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The Change Cage Chords
Version #1
Abney Park


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So...this is how I play it, but I'm sure it's likely played a full step lower than 
how I play it, but it sounds correct none the less. >:] Anyways...for now I'll 
post the basic chords with the lyrics and then add the specific tab parts later, 
including the solo...and I hope if it's not correct, that it helps someone tab it 
out more correctly...

I play it in Standard E A D G B e tuning, but like I said, it may be played a full 
step lower if you know how to transpose...anyways

Also, the clean parts I usually play with some Chorus effect or Reverb...maybe 
some good phaser mixed in there.

Intro.

A, A, C, D

A, C, D(I like to let it ring out a bit, and tremolo/vibrato bend it a bit)


Verse(First half clean)


A
I take a steam train to work 
C                        D
Just like the one my father took
A
And I pass over the walls
C                  D
I see the people as I look



(transtion from clean to distortion during these lyrics)


I see



Verse(second half heavy distortion[prolly use power chords])


A
 there's the block
   C                 D
For folks with purple skin
A                    C                   D
There's the block for folks who have no chin
A                 C              D
There's the block for me & all my kin
     A           C                       D
And over there is the change cage where we throw the rebels in


CHORUS
A
I work the change cage
     
Here on our side of the wall
C                       B
And I will hold the key until the day they say the cage will fall 
(2x) 



Verse 2(first half clean)


A
Walls of iron bolted with steel
C                         D
Two miles high that should hide how we feel
A
And in the city we've walled off each block
C                            D
This should work to segregate any racial melting pot



Verse 2(second hald heavy distortion)


A
Long ago we learned of the trouble
C                           D
When a man steps out of his life's plastic bubble
A
So we walled off the city, caged thoughts that were free
C                                   D
And now our lives are safe from any change that
 
Could have come between you & me



Repeat the CHORUS (2x) 



Solo [I'll include this, with the tab later] (played over the verse chords)



Repeat the CHORUS (2x)



Verse 3(first half clean)

A
They say an artist from block 616
C                         D
Revived some old art just for his own kicks
A
They say his pictures were lude
            
They say his women were nude
C                D
So we throw them inside 



Verse 3(second half, heavy distortion)

A
Well now that artist can run, he can hide
C                        D
But sooner or later we'll throw him inside
A
I don't think the people should see
                     C
Well that's not art to me
              D
So we'll throw them inside

Repeat CHORUS(a few times actually, I'll listen again, and put the excact outro chorus here)

And I will hold the key, until the day they say the cage will fall!





Have fun playing, this has been my favourite song for the longest time...I hope this helps!!
            

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