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Carrot Rope Bass Tab

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Intro/Verse
G: --------------------------------------------------------------
D: -------------------00-----------------------------------------
A: -----00-----44------------22----------------------------------	x9
E: --------------------------------------------------------------



Verse
G: --------------------------------------------------------------
D: -------------------00------------22-----00--------------------
A: -----00-----44------------22-------------------00-------------	x1
E: --------------------------------------------------------------



Pre-Chorus
G: --------------------------------------------------------------
D: -----22222222-----33333333-----4444-----2222-----00-----------
A: --------------------------------------------------------0-----	x2
E: --------------------------------------------------------------



Chorus
G: --------------------------------------------------------------
D: -----0000-----------------------2222--------------------------
A: --------------0000-----2222-----------------------------------	x4
E: --------------------------------------------------------------




G: --------------------------------------------------------------
D: -----4-----4444-----2-----0-----------------------------------
A: --------------------------------4-----------------------------	x1
E: --------------------------------------------------------------



2nd Chorus only
G: --------------------------------------------------------------
D: --------------0-----2-----4-----------------------------------
A: -----4444-----------------------------------------------------	x1
E: --------------------------------------------------------------



G: --------------------------------------------------------------
D: -----4444-----2-----0-----------------------------------------
A: --------------------------4-----------------------------------	x1
E: --------------------------------------------------------------

Wait and play intro/Verse again as the music fades out



Intro/verse x9
Verse	    x1
Pre-Chorus  x2	
Chorus	    x4	
Intro/verse x9
Verse	    x1
Pre-Chorus  x2	
Chorus	    x4
2nd Chorus  x1
Intro/Verse x2 - fade away		

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Carrot Rope Bass Tab

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Phil Wanna Be	#1 by Phil Cifone at Aug 23, 2005 at 3:00 AM EST
	to build on the marijuana idea, a camberwell carrot is slang in england for a very, very big joint that is pretty much unsmokeable.

No Picture jocke Average	#2 by jocke ström at Sep 17, 2005 at 6:04 AM EST
	Okay. I'm convinced "carrot rope" is a reference to a laboring mule or a horse or some similar plow animal. You know? How in cartoons or whatever, some farmer dangles a carrot on a rope in front of a mule to get it to go, and it just keeps going after the carrot, thereby plowing the field? Maybe it gets the reward in the end, maybe not. This is about how Stephen Malkmus, or as he's often credited, SM, is into Sado-Masochism, or, S&M. Dude's INTO it. He's the mule, or she's the mule, or something. Sex is the carrot. Plowing the field is whatever the dominant person demands. He references it in his solo work, on that cover art the other guy making this point mentioned earlier, and in other pavement songs. SM wants to work for it. No, he's not nice, he's not sweet. He's harnessed his hopes to just one person. He's got a wife, she fits in his leather glove. He's got a knife, he keeps it above his heart for her. It's hard to tell if he's dominant or submissive or if he likes to switch it up. The rest of the song may be about drugs or cricket or whatever, but I think that "carrot rope, feed my thrill" is a reference to the joy of kink.

No Picture John Rhythm Player	#3 by John McElyea at Sep 18, 2005 at 12:18 PM EST
	My gut impression is that this song is about a pedo priest. The confessional has a slim door, the chairs are ornate, with brass tacks, etc. The tone of the song seems to be a grown man talking sexually to a boy, lots of references to his penis, his erection,his need to do it again. Some of the old fashioned priest garments are tied around the waist. The priest is a repeat offender indicated by the "except me" etc. segment. the "I got beat by weather," line, however, doesn't fit in. But you never know - maybe it is about cricket. I'm American so I know next to nothing about cricket - but I do think he is saying "wicket keeper" because in the video he makes a gesture as if swinging a cricket bat (stick? mallet?) when he sings that line. Cricket is played on cricket "grounds." you could be rained out, hence "beat by weather." A seriess of puns about penises and cricket. "Harness your hopes to the folks with the liquor with the ropes, Red, red ropes, periscopes They've got everything will ever need stored under the chair" Are cricket grounds bordered by ropes? Do people drink liquor from red roped "botas" at cricket mathches? (Remember "botas?" Those leather wine sacks with red rope straps that you could bring into concerts that didn't allow glass bottles. No?) Well . . . who knows?

No Picture john Wanna Be	#4 by john etling at Nov 7, 2005 at 8:49 AM EST
	quack, i think you are correct about the term carrot rope.

No Picture gemma Average	#5 by gemma o'neill at Jan 19, 2006 at 3:56 PM EST
	it's about giving up on your dreams... slim door represents the slim chances you have to make your dreams real and the harness your hopes part is about if you give up you end up like the folkes with the liquer, and the "Don't waste your precious breath explaining that you are worthwhile" part is how you won't get anything for free. The carrot rope is like a synonim to blaming stuff on anything, like the weather and so on. the whole "hey little boy" part is the chance you get by going the low road like cheating and sucking up and bribing and also goes to show that people can offer you lot's of ways to succed even though their bad. feed my thril and get me off of the grounds is like blaiming the carrot rope for your not making it... sorry for the bad spelling...

