U2 - "zooropa" Tablature

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From: David Datta <datta@cs.uwp.edu>
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To: jamesb@animal-farm.nevada.edu
Subject: Zooropa1.2

ALBUM: Zooropa by U2 (1993) (Chords Release 1.2 August 1993)

CREDITS: Antti Kauppinen <akauppi@cs.joensuu.fi> (9)
Sergio Lucero <slucero@cec.uchile.cl> (1,2,5,8,10)
Bob Paley <rpaley1@cc.swarthmore.edu> (3,4)

COMPILATION and
MODIFICATION CREDITS: [Sergio Lucero, slucero@cec.uchile.cl]
(and therefore editing
responsibility) (send all flames here ^^^)
(also corrections and additions)

SONGS: Zooropa
Babyface
Numb
Lemon
Stay (Faraway...so close!)
<Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car>
<Some Days Are Better Than Others>
The First Time
Dirty Day
The Wanderer

GENERAL COMMENT: To make things easier I've moved all chords half a tone
down, so you should use a capo on the first barre to get
the original tone, unless otherwise specified.

Songs in <> brackets are not available.

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ZOOROPA

Riff1: E ----------5-5-------------- Riff2: E --2---3---2---0------------
B --3-3-3-3------3-3-3-3----- B --3---3---3---3------------
G -----------------------2-2- G --2---2---2---0------------
D --------------------------- D ---------------------------
A --------------------------- A ---------------------------
E --------------------------- E ---------------------------
D D4 D D9
Intro: Riff1
Am-C-Am-C

D
Zooropa... Vorsprung durch Technik
Zooropa... be all that you can be
Em C Em C
Be a winner, eat to get slimmer

Zooropa... a bluer kind of white
Zooropa... it could be yours tonight
We're mild and green, and squeaky clean

(play intro chords again)

Zooropa... better by design
Zooropa... fly the friendly skies
Through appliance of science
We've got that ring of confidence....

Break: Play riff1. Silence. Play Riff 2 LOUD!

D D4 D D9 <----- This line is what
And I have no compass I call D(riff2)
D D4 D D9
And I have no map
Em C
And I have no reasons
D D4 D D9
No reasons to get back

And I have no religion
And I don't know what's what
And I don't know the limit
The limit of what we got

D(riff2)
Zooropa... don't worry baby. It'll be alright
D(riff2)
Zooropa... you got the right shoes
Zooropa... to get you through the night
D(riff2)
Zooropa... it's cold outside, but brightly lit
D(riff2)
Zooropa... skip the subway
Em
Zooropa... let's go to the overground
C D(riff2)
Get your head out of the mud baby
Em C D(riff2)
Put flowers in the mud baby
Overground

No particular place names
No particular song
I've been hiding
What am I hiding from?

Zooropa... don't worry baby. It's gonna be alright
Zooropa... uncertainty... can be a guiding light
Zooropa... I hear voices, ridiculous voices
Zooropa... in the slipstream
Zooropa... let's go, let's go... overground
Zooropa... take your head out of the mud baby

Em C
(She's gonna dream up the world she wants to live in
D(riff2)
She's gonna dream out loud)

Chord formations
----------------
D xx0232 C x32010
D4 xx0233 Am x02210
D9 xx0030 Em 022000

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BABYFACE

C G
Catching your bright blue eyes
Am F
In the freeze frame
C G
I've seen them so many times
Am F
I feel like I must be your best friend
C G Bb
You're looking fine, so fine, oh my,
F
Dressed up like a lovely day

C Bb Am F
Babyface, Babyface, slow down child, let me untie your lace
C Bb Am F
Babyface, Babyface, cover girl with natural grace
Dm G Dm G
How could beauty be so kind to an ordinary guy?


Coming home late at night to turn you on
Checking out every frame I got slow motion on my side
Turning around and around with the sound and colour
Under my control
Round and around, going down, dressed up like a lovely day

Babyface, Babyface tin foil hair all tied up in lace
Babyface, Babyface bitter sweet girl won't you give me a taste
How could beauty be so kind to an ordinary guy?

Do do do... etc.

Babyface, Babyface, slow down child, let me untie your lace
Babyface, Babyface, open that door let me unpack my case
Babyface, Babyface you're everywhere child
You're all over the place
Babyface, Babyface, you're coming to me from outerspace
Hou could beauty be so kind to an ordinary guy?

