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Main Riff
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A 8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-10-10-10-10-7-7-7-7---12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-14-14-14-14-15-15-15-15--------------------
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Chorus
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A 8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-10-10-10-10-7-7-7-7---12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-14-14-14-14-15-15-15-15---------------------------
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Other Verse
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E 1-------1/5---3---8-------7-------5-------3-------1-------0 (let ring)
Bridge
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E 1111----1111----5555----5555
Ending Chorus
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E 51-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-3-3-3-3-3/5-51-1-1-1-1-1-1-7-7-7--5-5-5
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D ------------------------------------------------------------
A ------------------------------------------------------------
E 51-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-3-3-3-3-3/5-51-1-1-1-1-1-1-7-7-7--5-5-5
Note: this is another way you can play the main riff depending on how your basses tone
and equalizer are set up
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D-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-5-5-5-5-2-2-2-2-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-9-9-9-9-10-10-10-10
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Taken from The BassMasta -- http://www.bassmasta.net
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Ben Average |
#1 by Ben Braz at Apr 1, 1981 at 1:54 PM EST |
| This song is amazing!! Thursday has to be the best band out there right now and they are making great music. I love... standing on the edge of the Palisades' Cliffs in the shadow the skyline it seemed very far away like a lightning rod that couldn't pull the storm from me its awesome how you can hardly hear him, but you feel his emotion THURSDAY IS REALLY REALLY RAD! | |
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CHAD Wanna Be |
#2 by CHAD at May 19, 1987 at 12:13 AM EST |
| this song is about how war creates so much death. his best friend's brother was killed somehow, and it affected their lives forever. it's so personal to them, and war brings death everywhere, all the time. great song. | |
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Kev Rhythm Player |
#3 by Kev at Mar 30, 1992 at 4:21 AM EST |
| The saddest, and best line in the song is "so wave to those people who long to wave back from the fabric of a flag that sang, 'Love all of the time.' " It really ties the whole song together, points out the irony of all war, political or emotional, and points out how in both situations or actions effect those who went before us, are with us now, and those who will come after us. This song is about so many things and my personal theory is the greater variety of insightful interperitations that can be got out of a song, the better. this song is a beautiful piece of art. | |
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jake Average |
#4 by jake loewen at Oct 24, 1994 at 1:18 PM EST |
| yeah... The shadow of a new york skyline is in New Jersey where they grew up, and the war is just the toil of growing up. I did a project on Thursday and they talk about how Ian Curis, and also Geoff's friend killed themselves', and how a kid from close by fell off a cliff, and his friends responded by killing them selves, and people dying in car crashes and how all of that just scars your childhood. I could really relate with this, because when I was in 8th grade the first friend I knew died... and from there on it seems like evry few mothes. It really is reality, and "War all of the time" just with human emotions, and fate. | |
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one Average |
#5 by one life at Mar 19, 1996 at 7:18 PM EST |
| i love this song. i love thursdays lyrics! i love thursday! i saw them live with thrice and coheed and cambria..it was awesome. all bands did very good. this song i think has many meanings as most thursday songs do.. but punkrockntuna pretty much summed it up. | |
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Nick Average |
#6 by Nick Roomsburg at Apr 11, 1998 at 10:53 PM EST |
| It definitely seems to allude to September 11th and the war. It seems at first like a protest, but really I think its just talking about the situation in general and how depressing it is. War all the time, of one type or another. Good shit. | |
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Chris Average |
#7 by Chris Young at May 10, 1998 at 7:41 PM EST |
| This is one of my new favorite songs, the best part of it is the very start, it's just the singers voice that has a quality to it that draws me into it. | |
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Steve Average |
#8 by Steve at Feb 26, 1999 at 12:25 PM EST |
| i agree with SMcCann7 about the beauty of so many interpretations of a song. i like commenting on songs like this where people arent arguing over what it means, just accepting it as is. | |
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silent Rhythm Player |
#9 by silent support at Apr 7, 2006 at 2:30 AM EST |
| I think that it does have some of 9/11 in there, along with the memories of his friends. I think the overall message is "gone but not forgotten" * * * , both for his friends and the people who died in the attacks. If it didn't have anything to do with the 9/11-war deal, he wouldn't have written "nightmares on TVs", "burn on an on like an oil field", "used to be very tall building", "now we're falling apart", "when the pieces fall", and "the fires in our streets." I mean, maybe one of those could be a coincidence, but more than five? And if he was only talking about his friends who he lost, then why would he write about "War all the time" and "Ashes of American flags"? Thats about a country, and isn't unintentional. It's because 9/11 and his friends' suicides are both instances that happened to innocent people who had so much to live for, and both events struck close to home, making it so much more personal. Geoff linked these together because they were each a great loss, and by writing about them he could put his jumbled confused thoughts into words, a memorial to them. * * *( i don't want to seem like one of those guys who wear "these colors don't run", "and freedom isn't free" t-shirts but that saying just seemed right in this case) | |
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Gilbert Average |
#10 by Gilbert Fontana at May 10, 2006 at 10:29 PM EST |
| Punkntune nice job. You let me view this in a whole different way. It seems also that alot of geoffs songs on WATT propose double meanings for how the human emotions work, and not as political as it seems. Or maybe he just lays down some great doublemeanings..... | |
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Scott n00b! |
#11 by Scott Moon at May 16, 2006 at 7:19 PM EST |
| Great tab! 5/5 | |
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Jonathan Rhythm Player |
#12 by Jonathan Matuszyk at Jul 7, 2006 at 10:00 PM EST |
| The shadow of a New York Skyline is New Jersey... no sept. 11th allusion, well, none intentional. | |
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This is between Wanna Be |
#13 by This is between me and this blade, and my heart Taylor at Sep 13, 2006 at 3:28 AM EST |
| this song means alot to me cause i have a couple of friends who have died in the last 3 months and they based their sucides on this song and it just hurt me to listen to it. it makes me think that sucide doesn't solve anything only hurts the people around you and i disagree with anything that ahs to do with... | |
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John Average |
#14 by John at Jan 10, 2007 at 4:15 AM EST |
| war all of the time in the shadow of the New York skyline. we grew up too fast now we're falling apart like the ashes of American flags. burn em if you got 'em. | |
