Why are we alive?: Feb 21, 2010

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Song of the Day: Weezer - Butterfly

I listened to Pinkerton twice yesterday. Then I started thinking about songs with the a river analogy... so many! Then I started thinking of songs with the word sorry. This is the ridiculous shit that happens when I try to clean a house.

Posted by: ohwellwhatevernevermind94@gmail.com
Tuning: Standard

Riff 1:

e|-------------------|
B|----4-2------------|
G|--------4-3-1-3----|
D|--4-------------4--|
A|-------------------|
E|-------------------|

RIFF 2:

e|-------------------|
B|----4-2------------|
G|--------4-3-1-3-4--|
D|--4----------------|
A|-------------------|
E|-------------------|

RIFF 3:

e|-------2-1-1----------|
B|--4-4--------4-3-4----|
G|-------------------3--|
D|----------------------|
A|----------------------|
E|----------------------|

Verse 1:

F# Ebm B
Yesterday I went outside
C# F#
With my momma's mason jar
Ebm B RIFF 1 (Or play C#)
Caught a lovely Butterfly
F# Ebm B
When I woke up today
C# F#
Looked in on my fairy pet
Ebm B RIFF 2(then back to B for a moment before going to C)
She had withered all away
C#
No more sighing in her breast

Chorus:
F#
I'm sorry for what I did
Ebm B
I did what my body told me to
C# F#
I didn't mean to do you harm
F#7 B RIFF 3 C#
Everytime I pin down what I think I want
F# Ebm B
It slips away - the ghost slips aw- aaay

Verse 2 (same chords as verse 1):

I smell you on my hand for days
I can't wash away your scent
If I'm a dog then you're a bitch
I guess you're as real as me
Maybe I can live with that
Maybe I need fantasies
A life of chasing butterfly

Chorus:
F#
I'm sorry for what I did
Ebm B
I did what my body told me to
C# F#
I didn't mean to do you harm
F#7 B C#
Everytime I pin down what I think I want
F# Ebm B
It slips away - the ghost slips aw-aaay

(Stay on B)

Verse 3 (pretty much the same but slower):

F# Ebm B
I told you I would return
C# F#
When the robin makes his nest
Ebm B RIFF 1 (Or play C#)
But I ain't never coming back

F#

F#
I'm sorry
Ebm
I'm sorry
B F#
I'm sorry

Waste my days (and get a job).

There are few better sounds. The drumstick against the trap. Feedback. I once tried to catalogue a chromatic feedback list. Starting with feedback in the sound of A minor.