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Date: 13 May 1999 16:46:00 GMT

"Lazy Flies" - Beck
from the album Mutations (1998)
written by Beck Hansen

tabbed by Jeremy Joseph (CheshirBat@aol.com)
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Introduction:
(acoustic guitar)
C G A E F C
e|--0-----------------0-----1--1--1-----0------------------------|
B|--1--X--0-----2-----0-----1--1--1-----1------------------------|
G|--0--X--0--X--2--X--1--X--2--2--2--X--0--------(x2)------------|
D|--2-----0--X--2--X--2--X--3--3--3--X--2--0h2*------------------|
A|--3-----2-----0-----2-----3--3--3-----3------------------------|
E|--3-----3-----------0-----1--1--1-----3------------------------|

* = play only the first time

There's a lot of other instruments that decorate this song,
and it would take weeks to transcribe all the little melodies
of a Beck song for guitar, but in this song the acoustic guitar
is the driving force.
Here are the chords:

C G A E F C
C G A E F C

C G A E F C
Lazy flies all hovering above

C G A E F C
The magistrate puts on his glove

D G
And he looks to the clouds

F C
All pink and disheveled

Bm C
There must be some blueprint

G F# F C
Some creed of the devil inscribed in our minds

** Chorus:
Am F#m F Am
A hideous game vanishes in the air

Am F#m
The vanity of slaves

F Am
Who wants to be there

G F
To sweep the debris

F C
To harness dead horses

Am G
To ride in the sun

F C
A life of confessions

Am F G#
Written in the dust


Out in the mangroves The mynah birds cry
In the shadows of sulphur The trawlers drift by
They're chewing dried meat
In a house of disrepute
The dust of opiates
And syphylis patients on brochure vacations

** Chorus:
Fear has a glare that traps you like searchlights
The puritans stare
their souls are fluorescent
The skin of a robot
vibrates with pleasure
Matrons and gigolos
carouse in the parlor
Their hand-grenade eyes invalid and blind


** Chorus:
A hideous game vanishes in the air
The vanity of slaves
Who wants to be there
To sweep the debris
To harness dead horses
To ride in the sun
A life of confessions
Written in the dust

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The distorted fuzz guitar just plays this:
e|-----------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------|
A|-------------3---------------------------|
E|-1-----/---------------------------------|

and after the last ("Written in the dust..")
e|-----------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------|
A|----6\-5------6\-5-----6\-5--------------|
E|-----------------------------------------|

(Solo Verse)
ends on C

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from the Beck Tab page
http://members.aol.com/cheshirbat/beck

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