Age of Innocence - The Smashing Pumpkins
Track 15 on 'Machina - the Machines of God'
transcribed by Jonathan Shaker

Eb tuning

Most of this song is based on the one, simple 2-bar riff tabbed below.
Because it would be a waste of space and time to tab these three chords
over and over, I've just marked a '+' where the riff starts. It should be
easy by playing and listening to the record  to see where it all fits in. :)

Figure 1 - main riff (real simple!)

Cadd9  Am7sus4   Em7
e--0-------0----|--0--|
b--3-------3----|--3--|
g--0-------0----|--0--|
d--2-------2----|--2--|
a--3-------0----|--2--|
E--x-------x----|--0--|

Intro - 4 x riff 1

Verse 1 - clean guitars
      +             +
We dismiss the back roads
              +          +
To ride these streets unafraid
         +          +
Resigned to scraping paint
         +
>From our bones
   +
Unashamed

Bridge - fuzzed slightly
Eb    C             Em       D
   No more the eye upon you
Eb    C               Em     D
   No more the simple man

Chorus - clean guitars
    +              +
Desolation yes Hesitation no
    +              +
Desolation yes Hesitation no
       +                         +
As you might have guessed all is never shown
    +              +
Desolation yes Hesitation no

Riff 1 x2

Verse 2 - clean guitars
          +
And in my prayers
         +
I dream alone
         +
A silent speech
        +
To deaf ear
       +                  +
If you want love you must be love
           +                   +
But if you bleed love you will die loved

Bridge 2 - fuzzed slightly
Eb    C             Em         D
   No more the lie upon you
Eb         C                Em     D
   Cast in stone and autumn shade

Chorus 2
    +              +
Desolation yes Hesitation no
    +              +
Desolation yes Hesitation no
       +                          +
As you might have sensed we won't make it home
    +              +
Desolation yes Hesitation no

Outro - clean guitars w/ delay
   Cmaj7       Am7sus2    Em
e-----------|-----------|--0--|
b--------0--|--------0--|--0--|
g------0----|------0----|--0--|
d----2------|----2------|--2--|
a--3--------|--0--------|--2--|
E-----------|-----------|--0--|
Before the   rites of  spring
Come to      mean all  things

Cmaj7    Am7sus2   Em           D
     A little taste of what may come
Cmaj7    Am7sus2             Em
  A mere glimpse of what has gone

(fuzzed, played singly on bottom string -
C-9fr.,A-17fr.,E-12fr.,D-10fr.)
C               A             E
  Cause for the moment we are free
C            A          E
  We seek to bind our release
C              A   E             D
  Too young to die   too rich to care
C               A                E.... (build-up)
  Too fucked to swear that I was there

Chorus 3
    C      Em      G      Cmaj7
Desolation yes Hesitation no
    C      Em      G      Cmaj7
Desolation yes Hesitation no
       Am         Em              G       Cmaj7
As you might have sensed we won't make it home
    C      Em      G      Cmaj7
Desolation yes Hesitation no

END

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