The Cure – One Hundred Years (Guitar)
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Album: Pornography (1982)
Effects: wah wah (riffs) & distortion & reverb
I have not tabbed the final solo, but is based on the other riffs played one octave higher
(10th fret of string e) then it goes higher (using frets 13, 15, 16, 18, 20).
[Intro] (drums) (riff 1) x2 e||-----------------------------------| |-4-4-3-3-4-4-3--| B||-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-1-0-| x2 |-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--| G||-----------------------------------| |----------------| D||----------------------------------------------------------| A||----------------------------------------------------------| E||----------------------------------------------------------|
[Verse 1] 0’36”
Cm B It doesn’t matter if we all die Cm B Ambition in the back of a black car Cm B In a high building there is so much to do Cm B Going home time a story on the radio
[Instrumental] 1’06”
Cm B
Cm B
[Verse 2] 1’20”
Cm B Something small falls out of your mouth, and we laugh Cm B A prayer for something better, a prayer for something better Cm B Please love me, meet my mother, but the fear takes hold Cm B Creeping up the stairs in the dark, waiting for the death blow Bb Waiting for the death blow
Bb
Bb
Bb Cm Waiting for the death blow (riff 1) (riff 2) e||---------------------------| B||-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-6-| x2 G||---------------------------| D||---------------------------| A||---------------------------| E||---------------------------| e||-----------------------------------3-3-4-4-6-6-| B||-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-| G||-----------------------------------------------| D||-----------------------------------------------| A||-----------------------------------------------| E||-----------------------------------------------|
[Verse 3] 2’32”
Cm B Stroking your hair as the patriots are shot Cm B Fighting for freedom on the television Cm B Sharing the world with slaughtered pigs Cm B Have we got everything? She struggles to get away... Cm B The pain and the creeping feeling, a little black haired girl Cm B Waiting for Saturday, the death of her father pushing her Cm B Pushing her white face into the mirror, aching inside me and turn me round Cm B Just like the old days, just like the old days Bb Just like the old days
Bb
Bb
Bb Cm Just like the old days (riff 2) (riff 3) e||------------------------------------------------------| B||-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-6--6-6-8--6--3--6-6-8--6--3--| G||------------------------------------------------------| D||------------------------------------------------------| A||------------------------------------------------------| E||------------------------------------------------------| e||-----------------------------------| B||-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-1-0-| x2 G||-----------------------------------| D||-----------------------------------| A||-----------------------------------| E||-----------------------------------|
[Verse 4] 4’14”
Cm B Caressing an old man and painting a lifeless face Cm B Just a piece of new meat in a clean room Cm B The soldiers close in under a yellow moon Cm B All shadows and deliverance under a black flag Cm B A hundred years of blood crimson the ribbon tightens round my throat,
I open my mouth and my
Cm B head bursts open, a sound like a tiger thrashing in the water, thrashing in the water Cm B Over and over we die one after the other Cm B Over and over we die one after the other Bb One after the other, one after the other
One after the other, one after the other
[Outro] 5’25”
F#
It feels like a hundred years, a hundred yearsA hundred years, a hundred years
[final solo, 10th fret string e]
A hundred years