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HOLE
                                   PETALS

                                    Bass


                                      Transcribed by Larissa Coolette

  Riff A:

  G--------|------|
  D--------|------|
  A--3-----|------|
  E--------|-0----|

  Riff B:

  G------------------------|----------------------|
  D------------------------|----------------------|
  A------------------------|----------------------|
  E--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-------|5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-------|

  Riff C:

  G---------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-----------------|
  D---------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-----------------|
  A---------------------|3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3----|-------------------|-----------------|
  E--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5----|-------------------|0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0----|0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--|

  Riff D:

  G------------------------|----------------------|---------------------|
  D------------------------|----------------------|---------------------|
  A------------------------|----------------------|---------------------|
  E--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-------|0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-------|--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5----|

  G-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
  D-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
  A3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3----|-------------------|3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3----|-------------------|
  E-------------------|0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0----|-------------------|0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0----|

  Riff E:

  G------------------------|
  D------------------------|
  A------------------------|
  E--1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-------|

  Riff F:

  G---------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
  D---------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
  A---------------------|3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3----|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
  E--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5----|-------------------|0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0----|1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1----|5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5----|

  Riff G:

  G---------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
  D---------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
  A---------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
  E--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5----|1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1----|1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1----|5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5----|

  SONG FORMAT:

  A-A-A-A-A
  B--A-A
  B--C-C-C-C
  A-A-A--B
  A-A-A--B
  C-C-C-C--D-D-
  D--E
  F-F-F
  G--A-A-A
  B--C-C-C-C-C




Taken from BASSMASTA.NET - http://www.bassmasta.net

Source: http://www.bassmasta.net/h/hole/113270.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Matt Average	#1 by Matt Waas at Mar 11, 1970 at 6:49 PM EST
	Wasn't this one of the ones that was co-written by Billy Corgan? Awesome song...just...I always loved it...:shrugs: Dunno why, really...

No Picture GRIM Professional	#2 by GRIM at Nov 1, 1986 at 2:45 PM EST
	i think this song is about children and their innocence Innocence was our fire We told the truth as if she was trying to say innocence protects the children from this world and i believe that this verse is about adolescence how we are becoming adults and things come clear to us and the mess we feel They will make you so So cynical The fire burns, the flesh destorys the past that made us old and i also believe that this part is about frances and how court is afriad that franny will have to go through all the pain courtney did She's the grace of this world She's too pure For the likes of this world This world is a whore and i also think the chorus is about rape 1

No Picture I * El CiD Average	#3 by I * El CiD at Nov 2, 1987 at 10:30 AM EST
	Yeah I know, they jsut can't handle the fact that she might actually be able to write songs

No Picture hturtle99 Wanna Be	#4 by hturtle99 at Dec 19, 2006 at 3:02 AM EST
	I think the song is about how girls are treated by guys once they hit puberty. Suddenly they’re these sexual creatures and men think they can do whatever they want to them, treat them however they want. It’s essentially about how disrespected women are by men in today’s society. This then reflects on the women, the men tear the petals off of you, meaning your innocence, not in that they rape you but they make you feel dirty just by the way they look at you. The next line, “Make you tell the truth” forces women to have a look at themselves and their behaviour, as if saying they’re the ones who provoke men to act in such ways. It’s as if women are cornered into this ideal role of being pure and such and anyone who strays from that is, for example, a “sl*t”. It’s like it’s a man’s world and women are just here to serve men. Look at all the commercials with women displayed in a sexual manner as opposed to the ones on men. Very different. “All the lillies bloomed and blossomed Wilted and they're shivering I can't stop their withering, Oh, this world is a war” These once innocent girls who had such dreams and aspirations are now dead beaten by how society treats them, second to that of man. The world is a war to women as they have to fight for everything and it looks like there is nothing anyone can do about it.