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Interviewer: What is your attraction to pedals and manipulating the sound of a guitar? Omar Rodriguez: It stems from my lack of sophistication on the instrument. It was a way to hide that. And it also comes from my own rejection of the instrument, because I didn't choose the guitar. I wanted to be a piano player, but I couldn’t get my ideas out fast enough on a piano. But when I grabbed the guitar, the ideas came out, so that was the vehicle. It was the immediate thing that helped me get to the point I was trying to make as quickly as possible. So I felt like I got stuck with it, and then it just turned into a thing where I was really moved by all the possibilities of the instrument once I stopped thinking about it in traditional terms. Not to mention the fact that, I mean, how old is the guitar? And there are only 12 notes you can play on it! When you think of it that way, it’s like, in terms of the guitar as a device, what else does technology offer? So you go into the gear, the pedals, the plug-ins and anything else that has been invented. [Verse 1]
Do you recall it's nameEm EmAs it suggested beck and call This face and hAmeel AmWill drag your halo through the mud Ash of PoEmmpeii EmErupting in a statues dust Shrouded in Amveils AmBecause these handcuffs hurt to much
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C Still scalpeing these Dticketless applausEme And when they Cdrag the lake there is Dnothing left at allEm
[Verse 2]
Em sutured contusion beyond the Amanthills of the dawning of this plague said I've lost my waEmy Emeven if this cul de sac would pay
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C to reach insiDde a vault Em whatever be the cost C sterling clear Dblackend ice Ebm Em Fm G when they Cdrag the lake there's Dnothing left at all
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CI've Dde--Emfected [x4] [Verse 2] Em sutured contusion beyond the Amanthills of the dawning of this plague said I've lost my waEmy Emeven if this cul de sac would pay
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C to reach insiDde a vault Em whatever be the cost C sterling clear Dblackend ice Ebm Em Fm G when they Cdrag the lake there's Dnothing left at all Em
[Chorus]
CI've Dde--Emfected [x4] [Verse 2] beyond the Amanthills of the dawning of this plague said I've lost my waEmy Em even if this cul de sac did pay beyond the Amanthills of, beyond the anthills oooof said I've lost my waEmy yeeaah even if you, even if you, even if Amyou
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Amreach inside a vault whatever be the cost C sterling clear Dblackend ice Ebm Em Fm G when they Cdrag the lake there's Dnothing left at Emall
[Chorus]
CI've Dde--Emfected [x4]