No Picture Kubota35 Professional	#6 by Kubota35 at Mar 12, 2006 at 6:21 AM EST
	""Harness your hopes to the folks with the liquor with the ropes, Red, red ropes, periscopes They've got everything will ever need stored under the chair" Are cricket grounds bordered by ropes? Do people drink liquor from red roped "botas" at cricket mathches? (Remember "botas?" Those leather wine sacks with red rope straps that you could bring into concerts that didn't allow glass bottles. No?)" Seems too perfect to not be deliberate to me. Don't know about the marijuana bit, but the priest/pedophile/penis idea seems likely too. It doesn't have to be one or the other, cricket or kinks. "I'll let you see my carrot rope" has definite penis connotations, and the "Little Christian Lie" leads into the penis idea further, bringing in the pedophile priest thing too.

No Picture Doolittle Lead Player	#7 by Doolittle at Mar 15, 2006 at 6:52 AM EST
	its malkumus..it could be about all of those things in one song..they all make sense to me..maybe its about nothing

No Picture Aaron Average	#8 by Aaron NoOneKnows at Mar 21, 2006 at 7:01 AM EST
	It could be a reference to DRUG MONEY moscato. "Wicket keeper" = the drug dealer "how he gets him off the ground" = he can only get off his feet to pay the man a visit and buy some pot.

No Picture Jay Average	#9 by Jay Lavasseia at Apr 16, 2006 at 12:04 PM EST
	I heard from a friend it was about the guy's penis...

No Picture Sir Dee of Day Lead Player	#10 by Sir Dee of Day at Apr 24, 2006 at 8:53 PM EST
	shrug I thought it was about politicians and their lack of honesty.

No Picture Tanner Average	#11 by Tanner Rudnick at Apr 26, 2006 at 2:46 AM EST
	im not a perv like yall or anything like that, but im just saying maybe it has something to do with the whole catholic priest mollestation. little boys and christian lies? that whole paragraph sounds like a priest talking to a little boy.

No Picture Jonathan Average	#12 by Jonathan Hummel at May 7, 2006 at 10:48 AM EST
	oops typo...malkmus**

No Picture robert Professional	#13 by robert cunningham at Jun 4, 2006 at 11:23 PM EST
	i'm almost completely sure "slim door" is a reference to a robert frost poem - the one where the narrator is walking around in the dark with his arms in front of him and an open door hits him in the face read it like three years ago so my memory of it is a little weak

No Picture Phil Average	#14 by Phil Chavez at Jul 8, 2006 at 10:59 AM EST
	"Would you like to know what's in my pocket "---Could this be a reference to The Hobbit?

No Picture something.. Average	#15 by something.. at Jul 12, 2006 at 10:55 AM EST
	???

No Picture Jamie Average	#16 by Jamie Quirk at Aug 11, 2006 at 3:25 AM EST
	this song is definately about drugs... the only thing to really support the whole penis idea is the "little boy/ what's in my pocket" but I think thats just in reference to taking advantage of people's curiosity and innocence. look at the next line "its the chance of a lifetime to see something thats never seen by mere mortals except me..." thats definintely not a penis. thats dope. as for the "little little christian lie" thats not referring to christians or catholics or any kind of conspiracy, its just another way of saying "a white lie" he's saying that its just a little bad, not a huge deal to smoke a little weed. on top of all that, just their style of music screams recreational drug use, not pedophilia. as for the wicket keeper/conscience thing, i'd never heard that before, that makes perfect sense to me, ties in with the "little christian lie". and as for the hobbit idea... ridiculous.

No Picture fukt Average	#17 by fukt at Sep 14, 2006 at 8:16 PM EST
	christian lies and a catholic priest? i dunno... this was also written before all that stuff came out in the open anyway

No Picture matt Wanna Be	#18 by matt sims at Sep 15, 2006 at 11:52 AM EST
	I remember Malkmus mentioning in an interview once that he enjoyed watching cricket. I must admit that Im really not sure about what this song is about, but anyways I like pcontos/racazip's idea. The song mentions a 'wicket keeper' (field position in cricket for the folks who dont follow it). Anyways, in the 80's-90's in Australian cricket at least there were a lot of people who would nude up and run out onto the field. Might have something to do with it. Just a thought anyways, willing to be wrong. :-)

No Picture TAMARA Musical Genius	#19 by TAMARA at Jan 15, 2007 at 4:44 PM EST
	well....it sounds great...musically it's one of my fav pavements...but I think it's maybe it's about petafelia (or however you spell it)--"hey, little boy..."

No Picture Chris Average	#20 by Chris Dunn at Feb 23, 2007 at 2:49 PM EST
	This is truly one of the most annoying Pavement songs, which is why I love it. Sure to weird out the squares in no time flat.

No Picture Adam Rhythm Player	#21 by Adam Fender at Feb 27, 2007 at 1:11 PM EST
	seems to be about masturbation to me...

No Picture Justin Rhythm Player	#22 by Justin at Mar 17, 2007 at 11:19 AM EST
	thats what i thought, it was about revealing malkmus or stairs revealing themselves

No Picture JD Rhythm Player	#23 by JD at May 6, 2007 at 1:53 PM EST
	its a funky song :P every one here has good points... is it weed? or is it perverted priests?

No Picture Musical Genius	#24 by oh.... THAT guy at Aug 18, 2007 at 12:19 PM EST
	Judging by the picture of the whip that is on the cover of the single for this song, I think it's safe to say that he is singing about how he secretly enjoys bondage and domination.