The Cure - One hundred years
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Tuning: E A D G B E
Album: Pornography (1982)
Effects: wah wah (riffs) & distortion & reverb
I have not tabbed the final solo, but is based on the other riffs played one octave higher
(10th fret of string e) then it goes higher (using frets 13, 15, 16, 18, 20).
[Intro]
(drums)
(riff 1) x2
e||-----------------------------------| |-4-4-3-3-4-4-3--|
B||-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-1-0-| x2 |-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--|
G||-----------------------------------| |----------------|
D||----------------------------------------------------------|
A||----------------------------------------------------------|
E||----------------------------------------------------------|
[Verse 1] 0’36”
CmIt doesn’t matter if we all dieB
CmAmbition in the back of a black car B
CmIn a high building there is so much to doB
CmGoing home time a story on the radioB
[Instrumental] 1’06”
Cm B
Cm B
[Verse 2] 1’20”
CmSomething small falls out of your mouth, and we lBaugh
CmA prayer for something better, a Bprayer for something better
Please love meCm, meet my mother, but the fear takes Bhold
CmCreeping up the stairs in the dark, waiting for the dBeath blow
Waiting for the Bbdeath blow
Bb
Bb
BbWaiting for the death bCmlow
(riff 1)
(riff 2)
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A||---------------------------|
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e||-----------------------------------3-3-4-4-6-6-|
B||-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|
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[Verse 3] 2’32”
CmStroking your hair as the patriots are shot B
CmFighting for freedom on the television B
CmSharing the world with slaughtered pigs B
CmHave we got everything? She struggles to get away.B..
CmThe pain and the creeping feeling, a little bBlack haired girl
CmWaiting for Saturday, the death of her father pBushing her
CmPushing her white face into the mirror, Baching inside me and turn me round
CmJust like the old days, just like the Bold days
Just like the Bbold days
Bb
Bb
BbJust like the old dCmays
(riff 2)
(riff 3)
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B||-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-6--6-6-8--6--3--6-6-8--6--3--|
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e||-----------------------------------|
B||-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-1-0-| x2
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[Verse 4] 4’14”
CmCaressing an old man and painting a lifeless fBace
CmJust a piece of new meat in a clean roomB
CmThe soldiers close in under a yellow mBoon
CmAll shadows and deliverance under a black flagB
CmA hundred years of blood crimson the ribbon tBightens round my throat,
I open my mouth and my
Cmhead bursts open, a sound like a tiger Bthrashing in the water, thrashing in the water
CmOver and over we die one after the oBther
CmOver and over we die one after the oBther
One after the Bbother, one after the other
One after the other, one after the other
[Outro] 5’25”
It feels like a F#hundred years, a hundred years
A hundred years, a hundred years
[final solo, 10th fret string e]
A hundred years