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Accelerate

Biography:

R.E.M. was an American rock band from Athens, Georgia, formed in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist/backing vocalist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe. One of the first alternative rock bands, R.E.M. was noted for Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style, Stipe's distinctive vocal quality and obscure lyrics, Mills's melodic basslines and backing vocals, and Berry's tight, economical style of drumming.

R.E.M. released its first single—"Radio Free Europe"—in 1981 on the independent record label Hib-Tone.

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WHOLE ALBUM;
ACCELERATE
SONG LIST;
1. “Living Well Is the Best Revenge”
2. “Man-Sized Wreath”
3. “Supernatural Superserious”
4. “Hollow Man”
5. “Houston”
6. “Accelerate”
7. “Until the Day Is Done”
8. “Mr. Richards”
9. “Sing for the Submarine”
10. “Horse to Water”
11. “I’m Gonna DJ”

(Deluxe Edition Side/ B-Side)
1. Redhead Walking
2. Airliner (still need to tab)

Song: Living Well Is The Best Revenge
Band: R.E.M.
Album: Accelerate

Chords used:

B A Ab F# E D G
e| x x x x 0 x x |
B| x x x x 0 x x |
G| 8 6 5 3 1 7 4 |
D| 9 7 6 4 2 7 5 |
A| 9 7 6 4 2 5 5 |
E| 7 5 4 2 0 x 3 |

These are just the chord progressions. Email me if you have any questions or comments:
[email protected]

Intro: B

e|--------2---------0-----------------------------------------------------|
B|----------0-2p0-------0---0---------------------------------------------|
G|------4---------4-------4-----------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--0h2-------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Verse:

B
It's only when your poison spins into the life you'd hoped to live
A
and suddenly you wake up in a shaken panic now
B
You had set me up like a lamb to slaughter

Garbo as a farmer's daughter

Unbelievable, the gospel according to who?
A
I lay right down

Chorus:

F#
All your sad and lost apostles
A E
hum my name and flare their nostrils
F# A A/Ab/G/F#
Choking on the bones you tossed to them
F#
now I'm not one to sit and spin
A E
because living well's the best revenge
D A E
Baby, I am calling you on that

Verse:

B
Don't turn your talking points on me.

History will set me free
A
The future is ours and you don't even rate a footnote now!
B
So who's chasing you? Where did you go?

You disappear mid-sentence

In a judgement crisis I see my in and go for it
A
You weakened shill.

Chorus:

F#
All your sad and lost apostles
A E
hum my name and flare their nostrils
F# A A/Ab/G/F#
Choking on the bones you tossed to them
F#
now I'm not one to sit and spin
A E
because living well is the best revenge
D A E
and baby, I am calling you on that

Verse:

B
You savor your dying breath

I forgive but I don't forget

You work it out, let's hear that argument again
A
Camera three... GO NOW!

Chorus:

F#
All your sad and lost apostles
A E
hum my name and flare their nostrils
F# A Ab/G/F#
Choking on the bones you tossed to them
F#
now I'm not one to sit and spin
A E
because living well is the best revenge
D A E
and baby, I am calling you on that
D A E
Baby, I am calling you on that
D A E
Baby, I am calling you on that

End on B
Man-Sized Wreath

Intro and Break

Riff1
G G
||--3--3--3h5p3------|
||--3--3-------3h5p3-|
||--4--4-------------| X2
||--5--5-------------|
||-------------------|
||-------------------|

G
Turning on the TV and what do I see?
F#
A pageantry of empty gestures all lined up for me – wow!
G
I’d have thought by now we would be ready to proceed

But a tearful hymn to tug the heart
F#
And a man-sized wreath – ow!

Am
Throw it on the fire
D
Throw it in the air
Bm E
Kick it out on the dance-floor like you just don’t care, oh
Am G D
Give me some

G
Wave the palms, still the arms, fists in the air
F#
A motorcade of a night-string(?) shows the people that you care – ow!
G
Nature abhors a vacuum but what’s between your ears?

