Rent - Rent guitar tab
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Tabbed by: FinkiusMaximus
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Tuning: Standard
Main/Intro Riff
Part A Part B
e|-2-3-2---2-3-2---3---2-3---------3---2-3-----------------------------------|
B|-------1-------1---1-----------1---1---------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Chord Progression for this part: Eb5 F5 C5 /
Intro: Play Part A 4x, then Part B once
Chord Progression goes 4x, then remain on C5 for the Part B tag
Verse (Mark):
C5
How do you document real life when real life's getting more like
D5
Fiction each day
C5
Head lines bread lines blow my mind and now this deadline e-
D5 E5
viction or pay
Gm Gm#5 Gm6 Gm#5 (tabbed below)
Rent!
Technically the chord is Gm#5, though it's essentially equivalent to Cm7
e|-3---3---3---3-------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-3---4---5---3-------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-3---3---3---3-------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-5---5---5---5-------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-5---3---5---5-------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-3---3---3---3-------------------------------------------------------------|
Verse 2 (Roger):
C5
How do you write a song when the chords sound wrong though they once sounded
D5
Right and rare?
C5
But the notes are sour, where is the power you once had to ig-
D5
nite the air?
(Mark):
F
We're hungry and frozen
(Roger):
C
Some life that we've chosen!
[Chorus]
Gm Gm#5 Gm6 Gm#5
How we gonna pay?
How we gonna pay?
How we gonna pay
Eb F C
Last year's rent?
[Intro riff here]
Verse 3 (Roger):
C5
How do you start a fire when there's nothing to burn and it feels like something's
D5
Stuck in your flue?
(Mark):
C5
How can you generate heat when you can't feel your feet, they're
D5 E5
Turning blue?
(Roger):
F
You light up a mean blaze
(Mark):
C
with posters
(Roger):
and screenplays!
Repeat chorus, then this solo thing once:
e|-8-7-5-7-8-7-5-------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------8----8-10-8-6-6-10-8----------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Verse 4
(Collins):
C5
How do you stay on your feet when on every street it's trick or treat and to-
D5
night it's trick?
C5
Welcome back to town, oh, I should lie down, everything's brown and
D5 E5
Oh, I feel sick
(Mark):
F
Where is he?
(Collins):
C
Gettin dizzy...
Chorus
(Mark):
Am Em7 C Am G
The music ignites tonight with passionate fire
(Roger):
Am Em7 C Am G
The narration crackles and pops with incendiary wit.
(Mark):
Am Em7 C Am
Zoom in as they burn the past to the ground and I'm feeling the heat
G
Of the future's glow
(Together):
D
How do you leave the past behind when it keeps finding ways to
F
Get to your heart?
D E F#
It reaches way down deep and tears you inside out 'til you're torn apart (Rent!)
D
How can you connect in an age where strangers, landlords, lovers, your own
E
blood cells betray?
D
What binds the fabric together when the ragins shifting winds of change keep
E F#
Ripping away?
(Benny):
G D
Draw a line in the sand and then make a stand.
(Roger):
G
Use your camera to spar
(Mark):
D
Use your guitar.
(Together):
G D
When they act tough you call their bluff.
Am Am#5 Am6 Am#5 (same shape as the previously tabbed chords, two frets up)
We're not gonna pay
We're not gonna pay
We're not gonna pay
F G D
last year's rent
this year's rent
next year's rent
rent rent rent rent rent
We're not gonna pay rent 'cayse
Bb C D
ev'rything is rent!
| / slide up
| \\ slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note
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