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The Empyrean (2009) + Japanese CD Bonus Tracks
by
John Frusciante
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This tab contains chords for all songs off John Frusciante's 'The Empyrean'
+ 2 Bonus tracks off the Japanese issue of the album.
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Before The Beginning
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Tuning: Standard
Chords used:
Em x79987
D/F# x9777x
G x 10 12 12 12 x
C/E x7555x
Em - D/F# - G - C/E <== Play throughout the whole song.
For full solo refer to this:
http://www.invisible-movement.net/downloads/tabs/theempyrean/theempyrean_01_beforethebeginning_
tab_fruvai.txt
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Song To The Siren
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Tuning: Standard
A# F
Long afloat on shipless oceans
D# Gm
I did all my best to smile
A# F
'Til your singing eyes and fingers
D# Gm
Drew me loving to your isle
A# G# Gm A#
And you sang "Sail to me, sail to me, let me unfold you"
Gm Gm F D# Gm
Here I am, here I am, waiting to hold you
A# F
Did I dream you dreamed about me
D# Gm
Were you hare when I was fox
A# F
Now my foolish boat is leaning
D# Gm
Broken lovelorn on your rocks,
A# G# Gm A#
For you sing, "Touch me not, touch me not, come back tomorrow
Gm Gm F D# Gm
O my heart, O my heart shies from the sorrow"
A# F
I am puzzled as the newborn child
D# Gm
I am troubled at the tide
A# F
Should I stand amid the breakers?
D# Gm
Should I lie with Death my bride?
A# G# Gm A#
Hear me sing, "Swim to me, Swim to me, Let me enfold you
Gm Gm F D# Gm
Here I am, Here I am, Waiting to hold you"
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Unreachable
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Tuning: Standard
C# D#
Are we
G# D# Fm
Down for the same cause
G# D# Fm
We don't know what we stand for
G# D# Fm
When the moments start to crack
C# D# A#
You do lose track where your head's at
G# D# Fm
And I am unreachable
G# D# Fm
What do you think when your head's full?
G# C# Fm
We don't rely on what we get
C# D# A#
We begin now where we aren't yet
Hey!
Fm G# x4
Fm G# D# A# Fm G#
One time, hit me where I turn white
D# A#
I don't mean to be polite x2
Fm G# D# A#
Uniformed, spinning the world to the beat of my drum
Fm G# D# A#
Uniformed
Fm G#
Reach into the darkness for what you can find
D# A#
Travel great distance in your mind
Fm G#
The world gets stronger as you start trying things
D# A#
Turn around towards being born away from dying
Fm G#
I've run out again, there's no one on my side
D# A#
Where we to disappear, well, I know I tried
A#
You know we tried, you know we tried
C# Fm D# Fm
Heeeeeeey shoot me heeeeeeeey
C# G# D# Fm C# D# A#
Heeeeeeey shoot me shoot me shoot me yeah yeah hey yeah
Fm D#
Aaaaah
Fm D# Fm
Aaaaah
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God
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Tuning: Standard
C D A# F
So each day would be new I build you to sleep
C D A# F
That’s the idea of dying but you’ll just have to see
C D A# F
You can do what you want or so you think
C D
But till you stop all your thoughts
A# F
You are tied to your surroundings
Em Em G C x4
Em G C
When the fog spreads out in the rainy season
Em G C
It comes from my insides
Em G C
When the thunderous lighting strikes down
Em G C
You’re seeing your real I
Em G
People
C
You blaspheme my name
Em G C
Em
But still I love you
Em G
Still I love you
C Em
I love you just the same
C G Am Em
I hear all your prayers because I’m each one of you
C G
Creation's not something I did
Am Em
It’s something that I do
C G Am Em
The reason for the bad is so the there’d be such things as good
C G
Oh I’d do anything for you
Am Em
You all know I would
C
Be for me
G
Be for me
Am Em
Be for me
C
Before for me
G
Before for me
Am Em
Before for me
C G Am Em
You know that I try to repair and repay
C G
As life goes by a thousand times
