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Sandbox Chords
Sandbox
Chords & Lyrics
Special Thanks to Ralf!!! *all of these are figured out & written down by r. rotmalm - Go visit ralf's great GBV Site!
(here's a display of all the chords used in this presentation:
for those of you unknowing of what a rock chord may be, it's this:
D-5-
A-5-
E-3- that's a G rock chord. just move that voicing anywhere on
the guitar, with the bass tone lowest.)
D G C Em Am Bm G# F F# Bb A E F* G* Cm Am*
-2--3--0--0--0--2--4---1---2--1---0--0--------3--0--
-3--0--1--0--1--3--4---1---2--3---2--0--6--8--4--1--
-2--0--0--0--2--4--5---2---3--3---2--1--5--7--5--2--
-0--0--2--2--2--4--6---3---4--3---2--2--0--0--5--0--
----2--3--2--0--2--6---3---4--1---0--2--------3--0--
----3-----0--------4---1---2---------0--------------
lips of steel
(rock chords:)
Bb-C-C-C Bb-C-C-C
it's unreal, you tell me what i'm feeling
Bb-C-C-C Bb-C-C-C
strong emotions bouncing off the ceiling
G-A C
show me how far you can go
G - A
as close as i can get
C
as much as i will know
Bb-C-C-C
stretch the truth and
Bb-C-C-C
tell me i'm not dreaming
Bb-C-C-C
trust your leaders
Bb-C-C-C
supermen with lips of steel
G-A C
show me how far you can go
G - A
as close as i can get
C
as much as i will know
Bb G
we are on our way
Bb G
we believe what you say
Bb-C-C-C
C Bb C
"ladies and gentlemen, back by popular demand
for your entertainment and spiritual enlightment
electric jam soul aquarium!"
a visit to the creep dr.
(riff:)
C C C D
D-----------3-3br3-
A-5-0-5-0-5--------
(play riff)
the yellow moon looks down now
lights the scene for the night ahead
round the chairs in a circle
and i just can't sit down
Bb F
but the freak stares on
Bb F
puts on his glasses and he smokes it down
Bb F
that don't matter for much now
C Am
he says: i'm gonna put your head on,
C F
don't you screw it up
(play riff)
the message was delivered
the mothers wept uncontrollably
mad children sent to the warehouse
and heavens trumpets blow
Bb F
yeah, but the freak stares on
Bb F
puts on his glasses and he smokes it down
Bb F
that don't matter for much now
C Am
he says: i'm gonna put your head on,
C F
don't you screw it up
Bb F
yeah, but the freak stares on
Bb F
puts on his glasses and he smokes it down
Bb F
that don't matter for much now
C Am
he says: i'm gonna put your head on,
C F
don't you screw it up
everyday
(on the album it's tuned down so that E is Eb)
(these chords, with arpeggio picking on one guitar:)
G D C Cm Em G
G D C
clouds open, dust and waves rise up to obscure
Cm Em G
god's very blue sky
G D C
people skating ginger, only endure
Cm Em G
for the very last of sun died
G D C
lines of shopping mothers grabbing the kids
Cm Em G
pushing up to the front
G D C
rows of pretty little houses and lawns
Cm Em G
i want you to have a beautiful one
(play this on the C chord:)
D-9p7h10p7h9-...
(and the bass plays this on the G chord:)
D-5-5-2-0-5-5-2-0-5-5-2-0-5-5-2-0-
C G
moving in circles out on the freeway, yeah
C
coming and going to
G A Bm D C
everyday
G A C-D-C F
everyday
G A C Bm D
everyday
G A D
everyday
C G
moving in circles out on the freeway
C
coming and going to..