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NUMB

Note: this song is actually in its original tone.
(no need to use capo on 1st)

G
Don't move, don't talk out of time, don't think,
C
Don't worry everything's just fine, just fine
G
Don't grab, don't clutch, don't hope for too much
C
Don't breathe, don't achieve, don't grieve without leave
Em
Don't check just balance on the fence
C
Don't answer, don't ask, don't try and make sense


Don't whisper, don't talk, don't run if you can walk
Don't cheat, compete, don't miss the one beat
Don't travel by train, don't eat, don't spill
Don't piss in the drain, don't make a will
Don't fill out any forms, don't compensate
Don't cower, don't crawl, don't come around late
Don't hover at the gate

Em
Don't take it on board
Don't fall on your sword
C (FAT LADY - Backing Vocal)
Just play another chord G
If you feel you're getting bored I feel numb
C
I feel numb
G Too much is not enough
Don't change your brand Gimme some more
Don't listen to the band Gimme some more
Don't gape Of that stuff love
Don't ape Too much is not enough
C
Don't change your shape, have another grape

[Keyboard solo: D-C-D-C-Em-C]

Don't plead Too much is not enough
Don't bridle I feel numb
Don't shackle I feel numb
Don't grind Gimme what you got
Don't curve Gimme what I don't get
Don't swerve Gimme what you got
Don't lie, die, serve Too much is not enough
I feel numb
Don't theorize, realise, polarise,
Chance, dance, dismiss, apologise
I feel numb
Don't spy Gimme some more
Don't lie Gimme some more
Don't try Of that stuff love
Imply Gimme some more
Detain Too much is not enough
Explain
Start again I feel numb

Don't triumph, don't coax, don't cling, don't hoax
Don't freak, peak, don't leak, don't speak

I feel numb
Don't project I feel numb
Don't connect, protect, don't expect
Suggest
I feel numb
Don't project, don't connect
Protect, don't expect, suggest
I feel numb
Don't struggle I feel numb
Don't jerk, don't collar, don't work
Don't wish, don't fish, don't teach, don't reach

I feel numb
Don't borrow, don't break, don't fence
Don't steal, don't pass, don't press
Don't try, don't feel
I feel numb
Don't touch, don't dive, don't suffer
Don't rhyme, don't fantasize, don't rise
Don't lie
I feel numb
Don't project, don't connect
Protect, don't expect, suggest
I feel numb
Don't project, don't connect
Protect, don't expect, suggest I feel numb

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LEMON

Intro: Dm Bb Gm

Dm Bb Gm
Lemon, see through in the sunlight
Dm Bb Gm
She wore lemon, never in the daylight
Dm
She's gonna make you cry
Bb Gm
She's gonna make you whisper and moan
Dm Bb Gm
But when you're dry, she draws water from a stone
C Gm Bb
I feel like I'm slowly, slowly, slowly slipping under
C Gm Bb
I feel like I'm holding onto nothing

She wore lemon to colour in the cold grey night
She had heaven and she held on so tight
A man makes a picture, a moving picture
Through light projected he can see himself up close
A man captures colour, a man likes to stare
He turns his money into light to look for her
And I feel like I'm drifting, drifting, drifting from the shore
And I feel like I'm swimming out to her

F C Bb
Ohhhhhh.........................
F C Bb
Midnight is where the day begins (x3)

Lemon, see through in the sunlight
A man builds a city with banks and cathedrals
A man melts the sand so he can
See the world outside You're gonna meet her there
A man makes a car She's your destination
And builds roads to run (them) on You gotta get to her
A man dreams of leaving She's imagination
But he always stays behind
And these are the days when our work has come assunder
And these are the days when we look for something other

Midnight is where the day begins
Midnight is where the day begins
Midnight is where the day begins

A man makes a picture, a moving picture
Through light projected
He can see himself up close Gotta meet her there
A man captures colour She's your destination
A man likes to stare There's no sleeping there
He turns his money into light She's imagination
To look for her
She is the dreamer
She's imagination
Through the light projected
He can see himself up close


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STAY (FARAWAY, SO CLOSE!)

The chord which I have labeled 'D*' is basically a D chord
with a nice picking pattern which I try to get close to by
playing D7+ and plain D, as follows:

E --x-x--x-x--2-----x-x--x-x--2---
B --2-3--2-3--3-----2-3--2-3--3---
G --2-2--2-2--2-----2-2--2-2--2---
D ---h----h----------h----h-------
A --------------------------------
E --------------------------------

D* Em
Green light, Seven Eleven
G D*
You stop in for a pack of cigarettes
Em
You don't smoke, don't even want to
G D*
Hey now, check your change
Em
Dressed up like a car crash
G D*
The wheels are turning but you're upside down


Em D*
You say when he hits you, you don't mind
Em D*
Because when he hurts you, you feel alive
Em G D*
Is that what it is?

