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R.E.M , Green Album

Green

POP SONG 89

Riff by: Jeremy Price (etljype@etlxdmx.ericsson.se)

{intro: A A D D A A D D D x 3}

{intro riff}

1 a & a 2 a & a 3 a & a 4 a & a a 1 a & a 2 a & a 3 a & a a 4 a & a

Hello I saw you I know you I knew you

I think I can remember your name...name

Hello I'm sorry I lost myself

I think I thought you were someone else

Should we talk about the weather?

Should we talk about the government?

{break: B / / / B / / / E / / / E7 / / /

Hello my friend are you visible today?

And no one ever knew that it could be so strange...strange

Hello I'm sorry I lost myself

I think I thought you were someone else

GET UP

{intro: E B C G A E B C G Bb}

Sleep delays my life

Where does the time go...go

I don't know

Sleep sleep sleepy head

Wake it up...up

You've got all your life

Way up ahead

Dreams they complicate my life

Dreams they compliment my life

I've seen you laying pined

I've seen you laying pined

Life is rough...rough

I've seen you laying down...down

With the loving kind

I know life is hard...hard

Well now

Where to turn?

{break A D A D w/ 12 music boxes going off at once}

This time there's no escape

To dreamtime

YOU ARE THE EVERYTHING

{intro Am}

Sometimes I feel like I can't even sing

I'm very scared for this world

I'm very scared for me

Eviscerate your memory

Here's a scene

You're in the back seat laying down

The windows wrap around you

The sound of the travel and the engine

All you hear is time stand still in travel

You feel such peace and absolue

The stillness still that doesn't end

But slowly drifts into sleep

The stars are the greatest thing you've ever seen

And they're there for you

For you alone you are the everything

I think about this world a lot and I cry

And I've seen the films and the eyes

But I'm in this kitchen

Everything is beautiful

And she is so beautiful

She is so young and old

I look at her and I see the beauty

Of the light of music

The voice is talking somewhere in the house

Late spring and you're drifting off to sleep

With your teeth in your mouth

You are here with me

You are here with me

You have been here and you are everything

STAND

Riff from _Guitar from the Practicing Musician_

{Intro:}

(bend A up to B gradually,then release back

organ intro down to A--listen to the record.)

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h+q e e

{Verse riff}:

/----------------|-------0-------|----------------|----------------\

\-0--4-----------|---------------|-0--4-----------|----------------/

q e e e e e e+++e e e q q e q e e e e e e e e e e e e q

{Chorus riff}:

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\-0---------------|-----------------|-0---------------|-3-3-------------/

e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e

{Verse riff}

Stand in the place where you live

Now face North

Think about direction

Wonder why you haven't now

{Verse riff}

Now stand in the place where you were

Now face West

Think about the place where you live

Wonder why you haven't before

{Chorus riff}

If you are confused check with the sun

Carry a compass to help you along

{Chorus riff}

Your feet are going to be on the ground

Your head is there to move you around

{Verse riff}

So stand in the place where you live

Now face North

Think about direction

Wonder why you haven't now

{Verse riff}

Now stand in the place where you were

Now face West

Think about the place where you live

Wonder why you haven't before

{Chorus riff}

Your feet are going to be on the ground

Your head is there to move you around

{Chorus riff}

If wishes were trees the trees would be falling

Listen to reason

The reason is calling

{Verse riff}

Stand in the place where you live

Now face North

Think about direction

Wonder why you haven't before

{Verse riff}

Now stand in the place where you were

Now face West

Think about the place where you live

Wonder why you haven't before

{Solo}:

/h-p-sl\

B-|-0h5--0h5--3-----3--5/-|-8--7--8--8b--8b--8b--|-8b8--7--5--5--7--5\3--0----|

{Chorus riff}

If wishes were trees the trees would be falling

Listen to reason

The reason is calling

{Chorus riff}

Your feet are going to be on the ground

Your head is there to move you around

{Verse riff}

So stand!

Now face North

Think about direction

Wonder why you haven't now

{Verse riff}

So stand!

Now face West

Think about the place where you live

Wonder why you haven't before

{Verse riff}

Stand in the place where you live

Now face North

Think about direction

Wonder why you haven't now

{Verse riff}

Now stand in the place where you were

Now face West

Think about the place where you live

Wonder why you haven't before

{Verse riff}

Stand in the place where you are

Stand in the place where you are

Your feet are going to be on the ground

Your head is there to move you around

So Stand!