Your judgement cluttered with fearful thoughts
F#
A headlights and a deer – ow!

Am
Throw it on the fire
D
Throw it in the air
Bm E
Kick it out on the dance-floor like you just don’t care, oh
Am G D
Give me some

Riff1

G
Well I’m not deceived by pomp and odious conceit

But a tearful hymn to tug the heart
F#
And a man-sized wreath-ow!

Am
Throw it on the fire
D
Throw it in the air
Bm E
Kick it out on the dance-floor like you just don’t care, oh
Am
Look at what I’ve found
D
Everybody look around
Bm E
Everybody looking like they just don’t care

Am
Throw it on the fire
D
Throw it in the air
Bm E
Kick it out on the dance-floor like you just don’t care, oh
Am G D
Give me some
Am G D
Give me some
Am G D
Give me some

Am G D

SUPERNATURAL SUPERSERIOUS - R.E.M.
Buck/Mills/Stipe

D A Em A D A
Everybody here ... comes from somewhere
Em G D A Em A D A Em G
... That they would just as soon forget and disguise

D A Em A
At the summer camp where you volunteered
D A Em G
No one saw your face, no one saw your fear
D A Em A
If that apparition, it just appeared
D A Em G
Took you up and away from this space
D A Em A D A Em G
In sheer humiliation, of your teenage station

D A Em A
Nobody cares, no one remembers
D A Em G
And nobody cares

Em G D A
And you cried and you cried
Em G D A
He's alive, he's alive
Em G D A
And you cried and you cried and you cried and you cried

D A Em A
D A Em G

D A Em A
If you call out safe, then I'll stop right away
D A Em G
If the premise buckles, and the rope starts to shake
D A Em A
For the detail's marked, but the story's the same
D A Em G
You don't have to explain, you don't have to explain
D A Em A D A Em G
Humiliation ... of your teenage station

Em G D A
Yeah you cried and you cried
Em G D A
He's alive, he's alive
Em G D A
Ah you cried and you cried and you cried

Fmaj7 Em
And you realize your fantasies
Fmaj7 Em
Are dressed up in travesties
Fmaj7 Em C B C A
Enjoy yourself with no regrets, uh uh

D A Em A
D A Em G

D A Em A D A
Everybody here ... comes from somewhere
Em G D A Em A D A Em G
... That they would just as soon forget ... a disguise

Em G D A
And you cried and you cried
Em G D A
He's alive, he's alive
Em G D A
Yeah you cried and you cried and you cried and you cried

D A Em A
Ah, you cried and you cried
D A Em G
Ah, you cried and you cried

D A Em A
Now, there's nothing dark and there's nothing weird
D A Em G
Don't be afraid, I will hold you near
D A Em A
From the seance where you first betrayed
D A Em G
An open heart on a darkened stage:
D A Em A D A Em G
A celebration of your teenage station

D A Em A
Zen experience, sweet delirious
D A Em G
Supernatural superserious
D A Em A
Inexperienced, sweet delirious
D A Em G
Supernatural superserious
D
Wow!

SONG: HOLLOW MAN

Verse Riff:
Part 1:
E D A
E-----0--0---0---0-----2------------|
B------0------0----------3---3------|
G---0---1---1--1-----2--------3-----|
D----------2-------0------0----3----|
A-2--------2--------------------0-0-|
E-0------------------------------0--|

Part 2:
E D E
E-----0--0---0---0----2---------0-0-0-|
B------0------0--------3--------0-0-0-|
G---0---1---1--1----2---2---1-1-1-1-1-|
D----------2-------0-----0--2-2-2-2-2-|
A-2--------2----------------2-2-2-2-2-|
E-0-----------------------------------|

[Intro] (Only strum chords once during keyboard intro and only strum 3 strings for each.)