Am Em
It gets a little better
C G Am Em
All is belief, All is belief
B
Yeah
C G Am Em B
All is belief, All is belief
C D Em
Yeeee ee eee
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Dark/Light
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Tuning: Standard
Chords used:
A# x13331
A#m x13321
Cm x35543
C# x46664
D# x68886
D#m x68876
Fm 133111
F7 131211
F# 244322
G 355433
G7 353433
G# 466544
A#m Fm
Remember all you've forgotten
F# C# G# A#m
I can't put those thoughts away
F# C# G# A#m
Everything I've thought's in my head to stay
D#m G# C# F#
Now what do we get for trying to follow to a tee
D#m G# C# F# F7
All the instructions you gave to me
A#m Fm
Did you ever notice
F# C# G# A#m
That it's for you that I've lived my life
F# C# G# A#m
Every time I had fun you were on my mind
D#m G#
I've lost my perspective
C# F#
I've gone off the wall
D#m G# C# F# F7
Really not sure if I'm needed here at all
A#m
Hey
Fm
This is my last shot
F# C# G# A#m
I'll always be less that my other selves
F# C# G# A#m
So I feel like I'm competing with someone else
D#m G# C# F#
Who I could never beat in a million years
D#m G# C# F# F7
I was made to think that we would wind up round here
D# A# Cm G#
Will we ever get together in a song
D# A# Cm G#
Will you ever tell everybody bout right and wrong
D# A# Cm G#
Will you let everyone in on the meaning of life and death
D# A# Cm G# G7
Do you need me or are you waiting for my last breath
Cm – D# – A# – G# – G – G – G – G <== Repeat till the end.
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Heaven
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Tuning: Standard
Intro: Am
Dm Am
Well I spent the night in heaven
Dm Am Dm Am Dm A# C
I wanted to figure it out for myself
Dm Am
I spin around the fortress
Dm Am Dm Am Dm A# C
You never know the currency that we all run on
A# F Gm Dm
We run on, we run on
Dm Am
You once told me
Dm Am Dm Am Dm A# C
You keep a billion frequencies on your person
Dm Am
End the night with channel four
Dm Am Dm Am Dm A# C
You don't see me looking you up when I'm here
A# F Gm Dm
We live fast cuz time won't last
A# F Gm Dm
See me freezing like the bum I am
Dm Am Dm Am Dm Am Dm A# C
From where you start there's endless information drilled into your eyes
Dm Am
Well, I don't need protection
Dm Am Dm
One life begins, another dies
Am Dm A# C
Bad timing
A# F
I won't last
Gm Dm
Man, that's the facts
A# F Gm Dm
It is a feeling that will never pass
D# A# Cm Gm
And you know you could be taking us far
D# A# Cm Gm
When I speak to you again through the stages of pleasure
A# F Gm
Well, I don't have my own face
A# F Gm
So c'mon and be replaced
A# F Gm
There's a future that's calling
A# F Gm
But I don't see it coming
A# F Gm
No, I don't have my own face
A# F Gm
So c'mon and be replaced
A# F Gm
There's a future that's calling
A# F Gm
But I don't see it coming
A# F Gm
No, I don't see it coming
A# F Gm
No, I don't see it coming
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Enough Of Me
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Tuning: Standard
D A G
This precise time and right here
Bm A G
Are not going anywhere
D A G
I`ve had enough of new todays
Bm A G
For once I`d like to go another way
Bm A G
I speak my last words and then
D A G
remember it may never end
D A G
All that I`ve won I have lost
D Em Bm A Em
Each passing moment cuts me off
Bm Em Bm A E
Well, I don`t like to waste a chance but they`re overflowing
Bm Em Bm A E
What I don`t do will get done by somebody
Bm Em Bm A E
When I was five I saw some plants ungrowing
Bm Em Bm A E
Whether seen forwards or back they`d keep going
Bm
They`d keep going
G D A Em
If the seasons which change were all still
G D A Em
It`s so easy to see life would fail
G D A Em
Whatever slips out of our hands
G D Em Bm
Will find its way back to us once again
Bm
Yeeah
G D A Em
If the seasons which change were all still
G D A Em
It`s so easy to see life would fail
