Blackest Eyes Bass Tab

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Porcupine Tree
 - Blackest Eyes


Tab symbols:
x = dead note
/ = slide up
 = slide down
h = hammer on


NOTE: Don't trust the timings blindly and rate this tab please.

Drop D tune



Intro
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|------------------5-----4-----3----3-5-|------------------5-----4-----3-------|
|-3-2-0-3-2-0-3-0-----0-----0-----0-----|-3-2-0-3-2-0-3-0-----0-----0-----0-3--| x2

|---------------|
|---------------|
|---------------|
|-3-2-0-3-2-0-3-| straight to the next box, you know what I mean

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|:-----------------------------------:|-------|
|:----------------------5-3-0---3----:|--5----|
|-0--0-3--3-5--5-6--6-0-------5---5-3-|0------|


Verse
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||-8---r-8--8----7---r-7--7----5---r-5--5----5---r-5--5----
||---------------------------------------------------------

|----------------------------------------------------------
|----------------------------------------------------------
|--------------------------------------x-4h5----5--5---7---
|-3----3--3----2----2--2----0----0--0----------------------

|-----------------------------------------------------------
|-----------------------------------------------------------
|-8---r-8--8----7---r-7--7----5---r-5--5----5---r-5--5------
|-------------------------------------------------------7--

|------------------------------------------------------7------||
|--------------------------------------------------------r-7--||
|-------------------------------(5--5)-/75----5--5--x--------||
|-3----3--3----2----2--2----0----0--0-------------------------||


Chorus - 1:36
||----------------------------8/9-----
||------------------------------------
||--------------7---6h7--7--r------7--
||-7----7--7--------------------------

|-------------------------------9-------
|----------------------------------9----
|--------------4/5-r-7----7--7-------7--
|-7----7--7--r--------------------------

|-------------------------------------------
|----7~~5h7~~~~5----------------------------
|----------------8-5--7----7--6h7--7--------
|-7-------------------------------------7--

|-----------------3-------------------------------
|-----------------------------------------10--9--
|-1----1----1--1-----1--3----3----1h3--3----------
|-------------------------------------------------

|----------------------------------------------------
|----------------------------------------------------
|-5--5--5----x-8---x-x-8----5--5--5----x-7----7h8p7--
|----------------------------------------------------

|----------------------------------------------------||
|----------------------------------------------------||
|-5--5--5----x-8---x-x-8----5--5--5----x-7----7h8p7--||
|----------------------------------------------------||


Verse 2
||-----------------10---------------------------------------------7-------------------------
||--------------------10--------------------------------------------------------------------
||-8----8--7h8--8--------8-r--7----7--6h7--7----75----5----5--5-----3--5----5--5-5--5------
||--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------7--

|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------||
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------||
|--------------------------------------------5----5--5---5----x-3h5----5---5--5---5/7--5--||
|-3----3----3--3----3--2----2----2--2--5--6-----------------------------------------------||


Chorus 2:26
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||--------------------------------------2---------------------------------------------------
||---------------------------------------------------------------5--7----7----6h7--7--------
||-7----7----7--7----7--2----2----2--2-----2--7----7----7--7--9-----------------------7----

|---------------------------------------------
|----7~~5h7~~~~5------------------------------
|----------------8-5--7----7----5-7--7--------
|-7-------------------------------------7----

|-----------------3-------------------------------||
|-----------------------------------------10--9--||
|-1----1----1--1-----1--3----3----1h3--3----------||
|-------------------------------------------------||


Intro riff x1

continues w. this
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|------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------5-5--------5---------5-5-|
|-3-2-0-3-2-0-3-0----0-------0-0-0----0-0--0-----|

|--------------|
|--------------|
|--------------|
|-0--1--2-3----|


REST


3:33
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|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|----------7-----------------------------------7------7--1--------3--------|
|-7-----------------7--------9--------7-------------------------------------|

The End/
Intro riff
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|------------------5-----4-----3----3-5-|------------------5-----4-----3-------|
|-3-2-0-3-2-0-3-0-----0-----0-----0-----|-3-2-0-3-2-0-3-0-----0-----0-----0-3--|

|---------------|
|---------------|
|---------------|
|-3-2-0-3-2-0-3-|

|-------------------------------------|-------|
|:-----------------------------------:|-------|
|:----------------------5-3-0---3----:|--5----|
|-0--0-3--3-5--5-6--6-0-------5---5-3-|0------|


Thanks

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

Source: BassMasta.net
http://www.bassmasta.net/p/porcupine_tree/.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Matt Average	#1 by Matt Cyr at Feb 22, 1973 at 8:43 PM EST
	oh my god. after reading this the song means so much more to me.

No Picture brandon Average	#2 by brandon schulthies at Feb 9, 1976 at 3:22 AM EST
	To me, this song is about paranoid schizofrenia. At first glance anyway.

No Picture Paul Wanna Be	#3 by Paul at Jul 22, 1980 at 11:41 AM EST
	Ah yeah, and Porcupine Tree IS better than Pink Floyd =P

No Picture santiago Rhythm Player	#4 by santiago carvajal at Dec 16, 1981 at 6:18 AM EST
	I used quote from this song to show one girl how much i like her eyes :)

No Picture jared Wanna Be	#5 by jared bobak at Jul 1, 1987 at 4:51 AM EST
	BTK is pretty popular now, for about a week he was the only thing on tv. .. uh yeah. i love this song.

No Picture Alex Wanna Be	#6 by Alex Ovari at Aug 29, 1999 at 8:33 AM EST
	This song is goodness and should be played over and over until your ears start to bleed.....then play it some more

No Picture Galen Wanna Be	#7 by Galen at Oct 3, 2005 at 7:00 PM EST
	I always thought this song sounded like someone who pretends to be insane. You know, the type who point out how "messed up" they are, but really they're just looking for attention.

No Picture Nait Average	#8 by Nait at Feb 8, 2006 at 1:49 AM EST
	This song is about rape or desire, or both. Lyric analysis: "A mother sings a lullabye to her child Sometime in the future the boy goes wild" "He" is the singer himself (I don't mean Steven Wilson, I mean the "narrator" of the song, you know). This is kind of retrospective, he remembers when he was young. "The future" is the present here, because it's all retrospective. "And all his nerves are feeling some kind of energy." He feels the strange feeling everyone feels when he wants to screw a girl =) "Walk in the woods and I will try Something in the trees that made you cry It's so erotic when your makeup runs." He rapes the girl in a forest. She cries, but he just thinks "Ah, that looks erotic". The only thing I'm not clear about is why there's something "in the trees" that made her cry and not "under the trees". I believe this line HAS a meaning, I just don't know what. "I got wiring loose inside my head I got books that I never ever read" Wiring loose in his head means that he's mentally insane. Don't know why he thinks that of himself, that's not quite normal. Anyway, again the other line is something i don't quite understand. "I got secrets in my garden shed I got a scar where all my urges bled" He raped people in his garden shed. I don't know what the scar thing means, however. "I got people underneath my bed I got a place where all my dreams are dead Swim with me into your blackest eyes." The people underneath his bed are the ones he already raped. The line is more of a metaphor, I don't really think he's got people underneath his bed. It means that he hides the secret that he raped someone. "Swim with me into your blackest eyes" means "Sleep with me" or something like that. "A few minutes with me inside my van Should be so beautiful if we can I'm feeling something taking over me." He also wants to screw her in her car. The lust is the "something taking over him". ----------------------------------------------------- That's my interpretation. it's maybe a bit dirty and I'm not clear about everything, but as a whole, that's the song's meaning IMO.