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Tire Me by Rage Against The Machine
tabbed by r.allen.canterbury
Dropped D tuning (D,A,D,G)
*Distortion used on bass throughout.
Verse Riff harm.
G:-------------------------------------------<4>----------------|
D:-------------------------------------------<4>----------------|
A:----------------------------1-2--------------------------1-2--|
D:--3p0-0-3p0-0-3-r-3p0-0-3-5-----3p0-0-3p0-0----3p0-0-3-5------|
harm.
G:--------------------------------------------<4>--------------|
D:--------------------------------------------<4>---(ring)-----|
A:----------------------------1-2------------------------------|
D:--3p0-0-3p0-0-3-r-3p0-0-3-5-----3p0-0-3p0-0------------------|
Chorus Riff (x4)
G:-------------------|-----------------------------------|-------------|
D:--Verse-Riff-(x2)--|*---------------------------------*|-------------|
A:-------------------|*---5-8---5-8---5-8---5-8----3----*|-------------|
D:-------------------|--0-----0-----0-----0-----0--3-----|--0----(0)---|
G:-------------------|------------------------------|--------------------|
D:--Verse-Riff-(x2)--|------------------------------|--Chorus-Riff-(x4)--|
A:-------------------|------------------------------|--------------------|
D:-------------------|--0------0------0------0------|--------------------|
harm. (x2)
G:-------------------------------------------<4>--------------|
D:*------------------------------------------<4>--(ring)-----*|
A:*----------------------------------------------------------*|
D:--3p0-0-3p0-0-3--rest----------3p0-0-3p0-0------------------|
(x4)
G:-------------------------------|
D:*-----------------------------*|
A:*-----------------------------*|
D:--3p0-0-3p0-0-3--rest----------|
G:--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D:--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A:--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D:--0-0-0-0---0-0-0---0-0-0---0-0-0---0-0-0---0-0-0---0-0-0---0-0-0---0-0-0-|
G:----------------------------------------------------------------|
D:----------------------------------------------------------------|
A:----------------------------------------------------------------|
D:-0-0-0---0-0-0---0-0-0---0-0-0---0-0-0---0-0-0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0--|
G:---------------------|--------------|---------------|------------------|
D:-Rest.---------------|--Verse-(x2)--|--Chorus-(x2)--|------------------|
A:---------------------|--------------|---------------|--rest---------3--|
D:---------------------|--------------|---------------|------------0--3--|
I wanna be Jacki...
G:---------------|-------||
D:--Chorus-(x8)--|-------||
A:---------------|-(3)--||
D:---------------|-(3)--||
/----------------------------------------
| ____ ____ |
| ( `--' .-' _T_T_T_T_ |
| |8| O O |||||||||||||||||||[o o o o/ |
| (__,--.____ `~~~`--' |
| from the desk of jaco pastorius.. |
| acanterb@vt.edu |
| http://www.vt.edu:10021/A/acanterb/ |
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Taken from BASSMASTA.NET - http://www.bassmasta.net
Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Jacque Average |
#1 by Jacque Armijo at Nov 20, 1971 at 5:39 AM EST |
| In relation to BIGWILLS comments up the page a bit, he says "Zach sings about wearing dark glasses...to insulate oneself from the world perhaps?". Not a bad point but Jackie wore dark glasses all the time. It was a fashionable thing at the time and quite a prominent feature about her during her "limelight" tenure and I think what he means is since their is so much public infatuation with her, well, the public want to be her and since she wears "lovely" glasses all the time, I do now. I have got to be her, I need to be her and if I can't actually be Jackie Onassis I'll try and look like her. Now, that's quite simplistic I know, and you could be right because I'm starting to think more and more about your point but, I, personally think the prvious verses runs along that same rough simplicity and those concepts of mirror-image loyalty to a public personality that has nothing to offer but her style. | |
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Bjorn Average |
#2 by Bjorn Nordvall at May 5, 1974 at 2:39 PM EST |
| For the uninformed, Jackie Onassis is Jackie Kenndy, stupid Americans! | |
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Mike Average |
#3 by Mike at Oct 22, 1981 at 7:53 PM EST |
| i think the line "roll that film she's a precious, a precious one" i guess might refer to the Zapruder film. I also thought I read that after JFK was shot, Jackie was saying "Oh oh oh, please don't die" as she picked up pieces of his skull to "save" him. I think you can see her in the Zapruder film trying to pick up pieces that rolled off the trunk before tha secret serviceman came. | |
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Patrick Wanna Be |
#4 by Patrick Bastien at Sep 23, 1987 at 4:14 PM EST |
