R.E.M. – Leave (Guitar Tab)

From: Randy Simmons ([email protected]) This is obviously an electric guitar song. So it is really neat to play if you have an amp with good overdrive. It sounds better if you have a guitar with a pickup selector switch like a Rickenbacker or a Les Paul, but that is just for more flair and perfection. Cool trick: If you have a fairly good CD player, hit the pause button (which should put the player in standby/play mode) then go to track 6. Now you should have an INDEX button on your remote, hit Index to number 2 (usually it is a smaller number on the digital display right next to the track number). The CD will automatically skip over the 1:01 min interlude/intro on the acoustic guitar and right to the actual "beginning" of the song!!! Pretty cool!! I assume this was done to accommodate Radio DJ's who want not such a long song... Now go check all of your other CDs to see who else did this!! Amp Setting: MEDIUM OVERDRIVE, MEDIUM GAIN, MEDIUM REVERB, MEDIUM CHORUS * CAPO ON 1st FRET TO PLAY WITH THE ALBUM!!! Guitar Riff: (put pickup selector switch in middle position) s = slide to.. h = hammer on.. p = pick off to..

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B|------------------------ 7 s 9 -- 6 ---|
G|-- 2 s 3 -- 3 s 5 -- 6 ----------------|
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B|------------------------- 7 s 9 -- 6 h 7 p 6 ---|
G|-- 2 s 3 -- 3 s 5 -- 6 -------------------------|
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Verses: (this is a sort of muffled overdrive so put pickup selector switch in BASS/RHYTHM pickup pos.) strum each chord only once and let ring Am 002210 F 133211 REMEMBER!! CAPO ON 1st FRET !!!! G 320033 C 032010 F* 033000 Am F Nothing could bring me closer. G G Am Nothing could bring me near. Am F Where is the road I follow G G Am To leave, leave? Am F It's under, under, under my feet G G Am The sea spread out there before me. G Am F Where do I go, when the land touches sea. G G Am There is my trust in what I believe. Chorus: (this really stands out so put pickup selector switch in MIDDLE position) C That's what keeps me, Am That's what keeps me, C G That's what keeps me down. C Am G To leave it, to leave it, F F* F Leave it all behind. The following verses and choruses are played the same, sometimes with the Guitar riff and the chords, sometimes just chords. If you have two guitars (and two people) play both!! Shift into dream Nothing could bring me further from my old friend time. This shift into dream It's charging the scene I know where I marked the signs. I suffer dreams of a world gone mad I like it like that and I know it. I know it well, ugly and sweet I temper madness with an even extreme. That's what keeps me That's what keeps me That's what keeps me down Say that I'm a bantam lightweight Say that I'm a phantom airplane That never left the ground. (Chorus) x1 Lift me, lift me, I dream a dream. I lost myself, I lost my... Are they calling me? I lost myself in sorrow I lost myself in pain I lost myself in gravity Memory, leave, leave, leave. (Chorus) x2 Lift my hands my eyes are still I walk into the sea Shift myself in a different place And leave it. I wait for this to take me, I've longed for my release. I've waited for the calling, To leave, leave Leave, leave, leave, leave Leave it, leave it