The Smashing Pumpkins – 1979 (Guitar)

Half-Step Down (Eb-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb)
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[Chords Used] Emaj7 021100 E 022100 A x02220 F#m7 242252 F# 244322 B x24442 Amaj7 x02120 C#m x46654 [Intro] Emaj7 E A Emaj7 E [Verse 1]
A                            Emaj7   E
  Shakedown nineteen seventy nine,

A                          Emaj7   E
  Cool kids never have the time.

    A                            F#m7
On a live wire right up off the street

        B        Emaj7   E
You and I should meet.
[Verse 2]
A                         Emaj7   E
  Junebug skipping like a stone

A                                Emaj7   E
  With headlights pointed at the dawn.

A
  We were sure we'd never see

   F#m7      B
An end to it all.
[Chorus 1]
    E       Emaj7 Amaj7                      E
And I don't even  care to shake these zipper blues,

    Emaj7    Amaj7                          E
And we don't know just where our bones will rest

   Emaj7  Amaj7
To dust I guess

                F#m7            B       Emaj7   E
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below.
A Emaj7 E [Verse 3]
A                                 Emaj7   E
  Double cross the vacant and the bored,

A                                       Emaj7   E
  They're not sure just what we have in store.

A                         F#          A
  Morphine city slippin' dues down to see:
[Chorus 2]
     E        Emaj7 Amaj7                  E
That we don't even  care as restless as we are,

   Emaj7    Amaj7                          E
We feel the pull in the land of a thousand guilts.

    Emaj7    Amaj7
And poured cement,

               B
Lamented and assured.
[Bridge]
                  C#m     A
To the lights and towns below,

B               C#m      A
Faster than the speed of sound,

B              C#m          A    F#m7      B        Emaj7   E
Faster than we thought we'd go beneath the sound of hope.
[Verse 4]
A                        Emaj7   E
  Justine never knew the rules,

A                               Emaj7   E
  Hung down with the freaks and ghouls.

    A                      Emaj7   E
No a-pologies ever need be made,

A                            F#m7       B
  I know you better than you fake it to see:
[Chorus 3]
     E        Emaj7 Amaj7                      E
That we don't even  care to shake these zipper blues,

    Emaj7    Amaj7                          E
And we don't know just where our bones will rest

   Emaj7  Amaj7
To dust I guess,

                F#m             B       Emaj7   E
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below.
[Outro]
A                                 Emaj7   E
  The street heats the urgency of now.

A                            E
  As you see there's no one around.