Around The Bend Bass Tab

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Around the Bend
Pearl Jam
Tabbed by Nick Key (nkey@ionet.net)
 
  

G -------------------------------------
D --7------7-------777---777-----------
A ---------------5-----5---------------
E ----777----777-----------------------

Chorus:
D E Bb

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Taken from The BassMasta -- http://www.bassmasta.net

Source: http://www.bassmasta.net/p/pearl_jam/101082.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture kevin Wanna Be	#1 by kevin Beaubien at Jun 5, 1972 at 6:07 AM EST
	ya, everyone completely disregard what i just said, i dont know what the fuck i was thinking, i think it is about dreaming in a similar way as cant keep is about dreaming, he hints at is but you have to think to realize it i could break down all the lines but i dont feel like it

No Picture chris Wanna Be	#2 by chris tremayne at Jul 29, 1972 at 9:42 PM EST
	if you really cant get to sleep at night after listenign to pink floyd dark side listen to this whole album and by the time you get to this song youve fell asleep half way throught it. ive never heard this song fully so i wouldnt be able to tell you what its about.

No Picture Matt Rhythm Player	#3 by Matt Hudson at Sep 12, 1977 at 6:10 AM EST
	i think its about someone that loves another person that is in jail, and she just misses him "I'm wishing you all well. Mind a peace within your cell" i think cell is refering to jail "All evenings close like this. All these moments that I've missed. Please forgive me, won't you dear? Please forgive and let me share with you around the bend." the first line refers to every night ending the same in the jail cell "All these moments that I've missed." she has missed so many moments with him because he is in jail "Please forgive and let me share with you around the bend." -around the bend is refering to when he gets out just a thought, im not sticking the song to this meaning or anything i just thought it made sense let me know what you think

No Picture Casey Wanna Be	#4 by Casey at Jan 26, 1985 at 6:57 AM EST
	templedog is right, it was a writing exercise...eddie challenged himself to write a lullaby for jack irons to sing to his son. but upon completion, he realized it was too 'sweet', so he changed a few words so that it could be both a lullaby and to do with a serial killer. "I also remember saying I should write a lullabye and by the end of the day. I wrote a lullabye, It was "Around the Bend." It was kind of a writing exercise. Then I thought, "well you can't just write a lullabye because that's just too sweet."So, just by changing a few words, I made it so if you listen to it one way it was like a lullabye like a father singing to his child, which is basically a song for Jack Irons to sing to his boy, or it could be like a serial killer who had just eaten half of his ... See, there's a nasty side." ---- ed. great way to no code in my opinion.

No Picture Dylan Average	#5 by Dylan at Mar 15, 1988 at 2:02 PM EST
	I always think of it as a parting of two close ones -- one is left behind while the other's life has ended, but is now in a better place.

No Picture bean Badass	#6 by bean stalk at Apr 11, 2005 at 6:45 PM EST
	Actually, this song wasn't written by Irons. It was written by Vedder as a poetry exercise... he wrote it so that it can be interpereted in a couple of ways. 1) As a lullaby from a parent to their child.. something Jack could sing to his son, and 2) As a serial killer to his victim. Hehe, listen to it with that in mind, spooky.