G D A Em
Whatever slips out of our hands
G D Em Bm
Will find its way back to us once again
G D Em Bm
Will find its way back to us once again
G D Em Bm
Will find its way back to us once again once again
Solo
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Central
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Tuning: Standard
Am C F Dm
Im central to nowhere thinking of sweeping it clean
Am C F Dm
When we choose to go were losing more than just our surroundings
Am C F Dm
I've gone around the sides of this universe as it stands
Am C F Dm
Outside the limits of all existence where light never ends
F C Dm
We should be grateful to the gods
F C Dm Am F C Dm
Whoever they're real to they are
F C Dm
I value my placement as in Hell
F C Dm Am F C Dm
Remember that moment that I fell
Am C F Dm
Anything that could one day be is as real as what I'm saying
Am C F Dm
If something is nothing it must not be something in any possible way
Am C F Dm
Lo - Lo - Lose yourself in far off worlds that are right under your feet
Am C F Dm
Switch below with above all the way up into infinity
F C Dm
We should be thankful who we are
F C Dm Am F C Dm
Whether we know ourselves or not
F C Dm
Walking alongside myself
F C Dm Am F C Dm
Neither of us listens very well
Am – Am – G – F x4
Dm – Dm – Dm - Dm
Am G F
I'm dreading a time that is not near
Am G F
As a man on a cross I have no fear
Am G F
I can't believe these words I'm saying
Dm
You gotta feel your lines
You gotta feel your lines
Repeat as many times as necessary.
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One More Of Me
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Tuning: Standard
Chords used:
D xx0232
A x02220
G 355433
Bm x24432
Em 022000
D A G
Now that the day has come
Bm A G
I see myself as everyone
D A G
I am what’s all around me
Bm A G
No, nothing it just cannot be
Bm A G
Feeling has come from the sun
D A G
Like most everything and everyone
D A G D
What seems lost is free from the force that slowly destroys us
Em Bm A Em
And kills all matter off
Bm Em Bm A Em Bm
Well, we don’t control the chance that plays with us
Em Bm A Em Bm
And we get existence back to hurting others
Em Bm A Em Bm
And when we go the other way it’s ourselves we hurt
Em Bm A Em
But who pushes on though eventually will see
A Em
Every moment’s first
Bm
Every moment is first
G D A Em
What’s gone will never come back
G D A Em
But it exists when you think of it
G D A Em
And what is anything, anyway
G D Em Bm
But a series of things running through your brain
G D A Em
All of the fucked things you do
G D A Em
Are the product of whats happened to you
G D A Em
Whatever you create from love
G D Em Bm
Is a gift from the place which some call above
G D Em Bm
There’s only the forces of hate and love
G D Em Bm
One breaks things down and one builds them up.
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After The Ending
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Tuning: Standard
F#m D A D
Pain runs through life
F#m D A D
Pleasures’ other side
F#m D A D
Fear, some say, gives us such long lives
F#m D A D
Leads us where we drive
F#m E D
Time will soon be born
F#m E D A Bm F#m
It is starting all the dawn
D A Bm F#m
And the world is moving towards
D A Bm F#m
Things like opposites and wars
D A Bm F#m
And one knows to hear birds sing
D A Bm Bm
There was nothing till the beginning Yeesss
D A Bm F#m
And the water from my eyes
D A Bm F#m
Is because I care who dies
D A Bm F#m
Although death is transforming
D A Bm
There is nothing after the ending
Everything is eternal
Nothingness does not exist
No thing has ever become nothing
And nothing has never become something
What is has always been and will always be
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Japanese CD Bonus Tracks
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Today
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Tuning: Standard
All chords are power chords.