| I wanna be Jackie Onassis I wanna wear a pair of dark sunglasses I wanna be Jackie O Oh, oh, oh please don't die This part its about Jackie Onassis was a symbol of welt for Zacks genertion. And meany wanted to be like she. Rich and stuff. Never erewer talke shit about peopel that don't speel rigth. You don't have eany ideas about how it is. Renamer you are just a human to. | |
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Nick Average |
#5 by Nick L at Feb 19, 1990 at 9:39 PM EST |
| "Yeah ya tryin' ta tire me, tire me I can see you in front of me, front of me Ya tryin' ta tire me, tire me Why don't you get from in front of me" Tire me, I think, means you're trying to seduce me, your beauty and prestige is so incredible that I feel worthless and pointless as a human being compared to Jackie Onassis that I'm completely worn down, tired. "I can see you in front of me, front of me" I think he's talking about seeing Jackie constantly on the television (and maybe even through other mediums like newspapers, magazines etc.) . All the time she's in front of everyones eyes. "Why don't you get from in front of me" This is the frustration someone has from being bombarded and manipulated like this. Get away from my eyes, I'm sick of seeing your astounding beauty and superiorority. You're making me feel bad about my own inferiorority. "She's got everyone's eyes In every home there's a sickening Distress Of rolm that film she's a precious, a precious One But we're all gonna ..... nah we're already Dead !" "She's got everyones eyes" I think Zack means everyone that is infatuated with this talentless celebrity thinks they look like her - "I think I have Jackie Onassis' eyes". People are heaping attention on the women, loving her, trying to be her etc. "Of rolm that film she's a precious, a precious One But we're all gonna ..... nah we're already Dead !" A Summary of this section would go like this: On the television she's so precious and devine but realistically we don't know why. "But we're all gonna..." But we are all gonna be like her, If we keep watching and falling in love with her we can be as she IS. "nah, we're already Dead !" "We're already dead" refers to the way that if people think like this, act out these artificial impulses and find interest in public personalities that they can't think rationally about e.g."What's so much better about her than me, we're all humans" then we are as good as dead, we are no longer thinking for ourselves or about anything. "Now that history's a flowery cancerous mess ..... A mess Nah let's see it broken, bloody and undressed !" History has been distorted for centuries by those who have conquered and destroyed, written from their perspective. It has been sent through filters so that it would come out looking victorious, progressive and wonderful whereas all it is is one horrific story after another of rape, pillage, massacre, murder, domination, destruction. We're not told about the negative impacts of history and most of the worst atrocities as it doesn't serve our leaders purposes in continuing to destroy it. But the point here is Zack wants to see it in its most honest form, the bloody mess that it is. It won't be nice but we have to look for our own sake of knowing what our world is like so as to initiate change. "I wanna be Jackie Onassis I wanna wear a pair of dark sunglasses I wanna be Jackie O Oh, oh, oh please don't die" Here Zack is effectively saying that the public is so infatuated with this huge personality of sorts that they are starting to wear her clothes, act the way she does, want to be her, going so far with the obsession that they don't want her to ever die, they want her to live on, to continue to quell their irrational insecurities and keep feeding off her mastodon sized ego as long as it feels good. Why, because WE the people, are already dead. | |
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jakadict Average |
#6 by jakadict the brave at Jun 16, 2000 at 2:23 PM EST |
| "this next song was written to celebrate the death of Richard Nixon; and it's called: Tire Me" Zach De La Rocha 1994 year of the boomerang festival. I have no idea about American history and/or politics (apart from the corruption!) so don't ask me about the meaning. it's a fucking amazing song, so much rage! watch the reading festival video of this song live if you're angry, you will love ratm even more. We're already dead! RAH! | |
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Amanda Average |
#7 by Amanda Legge at Mar 6, 2003 at 12:35 PM EST |
| I dont think it has to do with laotian anything...Zach sings about wearing dark glasses...to insulate oneself from the world perhaps? jackie o lived in her own world precious and special, an image of "the life" , then boom all of a sudden the real world comes crashing down on her as chunks of bone and brain sprayed through the air. perhaps he is saying , insulate yourself all you want , the rich and powerful will not and cannot forever live a sheltered life? | |
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matt Wanna Be |
#8 by matt jenkinns at Sep 18, 2003 at 6:36 PM EST |
| actually everlong you are the dumb one cause you cant even spell kennedy right. good one buddy. | |
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