#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## # # For the latest collection of R.E.M. chords & tab, go to # http://www.uark.edu/~cbray/rem/ # # If you have any corrections or additions to this file, please email them # to [email protected] # LEAVE From: Randy Simmons ([email protected]) This is obviously an electric guitar song. So it is really neat to play if you have an amp with good overdrive. It sounds better if you have a guitar with a pickup selector switch like a Rickenbacker or a Les Paul, but that is just for more flair and perfection. Cool trick: If you have a fairly good CD player, hit the pause button (which should put the player in standby/play mode) then go to track 6. Now you should have an INDEX button on your remote, hit Index to number 2 (usually it is a smaller number on the digital display right next to the track number). The CD will automatically skip over the 1:01 min interlude/intro on the acoustic guitar and right to the actual "beginning" of the song!!! Pretty cool!! I assume this was done to accomodate Radio DJ's who want not such a long song... Now go check all of your other CDs to see who else did this!! Amp Setting: MEDIUM OVERDRIVE, MEDIUM GAIN, MEDIUM REVERB, MEDIUM CHORUS * CAPO ON 1st FRET TO PLAY WITH THE ALBUM!!! Guitar Riff: (put pickup selector switch in middle position) s = slide to.. h = hammer on.. p = pick off to.. e ---------------------------------------| B ------------------------ 7 s 9 -- 6 ---| G -- 2 s 3 -- 3 s 5 -- 6 ----------------| D ---------------------------------------| A ---------------------------------------| E ---------------------------------------| e ------------------------------------------------| B ------------------------- 7 s 9 -- 6 h 7 p 6 ---| G -- 2 s 3 -- 3 s 5 -- 6 -------------------------| D ------------------------------------------------| A ------------------------------------------------| E ------------------------------------------------| Verses: (this is a sort of muffled overdrive so put pickup selector switch in BASS/RHYTHM pickup pos.) strum each chord only once and let ring Am 012200 F 112331 REMEMBER!! CAPO ON 1st FRET !!!! G 330023 C 010230 F* 000330 Am F Nothing could bring me closer. G G Am Nothing could bring me near. Am F Where is the road I follow G G Am Leaving, leave Am F It's Under, under, under my feet G G Am The sea spread out there before me. G Am F Better I go, and the land touches sea. G G Am There is _________ in what I believe. Chorus: (this really stands out so put pickup selector switch in MIDDLE position) C That's what keeps me, Am That's what keeps me, C G That's what keeps me down. C Am G To leave it, to leave it, F F* F Leave it all behind. The following verses and choruses are played the same sometimes with the Guitar riff and the chords, sometimes just chords. If you have two guitars (and two people) play both!! Shifting the dream Nothing could bring me further from rougher tide. We're shifting the dream. It's charging the sea. I know where I marked the signs. Suffer dreams of a world gone mad I like it like that and I know it. I know him well, ugly and sweet A temper madness who believed in extreme. That's what keeps me That's what keeps me That's what keeps me down I say they aren't gonna like me I say they don't know thier plane Never left the ground. (Chorus) x 1 Lift me, lift me, I'll attain my dream. I lost myself, I lost the, Heartache calling me. I lost myself in sorrow. I lost myself in pain. I lost myself in gravity. Memory, leave, leave, leave. (Chorus) x 2 In my hands my eyes are still I walk into the sea Shoot myself in a different place And leave it. Wait for this to take me, It longed for my release. Waited for the calling, To leave, leave Leave, leave, leave, leave Leavin', Leavin'
