THE CURE - "the figurehead" Tablature

Chords for : The Cure - The Figurehead
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Guitar ONE (power chords) :

Intro : C5 Bb5 F5 G#5 C5 Bb5 F5 G#5 C5 Bb5 F5 G#5

C5 Bb5
Sharp and open, leave me alone
F5 G#5
And sleeping less every night
C5 Bb5
As the days become heavier and weighted
F5 G#5
Waiting in the cold light
C5 Bb5 F5
A noise, a scream tears my clothes as the figurines tighten
G#5
With spiders inside them
C5 Bb5
And dust on the lips of a vision of hell
F5 G#5
I laughed in the mirror for the first time in a year.

C5 Bb5 F5 G#5 }*2 (with Rhythm Figure 1)

C5 Bb5 F5 G#5
A hundred other words blind me with your purity
C5 Bb5
Like an old painted doll in the throes of dance
F5 G#5
I think about tomorrow
C5
Please let me sleep
Bb5
As I slip down the window
F5 G#5
Freshly sqashed fly
C5 Bb5 F5 G#5
You mean nothing, you mean nothing.

C5 F#5 C5 F#5 }*2 (with Rhythm Figure 3)
C5 Bb5 F5 G#5 }*4 (Rhythm Figure 1 twice, then 6, then 1 again)
C5 Bb5 F5 G#5
I can lose myself in Chinese art and American girls
C5
All the time
B5b
Lose me in the dark
F5 G#5
Please do it right
C5
Running into the night
Bb5
I will lose myself tomorrow
F5 G#5
Crimson pain, my heart explodes
C5 Bb5
My memory in a fire
F5
And someone will listen
G#5
At least for a short while.

C5 F#5 C5 F#5 }*2 (with Rhythm Figure 3)
Eb5 F#5 Eb5 F#5 }*2 (with Rhythm Figure 4)
F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 (with Rhythm Figure 5 - with every F5)

F5
(I can never say no)
F5 F5
I can never say no to anyone but you.

C5 Bb5 F5 G#5 }*4 (with Rhythm Figure 2 twice, then 6, then 2 again)

C5 Bb5
Too many secrets, too many lies
F5 G#5
Writhing with hatred
C5 Bb5 F5 G#5
Too many secrets, please make it good tonight
C5
But the same image haunts me
Bb5 F5
In sequence, in despair of time
G#5 C5
I will never be clean again
Bb5 F5
Touched her eyes, pressed my stained face
G#5 C5
I will never be clean again (with Rhythm Figure 1)
Bb5 F5
Touch her eyes, press my stained face
G#5 C5 Bb5 F5
I will never be clean again
G#5 C5 Bb5 F5
I will never be clean again
G#5 C5 Bb5 F5
I will never be clean again
G#5
I will never be clean again.


Guitar TWO : -When guitar ONE plays C5 during verses :

e|-------------
B|--------1----
G|------0------ (Cm)
D|----1--------
A|--3----------
E|-------------


-Rhythm Figure 1 :

e|----------------3--1------
B|--1-3-4-1-3-4--------4-3--
G|--------------1-----------
D|--------------------------
A|--------------------------
E|--------------------------


-Rhythm Figure 2 :

e|--------1-----------------
B|--1-3-4---3---------------
G|------------3-1--(0)-(1)--
D|--------------------------
A|--------------------------
E|--------------------------


-Rhythm Figure 3 :

e|--------2-3-2---
B|--1-3-4---------
G|----------------
D|----------------
A|----------------
E|----------------


-Rhythm Figure 4 :

e|--11-----11-------------
B|------12----------------
G|-------------11--12-11--
D|------------------------
A|------------------------
E|------------------------


-Rhythm Figure 5 :

e|------------
B|------------
G|--10--13-12-
D|------------
A|------------
E|------------


-Rhythm Figure 6 :

e|--------1-----------1--------
B|--1-3-4---4-3-1-3-4--4-3-----
G|-----------------------------
D|-----------------------------
A|-----------------------------
E|-----------------------------



OK, that's it, not very difficult.

Any feedback, corrections, suggestions, questions, etc... :
s3220602@techst02.technion.ac.il


Enjoy.

- Transcribed by Assaf Sagi, 20/09/94 -