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From the album _Flood_

VERSES/CHORUS

G-----------------------------
D---5-5-5-3-3-3-----0-0-0-0---
A---------------3-3----------- (x4)
E-----------------------------

PRE-CHORUS

G---------------------------------------------------------------------
D---------------------------------------------------------------------
A---3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1---
E---------------------------------------------------------------------

G-----------------------------------------------------
D---5-5-5-3-3-3-----0-0-0-0-5-5-5-3-3-3-----0-0-0-0---
A---------------3-3---------------------3-3-----------
E-----------------------------------------------------

G---------------------------------------------------------------------
D---2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---
A---------------------------------------------------------------------
E---------------------------------------------------------------------

Have fun!

Source: http://www.bassmasta.net/t/they_might_be_giants/140779.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
 
 
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Public Enemy
Wanna Be
#1 by Public Enemy at Aug 23, 2006 at 2:34 PM EST
thanks for the reply!
 
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mike
Wanna Be
#2 by mike daly at Feb 25, 2007 at 10:02 AM EST
See, I always saw this song as a metaphor for those relationships that never seem to end. We've all met this couple: they're together, they're broken up, they're together, they're broken up, repeat ad nauseum. The couple keeps having this huge blowout breakup that involves the giving back or destroyal of property, and the guy gives up on her, only to discover she wants to see him again, they get back together, and the cycle continues. This girl doesn't really like this guy (she destroys his stuff, is trying to kill him ("blew out your pilot light and made a wish" like DavidGrimmer said) and has even said so "she's not your satellite, she doesn't miss you" but for some reason, she keeps going back to him. The guy, on the other hand, is really an idiot for taking her back just so she can screw him over some more. But he likes her, to the point of glorifying her (the "smoke machine and Marshall's stack" reference implies he's making songs about her) so he takes her back, and she breaks his heart over and over. "Twisting in the wind" indeed. Worst part is, through all of it they're learning NOTHING. "There's not a lot of things that she'll take back" indicates she's said and done things she's never going to apologize for, so each time they start the relationship again, the problems from the last relationship bleed into the next.
 
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Cliff
Rhythm Player
#3 by Cliff Burton at Aug 2, 2007 at 4:17 AM EST
neat song, once you realize "twisting in the wind" is an expression for being hanged. Anyone know what they mean by "Marshall stack"?