even dressed like a toad
That's what class is
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OH MY GOLLY
Demtro las pi~nones y las holas 'rique~na.
Oh my golly! Oh my golly!
Caminamos bagala luna caribe
Oh my golly! Oh my golly!
Besando, chichando con Surfer Rosa
Oh my golly! Oh my golly!
Entonces se fue en fus madera
Oh my golly! Oh my golly!
Rosa, oh oh ooh Rosa!
Rosa, oh oh ooh Rosa!
Yo soy playero pero no hay playa
Oh my golly! Oh my golly!
Bien perdida la Surfer Rosa
Oh my golly! Oh my golly!
La vida total es un porqueria
Oh my golly! Oh my golly!
Me hecho menos m'as que vida
Oh my golly! Oh my golly!
Rosa, oh oh ooh Rosa! Huh Huh
Rosa, oh oh ooh Rosa! Huh Huh
Translation:
Walkin under the Carribean moon
Kissing and hissing with Surfer Rosa
And then, she fled into the woods
Rosa, oh oh ooh Rosa
I'm a beachgoer but there is no beach
Totally lost without my Surfer Rosa
All of life is a pigsty
???
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VAMOS
You fucking die" I said, to her
I said "YOU FUCKING DIE", to her
Huh? What?
No, no! I was talking to Kim
I said "you fucking die"
No, I was just- we were just goofing around
No, no. It didn't have anything to do with anything
She said: "Don't tou- anybody touch this is my stuff"
And I said "You fucking die" like that
I was finishing her part for her
You know what I mean?
Rhythm guitar
ad lib on above throughout entire song except
for chorus which goes :
That maid Maria she is really OK
Vamos a jurgar por la playa
Lead guitar
repeat above 5 times
repeat above 4 times??
then
keep notes bent to pitch of fifteenth
until playing open notes.
Esta pensando sobre viviendo con mi sister en New Jersey
Echo me dijo que es una vida buena
Enrique bien chevere
We'll keep well bred
We'll stay well fed
We'll have our sons
They will be all well hung
They'll come and play
Their friends will say
Your daddy's rich
Your mamma's a pretty thing
That maid Maria she is really OK
Vamos a jurgar por la playa
I keep gettin' friends
Looking like lesbiens
If we get bored
We'll move to California
They'll come and play
Their friends will say
Your daddy's rich
Your mamma's a pretty thing
That maid Maria she is really OK
Vamos a jurgar por la playa
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I'M AMAZED
-...girls and fucked 'em at school
All I know is that
There were rumours he was into field hockey players
There were rumours
-So he applied basically
-He was gone the next day
-And went off with the team
-It's like - he was go-they just like
It was so hush hush
They were so... quiet about it
And then the next thing you know...
bass:
The day before
I was wed
She went upstairs
And then she cut her head away
(7fret)
I'm amazed (4x)
And when I was
A little boy
A ball of string
Might get up to the rain
Solo
Before I died
I took my Honda
And cranked it up up up
Too bad it don't have no brakes
I'm amazed (4x)
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BRICK IS RED
harm
A fist is fast
And Jimmy's cast
Hang me
A white moon's hot
The other side's not
Hang me
It's not time for me for me to go
It's not time for me for me to go
No Chords
My eyes have turned
Just the color of
diamond Just the color
The frayed color of ice
End: Slide down
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CARIBOU
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^whammy down
I live cement, I hate this street
Give dirt to me, I bite lament
This human form, Where I was born,
I now repent,
Cari-bou Cari-bou
Cari-bou
REPENT REPENT
Give me white, Ground to run
And foregone, Lets me naive
Nothing lets, I will get
What I like
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ISLA DE ENCANTA
Through verses:
"Isla De Echanta" part:
Je, Monito vien comigo (2x)
Hay aviones cada hora
Isla de Encanta
Irme hoy (3x)
Donde no hay sufrimiento (2x)
No pidas rumpassa por la calle
Isla de Encanta
Irme hoy (3x)
Nuestro proprio animal
Cantala henta pragati
Hey babe, what are we doing here?
Laaaa
Laaa
Patria
Isla de Encanto
Irme hoy (3x)
Translation:
Hey, Monita, come with me
There are planes each hour
Enchanted island
I'm leaving today
Where there is no sufferng
Don't ask for rooms next to the stree
???
