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Centrefolds (taken from Album Sleeping With Ghosts)
in Placebo tuning (F, Bb, Eb, Ab)
Tabbed by Zoe Jackson (exploding_fish@hotmail.com)
this is my own work, not taken from any other sources.
bass doesnt start til 00:46
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--6--6-6--6-6--6-6--6-5--5-5--5-5--5-5--
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then theres a pause with solo piano
bass starts again at 01:46
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--10-slide-6--6-6--6-6--6-6-slide-13--13-13--13-13-
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02:17
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--6--6-6--6-6--6-6-8-5--5-5--5-5--5-5
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piano solo again
03:18
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--6--6-6--6-6--6-6-8-10--10-10--10-10--10-10--12-----
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Taken from The BassMasta -- http://www.bassmasta.net
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absinthe minded Rhythm Player |
#1 by absinthe minded at Sep 23, 1973 at 3:55 AM EST |
| Uh, it should be Balthazar, not Balthazaa. | |
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Chris Average |
#2 by Chris Young at Jan 27, 1974 at 5:27 PM EST |
| A truly beautiful song. Perfect for just sitting alone, listening to loudly and reflecting. My favourite slow Placebo song. | |
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Mark Average |
#3 by Mark Murray at Aug 15, 1974 at 11:43 PM EST |
| Well... the centrefold definition is correct. The song,from what I understand is about small people with great dreams... It`s like when you look at the picture of the girl and you just wish she was yours, maybe just for a night. Sexuality is not excluded from Placebo lyrics, and it may be what he felt once. Anyways, Brian declared the songs are inspired from their own experiences. But still, it`s a very nice song. | |
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John-Marc Average |
#4 by John-Marc Diner at Nov 24, 1974 at 9:11 PM EST |
| I'm sorry to say it, but i'm argentine and i have got NO clue of what a centrefold is... anyway, what i wanted to say is that, in my opinion, in the first part of the song, where it says "Come on Balthazaa I refuse to let you die Come on fallen star I refuse to let you die " he's reffering to wishes... i mean, he's talking about Balthazaa and about a fallen star (just for the record: sopossedly (i don't know how to spell that word) you have to make a wish every time you see a shooting star) and shooting stars are meant to fall, so... well, taht's all... love the lyrics, even though i don't know what centrefold means | |
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Jasper Average |
#5 by Jasper van Oorschot at May 24, 1978 at 6:43 AM EST |
| love it. | |
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Tom Wanna Be |
#6 by Tom C at Mar 9, 1984 at 10:18 AM EST |
| I think that it's about Balthazar Getty and Brian has a little crush on him. | |
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mike Average |
#7 by mike at Jun 17, 1985 at 1:18 PM EST |
| It seems to me that he's in love with someone extremely superficial, hence: "All the centrefolds that you can't afford", meaning they mean nothing to that person, or vice versa. He's saying it's time to move on, because he's "been waiting far too long" and accept the fact you can't always have the flawless beauty. But that's just me. | |
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N Wanna Be |
#8 by N H at Jan 11, 1987 at 8:37 AM EST |
| No matter what it's about, I totally love this song. its so sentimental and so beautiful... All the time its so quiet and calm , just when Brian sings the lines: "All the centrefolds..." his voice becomes a bit louder... Still its very sad. | |
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J. Wanna Be |
#9 by J. Stone at Aug 15, 1997 at 9:34 PM EST |
| This songs about love, I think. Or reminds me of it from personal expirence. "come on, balthazar, i refuse to let you die come on fallen star, i refuse to let you die" Meaning: You're losing yourself, but I'll keep you sane and remind you of the truth. "All the centrefolds that you can't afford have long since waved their last goodbye... ect" Is like Yeah, you can have all these beautiful people, rich people, popular people, sucessful people, whatever... but in the end the don't love you like i do... so just accept me for what I am and be mine because I'll treat you like you should be treated... Makes sense? | |
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† The Jester † Average |
#10 by † The Jester † at May 5, 1999 at 11:56 AM EST |
| I think that he's singing about a once popular centerfold model who's no longer attractive because of aging and no longer attracts any attention "come on fallen star". She longs for one last time in the limelight, and its not happening. She sees her only option is plastic surgery, which she cant afford "all the centerfolds you can't afford", and now she's past the stage where plastic surgery can save her youth, so she only has her dreams... "be mine" | |
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Walk3rkid Average |
#11 by Walk3rkid . at Apr 29, 2000 at 5:14 AM EST |
| so he's talking about someone who's done a lot of bad stuff, and so is a fallen star, balthazar or whatever name he's given them. the person has died or went away, but he doesn't feel prepared at all for this person's death, because they have unfinished buzinesses, and he always thought they'd have time to sort things out.. but they didn't. so he thinks it's wrong that the person's dead, because he had waited too long for things to be right, but they never were. I guess it's one of those weird relationships in which you don't actually know where the person's standing, and it was like that for a long time, and nothing was solved, nothing was settled and will never be. and so he has a lot of skeletons in his closet.. except he uses the word centrefolds, that are dirty and hollower. and so the person's taken too much of the bad stuff, and can't take it anymore.. which makes me think of an overdosis. and this thing's happened a while ago, because there's already been a goodbye, in which brian hasn' t really had his part, and hasn't been able to say his farewell. thing is, the person was unimportant to anyone else but him, and that's why he/she's faded from everybody's eyes and won't be remembered, which hurts brian, because it scars the memory he has of the person. reminds me of a father-son unresolved relationship also. | |
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Huuuu??? Yessss Wanna Be |
#12 by Huuuu??? Yessssssss Its Meeeeeeee >jOrDaN< at Jul 18, 2000 at 12:35 PM EST |
| i think the end sums it up. you cant have all the other people better than me so you might as well be mine. | |
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Jelani Wanna Be |
#13 by Jelani English at Oct 14, 2003 at 10:55 PM EST |
| I think this is about a person who is superficial and is past his prime and is in depression because of it. The speaker is in love with this person and is telling him that his days of being with centrefold models are over, so he should just succumb to the speaker's love. | |
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tucker Wanna Be |
#14 by tucker at Jan 7, 2004 at 6:10 PM EST |
| omg this song reminds me sooo much of my girlfriend. especially the line "Come on fallen star I refuse to let you die". she's a cutter like i once was, and sometimes suicidal. its like im determined to save her, and not let her kill herself. | |
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stuart Professional |
#15 by stuart finlayson at Sep 29, 2004 at 7:30 AM EST |
| just GREAT! | |
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wade Wanna Be |
#16 by wade petty at Dec 19, 2005 at 6:54 PM EST |
| I am not a native speaker (i am from BG) but i found out that centerfolds means middle pages in a book or in a magazine ... Centerfold in a Playboy for example is the middle page where it is one holw big piece of paper and there is ususaly a big picture of a naked girl... so my guess is that he is saing: Hey you cannot afford those girls/boys (beacuse of the whole "gay" stuff I am never sure) so come to me and be mine | |
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Im Hearing Voic Average |
#17 by Im Hearing Voices As The Wind Blows at May 1, 2006 at 3:51 AM EST |
| I mean let's face it, where is Balthazar now? He's a fallen star who hasn't been working a lot lately and probably can't afford all the "high class" centrefolds he used to date. | |
