What Difference Does It Make? Bass Tab

Hatful Of Hollow Tabs:

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This song may be hard to remember because there is like no
repeating, it is mostly all different.

Verse
G|-----------4-----4-2---4|-----------4-----2------|
D|------------------------|-------------------0----|
A|-2---2------------------|-2---2------------------|
E|------------------------|------------------------|

G|----------/7-----7-6---7|-------------2---2-1----|
D|-0---0------------------|-2---2-----------------4|
A|------------------------|------------------------|
E|------------------------|------------------------|


Chorus    
G|-----4-----------4------|------------------------|
D|-----------4-2----------|------------------------|
A|-2----------------------|-----2-------2----------|
E|------------------------|-0---------0-----0------|

	*Not last time
G|------------------------|------------------------|
D|-----4-------2---2-----2|------------------------|
A|-------4-----------4----|-----0-0---0-0---0-0----|
E|-2---------2------------|----------------------*2|

Chorus End
G|------------------------|------------------------|
D|-------6----------------|-2---2------------------|
A|-------------6-----4---2|-------4---2------------|
E|-4----------------------|-------------2-----3----|3x

Outro
G|------------------------|------------------------|
D|------------------------|------------------------|
A|-2---2-------2---2------|-2---2-------2-----4----|
E|-----------2-----------2|-----------2------------|

G|------------------------|------------------------|
D|------------------------|------------------------|
A|-5---5-------5---5------|-7---7-------5-----4----|
E|-5---5-------5---5------|-7---7-------5-----4----|

Enjoy!

Source: http://www.bassmasta.net/s/smiths,_the/140908.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture phill Average	#1 by phill muffi at Nov 27, 2005 at 6:16 PM EST
	I don't think he's actually in love with his friend, he just likes him, like everyone here likes his or her friends. it's not cos he's gay that he can't like his male friends without loving them. if you know what i mean.

No Picture Harley Wanna Be	#2 by Harley Mckenzie at Feb 18, 2006 at 9:22 AM EST
	The 'coming out' interpretation didn't occur to me at all until I read Hereticeye's post. But now it makes perfect sense. Can't imagine that it would be about someone telling their friend they love him/her. How could you possibly think an admission like that wouldn't change the relationship? It'd freak me the hell out!

No Picture Kane Average	#3 by Kane Timson at Mar 11, 2006 at 4:05 PM EST
	doesn't he say 'and i say goodbye'? i might be wrong, in facvt i proably am, but i thought that was what he said at the end.

No Picture Zack Average	#4 by Zack Groce at Nov 4, 2006 at 12:46 PM EST
	This is the song that made me fall in love with the Smiths, great song. While I may have spoken about the ambiguity of the Smiths songs before, this does definitely seem to be about someone coming out to the object of his desires, and being rejected, mostly due to the line 'your prejudice won't keep you warm tonight', a great line, which really does point out the futility of homophobia, and indeed all prejudices: being gay/bi can be a source of pride, and makes you happy with yourself, but what does homophobia give you? Ah, I love this song so much, I recently came out as bi to my own would-be sweetheart (a girl, by the way), and she was disgusted, despite the fact that I pointed out this really made no difference to what I felt for her. So I started just quoting the lines to this... in hindsight, a fairly stupid idea, but never mind...

No Picture mike Average	#5 by mike o'brien at Nov 12, 2006 at 4:35 PM EST
	"i'm off to check out 'wonderful woman' now to see if anyone's said it's about a transvestite. " LOL I love this comment. You pretty much summed up how I feel when I see that so many people make statements that this and this song written by Morrissey is "definitely" about hoomosexuality - and most of the time it seems that they only assume that because his sexuality is such ab enigma and they keep assuming he's gay. I bet that for 90% of those songs nobody would even think along those lines if they were written by, say, Nick Cave. ;) As for that line of thought, I have ot say that I've never thought of the 'two lads' scenario, but I have imagined a 'boy confesses his bisexuality to a girl he loves' scenario -- which may be because 1) I know that one of my friends was upset because her boyfriend used to have some homosexual experiences, 2) jjusr recently a bisexual guy who tried to chat me up over a dating service said he 's afraid I'll never want to answer, because he knows girls usually do that, so I guess it's a fairly common experience. I have to say, though, that th first time I heard it I didn't think along those lines at all. besides, there seems to be another theme here: "Now you make me feel so ashamed because I've only got two hands" sounds like he's talking about something else, at least in that verse. The first time I heard the song I only thought of that connotation - that it's someone who hasn't got a job or money... he doesn't say you make me feel ashamed because of my sexual desires or whatever, but "because I've only got two hands". That reminds me of the attitude to work shown in Still Ill, You've Got Everything Now, etc. And if you like to push autobiographical explanations - Morrissey used to be "hopelessly unemployable" back in those days (as Linder Sterling said). The "my sacred one" part at the end is very interesting... But more so since I have heard the version that The Smiths played live in Hacienda in 1983. It can be downloaded from Soulseek. In it you can very clearly hear Morrissey singing "Oh my sacred MOTHER"!!

No Picture Ben Average	#6 by Ben Swayn at Nov 26, 2006 at 11:30 PM EST
	I don't think he's actually in love with his friend, he just likes him, like everyone here likes his or her friends. it's not cos he's gay that he can't like his male friends without loving them. if you know what i mean.

No Picture Devon Average	#7 by Devon Thauriaux at Jul 26, 2007 at 3:01 PM EST
	I think its a bitter message to a former lover - they split on acrimonous terms.

No Picture Jesse Rhythm Player	#8 by Jesse Holmes at Sep 20, 2007 at 8:08 PM EST
	I think it's safe to say that it's about homosexuality on this one.

No Picture freekymayne Wanna Be	#9 by freekymayne at Oct 17, 2007 at 9:11 PM EST
	i F*n LOVE this song.