Smashing Pumpkins – Bodies tab ver. 2

Mmkay, so this is my first tab. I dearly hope you all enjoy it! ;)

Tuning: (Db Ab Db Gb Bb Eb) A dropped-D tuning with the whole guitar down a half-step.

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Intro: (0:00 - 0:09) Feedback, pick scraping, raspy distortion.

(0:00) A swift chord is played before the feedback begins:

eb|--------|Bb|--------|Gb|--9-----|Db|--9-----|Ab|--7-----|Db|--------|
Intro:
eb|---------------------------------------------------------|Bb|---------------------------------------------------------|Gb|---------------------------------------------------------|Db|--333333333333/77777777\22222222-------------------------| x4Ab|--333333333333/77777777\22222222-------------------------|Db|--333333333333/77777777\22222222-------------------------|
During the intro, this chord is being strummed continuously.
eb|--------------------|Bb|--9-----------------|Gb|--x-----------------|Db|--7-----------------|Ab|--------------------|Db|--------------------|
Main Riff (Cast the pearls aside...):
eb|---------------------------------------------------------|Bb|---------------------------------------------------------|Gb|---------------------------------------------------------|Db|--333333333333/77777777\22222222-------------------------| x4Ab|--333333333333/77777777\22222222-------------------------|Db|--333333333333/77777777\22222222-------------------------|
Chord Change #1(The crumbled cities stand as known...):
eb|---------------------------------------------------------|Bb|---------------------------------------------------------|Gb|---------------------------------------------------------|Db|--222222222222/00000000\77777777-------------------------| x4Ab|--222222222222/00000000\77777777-------------------------|Db|--222222222222/00000000\77777777-------------------------|
Main Riff (Love is suicide...):
eb|---------------------------------------------------------|Bb|---------------------------------------------------------|Gb|---------------------------------------------------------|Db|--333333333333/77777777\22222222-------------------------| x4Ab|--333333333333/77777777\22222222-------------------------|Db|--333333333333/77777777\22222222-------------------------|
Chord Change #2 (The empty bodies stand at rest...):
eb|---------------------------------------------------------|Bb|---------------------------------------------------------|Gb|---------------------------------------------------------|Db|--555555555555/33333333\77777777-------------------------| x4Ab|--555555555555/33333333\77777777-------------------------|Db|--555555555555/33333333\77777777-------------------------|
Chord Change #3 (But no bodies ever knew...):
eb|---------------------------------------------------------|Bb|---------------------------------------------------------|Gb|--555555555555-77777777----------------------------------|Db|--555555555555-77777777-33333333-------------------------| x4Ab|--333333333333-55555555-33333333-------------------------|Db|------------------------33333333-------------------------|
Bridge; The quiet part; whatever you want to call it.
eb|----------12-----12--|Bb|-------10----10--10--|Gb|----10-----------10--|Db|---------------------| x4Ab|---------------------|Db|---------------------|
There are also some harmonics being played immediately after the notes above have each time if you listen very closely with earphones on, though they're pretty hard to make so the part below is a stab in the dark.
eb|-----------------------|Bb|-----------------------|Gb|-----------------------|Db|----5-7--4-5-----------| x4Ab|--5----------4---------|Db|-----------------------|
Main Riff (Now we drive the night...):
eb|---------------------------------------------------------|Bb|---------------------------------------------------------|Gb|---------------------------------------------------------|Db|--333333333333/77777777\22222222-------------------------| x4Ab|--333333333333/77777777\22222222-------------------------|Db|--333333333333/77777777\22222222-------------------------|
As the main riff begins, a solo starts:
eb|--------------------------------|Bb|--------------------------------|Gb|-------7--9--7---9---9b10r9~----|Db|--3/7---------------------------|Ab|--------------------------------|Db|--------------------------------|
eb|--------------------------------|Bb|--------------------------------|Gb|------7--9--9b10r9--9-7-9~------|Db|-3/7----------------------------|Ab|--------------------------------|Db|--------------------------------|
eb|----------------------------------|Bb|----------------------------------|Gb|-------7--9---9b10r9--7--5-7-9~---|Db|--3/7-----------------------------|Ab|----------------------------------|Db|----------------------------------|
Chord Change #1(The tragedies reside in you...):
eb|---------------------------------------------------------|Bb|---------------------------------------------------------|Gb|---------------------------------------------------------|Db|--222222222222/00000000\77777777-------------------------| x4Ab|--222222222222/00000000\77777777-------------------------|Db|--222222222222/00000000\77777777-------------------------|
Chord Change #2 (All my blisters now revealed...):
eb|---------------------------------------------------------|Bb|---------------------------------------------------------|Gb|---------------------------------------------------------|Db|--555555555555/33333333\77777777-------------------------| x4Ab|--555555555555/33333333\77777777-------------------------|Db|--555555555555/33333333\77777777-------------------------|
Chord Change #3 (But no bodies ever knew...):
eb|---------------------------------------------------------|Bb|---------------------------------------------------------|Gb|--555555555555-77777777----------------------------------|Db|--555555555555-77777777-33333333-------------------------| x8Ab|--333333333333-55555555-33333333-------------------------|Db|------------------------33333333-------------------------|
(The first four times you strum the riff, lower the volume a bit or palm mute softly). Outro (Love is suicide...):
eb|---------------------------------------------------------|Bb|---------------------------------------------------------|Gb|---------------------------------------------------------|Db|--333333333333/77777777\22222222-------------------------| x4Ab|--333333333333/77777777\22222222-------------------------|Db|--333333333333/77777777\22222222-------------------------|
This note is strummed again until the very end of the main riff:
eb|--------------------|Bb|--9-----------------|Gb|--x-----------------|Db|--7-----------------|Ab|--------------------|Db|--------------------|
End on:
eb|--------------------|Bb|--------------------|Gb|--------------------|Db|--0-----------------|Ab|--0-----------------|Db|--0-----------------|
Lyrics: Cast the pearls aside, of a simple life of need Come into my life forever The crumbled cities stand as known Of the sights that you have been shown Of the hurt you call your own Love is suicide x4 The empty bodies stand at rest Casualties of their own flesh Afflicted by their dispossession But no bodies ever knew Nobodys No bodies felt like you Nobodys Love is suicide x4 (These words are gently chanted as Billy sings "Love is suicide"): destroy, despise, distrust, disobey destroy, distrust, disloyal, disarm destroy, despise, dissect, deny destroy, despise, distrust. Now we drive the night, to the ironies of peace You can't help deny forever The tragedies reside in you The secret sights hide in you The lonely nights divide you in two All my blisters now revealed In the darkness of my dreams In the spaces in between us But nobodies ever knew Nobodys No bodies felt like you Nobodys Love is suicide x4 That's all! Enjoy ;)
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