glass + the ghost children
as performed on 10.30.99 at the bridge school benefit concert
from the smashing pumpkins upcoming album, "armageddon mutha fucka" (in
stores february 15, 2000!)
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tuning: Eb Ab Db Gb Bb eb
(half a step down)

1st movement - "glass"

intro & main verse:

    Em           A
e |-0--0--0-0-0--0--0-0------------------|
G |-0--0--0-0-0--2--2-2------------------|
B |-0--0--0-0-0--2--2-2------------------|
D |-2--2--2-2-2--2--2-2------------------|
A |-2--2--2-2-2--0--0-0------------------|
E |--------------------------------------|

    Em           Asus4    A
e |-0--0--0-0-0--0--0--0--0--0-----------|
G |-0--0--0-0-0--3--2--0--2--2-----------|
B |-0--0--0-0-0--2--2--2--2--2-----------|
D |-2--2--2-2-2--2--2--2--2--2-----------|
A |-2--2--2-2-2--0--0--0--0--0-----------|
E |--------------------------------------|

chorus thingy:

e |-------------3--3-3-------------------|
G |-------------3--3-3-------------------|
B |--------------------------------------|
D |-3------------------------------------|
A |-3--2-3-2-0--2--2-2-------------------|
E |-1--1--------3--3-3-------------------|

*none* of these strum patterns are exact, just listen to the
recording...

this whole time, james is following along on his acoustic.  just play
little single-string fills up and down the two top strings.

lyrics:
(taken from the pumpkin vault, with some changes)

to the center of the earth
or anywhere god decides
[full of fever pulling down?]
we hear our call as all

to the center of earth
a thousand rented [?]
[DNA?] is reachin' out
to your free-form [?]

(chorus)
and i want to live
and i want to die
and i want to love
and i want to try

and all our prayer
prayer and all
and all are scared
scared of all

black rooms are callin'
to men in leather coats
what lives are cookin'
up the silver [?]

the glass migraine sunder
a translucent skin
and all the spiders wonder
what we got us in

(chorus)
and all is you
you are all
and all with you
you and all

and i want to live
and i want to die
and i want to live
and i want to try

(end on Em)

2nd movement - "the ghost children"

main verse, etc:

     D       Em?
e |------3--0h3--3------3--0h3--3--3-3-3-|
G |----2--------------2------------3-3-3-|
B |--3--------------3--------------0-0-0-|
D |--------------------------------2-2-2-|
A |--------------------------------2-2-2-|
E |--------------------------------------|

after some of that, just strum D and that Eminor thing for the rest of
the song

lyrics:
(again, taken from the pumpkin vault, with some changes)

so beats the final coda
of our vinyl storm
one more cherry cola
to lift up our dead arms

a dream of soft focused sunsets
filters through the din
we are losing contact
as she dials again

she can hear glass callin'
or is it someone that looks like him?

she eyes TV reflection
and nods a knowing look
she says it doesn't matter
she never liked her looks

i have seen a thousand fractures
i have seen everything

'cause knowin' is its own answer
like something in a book
there's not much left to ponder
there's not much left to cook

and she counted the spiders
as they crawled up inside her
and she counted the spiders
as they crawled up inside her
and she counted the spiders
as they crawled up inside her
as they crawled up inside her

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damn this is a beautiful song.  just watch, it'll close out the new
album.

tabbed by jean-paul lebreton on 11.13.99 / 12:33AM
jpleb@earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~jpleb