Back And Forth

 Band: Dismemberment Plan 
 Song: Back and Forth 
 Album: Emergency & I 
  
 tab by Jackie Joyner 
  
 This song is but one riff repeated throughout the whole song. Occasionally 
 there's a keyboard sound or 2nd guitar playing flourishes but the 
 rhythm guitar stays the same. I'm not even gonna try and time the riff 
 to the lyrics, Travis' delivery is too erratic. 
  
 E|------------------------| 
 B|--------6---------------| 
 G|------5-5----------3----| 
 D|---5h7--7--------3-3----| 
 A|--------------3h5--5----| 
 E|------------------------| 
  
 To make it more interesting you can mix up the rhythm or which notes  
 of the riff you play like so: 
  
 E|------------------------| 
 B|--------8-6-------------| 
 G|------5-5----------5-3--| 
 D|---5h7--7--------3-3----| 
 A|--------------3h5--5----| 
 E|------------------------| 
  
  
 E|-------------------------| 
 B|--------6----------------| 
 G|------5--5--------33-33--| 
 D|---5h7-7--------3-33-33--| 
 A|--------------3h5---5--5-| 
 E|-------------------------| 
  
 Lyrics: 
  
 There’s a kind of music that reminds me of you 
 It’s all clear expensive drinks and shiny shirts 
 And the click of heels as they descend from the taxi 
 Like the first foot on the moon, oh, and it glows with ache 
 And if it hits me right it’s almost too much to take 
 And it’s got right angle razor thin lines 
 That turn and swerve like perfect sines 
 As we dress to the nines in an 
 Attempt to leave it all behind 
 In a search of the moment between the seconds where 
 Everything is just fine 
 That silver thread imbedded deep within our spines 
 And I used to be kind of weird about this 
 A fear of dependence on a guilty gilt-edged 
 Hedged transcendence that makes us lairs 
 And tense when we look down and realize 
 That nothing really suspends us 
 But it was never just another Saturday night 
 Not with you in attendance 
 So throw your hands in the air 
 And wave them like you just don’t care 
 It’s on a whim; it’s on a dare 
 To shrug away what we can’t bear 
 And we’re going back and forth 
 And back and forth and back and forth and back 
 We’re going back and forth 
 And back and forth and back and forth and back 
 And it’s a deep blue see-through membrane that protects us 
 It connects us, a pulsing cellophane 
 Party-train skein that helps us and 
 Envelopes and keeps us locked inside 
 Forever and ever along for the ride 
 And we’re moving through a phosphorescent gel 
 A semi-solid self-lit ocean and it’s a funny notion, isn’t it? 
 Yeah, but I’m kinda digging it 
 And it’s rigged and isn’t nearly so big 
 And it speaks only of its own 
 Perpetual near miss 
 Like the uncertain memory 
 Of a stranger’s mistaken kiss 
 And faces slide by in glowing shadows 
 Like snowbound ghosts that go up and down 
 In epileptic shivers and negative radioactive slivers 
 In a landscape of endless dull glitter 
 And a taste in my mouth so sweet, yet so bitter 
 And we exhaust ourselves trying to get there 
 Somebody scream—all right 
 We’ll try to fill the echo-less night 
 So fasten up and hold tight 
 We can’t give up without a fight 
 And we’re going back and forth 
 And back and forth and back and forth and back 
 We’re going back and forth 
 And back and forth and back and forth and back 
 So in the end, whatever, we die, we dissolve 
 Equations unbalanced, riddles unsolved 
 And we were never connected or involved 
 Except for the intersections and crazy mathematics 
 With no time and no space and no schedule and no place 
 And we pass right through it without a trace 
 And sometimes that music drifts through my car 
 On a spring night when anything is possible 
 And I close my eyes and I not my head 
 And I wonder how you been and I count to a hundred and ten 
 Because you’ll always be my hero, even if I never see you again