The Empyreanv2

The Empyrean (2009) + Japanese CD Bonus Tracks

by

John Frusciante

This tab contains chords for all songs off John Frusciante's 'The Empyrean'

+ 2 Bonus tracks off the Japanese issue of the album.

Before The Beginning

Tuning: Standard

Chords used:

Em x79987

D/F# x9777x

G x 10 12 12 12 x

C/E x7555x

Em - D/F# - G - C/E <== Play throughout the whole song.

For full solo refer to this:

http://www.invisible-movement.net/downloads/tabs/theempyrean/theempyrean_01_beforethebeginning_

tab_fruvai.txt

Song To The Siren

Tuning: Standard

Long afloat on shipless oceans

I did all my best to smile

'Til your singing eyes and fingers

Drew me loving to your isle

And you sang "Sail to me, sail to me, let me unfold you"

Here I am, here I am, waiting to hold you

Did I dream you dreamed about me

Were you hare when I was fox

Now my foolish boat is leaning

Broken lovelorn on your rocks,

For you sing, "Touch me not, touch me not, come back tomorrow

O my heart, O my heart shies from the sorrow"

I am puzzled as the newborn child

I am troubled at the tide

Should I stand amid the breakers?

Should I lie with Death my bride?

Hear me sing, "Swim to me, Swim to me, Let me enfold you

Here I am, Here I am, Waiting to hold you"

Unreachable

Tuning: Standard

Are we

Down for the same cause

We don't know what we stand for

When the moments start to crack

You do lose track where your head's at

And I am unreachable

What do you think when your head's full?

We don't rely on what we get

We begin now where we aren't yet

Hey!

One time, hit me where I turn white

I don't mean to be polite x2

Uniformed, spinning the world to the beat of my drum

Uniformed

Reach into the darkness for what you can find

Travel great distance in your mind

The world gets stronger as you start trying things

Turn around towards being born away from dying

I've run out again, there's no one on my side

Where we to disappear, well, I know I tried

You know we tried, you know we tried

Heeeeeeey shoot me heeeeeeeey

Heeeeeeey shoot me shoot me shoot me yeah yeah hey yeah

Aaaaah

Aaaaah

God

Tuning: Standard

So each day would be new I build you to sleep

That’s the idea of dying but you’ll just have to see

You can do what you want or so you think

But till you stop all your thoughts

You are tied to your surroundings

When the fog spreads out in the rainy season

It comes from my insides

When the thunderous lighting strikes down

You’re seeing your real I

People

You blaspheme my name

But still I love you

Still I love you

I love you just the same

I hear all your prayers because I’m each one of you

Creation's not something I did

It’s something that I do

The reason for the bad is so the there’d be such things as good

Oh I’d do anything for you

You all know I would

Be for me

Be for me

Be for me

Before for me

Before for me

Before for me

You know that I try to repair and repay

As life goes by a thousand times

It gets a little better

All is belief, All is belief

Yeah

All is belief, All is belief

Yeeee ee eee

Dark/Light

Tuning: Standard

Chords used:

Bb x13331

Bbm x13321

Cm x35543

C# x46664

Eb x68886

Ebm x68876

Fm 133111

F7 131211

F# 244322

G 355433

G7 353433

Ab 466544

Remember all you've forgotten

I can't put those thoughts away

Everything I've thought's in my head to stay

Now what do we get for trying to follow to a tee

All the instructions you gave to me

Did you ever notice

That it's for you that I've lived my life

Every time I had fun you were on my mind

I've lost my perspective

I've gone off the wall

Really not sure if I'm needed here at all

Hey

This is my last shot

I'll always be less that my other selves

So I feel like I'm competing with someone else

Who I could never beat in a million years

I was made to think that we would wind up round here

Will we ever get together in a song

Will you ever tell everybody bout right and wrong

Will you let everyone in on the meaning of life and death

Do you need me or are you waiting for my last breath

Cm – Eb – Bb – Ab – G – G – G – G <== Repeat till the end.

