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Subtight turned on a dime
In the sultry west-coast night
How could you lost your roll
Amongst the hopeful and the drunk
You showed me so much
You showed me so much
Took us to the new house, speeding along
In a green machine
Riding the wake of another
Once a week
You showed me so much
Oh you showed me so much
Those days are now long gone
Wish I had your picture
Never been able to be true
So I wanted, I wanted
I wanted to help you
I wanted to
And I wanted to help you
And I have to admit
Things got weird for a bit
And I scream for you
There goes my man
In the sultry west-coast night
How could you lost your roll
Amongst the hopeful and the drunk
You showed me so much
You showed me so much
In a green machine
Riding the wake of another
Once a week
You showed me so much
Oh you showed me so much
Wish I had your picture
Never been able to be true
So I wanted, I wanted
I wanted to help you
I wanted to
And I wanted to help you
Things got weird for a bit
And I scream for you
There goes my man
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Sad tyrant, turn on a dime In the sultry west coast night Hopping along skid row Amongst the hopeful and their junk
You showed me so much
Took us to a new high Speeding along in a clean machine Riding the wake of another One so mean
Those days are now long gone Wish I had your picture Memory will do the trick So I wanted, I wanted
I wanted to help you
But I have to admit things got weird for a bit And I screamed for you, “There goes my man!”
i need to know the chords man i just want to jam this song out it's so good
The song is not particularly complicated. It sounds like it's based off the A major scale, so I will use this. The opening riff sounds like A, Asus4, and Amaj7 (melody note); if you wanted to jazz it up, you could do Amaj7sus4, so find that chord and work out the riff from there. The main part is mostly A and D major chords, with the noisy blast being based off Dmaj7.
The song is not particularly complicated. It sounds like it's based off the A major scale, so I will use this. The opening riff sounds like A, Asus4, and Amaj7 (melody note); if you wanted to jazz it up, you could do Amaj7sus4, so find that chord and work out the riff from there. The main part is mostly A and D major chords, with the noisy blast being based off Dmaj7.
All the bass notes that do not match the root of the chord are essentially slash or melodic bass parts. For example, there are several instances...
All the bass notes that do not match the root of the chord are essentially slash or melodic bass parts. For example, there are several instances of A/C#, which is an A on the guitar and C# (the major third of the A chord) on the bass.
That should get you started; the rest is up to you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JeRf7z-qxQ
There is an instructional on how to play it.
I think this is about someone who liked gangsta rap as a young person, and perhaps even found the rappers and thugs to be sexually attractive (based on the fact that most of them were male, and it is a female singing the song), but also wished to show them a better way of life, in the way that some people think they can change their romantic partners, or that their romantic partners will change.
I'm American (and closer to the Gulf Coast, I might add), so I'm basing this partly off the "west coast" line; I may be wrong, but gangsta rap originally featured L.A. groups and artists before it became a national-level thing. The band is Canadian, so there may be something specifically Canadian west coast referenced here that I wouldn't know about.
This song is about heroin