E (Use only 3 strings; x221xx)
I've been lost
D(xx023x) A (x033xx)
inside my head,
E (x221xx) D (xx023x) A (x033xx)
Echoes fall off me...

[Verse]
Verse Riff Part 1: (E, D, A)
I took the prize last night for complicated mess.
Verse Riff Part 2: (E, D, E)
For saying things I didn't mean and don't believe in...

[Chorus]
A D C#m Bm
Believe In Me, believe in nothing,
A D C#m Bm
Corner Me, and make me something,
A D C#m Bm
I've become the hollow man,
A D C#m Bm E (Back
intro configuration)...
Have I become the hollow man I see?

[Bridge]
E (x221xx) D (xx023x) A (x033xx)
I see this echoing,

[Verse]
Verse Riff Part 1: (E, D, A)
You had placed your trust in me,
Verse Riff Part 1: (E, D, A)
I went upside down,
Verse Riff Part 1: (E, D, A)
I emptied out the room in 30 seconds flat,
Verse Riff Part 2: (E, D, E)
I can't believe you held your ground

[Chorus]
A D C#m Bm
Believe in me, believe in nothing,
A D C#m Bm
Corner me and make me something,
A D C#m Bm
I've become the Hollow Man,
A D C#m Bm E
Have I become the Hollow Man I see?

[Solo Link]
E--0---0----0-0-0-0--0--0--0------------|
B---0---0---0-0-0-0---0--0--0-----------|
G-9---7-----6-4-7-6-7--7--7-------------|
D---------------------------------------|
A-----------------------------5-4--5-4--|
E--------------------------------5----5-|

[Chorus]
A D C#m Bm
I'm overwhelmed, I'm on repeat,
A D C#m Bm
I'm emptied out, I'm incomplete,
A D C#m Bm
You trusted me, I want to show you,
A D C#m Bm
I don't want to be the Hollow Man...

[Chorus]
A D C#m Bm
Believe in me, believe in nothing,
A D C#m Bm
Corner me, and make me something,
A D C#m Bm
I've become the Hollow Man,
A D C#m Bm
Have I become the Hollow Man I see?...
A D C#m Bm
I see...

A D C#m Bm (x2)

End on A.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Houston - R.E.M.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tabbed by: MisterJones
Email:[email protected]
Any comments or questions are welcome.

Tuning: Standard

D5 xx023x
Am7 x0201x
C x3201x
G 32000x
F5/D xx056x
E5/D xx045x
D* xx7710x
C* xx558x

Intro:
| F5/D | E5/D |
Verse:
| D5 | Am7 | C | G |
| D5 | Am7 | Fill1 |
Chorus:
| D* | C* | (3x)
| F | G |

Fill1: C G
e|-----------------|
B|-----------------|
G|-----------------|
D|-----------------|
A|-------3-2-0-2---|
E|-----------------|

Fill2: C
e|---------5-7-----|
B|-------8---------|
G|-----------------|
D|-----------------|
A|-----------------|
E|-----------------|

Notes:
In the verse it seems that Peter does not hit the high e string but he
strums every chord once and then the stays at the melodic strings til the
next chord.

D5 Am7
If the storm doesn't kill me
C G
the government will
D5 Am7 Fill1
I've gotta get that out of my head
D Am7 C G
It's a new day today and the coffee is strong
D Am7 Fill11
I finally got some rest

So a man's put to task and challenges
I was taught to hold my head high
Collect what is mine,
Make the best of what today has

D* C* Fill2
Houston is filled with promise
D* C*
Laredo's a beautiful place
D* C* Fill2
and Galveston sings like that song that I loved
F G
Its meaning has not been erased

And so there are claims forgiven
And so there are things that are gone

Houston is filled with promise
Laredo is a beautiful place
and Galveston sings like that song that I loved
Its meaning has not been erased

F
And some things, they fall to the wayside
G D5
Their memory is yet to be stilled
F
Belief has not failed me
G D5
And so I am put to the test

Song: Accelerate

Album: Accelerate

Artist: R.E.M.

