Soundgarden - Never The Machine Forever guitar tab
Never the Machine Forever
Tuning (low to high): CGDGBE
Key: b - bend
r - release
{c} - harmonics
8X Fig.1 /distortion/
I can't live when it lives
It won't live if I die
Machine has no heart to give
Heart it takes could be mine
E------------------------------------------
B------------------------------------------
G------------------------------------------
D------------------------------------------
G--------------------3-3-3-----------------
C--0-0-0----3-3-3-------------5-5-5---3----
4X Fig.2 /distortion with wah as filter/
Come on
Come down
Come out from where you hide
E------------------------------------------
B------------------------------------------
G--5-5-5-------------3-3-3-----------------
D-----------------------------3-3-3--------
G------------------------------------------
C-----------3-3-3----------------------3---
8X Fig.1 with these lyrics:
Follows me down the river
Shadows me through the sky
A sideways glance in the mirror
Stalemate machine in a tie
8X Fig.2 with these lyrics:
Come on
Come down
Come out from where you hide
Get up
Get off
Get on with your life
Riff A /clean/
E----------------------------------------------
B----------------------------------------------
G------5-----5-----5-----5-----5-----5---------
D----5-----5-----5-----5-----5-----5---...etc--
G--5-----5-----5-----5-----5-----5-------------
C----------------------------------------------
2X (Fig.3 /slight distortion/ with Riff A)
Forever means all is not seen
Never means forever brings everything
E----------------------------------------------------
B----------------------------------------------------
G--17-------15-------12------9/10--9-----------5-----
D----------------------------------------------------
G--17-------15-------12------9/10--9-----------5-----
C----------------------------------------------------
4X Fig.2
8X Fig.1 with these lyrics:
I fashion will and desire
Always I and I survive
Mercurial mind the fire
Ferrivorous direction and drive
8X Fig.2 with these lyrics:
Come on
Come down
Come out from where you hide
Get up
Get off
Get on with your life
2X (Fig.3 /slight distortion/ with Riff A)
Forever means all is not seen
Never means forever brings everything
Riff C /distortion with wah/
E-----------------------------------------------
B-----------------------------------------------
G--4b5---2b3r2--0-------0--------2b3r2--0-------
D-------------------2---------------------------
G-----------------------------------------------
C-----------------------------------------------
6X Riff B /heavy distortion/ with Riff C
E-----------------------------------------------
B-----------------------------------------------
G-----------------------------------------------
D-----------------------------------------------
G-----------------------------------------------
C--0-0-0----{C}-{Bb}-{G}-{E}-{G}-{Bb}-----------
Where {C} {Bb} {G} and {E} are harmonics:
* - the place of touch, the node
C G D G B E C G D G B E
{C} = =========== {Bb}= ===========
| | | | | | 1.fret | | | | | | 1.fret
| | | | | | | | | | | |
----------- -----------
| | | | | | 2.fret | | | | | | 2.fret
| | | | | | | | | | | |
----------- -----------
* | | | | | 3. fret | | | | | | 3.fret
| | | | | | * | | | | |
----------- -----------
| | | | | | | | | | | |
C G D G B E C G D G B E
{G} = =========== {E}= ===========
| | | | | | 1.fret | | | | | | 1.fret
| | | | | | | | | | | |
----------- -----------
| | | | | | 2.fret | | | | | | 2.fret
| | | | | | | | | | | |
----------- -----------
| | | | | | 3. fret | | | | | | 3.fret
| | | | | | | | | | | |
----------- -----------
* | | | | | 4. fret | | | | | | 4.fret
| | | | | | * | | | | |
----------- -----------
| | | | | | | | | | | |
4X Fig.2 with these lyrics:
Get up
Get off
Get on with your life
8X Fig.1 with these lyrics:
Presently, I see myself clearer
Why time I visualize
I spy device in the mirror
Checkmate watch machine die
8X Fig.2 with these lyrics:
Come on
Come down
Come out from where you hide
Get up
Get off
Get on with your life
Riff D /distortion with wah/
E-----------------------------------------------
B-----------------------------------------------
G-----7b8----------5------2b3r2---0---4-5-------
D-----------------------------------------------
G-----------------------------------------------
C-----------------------------------------------
8X Riff B with Riff D
Sent by Andrew Shepherd (s6496pas@sun10.vsz.bme.hu).