G D C
got a brand new car with hideaway lights
Cm Em G
and a blue racing stripe
G C
costs a little extra but it's worth it to me
Cm Em G
when money burns through the exhaust pipe
G D C
i'd like to take you for a quick spin sometime
Cm Em G
to show you what it's got
G D C
i can't believe you chose to work in the line
Cm Em G
i'm so glad that i'm not
G A Bm D C
everyday
G A C-D-C F
in every way
G A C Bm D
everyday
G A D
in every way...
barricade
(i have spent an amount of time figuring this out,
getting nowhere...)
six guns alone and
emotional avalanche
six bottles of rum and a
kilo full of character change
i don't have to come out on my own, barricade
i walked into the line of fire and took it
on my chin again and i can't find my medication or my occupation
and please don't show me the things i should see
in the finger paint i've been dabbling
with the sixty vessels of the ocean
in the cryptical lie of the fashion world i become
the agressor of no one
takes a stronger wind to blow out this
candle than the other fires i've made
And the lying mouth won't blow my handle
knocking down my barricade
blowing up my barricade
little child little child little child
won't you dance with me
little child little child little child
won't you dance with me
i walk out in the blinding light and took it
on my chin again and i can't find my medication or my occupation
and please don't show me the things i should see anymore
go away and leave alone to work the crossroad
runaway train, i need to find a long lost brother
bound and gagged, i'm feeling the need to think it over
lost my home, don't find my home
let me walk
i can stand on my own two feet
i don't care what you do
i don't like you
be a clown, be a man
be all you can be
and you don't have to stay
it's all over now
(get to know) the ropes
(this is a riff:)
B---3----3-----3-----3----
G-----2----0-----0-----0--
D-0-----------------------
A-------3----2-----3------
i'm positive roy
that you're not the one
to look behind pillars of marble
a time to be killing and cold
D F* G* F*
i know that when we have to contend
D F* G* F*
i know you'll try to open your head
D F* G* F*
and then they'll start looking around your mind
D F* G* F*
and you won't be feeling so numb this time
D G* G F
in one grey wintertime
D G* G F
the ropes fall around you
D G* G F
a mountain of detail that i never talked about
D G* G F
minor but nothing no way
(the riff)
i'm positive roy
that your not the one
to look behind pillars of marble
a time to be killing and cold
D F* G* F*
i know that when we have to contend
D F* G* F*
i know you'll try to open your head
D F* G* F*
and then they'll start looking around your mind
D F* G* F*
and you won't be feeling so numb this time
D G* G F
in one grey wintertime
D G* G F
the ropes fall around you
D G* G F
a mountain of detail that i never talked about
D G* G F
minor but nothing no way
D G* G F
in one grey winter
D G* G F
in one grey winter...
it keeps you from walking away with the crowd
it keeps you from walking away with the crowd
"ladies and gentlemen, back by popular demand
for your entainment and spiritual enlightment:
the electric jam soul aquarium!"
can't stop
G G G Bb F
i know i'm wasting time
G G G Bb F
now and then i just want to run away
G G G Bb F
please believe me i don't mean what i say
G G G Bb F
but you know i just can't stop anyway
(arpeggiated rock chords:)
E F G
you gotta know one thing babe
E F G
gotta listen to me
E F G
just a little more room now
E F G
you gotta set me free
Bb F Bb F Am
make up your mind baby
Bb F Bb F Am
straight on the line baby
Am/G Am/F
you never really had to look through me
Am Am/G
you really shouldn't be that way when we touch
Am/F Am
without tenderness i don't want too much
Am/G
only happiness blows
G G G Bb F
i know i'm wasting time
G G G Bb F
now and then i just want to run away
G G G Bb F
please believe me i don't mean what i say
G G G Bb F
but you know i just can't stop anyway
(arpeggiated rock chords:)
E F G
you gotta know one thing babe
E F G
you gotta listen to me
E F G
just a little more room now
E F G
you gotta set me free
Bb F Bb F Am
make up your mind baby
Bb F Bb F Am
straight on the line baby
Am/G Am/F
you never really had to look through me
Am Am/G
you really shouldn't be that way when we touch
Am/F Am
without tenderness i don't want too much
Am/G
only happiness blows away, that will do
i can't stop it anyway
i can't stop it anyway...
