------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Empyrean (2009) + Japanese CD Bonus Tracks by John Frusciante ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This tab contains chords for all songs off John Frusciante's 'The Empyrean' + 2 Bonus tracks off the Japanese issue of the album. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Before The Beginning ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuning: Standard Chords used: Em x79987 D/F# x9777x G x 10 12 12 12 x C/E x7555x Em - D/F# - G - C/E <== Play throughout the whole song. For full solo refer to this: http://www.invisible-movement.net/downloads/tabs/theempyrean/theempyrean_01_beforethebeginning_ tab_fruvai.txt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Song To The Siren ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuning: Standard Bb F Long afloat on shipless oceans Eb Gm I did all my best to smile Bb F 'Til your singing eyes and fingers Eb Gm Drew me loving to your isle Bb Ab Gm Bb And you sang "Sail to me, sail to me, let me unfold you" Gm Gm F Eb Gm Here I am, here I am, waiting to hold you Bb F Did I dream you dreamed about me Eb Gm Were you hare when I was fox Bb F Now my foolish boat is leaning Eb Gm Broken lovelorn on your rocks, Bb Ab Gm Bb For you sing, "Touch me not, touch me not, come back tomorrow Gm Gm F Eb Gm O my heart, O my heart shies from the sorrow" Bb F I am puzzled as the newborn child Eb Gm I am troubled at the tide Bb F Should I stand amid the breakers? Eb Gm Should I lie with Death my bride? Bb Ab Gm Bb Hear me sing, "Swim to me, Swim to me, Let me enfold you Gm Gm F Eb Gm Here I am, Here I am, Waiting to hold you" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unreachable ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuning: Standard C# Eb Are we Ab Eb Fm Down for the same cause Ab Eb Fm We don't know what we stand for Ab Eb Fm When the moments start to crack C# Eb Bb You do lose track where your head's at Ab Eb Fm And I am unreachable Ab Eb Fm What do you think when your head's full? Ab C# Fm We don't rely on what we get C# Eb Bb We begin now where we aren't yet Hey! Fm Ab x4 Fm Ab Eb Bb Fm Ab One time, hit me where I turn white Eb Bb I don't mean to be polite x2 Fm Ab Eb Bb Uniformed, spinning the world to the beat of my drum Fm Ab Eb Bb Uniformed Fm Ab Reach into the darkness for what you can find Eb Bb Travel great distance in your mind Fm Ab The world gets stronger as you start trying things Eb Bb Turn around towards being born away from dying Fm Ab I've run out again, there's no one on my side Eb Bb Where we to disappear, well, I know I tried Bb You know we tried, you know we tried C# Fm Eb Fm Heeeeeeey shoot me heeeeeeeey C# Ab Eb Fm C# Eb Bb Heeeeeeey shoot me shoot me shoot me yeah yeah hey yeah Fm Eb Aaaaah Fm Eb Fm Aaaaah ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- God ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuning: Standard C D Bb F So each day would be new I build you to sleep C D Bb F That’s the idea of dying but you’ll just have to see C D Bb F You can do what you want or so you think C D But till you stop all your thoughts Bb F You are tied to your surroundings Em Em G C x4 Em G C When the fog spreads out in the rainy season Em G C It comes from my insides Em G C When the thunderous lighting strikes down Em G C You’re seeing your real I Em G People C You blaspheme my name Em G C Em But still I love you Em G Still I love you C Em I love you just the same C G Am Em I hear all your prayers because I’m each one of you C G Creation's not something I did Am Em It’s something that I do C G Am Em The reason for the bad is so the there’d be such things as good C G Oh I’d do anything for you Am Em You all know I would C Be for me G Be for me Am Em Be for me C Before for me G Before for me Am Em Before for me C G Am Em You know that I try to repair and repay C G As life goes by a thousand times Am Em It gets a little better C G Am Em All is belief, All is belief B Yeah C G Am Em B All is belief, All is belief C D Em Yeeee ee eee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dark/Light ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuning: Standard Chords used: Bb x13331 Bbm x13321 Cm x35543 C# x46664 Eb x68886 Ebm x68876 Fm 133111 F7 131211 F# 244322 G 355433 G7 353433 Ab 