Artifacts Of The Black Rain Bass Tab

The Jester Race [Bonus Tracks] Tabs:

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Tuning: C (tune every string down two steps from standard tuning)

  .  =  staccato note
  ~  =  let note ring

Intro (0:00)
|------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------|
|--00000000-2/3-00000000-2/3-55555555---77-55-33-55----|
|------------------------------------------------------| x2

Verse I (0:12)
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|----------------------------------------|
|--0--0--0--3--3--3--5--5--5--1--0-1~----|
|----------------------------------------| x4
   .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .

Verse II (0:38)
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|--0~----------------0~-------0~---------------------|
|-------3~------1~-----------------3~------1~---3~---| x2

Verse I x2 (0:51)
Verse II x2 (1:03)
Intro x2 (1:16)
Verse I x2 (1:28)
Verse II x2 (1:40)

(1:53)			(1:59)   (2:06)
|-----------------------|--------|------------------------|
|-----------------------|-GUITAR-|------------------------|
|--0~---------------0---|-(REST)-|------------------------|
|-----------------------|--------|--1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-3-3---|
		    .				    . .
(2:09)
|---------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------|
|--7-777-777-777-77---------------------|
|-------------------7-777-777-777-77----| x2

(2:23)
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--7~-----3~--------------5~-----|
|------------------3~------------| x3

(2:32)
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|--------------------------------|
|--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-5-5-----------|
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Justice Wanna Be	#1 by Justice Fish at Jan 19, 1979 at 11:33 AM EST
	a very good song

No Picture Frodd Average	#2 by Frodd aka josh laing at Sep 24, 1981 at 4:18 PM EST
	dunno thats hard to guess

No Picture John Lead Player	#3 by John Bombara at Jul 24, 1989 at 2:04 AM EST
	yeah, i'd have to agree with GroovyJude... i think there's a specific concept to each one, but they are for the most part just an analogy of how messed up the world is. i heart the guitar tho... god Artifacts is an awesome song...

No Picture Frank Wanna Be	#4 by Frank at Mar 15, 1990 at 1:47 AM EST
	i think it sort of tells a story.. maybe some guy wanted a girl or something..then didnt get her or something and hes all upset and hates everything.. i dont know, i have no idea what this song or prety much any other on the jester race means

No Picture Waz Wanna Be	#5 by Waz at Jun 29, 1991 at 9:16 PM EST
	The older lyrics written by Niklas Sundin appear like complex poems to me. The dark figure, mankind or a ruthless part of mankind, prefers being at night (in an artificial light). The cry for night and all the darkness are metaphors for a desired world based on greed or whatever he wants it to look like. So he feeds the world (artifacts of the black rain used as a picture of how human interventions darken the world like nuclear winter) to make it look like how he wants it to look. He keeps on going like that, he leaves a dark, bloody trace and provokes the conflict that is sacred (sacred in a sense of "higher" than he is able to conceive) with the earth and is finally absorbed back in mother earth´s womb. The metaphor "mother earth bares her bleedin thighs" is cool. The last verse is clear but the way to it is written so complex, you could interpret a hundred different pictures in it.

No Picture Mikel Average	#6 by Mikel A. at Nov 4, 1991 at 4:13 PM EST
	and also... "Whoever they're talking about is an extremely dark and mysterious, definately dangerous person. Words like "voyeur" adding a sickness and perversity to him. He seems one of a dark clan, who feasts on the night and lives in it." Could this dark, mysterious person that feasts on the night, and lives in it, represent the darkness of space and the universe somehow?