Bless It's Pointed Little Head [Live] Tabs:
- Somebody To Love »
- It's No Secret
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Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to love
Here is a hopefully slightly improved version of this - thanks to
Goose@zevoS@aol.com for putting me on the right track. I'm not
sure if its all correct but it sounds good when we play it!
Tabbed by Alunboard@hotmail.com
Verse
G|----------------------------------2--4-4--2--------------------|
D|4-4--2---2--4-4--2---2--4-4--2-4------------4-2----------------|
A|-------4-----------4-------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------|
Repeat this for the verse but lead into the chorus with:
G|---------------------------------------------------------------|
D|4-4--2---2--4-4--2---------------------------------------------|
A|-------4-----------4-2-----------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------|
Chorus
G|---------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------|
A|0-0---------2-2-0-0---------2-2-0-0---------2-2-0-0------------|
E|----0-0-2-2---------0-0-2-2---------0-0-2-2---------0-0--------|
After the chorus start the verse again but just play through the
first part until the guitar finishes the intro part before
starting the whole riff again.
Taken from BASSMASTA.NET - http://www.bassmasta.net
Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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dylan Average |
#1 by dylan markus at Sep 28, 1975 at 11:56 PM EST |
| I do not know about you guys....but this version is better...NOT the Janis Joplin version....It is a really good song, and the music video is great too....you can find it pretty easy. For some reason in the video she was holding a electric cord in it....lose the microphone? | |
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Shay Average |
#2 by Shay at May 7, 1976 at 10:39 PM EST |
| when Jim carrey does it, it is really funny. I like it! | |
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Ryan Average |
#3 by Ryan Noffke at Oct 18, 1979 at 8:06 AM EST |
| God how I love this song. It's so amazing, and the drums and so like heavy but simple... | |
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Neal Average |
#4 by Neal Breen at Oct 5, 1988 at 1:30 PM EST |
| Janis Joplin sings it soo much better | |
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Bye! Average |
#5 by Bye! at Jul 17, 1995 at 3:05 PM EST |
| this song is my party song. i love to just hang out with my friends and dance and make videos to this song. it's the shit. | |
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Andrew Average |
#6 by Andrew Locke at Dec 28, 1995 at 8:41 PM EST |
| I think.. it's like, she's broken up with a lover, or someone she she was close to just stabbed her in the back, and she finds that no one around her really cares for her like they claimed to, leading to a downward spiral. When the truth is found to be lies/And all the joys within you dies -- Ka-backstab. Found her lover doesn't love her, maybe he outright told her or maybe he was cheating on her. All the good memories, all the good feelings she had for this person therefore 'dies' because they weren't true, and no longer have any validation. When the garden flowers, baby, are dead, yes/And your mind is full of red -- Her former lover betrayed her, and this gal is pissed. All positive feelings and thoughts are gone (again with the 'dead/dying' reference, like they'll never return) and the only thoughts left are seething ones of hatred and possibly revenge. Your eyes, I say your eyes may look like his/But in your head, baby, I'm afraid you don't know where it is -- This makes it sound more like she's acknowledging in the lyrics she's broken up with someone. It also seems to imply she's going out with someone new as a retaliation to the one that hurt her. He may remind her or him in a way, cushioning the hurt that comes with being dumped-- your eyes may look like his-- but he can never be what he was, and may not realize she's hurting him in the same way her ex hurt her with false emotions. (I'm afraid you don't know where it is, 'it' being her true feelings and how he's unaware that she doesn't really care.) Tears are running, ah, running down your breast/And your friends, baby, they treat you like a guest -- She comes to realize that her friends.. the ones she depended on to be her real support in this whole mess, the ones she thought would truely love her and never lie.. are more distant than she thought. She's panicking because she doesn't know who she can really trust anymore. Don't you want somebody to love/Don't you need somebody to love/Wouldn't you love somebody to love/You better find somebody to love -- She needs somebody to be there for her, someone she can finally rely on to honestly care about her. You better find somebody to love, because it's hard to get through in this world without someone to support you. | |
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Alex Wanna Be |