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ED IS DEAD
(for 3 strums)
Her head is in a bitter way
Her brain's on fire
(3 strums)
She's just looking for the perfect wave
It's her brain's desire
I'll think of her when I walk the strand
On this true hormos a night
Ed is dead (4x)
She's just rotting in stupid bliss
With music on her bars uh
Her face burning in the L.. sun
She got no got no fear of cars
I better kick my strand cruiser
To the friendlier oh oh oh oh oh oh
Ed is dead (4x)
Ed is dead
Ed is, yeah Ed is
Ed is dead (3x)
.I.. (3x)
No, no, no, no, no
Lead guitar bits are just a high note with a little string bending.
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HOLIDAY SONG
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the chords for the verse go:
well sit right down my wicked son and let me tell you a story
about the boy who fell from glory and how he was a wicked son
this ain't no holiday no, no
but it always turns out this way
here i am with my hands
He took his sister from his head
And then painted her on the sheets
And then rolled her up in grass and trees
And they kissed 'till they were dead
This ain't no holiday
But it always turns out this way
Here I am, with my hand
Well sit right down my evil son
And let me tell you a story
About the boy who fell from glory
And how he was a wicked son
This ain't no holiday
But it always turns out this way
Here I am, with my hand
This ain't no holiday
But it always turns out this way
Here I am, with my hand
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NIMROD'S SON
[repeats]
[Solo starting third measure]
[Continue intro chords]
One night I upon my motorcycle
through the desert spead
And smashed my body so that
All my friends thought I was dead
My sister held me close
and whispered to my bleeding head
[Tacet]
'You are the son of a mother-fucker'
one two three four
I shook all night and held her hand
In tropic heat well I'll be damned
Land of plenty, land of fun
To find out I'm Nimrod's Son
Oh bury me far away please
Bury me
[Repeat this]
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[And then add the chords:]
The joke has come upon me
In my motorcycle mirror
I think about the life I've led
And how my soul's been asking
all the holes where I had bled
My image spoke to me
Yes to me and often said
'You are the son of incestuous union'
One two three
Now my head is clear
My luke hands washed
My daughter's pure
My son is whole
Land of plenty, land of fun
To find out I'm Nimrod's Son
Oh bury me far away please
Bury me
The joke has come upon me
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I'VE BEEN TIRED
bass: /
Rythm guitar:
One two three
She's a real left winger 'cause she's been down south
And held peasants in her arms
She said "I could tell you stories that could make you cry"
"What about you?"
I said "Me too"
"I could tell you a story that would make you cry"
And she sighed "Aaahh"
I said "I wanna be a singer like Lou Reed"
"I like Lou Reed" she said sticking her tongue in my ear
"Let's go, let's sit, let's talk"
"Politics go so good with beer"
"And while we're at it baby, why don't you tell me one of your biggest fears?"
I said "Loosing my penis to a whore with disease"
"Just kidding" I said "Loosing my life to a whore with disease"
I said "Please... I'm a humble guy with a healthy desire"
"Don't give me no shit because..."
I've been tired I've been tired
I've been tired I've been tired
I've been tired I've been tired
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I tell a tale of a girl, but I call her a woman
She's a little bit older than me
Strong legs, strong fase, voice like milk, breasts like a cluster of grapes
I can't escape the ways she raise me
She'll make you feel like Solomon be one of your babies even if you had no one
(And while we're at it baby, why don't you tell me one of your biggest fears?)
I don't wanna sleep after setting my loins on fire
But that's OK because...
I've been tired (6x)
I've been tired (9x)
T-i-r-- spells it
Spells it
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LEVITATE ME
Give me help
Give me help
You can... levitate me
Then take off them rings
Off them hose
Levitate me
Higher place
Levitate me
Elevator lady (4x)
Lady levitate me
(7fret)
If all in all is true (3x)
(2fret)
If all is true
Won't you please fawn over me (4x)
Solo guitar:
Shaky shake... Shakey
Levitate me
Come on Pilgrim
You know he loves you
Levitate me
Higer place
He kicked a baby
Elevator lady (3x)
Lady
Elevator Lady
Lady. Lady. Levitate me
If all in all is true (3x)
If all is true
Won't you please run over me (5x)
Me, me, me, me, ...
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