Chords used

E-a-d-g-b-e (Strings)
A5 5-7-7-x-x-x
G5 3-5-5-x-x-x
F# x-9-11-11-x-x
G x-10-12-12-x-x
A x-12-14-14-x-x

Intro

e- xxxxxxxxxxxx

B- 0

G- 0 x2

D- 11

A- 9

E - xxxxxxxxxxx

Verse chords

*F#* *G*

Chorus Chords

*F#* *G*--*A*----*G*

END OF CHORUS

A5 G5

(Verse chords)

Sinking fast, the weight chained to my feet
No time to argue with belief
I'm not alone, a thousand others dropping
Faster than me
What put me here?
Nothing to hold on to
Nowhere to brake

(Chorus Chords)

Where is the ripcord, the trapdoor, the key?
Where is the cartoon escape-hatch for me?
No time to question the choices I make

(END OF CHORUS chords)

I've got to follow another direction (although fall down is much cooler)

(Verse chords)

The last thing I remember was climbing up the stairs
I threw the window open in challenge and despair
I don't know what I needed
I needed time
I needed to escape
I saw the future turn
Upside-down and hesitate.

(Chorus Chords)

Where is the ripcord, the trapdoor, the key?
Where is the cartoon escape-hatch for me?
No time to question the choices I make

(END OF CHORUS chords)

I've got to follow another direction

*F#* *A* *G*

Accelerate.

(Verse chords)

The vista I see now is changing
Uncertainty is suffocating
Our hope has never felt so great and
Lit up down
A pounding pulse
To make it go
Make it slow down,
Go.

(Chorus Chords)

Where is the ripcord, the trapdoor, the key?
Where is the cartoon escape-hatch for me?
No time to question the choices I make

(END OF CHORUS chords)

I've got to follow another direction.

(Verse chords)

The city's burning, it's like it's ready to explode
Accelerate to make it slow
Make it go
Accelerate to make it slow
Make it go

(END OF CHORUS chords)

I'm incomplete
I'm incomplete
I'm incomplete.

Outro

e- xxxxxxxxxxxx

B- 0

G- 0 x2

D- 11

A- 9

E - xxxxxxxxxxx

Just mess around with the outro to make it like the CD does

Any questions or comments?

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REM
Until The Day is Done
Tuning- DADGBD

Intro : D C G D

D C G D
The battle's been lost, the war is not won
D C G D
An addled republic, a bitter refund
D C G D
The business first flat earthers licking their wounds
D C G D
The verdict is dire, the country's in ruins
C G D
Providence blinked, facing the sun
C G D
Where are we left to carry on
Am7 G D
Until the day is done
A7 G D
Until the day is done
D C G D
As we've written our stories to entertain
D C G D
These notions of glory and bull market gain
D C G D
The teleprompt flutters, the power surge brings
D C G D
An easy speed message falls into routine
C G D
Providence blinked, facing the sun
C G D
Where are we left to carry on

Am7 G D
Until the day is done
A7 G D
Until the day is done
G D
A voice whispers "Son,
G D
The blessed vision comes."
G D
What have I done
G A7
What have I done
D C G D
So hold tight your babies and your guns
D C G D
Forgive us our trespasses, father and son
C G D
Providence blinked, facing the sun
C G D
Where are we left to carry on
Am7 G D
Until the day is done
A7 G D
Until the day is done
Am7 G D
Until the day is done

FINAL :
C G D

Song: Mr. Richards

E5: 079900 Emaj7: 079890

Intro: E5

[Verse]
E5 Emaj7 E5 Emaj7
Mr. Richards, your position is a messenger pigeon,
E5 Emaj7 E5
left behind you when the camp moved on.
E5 Emaj7 E5 Emaj7
You thought that you had listened but the words had never crystallized,
E5 Emaj7 E5
into a truth that you might own, hey hey

