Color Me Once - Lyrics by Violent Femmes


Lyrics
Guitar chords: wtorres@bucknell.edu
Bass tablature: therapy@smug.adelaide.edu.au
Intro:
Opening/ending riff: [x refers to 1
0th fret]G:
|x--99--7--5-7-
|x--99--7--5-7-
|x--99--7--5-7-
|x--99--7--5-7-|D:|0-------------|7-------------|8-------------|7-------------|A:|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|E:|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|G:
|xh------|12h-----|--------|------------------------|D:|0-------|--------|12h-----|------------------------|A:|--------|--------|--------|12-12--10-10--8-8--7-7--|E:|--------|--------|--------|------------------------|
[h = harmonic]
Verse refrain: [note ’x' refers to the 1
0th fret]G:|---------------------------------------------------------------|D:|-----xx-7----------xx-7----------------------------------------|A:|5-77-------0305-77-------030---------------03-5--305305-530530-|E:|----------------------------3-13-1-01-3313---------------------|^|
This note might not be played...
[repeat through verse, repeat in a broken kinda way in some parts though]
Solo: (let open d ring occasionally)G:|7--9--9/10\9--10--12--14-14-14-14--14-14-14--12--14--14/15\14--15--17--|D:|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|A:|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|E:|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|G:|19-19-19-19--19-19-19--12--14--14/15\14--12--10--12/14\12--10--|D:|---------------------------------------------------------------|A:|---------------------------------------------------------------|E:|---------------------------------------------------------------|G:|---------------------------------------|D:|---------------------------------------|A:|12-12-12----12-12--10-10--8-8--7-7--(5)|E:|---------------------------------------|D
Color me once color me twice
Everything gonna turn out nice
G
Everlasting arms
D
You gotta keep me from these false alarms
Alarm, alarm I see you sad
Maybe I see you I'm glad
G
d
Maybe maybe the fire of her desire
Patience patience said the man
Patience patience I can't understand
G
Patience like a man and a wife
DI got patience on my neck like a cold cold knife
I say jack be nimble jack fall dead
Jack bend over and give jilly head
G
d
Oh you gotta help my body heal my soul
Bass solo:
verse 2:
D
Dead men working a sinner a saint
Mixing up a pail of paint
G
Painted the house, black as night
D
When the sun came up the house was white
Gotta go on
G
Gotta go on
We gotta go on
D
You gotta go on
You gotta go on
G
Go on
Go on
D
Try and live life like I couldn't
Guitar solo:
Outro:
Bass
G|-10-9-9-7-5-7-10-9-9-7-5-7-10-9-9-7-5-7-10-9-9-7-5-7-|D|-0------------7------------8------------7------------|A|-----------------------------------------------------|E|-----------------------------------------------------|G|-10-9-9-7-5-7-10-9-9-7-5-7-10-9-9-7-5-7-10-9-9-7-5-7---7-|D|-0------------7------------8------------7----------------|A|---------------------------------------------------------|E|---------------------------------------------------------|
Harmonic
^
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