This has weird tuning C# F# C# F# Bb d but if you're like me and cannot tune
a guitar very well then tune to open D i.e DGDGBd.
The chord fingerings are based on normal tuning i.e EADGBe.
Chords used:
Em7: X00000
F#m7/4: X44200
Bmadd9: X24430
B5: X244XX
C/D: X5555X X555XX with palm muting when James plays it live
Bm?: X9977X
F#7:2423XX
D: X57775
D/E: X7777X
Dsus4/E: X7778X
Em: X7997X
Csus4/D: X5556X
Dm: X5776X
All chords in the verses are played by raking the chord upwards (i.e. by playing
the d string then the B string then the G string and so on) unless indicated by a ( )
REMEMBER IF YOU WANT TO PLAY THE TUNE PROPERLY TUNE GUITAR DOWN ANOTHER HALF STEP
Riff 1
d||--------------|
B||----0-1-0-----|
G||---0------0---|
D||--0--------0--|
G||-0----------0-|
D||--------------|
Riff 2
d||------------|
B||----2-3-2---|
G||---2-----2--|
D||--4-------4-|
G||-4----------|
D||------------|
Riff 3
d||-------------|
B||-----7-8-7---|
G||---7------7--|
D||--9--------9-|
G||-9-----------|
D||-------------|
Riff 4
d||-------------------|
B||-5--6--5--6--6--6--|
G||-5--5--5--5--7--5--|
D||-5--5--5--5--7--5--|
G||-5--5--5--5--5--5--|
D||-------------------|
Riff 5
d||---------------|
B||---------------|
G||-9-9\--7\--5\--|
D||---------------|
G||-9-9\--7\--5\--|
D||---------------|
[INTRO]
The sitar plays 2 bars then James harmonizes it with riff 1 before playing the Em7 chord
[VERSE 1]
Em7
For you my dear sister
F#m7/4
Holding onto me forever
Bm?
Disco dancing with the rapists
D
Your only crime is silence
(Riff 1)
Can't work at this anymore
(Riff 2)
Can't move i want to stay at home
(Riff 3)
Tied up to all these crutches
(C/D)
Never far from you're hands
[CHORUS]
D/E Dus4/E
Tsunami, tsunami
D/E Dus4/E C/D Csus4/D
Came washing over me Riff 4
D/E Dus4/E
Tsunami, tsunami
D/E Dus4/E C/D Csus4/D
Came washing over me
F#m7/4 B5 Bmadd9
Can't speak, can't think won't talk, won't walk
Em7
[VERSE 2] (same as verse 1)
Doctors tells me that i'm cynical
I tell them that it must be chemical
So what am i doing girl
Crying to my drink i disappear
Eyes for teeth grating over me
Bring down the shadows of my mind
Sleep and breathe under out sheets
Inhale the anxiety in-between,-in between,-in between
[CHORUS]
D/E Dsus4/E
Tsunami, tsunami
D/E Dsus4/E C/D Csus4/D
Came washing over me Riff4
D/E Dsus4/E
Tsunami, tsunami
D/E Dsus4/E C/D Csus4/D
Came washing over me
D/E Dsus4/E
Tsunami, tsunami
D/E Dsus4/E C/D Csus4/D
Came washing over me
D/E Dsus4/E
Tsunami, tsunami
D/E Dsus4/E C/D Csus4/D
Came washing over me
(F#m7/4) B5 Bmadd9
Through September under the weather
[BRIDGE]
Em7 F#m7/4 Bm? C/D
[CHORUS]
D/E Dsus4/E
Tsunami, tsunami
D/E Dsus4/E C/D Csus4/D Riff 5
Came washing over me
D/E Dsus4/E
Tsunami, tsunami
D/E Dsus4/E C/D Csus4/D
Came washing over me
D/E Dsus4/E
Tsunami, tsunami
D/E Dsus4/E C/D Csus4/D
Came washing over me Riff 5
D/E Dsus4/E
Tsunami, tsunami
D/E Dsus4/E C/D Csus4/D
Came washing over me
(F#m7/4) B5 Bm
Take the GIs out i will have the spies