Blindfold

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 Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 18:16:38 -0600 
 From: "Hughes, Mike"  
  
   
 Subject: TAB: "Blindfold" by Red House Painters 
  
 BLINDFOLD 
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 RED HOUSE PAINTERS 
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 album III 
 written by MARK KOZELEK 
 transcription by michael hughes 11/97 hughesme@bergelect.com 
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 DADFA#D tuning 
 3/4 time 
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 D----1-----------| 
 A#-----------0---| 
 F--------2-------| 
 D----------------| 
 A----3-----------| 
 D----------------| 
 (intro 4x) 
  
  
 D----1-----------|--------------|--------------|--------------| 
 A#-----------0---|--------------|--------------|--------------| 
 F--------2-------|----------0---|----------0---|----------0---| 
 D----------------|------0-------|------1-------|------3-------| 
 A----3-----------|--------------|--------------|--------------| 
 D----------------|--0-----------|--1-----------|--3-----------| 
     "blood-ridden hands" type stuff 
  
  
 D----------------|--0-----------| 
 A#---------------|------0-------| 
 F------------0---|----------0---| 
 D--------1-------|--------------| 
 A----------------|--------------| 
 D----1-----------|--0-----------| 
 (turn-around 2x) 
  
  
 D----------------|--0-----------|--------------| 
 A#---------------|----------0---|----------0---| 
 F------------0---|------------0-|------------0-| 
 D--------3-------|------3-------|------1-------| 
 A----------------|--------------|--------------| 
 D----3-----------|--0-----------|--1-----------| 
     "poor lost soul" type stuff 
  
  
 D------------0---|----------0---|--------------| 
 A#---------0-----|--------0---0-|--------------| 
 F--------4-------|------0-------|--------------| 
 D------5-------5-|----3---------|--5-----------| 
 A----------------|--------------|--------------| 
 D----5-----------|--3-----------|--5-----------| 
 (plus this repeating turn-around) (then) 
  
  
 AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. . . 
  
 THE ELECTRIC RIFF: 
 barre      V-----  III------------| 
 D------------5---|--3-------------| 
 A#---------------|------4---4-----| 
 F------------7---|--5---5---5-----| 
 D----------5-----|----------3-----| 
 A------6/7-------|----------------| 
 D----------------|----------------| 
  
 THE FOLLOWING MOVABLE CHORD FORMS (THE ROOT IS IN THE BASS) 
 CAN BE USED ALONG WITH THE ABOVE RIFF FOR THE REST OF THE SONG 
  
 +-+-+-+-+-+        +-+-+-+-+-+ 
 | | | | | |        | | | | | | 
 O O O | | |        | | O O O | 
 | | | | | |        | | | | | | 
 +-+-+-+-+-+        +-+-+-+-+-+ 
 | | | | | |        | | | | | | 
 | | | O | |        | O | | | | 
 | | | | | |        | | | | | | 
 +-+-+-+-+-+        +-+-+-+-+-+ 
  
  
 A#             D#         F       D# 
 what possessed you not to include me 
 A#           D#        F      D# 
 how have you failed to invite me 
 A#            D#             F       D# 
 how could you laugh with her in that theatre 
 A#                  C     C# 
 when you're off and i'm alone 
 A#                  C     F#    F      D# 
 when you're off and i'm alone, alone, alone 
  
 THE END INSANITY IS REPEATING A# C C# PATTERN 
 THE FINAL 3 CHORDS ARE F# F D# 
  
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 blood ridden hands are the first things 
 to come through the bed 
 when all the pain in your life 
 comes to a head 
 poor lost soul 
 with no place to go 
 wait until winter 
 and you'll know 
 three years fold through your lies untold 
 innocence undoes her blindfold 
  
 who else's hands have touched 
 who i best understand 
 held close the neck and waist 
 of my adult orphan 
 this summer ends 
 the evenings we spent 
 life under china dinner din 
 wishes best to mystery address 
 i found deep in your occult key chest 
  
 on my suicide cloud 
 left me in the pit of my morning pout 
 an emptiness throughout 
 this scarred and sullied soul you threw out 
 what possessed you not to include me 
 how have you failed to invite me 
 how could you laugh with her in that theatre 
 when you're off and i'm alone