Smashing Pumpkins

Smashing Pumpkins - Behold The Nightmare guitar tab

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

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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x2

"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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