Smashing Pumpkins - BEHOLD THE NIGHTMARE Tab

Artist : Smashing Pumpkins
Song : BEHOLD THE NIGHTMARE

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artist: smashing pumpkins
song: behold! the nightmare
album: adore

tuning: open Dminor (low to high) D, A, D, F, A, D

intro: just stay on the same chord for about four bars I think

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                            "I've faced the fathoms in your deep"                       "withstood the suitors quiet siege"

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                  "pulled down the heavens just to please you, appease you the wind blows, and I know"

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                                 play these two chords over and over until:

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  "the coarse tide reflects sky and the"

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  "night-mare    rides     on"                  play x4

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  "what I fear, is lost here, the wind blows, and I know"

time signature change, to 6/8

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 play this through once and then repeat with the lyrics
"all you have to do, is run away and steal, yourself from me, become a mystery
to gaze into"
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"your so cruel, in all you do"
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"but still I believe, I believe, you"

time signature change back to 4/4

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-----0----------2-----------------------------  just these two chords back and forward for a while
I can't be bothered to transcribe the guitar solo, but I will tell you that it is tuned to drop-D one
1/4 tone below standard pitch, with the maximum signal level you can possibly get

next is
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"so may you come with your own knives, you'll never take me alive
with all the force of what is true, is there nothing I can do"

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---7-----2-----------------these two back and forth again

and repeat this until the end

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