[Chorus]
Asus2 E5 Emaj7
Mr Richards your decision, pay attention pay attention

[Verse]
E5 Emaj7 E5 Emaj7
Mr. Richards your forgiven for a narrow lack of vision,
E5 Emaj7 E5
but the firesare still raging on...
E5 Emaj7 E5 Emaj7
The public's got opinions and these consequences border on the compound that
E5 Emaj7 E5
razed where zealots sang, hey, hey

[Chorus]
Asus2 E5 Emaj7
Mr. Richards, your decision, pay attention, pay attention

[Bridge]
D
So listen, your intention, sign the paper, stamp the ribbon,
E5 Emaj7 E5
You're mistaken if you think we'll just forget.
D A
You can thump your chest and rattle, stand in front of your piano but,
G F#m7 E5 G F#m7 E5
We know, what's going on, Yes, we know what's going on,
G F#m7 E5
We're the children of the choir hey,
G F#m7 E5
And we know what's going on.

[Verse]
E5 Emaj7 E5 Emaj7
Mr. Richards your conviction, had us cheering in the kitchen,
E5 Emaj7 E5
now the jury's eating pigeon pie,
E5 Emaj7 E5 Emaj7
So tell me how is prison, have they taught you how to listen?,
E5 Emaj7 E5
We've begun to bridge the schism, pay attention pay attention,

[Chorus]
Asus2 E5 Emaj7
Mr. Richards your decision, pay attention, pay attention.

[Bridge]
D A
You can thump your chest and rattle,stand in front of your piano but,
G F#m7 E5 G F#m7 E5
We know what's going on, Yes we know what's going on,
G F#m7 E5 G F#m7 E5
We're the children of the choir hey, from the compound fire hey,
G F#m7 E5
And we know what's going on,
G F#m7 E5
Yes we know what's going on.

Outro: G F#m7 E5 x2

Song: SING FOR THE SUBMARINE

opening/verse chord progression:

Bm C/Bm

It feels in dreams
That everything is there for you
The city breathes and pulses
It's fuel electron blue

I knew that you could see right through it
So this is where I give in to the machine
Lift up your voice feel gravity's pull
Drown out the siren's ring (or silent dream)

Oh...
Am
It's all here where I keep it

Dm
It's all in the submarine

Am
It's all a lot less frightening

Dm
than you would have had it be

Am
But that's the good news my darling

Dm
It is what it's going to be

B Bb G Em
So sing, sing for the submarine

Back to verse:

I tried to explain how it all begins
How its all destroyed and built again
I knew that you could not believe me
But now you're here and it's different
How the light shines in your eyes
In every second or situ
It's then that I realised
That the world as we know it
The High speed train
We'll pick it all up and start again

Chorus Chords:

It's all here where I keep it
It's all in the submarine
It's all a lot less frightening
than you would have had it be
But that's the good news my darling
It is what it's going to be
So sing, sing for the submarine
Break Down: F# B-Bb D-Db Db-D-E5-F#

Back to verse chords:

The city did not collapse in a shudder
The rain it never came
At least my confessions made you laugh
I know it's a little crazed
But these dreams...
they seem so real to me

CHORUS:
It's all here where I keep it
It's all in the submarine
It's all a lot less frightening
than you would have had it be
But that's the good news my darling
It is what it's going to be
So sing, sing for the submarine

So this is where you trust me
And this where it begins
It's all a lot less frightening
Your tear you let it in
Tyrel and his mechanical owl
A moth disguised as a leaf...
Don't tell me what tomorrow brings
Climb into the hidden machine and
sing sing sing sing sing sing
sing sing for the submarine

"Horse To Water"
B
I could have kept my head down

B
I might have kept my mouth shut

B
I should have held my own,

B
You lead a horse to water and you watch him drown.