A#5 G#5 F5
Today will not be happening
G#5 A#5 G#5 F5 G#5 A#5 C#5 D#5 A#5
We've come too far away from being to be at all A ha
C#5 D#5 A#5 x2 G#5 A#5 F5 C#5 D#5 A#5
We're putting the law back in your hands
C#5 D#5 A#5 x2 G#5 A#5 F5 x3
Today we're setting our sights for a new land
F5
D#5 A#5 F#5 C#5 A#5
Lean into me cuz there's no signs on the vehicle
D#5 A#5 F#5 C#5 A#5
Look out and see cuz the city has no people
D#5 A#5 F#5 C#5 A#5
They don't know who you are but they know who you will be
D#5 A#5 F#5 C#5 A#5
Monsters of all colors and we're all distorted energy
F#5 C#5 A#5
F#5 C#5 D#5
A#5 G#5 F5
Pain looks on up at me
G#5 A#5
And when I am beat
G#5 A#5 G#5 A#5 C#5 D#5 A#5
From the backseat I'll crash my car
C#5 D#5 A#5 x2 G#5 A#5 F5 C#5 D#5 A#5
Incensed I feel like a fool when I'm feeling
C#5 D#5 A#5 x2 G#5 A#5 F5 x2 C#5 D#5 A#5
Right off this blossoming hurts like I'm peeling
C#5 D#5 A#5 x2 G#5 A#5 F5 C#5 D#5 A#5
Oh God I can't be found when I'm dreaming
C#5 D#5 A#5 x2 G#5 A#5 F5 x3
Words hard I'm into the sound of their meaning
D#5 A#5 F#5 C#5 A#5
I am divorced from the image I've created
D#5 A#5 F#5 C#5 A#5
So many nights and days that are separate from the ages
D#5 A#5 F#5 C#5 A#5
Thank you for the lessons that I learned while John was sleeping
D#5 A#5 F#5 C#5 A#5
Whoever it seemed the creator did the teaching
F#5 C#5 A#5
F#5 C#5 D#5
F#5 C#5 A#5
F#5 C#5 D#5
The creator did the teaching
F#5 C#5 A#5
F#5 C#5 D#5
F#5 C#5 A#5
F#5 C#5 D#5
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Ah Yom
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Tuning: Standard
A# F Cm
I've got a million to choose from
A# F Cm
A million ways things could be
A# F Cm
In dull moments I feel like
A# F Cm Gm G
There's a million options I see
D# A# F Cm
The trouble is choosing one
D# A# F Cm
The trouble is doing one
A# F Cm
A slave in the fields one night
A# F Cm
He's running along
A# F Cm
Gets far enough to be a free man
A# F Cm Gm G
And he's feeling so strong
D# A# F
That's how actions should be
Cm
Freeing
Cm D# A# F Cm A# F - Cm
Step after step is our only choice in a walk
Cm D# A# F Cm A# F - Cm
When we run at the mouth we jump back and forth
A# F Cm
There's only one place I'm going
A# F Cm
There's only one destiny
A# F Cm
And if my mind tells me otherwise
A# F Cm Gm G
Then it's a poor guide for me
D# A# F Cm
All of the energy in life
Cm D# A# F Cm A# F - Cm
Is nothing more than a spark in a fire
Cm D# A# F Cm A# F - Cm
The whole course of time is the blink of an eye
D# A#
Rain in the slums
F Cm
Ah Yom
D# A#
Into the cards
F Cm Gm
Aum Yaum
D# A#
Rain in the slums
F Cm
Aum Yaum
D# A# F Cm
Into another world
Cm Gm G
Aum Yaum
D# A#
Rain in the slums
F Cm
Ah Yom
D# A#
Into the cards
F Cm Gm
Aum Yaum
D# A#
Rain in the slums
F Cm
Aum Yaum
D# A# F Cm
Into another world
Cm Gm
Aum Yaum
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