band: Iced Earth song: Melancholy (Holy Martyr) album: Something Wicked This Way Comes transcribed by: Spyros Soldatos http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Frontrow/8281/ notation: ^ = bend ^> = bend and release x = fret-hand muting . = pick-hand muting spm.= slight palm muting h = hammer-on p = pull-off ~ = vibrato t = tap-on / = slide up \ = slide down ah. = artificial harmonics nh. = natural harmonics (9) = ghost note " = trem picking Tuning: E=Eb A=Ab D=Db G=Gb B=Bb e=e Rh.Fig.1 (I think that the highest notes are doubled by a guitar playing 1 octave lower) Em D(no5) C 2x ||------7-----7-5-|-3-2------|-------2-3-0-|-------3-2----|| ||*---------------|----------|-------------|-----------3-*|| ||----------------|----------|-----0-------|-----0--------|| ||----5-----5-----|----------|---4---------|---2----------|| ||*-7-----7-------|----------|-5-----------|-3-----------*|| ||----------------|----------|-------------|--------------|| Verse 1 w/Rh.Fig.1 (4x) Em D(no5) C Make the sadness go away come back another Em D(no5) C day. For years I've tried to teach but their eyes are Em D(no5) C empty. Empty too I have become for them I must Em D(no5) C die. A sad and troubled race an ungrateful troubled place Rh.Fig.2 E5 D5 4x ||----------------------------|-----------------------------|| ||*---------------------------|----------------------------*|| ||--9-----9-------------------|-7-----7---------------------|| ||--9-----9-------------------|-7-----7---------------------|| ||*-7-7-7-7-------------------|-5-5-5-5--------------------*|| ||----------------------------|-----------------------------|| P.M. P.M. Chorus w/Rh.Fig.2 (4x) E5 D5 I see the sadness in their eyes melancholy in their E5 D5 cries. Devoid of all the passion the human spirit cannot E5 D5 die. Look at the pain around me this is what I E5 D5 cry for. Look at the pain around me this is what I die for Repeat Rh.Fig.1 Verse 2 w/Rh.Fig.1 (4x) Make the sadness go away come back another day The things I've said and done don't matter to anyone But still you push me to see something I can never be Why am I their shuttered king? I don't mean anything Chorus w/Rh.Fig.2 (4x) Rh.Fig.3/solo E5 D5 C5 2x ||-------------------------------------|-------------------------|| ||*------------------------------------|------------------------*|| ||--9-----9--9-----9--9-----9--9-----9-|-7-----7-----5-----5-----|| ||--9-----9--9-----9--9-----9--9-----9-|-7-----7-----5-----5-----|| ||*-7-7-7-7--7-7-7-7--7-7-7-7--7-7-7-7-|-5-5-5-5-----3-3-3-3----*|| ||-------------------------------------|-------------------------|| P.M. P.M. P.M. P.M. P.M. Chorus w/Rh.Fig.2 (till end)