Smashing Pumpkins - Bodies guitar tab
"Bodies' from the album Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness by the Smashing Pumpkins
First off, use what Billy calls 'grunge tuning' (dropped D). Then take that Dropped D and tune it down a
half step to a C#. In the last guitar world interview Billy said the whole album was tuned down a half step to get a deeper sound. After that, the song is quite easy.
Major distortion
"Love is suicide...."
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change #1 "...casualties of their own past...."
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change #2 "...nobody ..."
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I can't remember exactly where in the lyrics the changes are but once
you listen to the song you'll know where they are & where changes #1 and #2 go.
Be patient with my instructions, this is my first posting. Recommendation: use a light pick to get that continuous guitar attack. Cheers to everyone else who has posted tabs. Much appreciated. I'm waiting
for help with the rest of the songs off this double album masterpiece. Especially 'To forgive' & 'Jellybelly'.
bodies -- Smashing Pumpkins (billy corgan)
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transcribed by Paul Scheidt (wzombie@netcom.com)
one of the new, improved, gonna-kill-your-family tunes off the double album,
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness...
Tuning: (Db Ab Db Gb Bb Eb) dropped-D with whole guitar down a half step
intro note
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E5 Ab5 Eb5
E5 Ab5 Eb5
E5 Ab5 Eb5
E5 Ab5 Eb5
E5 Ab5 Eb5 E5 Ab5 Eb5 E5
Cast the pearls aside, of a simple life of need
E5 Ab5 Eb5 E5 Ab5 Eb5
Come into my life forever
Eb5 Db5 Gb5 Eb5
The crumbled cities stand as known
Eb5 Db5 Gb5 Eb5
of the sights you have been shown
Eb5 Db5 Gb5 Eb5
of the hurt you call your own
Eb5 Db5 Gb5
chorus 1
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-------- with either a phaser or wah pedal, I can't tell..
---7---- play above following line
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E5 Ab5 Eb5
Love is suicide (x4)
Gb5 E5 Ab5 Gb5
The empty bodies stand at rest
Gb5 E5 Ab5 Gb5
Casualties of their own flesh
Gb5 E5 Ab5 Gb5 E5 Ab5
Afflicted by their dispo-sse-ssion
chorus 2
B5 C#5 E5 B5
But no bodies ever knew
B5 C#5 E5 B5
No-body-s
B5 C#5 E5 B5
No bodies felt like you
B5 C#5 E5
No-body-s
quiet part
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Love is suicide, love is suicide, love is suicide, love is.. love..
solo part
E5 Ab5 Eb5 E5
Now we drive the night
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E5 Ab5 Eb5 E5
to the ironies of peace
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E5 Ab5 Eb5 E5 Ab5 Eb5
You can't help deny forever
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Eb5 Db5 Gb5 Eb5
The tragedies reside in you
Eb5 Db5 Gb5 Eb5
The secret sights hide in you
Eb5 Db5 Gb5 Eb5
The lonely nights divide you in two
Eb5 Db5 Gb5
Gb5 E5 Ab5 Gb5
All my blisters now revealed
Gb5 E5 Ab5 Gb5
In the darkness of my dreams
Gb5 E5 Ab5 Gb5 E5 Ab5
In the spaces in between us
chorus 2 with just one guitar
then chorus 2 with two guitars, and one angry Billy Corgan.. :)
then chorus 1 again
end on Db5, then pull the plug outta your guitar and do strange things with it
chord formations
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Db5 000xxx
Eb5 222xxx
E5 333xxx
Gb5 555xxx
Ab5 x0222x
B5 x3555x
C#5 x5777x