WORLD LEADER PRETEND

{between the Em and Bm chords play this ----

{intro Em Bm Em Bm Em Bm G A }

I sit at my table and wage war on myself

It seems like it's all...it's all for nothing

I know the barricades, and

I know the mortar in the wall breaks

I recognize the weapons, I used them well

This is my mistake. Let me make it good

I raised the wall, and I will be the one to knock it down

I've a rich understanding of my finest defenses

I proclaim that claims are left unstated,

I demand a rematch

I decree a stalemate

I divine my deeper motives

I recognize the weapons

I've practiced them well. I fitted them myself

It's amazing what devices you can sympathize...empathize

This is my mistake. Let me make it good

I raised the walls, and I will be the one to knock it down

{I lose track of where the chords occur over the words. They just

switch between Am and C until the last part of this section...}

Reach out for me and hold me tight. Hold that memory

Let my machine talk to me. Let my machine talk to me

This is my world

And I am the world leader pretend

This is my life

And this is my time

I have been given the freedom

To do as I see fit

It's high time I've razed the walls

That I've constructed

It's amazing what devices you can sympathize...emapathize

This is my mistake. Let me make it good

I raised the walls, and I will be the one to knock it down

You fill in the mortar. You fill in the harmony

You fill in the mortar. I raised the walls

And I'm the only one

I will be the one to knock it down

{end on Em}

THE WRONG CHILD

Chords by: Winston Campbell (jieuryli@eden.rutgers.edu)

The Riff is:

I've watched the children come and go

A late long march into spring

I sit and watch those children

Jump in the tall grass

Leap the sprinkler

Walk in the ground

Bicycle clothespin spokes

The sound the smell of swingset hands

D (Riff)

I will try to sing a happy song

D (Riff)

I'll try and make a happy game to play

Come play with me I whispered to my new found friend

Tell me what it's like to go outside

I've never been

Tell me what it's like to just go outside

I've never been

And I never will

I'm not supposed to be like this

I'm not supposed to be like this

But it's okay

Hey those kids are looking at me

I told my friend myself

Those kids are looking at me

They're laughing and they're running over here

They're laughing and they're running over here

What do I do?

What can I do?

What should I do?

What do I say?

What can I say?

I said I'm no supposed to be like this

Let's try to find a happy game to play

Let's try to find a happy game to play

I'm not supposed to be like this

But it's okay...okay

{Riff}

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| ssssssssssssssss e q e+h e e e q e e e e e e+q q e q q e e s s

| (slight mute) (repeat)

|

| (guitar 2 overdub harmonics)

ssssssssssssssss

{Solo riff}

( --- Harmonics --- ) (----- Harmonics _---- )

{Intro: Riff x2}

{Riff}

Follow me don't follow me

I've got my spine I've got my orange crush

Collar me don't collar me

I've got my spine I've got my orange crush

We are agents of the free

I've had my fun and now its time to

Spread your conscience overseas

Coming in fast over me

Aaahhhhhhhhhhh

Aaahhhhhhhhhhh

{Riff x2}

{Riff}

Follow me don't follow me

I've got my spine I've got my orange crush

Collar me don't collar me

I've got my spine I've got my orange crush

We are agents of the free

I've had my fun and now its time to

Spread your conscience overseas

Coming in fast over me

Aaahhhhh(Paid in full)

Aaahhhhh(Paid in full)

{Spoken over Helicopter sounds, etc}

We'd circle and we'd circle and we'd circle to stop and consider and

sitting there on the pavement stacked up all the trucks jacked up and

our wheels in slush and orange crush in pocket and all

{Solo riff begins}

this here county hell any county it's just like heaven here and i was

remembering and i was just in a differnet county and all then this

whirlybird that i headed for i had my goggles pulled off i knew it all

{Riff}

i knew every back road and every truck stop

{Riff}

Follow me don't follow me

I've got my spine I've got my orange crush

Collar me don't collar me

I've got my spine I've got my orange crush

We are agents of the free

I've had my fun and now its time to

Spread your conscience overseas

Coming in fast over me

Aaahhhhh(Paid in full)

Aaahhhhh(Paid in full)

Aaahhhhh(Paid in full)

