Great Big Sea – End Of The World (Guitar)
Capo 2
Key
-
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Speed:
1.0x
Chords
An REM cover off GBS's 1997 album, "Play". None of the chords on here sound correct to
me. So, I decided to finally figure out the chords myself. Very easy, only 3 chords. Not
nearly as easy to sing, however!
-Standard Tuning-
-The chords are played as follows:-
*All chords relative to the capo*
D: xx0232
A: x02220
G: 320003
(PM) = Palm mute the chord
(Ring) = Let the chord ring
[Intro]
D (PM) A (PM) G (Ring) G It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine
[Verse 1]
D G That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds, D G snakes, an aeroplanes, Lenny Bruce is not afraid. D G Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn - world D serves its own needs, dummy serve your own needs. Feed G it off an aux speak, grunt, no, strength, Ladder D start to clatter with fear fight down height. Wire G in a fire, representing seven games, a government D for hire and a combat site. Left of west and coming in G D a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck. Team
by team reporters baffled, trumped, tethered cropped.
G D Look at that low playing! Fine, then. Uh oh, G overflow, population, common food, but it'll do. Save D yourself, serve yourself. World serves its own needs, G listen to your heart bleed dummy with the rapture and D the revered and the right, right. You vitriolic, G patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty
G (PM)
psyched.
[Chorus]
D A G It's the end of the world as we know it D A G It's the end of the world as we know it D A G It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine
[Verse 2]
Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign
towers. Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself
churn. Locking in, uniforming, book burning, blood
letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate.
Light a votive, light a candle. Step down, step down.
Watch your heel crush, crushed, uh-oh, this means no
fear cavalier. Renegade steer clear! A tournament,
tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions,
offer me alternatives and I decline.
[Chorus] (x2)
*Palm mute on the 2nd chorus*
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine
[Verse 3]
The other night I dreamt of knives, continental
drift divide. Mountains sit in a line, Leonard
Bernstein. Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester
Bangs. Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You
symbiotic, patriotic, slam book neck, right? Right.
[Chorus] (x2)
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine
[End on D]