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Smashing Pumpkins - Behold The Night Mare Tabs

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Behold The Night Mare Tabs

(ver. 2)
Smashing Pumpkins

tuning: open Dminor (low to high) D, A, D, F, A, D

intro: just stay on the same chord for about four bars I think

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                            "I've faced the fathoms in your deep"                       "withstood the 
quiet siege"

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                  "pulled down the heavens just to please you, appease you the wind blows, and I know"

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                                 play these two chords over and over until:

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----4-----------------------|
----5-----------------------|
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  "the coarse tide reflects sky and the"

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----0-----------0-------4------4--|
----1-----------1-------1------4--|
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  "night-mare    rides     on"                  play x4

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-----5---------|
  "what I fear, is lost here, the wind blows, and I know"

time signature change, to 6/8

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-----1---------2--------4------3-------2------2----6-----------------------------------|
--------------------------------------------------------------5------------------------|
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--0---------2--------4---------3-------2------------5----------------------------------|
 play this through once and then repeat with the lyrics
"all you have to do, is run away and steal, yourself from me, become a mystery
to gaze into"
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----8------4---6----6----6-------------------------------------------------------|
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----7------4---5-----------------------------------------------------------------|
                                                 x2
"your so cruel, in all you do"
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---8-----4----6------4--3--2----------------------------------------------------|
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---7-----4----5------4--3--2----------------------------------------------------|
---7-----4----5------4--3--2----------------------------------------------------|

"but still I believe, I believe, you"

time signature change back to 4/4

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-----0----------2-----------------------------|  just these two chords back and forward for a while
I can't be bothered to transcribe the guitar solo, but I will tell you that it is tuned to drop-D one
1/4 tone below standard pitch, with the maximum signal level you can possibly get

next is
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"so may you come with your own knives, you'll never take me alive
with all the force of what is true, is there nothing I can do"

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---8-----2-----------------|
---7-----2-----------------|
---7-----2-----------------|
---7-----2-----------------|these two back and forth again

and repeat this until the end

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-----1-----1-----1----4---------------------------|
-----0-----0-----0----2---------------------------|
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-----0-----0-----0----4---------------------------|
            
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