Ride the Tiger Lyrics

Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:01:08 +0100
From: DUBOIS Fabrice CNET/DTL/LAN
To: 'Olga'
Subject: CRD: RideTheTiger.crd by The Boo Radleys
THE BOO RADLEYS, Ride the Tiger.
>From the album C'MON KIDS (1996).
Transcription and submission by Fabrice Dubois.
(fabrice.dubois@cnet.francetelecom.fr)
____ CHORDS USED
Em7 x x 12 12 12 12 (play this one as natural harmonics)
Anyone knows how these are called exactly ?
____ PART ONE
I don't really need to be the way I are
I don't really need to always go so far
I could get by on being alive but having no life
[Well, words for the following section were not printed
in the booklet, and my english ear's lazy tonight
so you might hear different stuff...]
(I DON'T WANT MISS THE TRAIN
I DON'T WANT REGRET AND PAY
I WANNA STOP NEXT TO THE FIRE)
E5 Em7 (or E ?)
Take it further, ride the tiger
____ PART TWO
I don't really need a fuel infected car
I don't really want to be some kind of star
I could get by on being alive but having no life
(I DON'T WANT MISS THE TRAIN
I DON'T WANT REGRET AND PAY
I WANNA STOP NEXT TO THE FIRE)
Take it further, ride the tiger
_____ MAIN ELECTRIC SOLO is mainly played on thin e string :
e -2s3--5--7h8p7--7--5--7---------------------, then
e -2s3--5--7h8p7--7--5--7--5h7p5--3-----------
However in part 2, and just before the thing becomes
seriously noisy, this solo goes a slight different way :
e -2s3--5--7h8p7--7--5--7---------------------, then
e -2s3--5--7h8p7--7--5--7--5h7p5--2s7h10p7----, and
e -7h10p7-7h10p7-11b12-11-10-9-7-6s7-6s7-5s3--, and
e -0h3-5-5b6b5-3p0h3-----3h5p3--3-------------
B -------------------0h3----------------------,
then, before the real "plasma" noise, play chords :
C C--->D* D*--->F* F*--->G*
G*--->A* A*--->C* C*--->A* E*--->D*
_____ LAST PART (calm follows the storm we say in french)
over a jungle atmosphere, with tiger and birds...
Ride the tiger, ride the tiger, ride the tiger...
B ---1-----1------0h1---1-------3--------3-----------
E ---0-----------------------------------------------, then
You don't really know what it is you ask
All that I want is to find some peace at last
Take it further, ride the tiger.
's' : slide (as well as '--->', actually)
'B' : bend
'h' : hammer on
'p' : pull off
'*' : unknown chord-name
ANY CORRECTION IS WELCOME.