Red lights, grey morning
You stumble out of a hole in the ground
A vampire or a victim
It depend's on who's around
You used to stay in to watch the adverts
You could lip synch to the talk shows


Em F#m
And if you look, you look through me
G
And when you talk it's not to me
A
And when I touch you, you don't feel a thing


G Em D*
If I could stay... then the night would give you up
G Em D*
Stay, and the day would keep its trust
G Em D*
Stay, and the night would be enough

Faraway, so close
Up with the static and the radio
With satelite television
You can go anywhere
Miami, New Orleans, London, Belfast and Berlin

And if you listen I can't call
And if you jump, you just might fall
And if you shout I'll only hear you

G Em D*
If I could stay... then the night would give you up
G Em D*
Stay, and the day would keep its trust
G F#m
Stay with the demons you drowned
G A
Stay with the spirit I found
G Em D*
Stay and the night would be enough

Three o'clock in the morning
It's quiet and there's no one around
Just the bang and the clatter
As an angel runs to ground
Just the bang and the clatter
As an angel hits the ground

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THE FIRST TIME

Bass line: D-----4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5----
A-----5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5----
E----------------------------------------
(chord D) (chord G)

First play the bass line vary softly, then gradually you can
start playing the chords right away.


D G D G
I have a lover, a lover like no other
D G
She got soul, soul, soul, sweet soul
D G
And she teach me how to sing

Bm G
Shows me colours when there's none to see
Bm G
Gives me hope when I can't believe that
D G D
For the first time I feel love


I have a brother, when I'm a brother in need
I spend my whole time running
He spends his running after me

When I feel myself goin' down
I just call and he comes around
But for the first time I feel love

My father is a rich man, he wears a rich man's cloak
Gave me the keys to his kingdom (coming)
Gave me a cup of gold

He said "I have many mansions, and there are many rooms to see"
But I left by the back door
And I threw away the key...

For the first time
For the first time
For the first time
I feel love

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DIRTY DAY

Here's the main riff first. I think the guitar is tuned down
1/2 step. The little fills in parenthesis are played only when
indicated.

D A C G

(fill 1)---------I[fill 2]--------I
(7h8p7------------[5h6p5-----------I
------9)---------I------7]--------I
0-0-0------------I----------------I
------0----------I3-3-3-----------I
-----------------I------3---------I


Intro: Main riff fades in. Synth plays a long sustained
A note on top.

Verse 1 (w/main riff):

D A C G D A C G
I don't know you ...and you don't know the half of it
D A C G D A C G
I had a starring role ...I was the bad guy who walked out
D A C G
They say be careful where you aim
D A C G
Because where you aim you just might hit
D A C G
You can hold onto something so tight
D A C G
You've already lost it
D A C G
Dragging me down That's not the way it
D A C G
(w/fill 1)
used to be
D A C G
You can't even remember
D A C G
(w/fills 1&2)
What I'm trying to forget

(main riff twice w/distorted guitar chords+effects and fills 1&2)

Chorus (w/main riff):
D A C G
It was a dirty day
D A C G
A dirty day

(the riff once)

Verse 2 (w/riff)

You want explanations... I don't even understand
If you need someone to blame... throw a rock in the air
and you'll hit someone guilty


D A/E A
From father to son
Bm D Gadd2 (?)
In one life has begun
Bm7 A
A work that's never done
D A C G D A C G
Father to son (it won't last kissin' time)

(2x w/riff)
D A C G D A C G
(Love... it won't last kissin' time)

Verse 3 (w/riff)

Get it right, there's no blood thicker than ink
Hear what I say, nothing's simple as you think

Wake up, some things you can't get around
I'm in you, more so when they put me in the ground

(main riff w/distorted guitar+effects & fills 1&2)
(repeat to the end)

Chorus:

(It was a dirty day
A dirty day
Hank says)
D A C G D A C G
THESE DAYS DAYS DAYS RUN AWAY LIKE HORSES OVER THE HILLS

(repeat until fade)

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THE WANDERER

F
I went out walking through the streets paved with gold
Bb
Lifted some stones, saw the skin and bones
F
Of a city without a soul
I went out walking under an atomic sky
Bb
Where the ground won't turn and the rain it burns
F
Like the tears when I said goodbye


Dm Bb
Yeah I went with nothing
F C
Nothing but the thought of you
Dm-Bb-C-F
I went wandering

I went drifting through the capitals of tin
Where men can't walk or freely talk
And sons turn their fathers in
I stopped outside a church house
where the citizens like to sit
They say they want the kingdom
But they don't want God in it

I went out riding
Down that ol' eight lane
I passed by a thousand signs
Looking for my own name

I went with nothing
But the thought you'd be there too
Looking for you

I went out there in search of experience
To taste and to touch and to feel as much
As a man can before he repents

I went out searching, lookin' for one good man
A spirit who would not bend or break
Who would sit at his father's right hand
I went out walking with a bible and a gun
The word of God lay heavy on my heart
I was sure I was the one
Now Jesus, don't you wait up
Jesus, I'll be home soon
Yeah I went out for the papers
Told her I'd be back by noon

Yeah I left with nothing
But the thought you'd be there too
Looking for you...
Yeah I left with nothing
Nothing but the thought of you...
I went wandering

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