Diamond Sea Bass Tab

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Song Title: Diamond Sea (corrected version)
Artist: Sonic Youth
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I.
G--5-5-5-7----------
D-----------5-7-7-7-
A-------------------
E-------------------


II.
G--4--2--0--2--------0-----4-----4--2--0--2--------0-----4--2--0--0
D--------------2--2-----2--------------------0--0-----0------------
A------------------------------------------------------------------
E------------------------------------------------------------------ 

Repeat the first part until it switches, and then play the second part.
That's about it!




Submitted by:  Brian Mattern (mmattern@neosoft.com)




Taken from BASSMASTA.NET - http://www.bassmasta.net

Source: http://www.bassmasta.net/s/sonic_youth/126197.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture wrath Average	#1 by wrath child at Dec 26, 1977 at 3:18 PM EST
	love the yyys version but still not a patch on the original. 2nd favourite SY song(Dirty Boots being #1)

No Picture Benjamin Average	#2 by Benjamin Nield at Apr 2, 1983 at 1:29 AM EST
	it's actually 25 minutes long, and how about posting an actual interpretaton on the lyrics rather than "OMG I love this song, don't you guyz?"

No Picture Cap'n Sexy Wanna Be	#3 by Cap'n Sexy at Oct 29, 1983 at 11:53 AM EST
	For me this song refers to the net of Indra, a Buddhist image-- it is a beautiful web which spans the universe, and at the each knot in the web is a mirror, illuminated by the sun, each mirror in the net reflects light onto the other mirrors. If I am not getting this wrong (and I heartily appologize if I do and someone takes offense at this), Indra's net is a sort of allegory for the unity of consciousnesses in the universe.

No Picture Jordan Lead Player	#4 by Jordan Gadsby at May 14, 1991 at 3:16 AM EST
	i think that this song has the most heartbreakingly beautiful lyrics. "look into his eyes and you can see why all the little kids are dressed in dreams" being the best example i can give its so simple and brilliant and such increadible music

No Picture ScumFucBondage Average	#5 by ScumFucBondage bumsex at Sep 23, 1993 at 10:34 AM EST
	I think that Thurston Moore may be talking about his good friend Kurt Cobain. I'm not sure when this song was released, but several lyrical couplets are telling in this regard: "Time takes its crazy toll and how does your mirror grow you better watch yourself when you jump into it 'cause the mirror's gonna steal your soul" I see this as an artist looking at themselves and trying to create an image, and then eventually buying into that image and believing that they are the image they built in their minds. Sort of like how Kurt became a rockstar junkie, because the artists he grew up listening to were drug addicts and larger than life in his eyes... "I wonder how it came to be my friend that someone just like you has come again you'll never, never know how close you came until you fall in love with the diamond rain " I think they're talking about drugs at this point...It's hard to believe that anyone would subject themselves to traumatic drug abuse until they've actually done it..."Falling in love with the diamond rain" would then mean getting hooked on something... "look into his eyes and you can see why all the little kids are dressed in dreams I wonder how he's gonna make it back when he sees that you just know it's make-belief " This is a pat on the head of their friend...If you look in Kurt's eyes, you can see the drive and beauty and determination to make his art, and the kids (ie. his fans) actually changed their dress code from designer etc. to flannel, changed their whole scene after watching him on MTV. "time takes its crazy toll mirror fallin' off the wall you better look out for the looking glass girl 'cause she's gonna take you for a fall " Kurt and Courtney ...the boy looking into the mirror and seeing the looking-glass girl, a reference to Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass...Curiouser and curiouser. Obviously, Kurt and Courtney were both junkies & also rock stars so I don't have to spell it out, do I? Anyhow, maybe my reading is too literal but that is what I think Thurston was thinking of when he wrote the song. It could also be an exercise in generalities and things that rhyme...There is no way to be certain with these indie rock demigods.

No Picture jay Average	#6 by jay raynor at Jan 14, 2005 at 3:04 PM EST
	Diamond ring = Diamond RAIN. Plus Prussiancerulean is correct. On all counts.

No Picture Matt Wanna Be	#7 by Matt at Aug 15, 2005 at 4:49 PM EST
	The mirror stealing ones soul is an idea borrowed from Islamic culture...in Islam it is believed that the mirror makes you vain and narccisstic and you lose touch with everyday reality and you end up thinking more about yourself and NOT Allah...also, the idea of mirror "stealing" your soul is Lacanian as well...for Lacan "the mirror stage" is when an individual realizes that he/she is seperate from his/her mother and an individual is forever trying to get back to that "mirror stage" and it becomes a futile pursuit like desire. I think it is also Thurston's song for about Sonic Youth's career and the "Grunge movement"..."time takes it's crazy toll...all the kids are dressed in "Sonic Youth's dreams".

No Picture one Average	#8 by one life at May 13, 2007 at 8:58 AM EST
	God I love this song, it's my favorite song on Washing Machine, now go move to its greatness. :)