SMASHING PUMKINS - "Bodies" Tablature

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Song: Bodies
Release: MC&IS
Artist: The Smashing Pumpkins
Author: Roy Stevenson (are_you_done@yahoo.com)
Tuning: dropped D (then down 1/2 step - Db, Ab, Db, Gb, Bb, Eb)

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chord formations
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Db5 000xxx
Eb5 222xxx
E5 333xxx
Gb5 555xxx
Ab5 x0222x
B5 x3555x
C#5 x5777x

intro note

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---7--- over and over for the entirety of the intro
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E5 Ab5 Eb5
E5 Ab5 Eb5
E5 Ab5 Eb5
E5 Ab5 Eb5

E5 Ab5 Eb5 E5 Ab5 Eb5 E5
Cast the pearls aside, of a simple life of need
E5 Ab5 Eb5 E5 Ab5 Eb5
Come into my life forever

Eb5 Db5 Gb5 Eb5
The crumbled cities stand as known
Eb5 Db5 Gb5 Eb5
of the sights you have been shown
Eb5 Db5 Gb5 Eb5
of the hurt you call your own
Eb5 Db5 Gb5
<you know, you know>


chorus 1
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-------- with either a phaser or wah pedal, I can't tell..
---7---- play above following line
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E5 Ab5 Eb5
Love is suicide (x4)


Gb5 E5 Ab5 Gb5
The empty bodies stand at rest
Gb5 E5 Ab5 Gb5
Casualties of their own flesh
Gb5 E5 Ab5 Gb5 E5 Ab5
Afflicted by their dispo-sse-ssion


chorus 2
B5 C#5 E5 B5
But no bodies ever knew
B5 C#5 E5 B5
No-body-s
B5 C#5 E5 B5
No bodies felt like you
B5 C#5 E5
No-body-s


quiet part
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----10----------10---10--- play this REAL close to the bridge for
-------------------------- that music box kinda sound..
-------------------------- slight hint of chorus, too..
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Love is suicide, love is suicide, love is suicide, love is.. love..


solo part
E5 Ab5 Eb5 E5
Now we drive the night
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E5 Ab5 Eb5 E5
to the ironies of peace
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E5 Ab5 Eb5 E5 Ab5 Eb5
You can't help deny forever
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Eb5 Db5 Gb5 Eb5
The tragedies reside in you
Eb5 Db5 Gb5 Eb5
The secret sights hide in you
Eb5 Db5 Gb5 Eb5
The lonely nights divide you in two
Eb5 Db5 Gb5
<in two, in two>

Gb5 E5 Ab5 Gb5
All my blisters now revealed
Gb5 E5 Ab5 Gb5
In the darkness of my dreams
Gb5 E5 Ab5 Gb5 E5 Ab5
In the spaces in between us


chorus 2 with just one guitar

then chorus 2 with two guitars, and one angry Billy Corgan.. :)

then chorus 1 again

end on Db5, then pull the plug outta your guitar and do strange
things with it

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