Aaahhhhh(Paid in full)

End on -0--0--0--0-

TURN YOU INSIDE-OUT

From: John Fail (fail@oberon.pps.pgh.pa.us)

Intro riff by: Bob Troutman (Bob_Troutman@kaplan.com)

Intro:

B--open-------------

Verse:

Divide your cultured pearls and paste

I'm looking for to lay to waste

Of all the things I cannot taste

This is not the wasted race

They spoke loud

I believe in what you do

I believe in watching you

It's what you do

I could turn you inside out

I could turn you inside-out

But I choose not to do

Given the choice

Given the heart

Given the tool

Given the word

Given the cheers

HAIRSHIRT

{This song repeats these 8 measures throughout the verses:

I am not the type of dog

That could keep you waiting

For no good reason

Run a carbon-black test on my jaw

And you will find it's all been said before

I can swing my megaphone and long arm the rest

It's easier and better

To just beat it from the chest

Of desire G

{verse}

I could walk into this room

And the waves of conversation are enough

To knock you down in the undertow

So alone so alone in my life

Feed me banks of light

And hang your hairshirt on the lowest rung

It's a beautiful life

And I can hang my hairshirt

Away up high in the attic of the wrong dog's life chest

Or bury it at sea

All my life I've searched for this

Here I am here I am in your life

It's a beautiful life

My life

It's a beautiful life

Your life

Main Riff from _Guitar for the Practicing Musician_

Riff #2 from Chris Bray (cbray@comp.uark.edu)

Riff #3 from Driver 9 (gt3677a@prism.gatech.edu)

{Main Riff}:

{Riff #2}:

{Riff #3}:

B---------7-----5-------------5----------------------------- repeat

G-----/4-----/4-----4--------------------------------------- several

D----------------------------------------------------------- times

Intro: Main Riff (x 4)

{Bass}

I remember redwood trees, bumper cars and wolverines

The ocean's Trident submarines

Lemons, limes and tangerines

I remember this

I remember traffic jams

Motor boys and girls with tans

Nearly was and almost rans

I remember this

{Main Riff x 4}

{Riff #2}

History is made

{Riff #2} {Riff #2}

History is made to seem unfair

I recall that you were there

{Riff #2}

Golden smile and shining hair

{Riff #2}

I recall it wasn't fair

{Riff #2}

Recollect it wasn't fair

{Riff #2}

Remembering it wasn't fair outside

{Main Riff}

The willow at high tide

The lowest ebb and highest tide

The simple wave I must confide

I guess we took a slow ride

{Riff #3}

I guess it's just a gesture

{Bass}

I remember this defense

Progress fails pacific sense

All those sweet conspiracies

I remember all these things

{Riff #2}

I remember traffic jams

{Riff #2}

Motor boys and girls with tans

{Riff #2}

Nearly was and almost rans

{Riff #2}

I remember this

This

{Main Riff x 4}

{Main Riff}

The willow at high tide

The lowest ebb and highest tide

The simple wave I must confide

I guess we took a slow ride

{Riff #3}

I guess it's just a gesture

At the end of the continent

At the edge of the continent

(UNTITLED)

Riffs & corrections by: glenn cohen (grc105@psu.edu)

{riff 1a}:

B--8-8-8-5---3---1|--------1-3-1-3| (slide back up to 8 and repeat)

e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e

{riff 2}:

B--5-5-5-3--------|5-5-5-3---5-3-5| (slide back up to 8 and after this play riff

G--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0|0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0| riff 1b}

e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e

{riff 1b}: play riff as "to keep you strong" is sung.

B--8-8-8-5---3---1|1-------3-1-3--| (go straight into chorus after this)

e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e

This world is big and so-awake

I stayed up late to hear your voice

This light is here to keep you warm

This song is here to keep you strong

{break: F C F G}

I made a list of things to say

But all I really want to say

All I really want to say is

Hold her and keep him strong

While I'm away from here

{break: F C F G}

Hold her and keep her strong

While I'm away from here

Hold her and keep him strong

While I'm away from here

{break: F7 C F7 G}

I've seen the world and so-awake

And stay up late to hear me sing

Just hold her

I've seen the world and so-awake

And stay up late to hear me sing

Just hold him

Hold her and keep her strong

While I'm away from here

Hold him and keep him strong

While I'm away from here