Heaven

Tuning: Standard

Intro: Am

Well I spent the night in heaven

I wanted to figure it out for myself

I spin around the fortress

You never know the currency that we all run on

We run on, we run on

You once told me

You keep a billion frequencies on your person

End the night with channel four

You don't see me looking you up when I'm here

We live fast cuz time won't last

See me freezing like the bum I am

From where you start there's endless information drilled into your eyes

Well, I don't need protection

One life begins, another dies

Bad timing

I won't last

Man, that's the facts

It is a feeling that will never pass

And you know you could be taking us far

When I speak to you again through the stages of pleasure

Well, I don't have my own face

So c'mon and be replaced

There's a future that's calling

But I don't see it coming

No, I don't have my own face

So c'mon and be replaced

There's a future that's calling

But I don't see it coming

No, I don't see it coming

No, I don't see it coming

Enough Of Me

Tuning: Standard

This precise time and right here

Are not going anywhere

I`ve had enough of new todays

For once I`d like to go another way

I speak my last words and then

remember it may never end

All that I`ve won I have lost

Each passing moment cuts me off

Well, I don`t like to waste a chance but they`re overflowing

What I don`t do will get done by somebody

When I was five I saw some plants ungrowing

Whether seen forwards or back they`d keep going

They`d keep going

If the seasons which change were all still

It`s so easy to see life would fail

Whatever slips out of our hands

Will find its way back to us once again

Yeeah

If the seasons which change were all still

It`s so easy to see life would fail

Whatever slips out of our hands

Will find its way back to us once again

Will find its way back to us once again

Will find its way back to us once again once again

Solo

Central

Tuning: Standard

Im central to nowhere thinking of sweeping it clean

When we choose to go were losing more than just our surroundings

I've gone around the sides of this universe as it stands

Outside the limits of all existence where light never ends

We should be grateful to the gods

Whoever they're real to they are

I value my placement as in Hell

Remember that moment that I fell

Anything that could one day be is as real as what I'm saying

If something is nothing it must not be something in any possible way

Lo - Lo - Lose yourself in far off worlds that are right under your feet

Switch below with above all the way up into infinity

We should be thankful who we are

Whether we know ourselves or not

Walking alongside myself

Neither of us listens very well

I'm dreading a time that is not near

As a man on a cross I have no fear

I can't believe these words I'm saying

You gotta feel your lines

You gotta feel your lines

Repeat as many times as necessary.

One More Of Me

Tuning: Standard

Chords used:

D xx0232

A x02220

G 355433

Bm x24432

Em 022000

Now that the day has come

I see myself as everyone

I am what’s all around me

No, nothing it just cannot be

Feeling has come from the sun

Like most everything and everyone

What seems lost is free from the force that slowly destroys us

And kills all matter off

Well, we don’t control the chance that plays with us

And we get existence back to hurting others

And when we go the other way it’s ourselves we hurt

But who pushes on though eventually will see

Every moment’s first

Every moment is first

What’s gone will never come back

But it exists when you think of it

And what is anything, anyway

But a series of things running through your brain

All of the fucked things you do

Are the product of whats happened to you

Whatever you create from love

Is a gift from the place which some call above

There’s only the forces of hate and love

One breaks things down and one builds them up.

After The Ending

Tuning: Standard

Pain runs through life

Pleasures’ other side

Fear, some say, gives us such long lives

Leads us where we drive

Time will soon be born

It is starting all the dawn

And the world is moving towards

Things like opposites and wars

And one knows to hear birds sing

There was nothing till the beginning Yeesss

And the water from my eyes

Is because I care who dies

Although death is transforming

There is nothing after the ending

Everything is eternal

Nothingness does not exist

No thing has ever become nothing

And nothing has never become something

What is has always been and will always be

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Japanese CD Bonus Tracks

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Today

Tuning: Standard

All chords are power chords.

Today will not be happening

We've come too far away from being to be at all A ha

We're putting the law back in your hands

Today we're setting our sights for a new land

Lean into me cuz there's no signs on the vehicle

Look out and see cuz the city has no people

They don't know who you are but they know who you will be

Monsters of all colors and we're all distorted energy

Pain looks on up at me

And when I am beat

From the backseat I'll crash my car

Incensed I feel like a fool when I'm feeling

Right off this blossoming hurts like I'm peeling

Oh God I can't be found when I'm dreaming

Words hard I'm into the sound of their meaning

I am divorced from the image I've created

So many nights and days that are separate from the ages

Thank you for the lessons that I learned while John was sleeping

Whoever it seemed the creator did the teaching

The creator did the teaching

Ah Yom

Tuning: Standard

I've got a million to choose from

A million ways things could be

In dull moments I feel like

There's a million options I see

The trouble is choosing one

The trouble is doing one

A slave in the fields one night

He's running along

Gets far enough to be a free man

And he's feeling so strong

That's how actions should be

Freeing

Step after step is our only choice in a walk

When we run at the mouth we jump back and forth

There's only one place I'm going

There's only one destiny

And if my mind tells me otherwise

Then it's a poor guide for me

All of the energy in life

Is nothing more than a spark in a fire

The whole course of time is the blink of an eye

Rain in the slums

Ah Yom

Into the cards

Aum Yaum

Rain in the slums

Aum Yaum

Into another world

Aum Yaum

Rain in the slums

Ah Yom

Into the cards

Aum Yaum

Rain in the slums

Aum Yaum

Into another world

Aum Yaum

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