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The Body Electric Bass Tab

Send "The Body Electric" Ringtone to your Cell Phone

Rush: The Body Electric
>From the album Grace Under Pressure (Mercury Records)
Copyright 1984 Core Music Publishing
Music by Lee and Lifeson
Lyrics by Peart

Comments/corrections to Sean Jones <seanj@execpc.com>

Transcribed by Don Dianetti and Sean Jones


                 e q  Q  q   e q  q  q  e   e e  e  e e e e  e    e e  e e
e e
||------------||-r-12-14r-|-r-12-14-12-r-|-r-12-11-9-r-9-------|-r--------r---
||-4:--4 mm---||-e-------e-|-e----------e-|-e---------e---12-10-|-e-10-9-7-e---
||-4:--rest---||-s-------s-|-s----------s-|-s---------s---------|-s--------s-10
||------------||-t-------t-|-t----------t-|-t---------t---------|-t--------t---


e e+  e e e e Q e+  e e e e e e e e+  e e e e Q e+  e e e e e e e e+  e e e
----|-----5---7/--|-----5---7---5---|-------------|-----------------|-----5---
--0-|---0---0---0-|---0---0---0-----|-----5---7/--|-----5---7---5-0-|---0-----
9---|-------------|---------------0-|---0---0---0-|---0---0---0-----|---------
----|-------------|-----------------|-------------|-----------------|---------


e Q e+  e e e e e e e e+  e e e e Q e+  e e e e e e e e+  e e e e e e e e+
--7/--|-----5---7---5---|-------------|-----------------|-----5---7---5---|---
0---0-|---0---0---0-----|-----5---7/--|-----------------|---0---0---0---0-|---
------|---------------0-|---0---0---0-|---0-3-0-3-5-7-5-|-----------------|---
------|-----------------|-------------|-----------------|-----------------|---


e q  q  q  e+  e e e e e e e e+  e e e e e e e e+  e e e e Q e+  e e e e e
--12-14-12/--|-----------------|-----------------|-----5---7/--|-----5---7----
-------------|-----5---7---5---|-----------------|---0---0---0-|---0---0------
-----------0-|---0---0---0---0-|---0-3-0-3-5-7-5-|-------------|--------------
-------------|-----------------|-----------------|-------------|--------------


e e e+  e e e e e e e e+  Q e e e e e   h e e e e   h e e e e   h e e e e
--5---|-----------------|-------------|-r-r---r---|-r-r---r---|-r-r---r---|---
0-----|-----5---7---5---|-------------|-e-e---e---|-e-e---e---|-e-e---e---|---
----0-|---0---0---0---0-|---0-3-0-3-5-|-s-s-5-s-7-|-s-s-7-s-8-|-s-s-8-s-8-|---
------|-----------------|-------------|-t-t---t---|-t-t---t---|-t-t---t---|---


h e e e e   h e e e e   h e q e+  w+  h+Q e+  h e e e e+  Q e e e e e+  Q e
r-r-------|-r-r---r---|-r-r-----|---|-------|-----------|-------------|-------
e-e-------|-e-e---e---|-e-e-----|---|-------|---2-0-----|-------------|-------
s-s-8-7-5-|-s-s-5-s-7-|-s-s-7

The Body Electric Bass Tab

Send "The Body Electric" Ringtone to your Cell Phone

Source: http://www.bassmasta.net/r/rush/120824.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture matt Average	#1 by matt rigg at Nov 10, 1972 at 7:42 AM EST
	A basic robot gone haywire song, comparable to the killroy story, told in the lyrics of Mr. Roboto by Styx. An overall amazing song.

No Picture Yea Average	#2 by Yea ... at Apr 30, 1980 at 11:58 PM EST
	Some great replies and I think they all work. On one level, this can simply be about an android becoming self-aware and making a run for it. I liked xl5ron's "Blade Runner" take of a human and android escaping. Never thought to seperate those lines into two beings. On the flip side, it can also be about a human escaping the societal or self-imposed bonds that makes them less than human, be that parents, a job, or self held beliefs and thought patterns. The title of the song may have been inspired by the Walt Whitman poem "I Sing the Body Electric", which celebrates the human body in all its forms. It's also the title of a Ray Bradbury short story about a family who lose their mother and hire a robot grandmother to replace her. The numbers 1001001 are binary code for the capital letter 'I'.

No Picture jack and lee Wanna Be	#3 by jack and lee at Jan 21, 1989 at 10:07 AM EST
	True. It is also a song about young people leaving their parents and going out into the world on their own.