SAME PROGRESSION AGAIN:
You're only as big as your battles.
Rattle my cage with your shadow.
I'm a phantom-weight with a mouth full of feathers,
Don't you know that what comes around goes around?

Em B
I'm not that easy,

A5 B
I am not your horse to water.

Em B A5
I hold my breath I come around, round, round.

VERSE PROGRESSION AGAIN:

Don't darken my doorstep again,
You're mixing up living in chin-chin,
You're mixing up lose with win-win,
You lead a horse to water and you watch him drown.

You stumble on glass top table,
TV's chewing shock-gone cable
Pump me up a beanstalk fable
And I'll call this entertainment
'cause Humpty's falling down.

CHORUS:
I'm not that easy,
I am not your horse to water.
I hold my breath I come around, round, round.

VERSE
Pick a fight an ultra-buzzy bubble
Friday night fuckin' fried-up pub crawl
Phantom-weight with a mouth full of feathers,
Don't you know that what comes around goes around?

CHORUS
I'm not that easy,
I am not your horse to water.
I hold my breath I come around, round, round.

It's not that easy
I am not your horse to water
I hold my breath, I come around, round, round

ENDING

A-B-A-G
It's going down, down, down

G-A-G-F#
This runaround, round, round

F#-G-F#-F
Is bound to pound

Em
The daylights out of you!

I’m Gonna DJ

If death is pretty final, I'm collected vinyl

G A#-G-A# C D
I'm gonna DJ at the end of the world

Cos if heaven does exist with a kickin' playlist

G A#-G-A# C D
I don't want to miss it at the end of the world
D5
Hey steady steady, hey steady steady

D5
I don't wanna go till I'm good and ready
D5 E5 D5 E5
It's on my mind, it's in my mind

D5 E5 D5 E5
It's what I found, it's what I find
(Same progression as above)

It's on my mind, it's in my mind
It's what I found, oh my my my
E5
When I spin my way right through it grates enthusiast Jack Pruett

E5 D5 C
As the moths circle the moon, as you're circling the room
E5
Music will provide the light you cannot resist

D5 C
you cannot resist, you cannot resist
G7
And the weblogs that get tangled as you bully and you wangle
When you walk up in Seattle, where you fought the nascent battle
G7
You threw the thread and throttle let us raise another bottle
Raise another bottle, raise another bottle

Because death is pretty final, I'm collecting vinyl

G A#-G-A# C D
I'm gonna DJ at the end of the world

(SAME CHORD PROGRESSIONS AS MENTIONED ABOVE, BASICALLY)

Hey steady steady, hey steady steady
I don't wanna go till I'm good and ready

It's on my mind, it's in my mind
It's what I found, it's what I find

It's on my mind, it's in my mind
It's what I found, oh my my my

Hey steady steady, hey steady steady
I don't wanna go till I'm good and ready

Hey steady steady, hey steady steady
I don't wanna go till I'm good and ready

Music will provide the light you cannot resist
You cannot resist, you cannot resist

Yeah

Song: Redhead Walking
Album: Accelerate (Deluxe Edition)

RedHead Walking
The whole song is just 3 chords in one constant progression

Em G5 A5 G5
Listen to the song to get the strum pattern
Solo:
G---15b-14-12 (repeat as much as necessary)
lyrics:
Out there are silver dressed darlings
And ramen mein delights
When ginger hair gets all fired up
She beats them in the night
That redhead walking, uh
Don't get close
She'll warn you with her growl
She's a bud cuttin', star studded, leather chested girl
Out there a redhead walkin'
Redhead walkin'
The redhead walkin'
Better listen keep your distance from the crimson crime warpath
O kiss that girl
Kiss that girl
Kiss that girt
Yeah, she'll cut your heart like diamonds
End of story
You bet you're gonna lose it to that hellbound crimson glory
There — a redhead walkin'
A redhead walkin'
A redhead walkin'
Heed what this wise man says
Keep away from redheads…
(Stipe Screams) AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Ow! that hurt!)

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