OPERATION IVY - "room without a window" Tablature

From: wbknox@unity.ncsu.edu
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 1997 8:01 PM

Song: Room Without a Window
Band: Operation Ivy
Album: Energy (1989)
Written by Jesse Michaels, Lint Armstrong, Matt Freeman and Dave Mello
Transcribed by Luke Knox (lukeknox@iname.com)

Intro/Verse/Toast break chords used:
G D C F
E--3---2---3---1---
B--3---3---5---1---
G--4---2---5---2---
D--5---0---5---3---
A------------------
E------------------

Chorus chords used:
E-----------------
B-----------------
G--3--------------
D--3---4---3------
A--1---4---3------
E------2---1------
Bb F# F

[Intro:]
G G G
The position being taken is not to ...
D G G G
education or righteous accusation. ...
G G G G G G
an observation of the pitiful ....

[Verse:](played with ska upstrokes)
C F G
Walls made of opinions, through ...
C F G
listen. Ceiling made of pride....
C F G C
Door that's made of rage, hard ...
F G
closing tighter with every ...

[Chorus:]
Bb F# F Bb
In this room without a window ...
F# F
window, Can't see out! ....
[Verse:]
C F G
Floor is made of lives, we'll ...
C F G
Corners made of borders, and borders ....
C F G
Painted with the words of ....
C F G
plastered with the wreckage of our .....

[Chorus]

[Toast break:] (C - F repeated.)
Ha ha ha ha ha Oh, we so stupid! ....
Don't we learn ....
[Bridge:](2x) (continue C - F)
Got a room inside our minds, yeah we ....

[Intro]

Then play the verse chords, with the words from the chorus.
End on a C.

That's it! I hope this sounds right to you. E-mail me with any comments, etc.
Luke