the drinking jim crow
C F#
C F#
ah-ah-ah-ah i have emotional scars
C F#
ah-ah-ah-ah, i don't understand what your saying
C F#
ah-ah-ah-ah, it's an accomplice of mine
C F#
feeeeling somethings going to blow
F
and watch where you go
C
i'm the drinking jim crow
C F#
ah-ah-ah-ah, did you know it's a traditional game
C F#
ah-ah-ah-ah, and we market it as a nasty little nation
C F#
drinking from the fire in the well
C F#
extracting all the venom from the snake
F
be careful you know
C
i'm the drinking jim crow
F
may the best things be stolen
C
and the costumes be we froze
F
and the master of races
C
and the stone pointed faces
F
and the killing of time
C
i'm the drinking jim crow
F
better look where you go
C
better look where you go
trap soul door
(the bass goes:)
G E D E
(throughout the whole song)
(that's all i got for now)
i'd give you everything i got
for a little more time to analyze the crime
and i don't feel hurt now that you don't write
because i'm used to this shit and they tell me its alright
and your so right and i'm so wrong
but we could be lonely before too long
and i don't care if the whole things going wrong
cause we will be lonely before too long
just one spark makes a hell of a fire
i'm still wrong, but your still a liar
common rebels
G D G C G D G C
G D G C G D G C
captain puzzle's knuckle turn red, oh
G D G C G D G C
count the kisses, liquid turn red, oh
G D G C G D G C
i'm just.. i never could be, so long
G D G C G D G C
common rebels never compete o'long
G D G C G D G C
time wasted, never once free, show it
G D G C G D
common rebels never can sleep
G C
find it
G D G C G D G C
common rebels
G C
real life, a record good lie
the rebels hide a rebel
i don't know why they let me go out
the rebels hide a rebel
real life, a record good lie
the rebels hide a rebel
i don't know why they let me go out
the rebels hide a rebel
i don't know why
i don't know why..
long distance man
(tune down all strings half a tone to play w/ the album)
(these chords are almost impossible to figure out, you can
play all damn chords to this melody, this is the best i can
do for now..)
G Bm
he's a long distance man
C A
and he keeps on going cause its not worth blowing
G Bm
and he does what he can
C A
cause it not worth losing and there ain't no choosin
G Bm
any other world that you live in
Em A
don't believe in second chance
G Bm
sell another dream he won't take it
Em A
so don't fake it when you dance
G Bm
he's a long distance man
C A
and he keeps on going cause its not worth blowing
G Bm
and he does what he can
C A
cause it not worth losing and there ain't no choosin
G Bm
cover up your eyes in these bad times
Em A
for the sad times, passing years
G Bm
build another tower for your freedom
Em A
he don't need them, shed no tears
G Bm
for the long distance man
G Bm
for the long distance man...
(i certainly) hope not
G G G G G G G G C C C C C C C C...
G
the tension was pretty tight
C
leave you hanging without a fight
G
give it all up cause theres no
C
living in the world of arctic
Bm Am
no giving, are you quitting
G C
i certainly hope not, oh no
G C
i certainly hope not, oh no
Bm Am
i certainly hope not, oh no
D D/C D/B D/A
oh oh
G
there's so many things people say
C
just to help but get in the way
G
i won't try to figure things out
C
it's complicated so when i doubt
Bm Am
i start crying, stop trying
G C
i certainly hope not, oh no
G C
i certainly hope not, oh no
Bm Am
i certainly hope not, oh no
D D/C D/B D/A
oh oh
attracted to the light
where everything will be alright
attracted to the light
where everything will be alright
attracted to the light
where everything will be alright
adverse wind
(play this thing during the verse:)
A-----5-----3---3-
E-5-5---5-5---5---
Am Am*
stay close at hand, you know
F C Em
the bar begins where rooted boundaries end
G-4h5p4-2-0-2-
Am Am*
stay pure and heart of gold
F C Em
the ocean breaks against the adverse wind
G-4h5p4-2-0-2-2-4-5-5h7p5-4-2-0-0-
(with this:)
Am Bb G
C Bb Am G#
i hear you crying you're only a lifetime away
C Bb Am G#
i feel you dying, relying, on what the people say
G-4h5p4-2-0-2-2-4-5-5h7p5-4-2-0-0-
(with this:)
Am Bb G
Am Am*
she lives in solitude
F C Em
behind the rudeness of the work she spins
G-4h5p4-2-0-2-
Am Am*
he stalks oblivious
F C Em
pushing and holding in an adverse wind
C Bb Am G#
i hear you crying you're only a lifetime away
C Bb Am G#
i feel you dying, relying, on what the people say
C Bb Am G#
i hear you crying you're only a lifetime away
C Bb Am G#
i feel you dying, relying, on what the people say...