#7 by Alex Bosilkov at Dec 29, 1995 at 8:31 PM EST |
| I hate how everyone looks at music as a response to heartbreak. Not all music is about that. I feel like she's saying that when you feel like everything you thought was true is betrayed, the first thing you look for is solace in someone/something else. I understand how it might seem like the verses make no sense, but when you really open your mind they really do, like "but in your head, baby, i'm afraid you don't know where it is" - I think this is like when you're involved with someone who doesn't think at all about real things (society, the universe, etc), they're too involved with the false - the superficial things provided as distractions by society. I think when listening to this music it's important to remember the things that were going on in this time period, it really helps you gain perspective. | |
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4 String Punk Average |
#8 by 4 String Punk at May 10, 1997 at 8:26 AM EST |
| good song i always find myself singing it haha catchy | |
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Jake Badass |
#9 by Jake Calhoun at Jun 9, 1999 at 6:14 PM EST |
| Ok, instead of trying to work out what it means, why don't you all do you research into the song and actually find out what its meant to mean? The Best of Jefferson Airplane booklet says that it was the bands "adult" response to "I wanna Hold your hand" by The Beatles, Grace Slick stated in a BBC documentory "of course you dont wanna hold her hand, you wanna dick her!". The opening lyrics "when the truth is found to be lies, and all of the joy within you dies" could prehaps soundtrack a time of innocence, when people were turning a blind eye to the war in vietnam because they believed it to be right. And The Jefferson Airplane original is so much better than all the covers out there. 1 | |
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anthony Wanna Be |
#10 by anthony barter at Sep 4, 2001 at 3:04 AM EST |
| Rosaline's quite right. One of those humdingers that half makes perfect sense, v. obvious etc etc, but then has lines or indeed verses that go over the head. Like, "you don't know where it is" - what?? Although the gist of the song's clearly about having deep/profound relationships, falling in love and having somewhere to run when you find out your friends don't really give a rat's arse. | |
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Tyler Wanna Be |
#11 by Tyler Swagar at Feb 1, 2003 at 10:49 AM EST |
| Wow you guys have over analyzed this song just a bit, if you don’t know anything about Vietnam then you probably wouldn't understand this song. You can draw your own conclusions in which case it can mean anything you want it be and that’s fine. But the truth is that this is a song mirroring the emotional state during Vietnam and post Vietnam era. "When the truth is found to be lies and all the joys within you dies." - Our country was being lied to about Vietnam from day one since the war started in 1963 and 64.(about death tolls, funding, the murders in Mi Ley and other villages, and the Gulf of Tonkins in which a US ship was supposedly fired upon, in reality it never was fired upon - just to name a few) Although the obvious lies didn’t truly surface for some people until Nixon's term, and after the Watergate scandal erupted, in which Nixon wire tapped and recorded conversations of those he thought to be suspicious while they were staying in the Watergate apartment complex. (paranoia? anybody) - basically how do you feel when betrayed by your country? you just want somebody to love, and to take your mind off what’s really happening all around you because it's too emotionally devastating (drugs seem to work well for a while until your dependent on them). As for "When the garden flowers baby are dead yes and your mind is full of red," lots of young soldiers died, average service age being 19 yrs. of age and mainly poor or middle class citizens. How do you feel when your children die in a poor mans fight for a rich mans war? As for the last two paragraphs, our enlisted service men were treated like total crap upon return to the states, some now with mental disorders, fallout from the agent orange, and post traumatic war syndrome. while these people were off at war fighting for their country, back home it had dramatically changed (drug culture, peace activists, anti war movements, etc.), meanwhile they know nothing more nor care more than survival for another day. Hence "and your friends baby they treat you like a guest" You and your friends now both differentiate in views, cares, and state of mind than you once did or would have had you not gone to war. The Doors - Unknown Soldier - "Breakfast where the news is read. Television, children fed. Unborn living, living dead. Bullet strikes the helmet's head. And it's all over for the unknown soldier. It's all over for the unknown soldier." | |
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