466544 Bbm Fm Remember all you've forgotten F# C# Ab Bbm I can't put those thoughts away F# C# Ab Bbm Everything I've thought's in my head to stay Ebm Ab C# F# Now what do we get for trying to follow to a tee Ebm Ab C# F# F7 All the instructions you gave to me Bbm Fm Did you ever notice F# C# Ab Bbm That it's for you that I've lived my life F# C# Ab Bbm Every time I had fun you were on my mind Ebm Ab I've lost my perspective C# F# I've gone off the wall Ebm Ab C# F# F7 Really not sure if I'm needed here at all Bbm Hey Fm This is my last shot F# C# Ab Bbm I'll always be less that my other selves F# C# Ab Bbm So I feel like I'm competing with someone else Ebm Ab C# F# Who I could never beat in a million years Ebm Ab C# F# F7 I was made to think that we would wind up round here Eb Bb Cm Ab Will we ever get together in a song Eb Bb Cm Ab Will you ever tell everybody bout right and wrong Eb Bb Cm Ab Will you let everyone in on the meaning of life and death Eb Bb Cm Ab G7 Do you need me or are you waiting for my last breath Cm – Eb – Bb – Ab – G – G – G – G <== Repeat till the end. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Heaven ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuning: Standard Intro: Am Dm Am Well I spent the night in heaven Dm Am Dm Am Dm Bb C I wanted to figure it out for myself Dm Am I spin around the fortress Dm Am Dm Am Dm Bb C You never know the currency that we all run on Bb F Gm Dm We run on, we run on Dm Am You once told me Dm Am Dm Am Dm Bb C You keep a billion frequencies on your person Dm Am End the night with channel four Dm Am Dm Am Dm Bb C You don't see me looking you up when I'm here Bb F Gm Dm We live fast cuz time won't last Bb F Gm Dm See me freezing like the bum I am Dm Am Dm Am Dm Am Dm Bb C From where you start there's endless information drilled into your eyes Dm Am Well, I don't need protection Dm Am Dm One life begins, another dies Am Dm Bb C Bad timing Bb F I won't last Gm Dm Man, that's the facts Bb F Gm Dm It is a feeling that will never pass Eb Bb Cm Gm And you know you could be taking us far Eb Bb Cm Gm When I speak to you again through the stages of pleasure Bb F Gm Well, I don't have my own face Bb F Gm So c'mon and be replaced Bb F Gm There's a future that's calling Bb F Gm But I don't see it coming Bb F Gm No, I don't have my own face Bb F Gm So c'mon and be replaced Bb F Gm There's a future that's calling Bb F Gm But I don't see it coming Bb F Gm No, I don't see it coming Bb F Gm No, I don't see it coming ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enough Of Me ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuning: Standard D A G This precise time and right here Bm A G Are not going anywhere D A G I`ve had enough of new todays Bm A G For once I`d like to go another way Bm A G I speak my last words and then D A G remember it may never end D A G All that I`ve won I have lost D Em Bm A Em Each passing moment cuts me off Bm Em Bm A E Well, I don`t like to waste a chance but they`re overflowing Bm Em Bm A E What I don`t do will get done by somebody Bm Em Bm A E When I was five I saw some plants ungrowing Bm Em Bm A E Whether seen forwards or back they`d keep going Bm They`d keep going G D A Em If the seasons which change were all still G D A Em It`s so easy to see life would fail G D A Em Whatever slips out of our hands G D Em Bm Will find its way back to us once again Bm Yeeah G D A Em If the seasons which change were all still G D A Em It`s so easy to see life would fail G D A Em Whatever slips out of our hands G D Em Bm Will find its way back to us once again G D Em Bm Will find its way back to us once again G D Em Bm Will find its way back to us once again once again Solo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Central ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuning: Standard Am C F Dm Im central to nowhere thinking of sweeping it clean Am C F Dm When we choose to go were losing more than just our surroundings Am C F Dm I've gone around the sides of this universe as it stands Am C F Dm Outside the limits of all existence where light never ends F C Dm We should be grateful to the gods F C Dm Am F C Dm Whoever they're real to they are F C Dm I value my placement as in Hell F C Dm Am F C Dm Remember that moment that I fell Am C F Dm Anything that could one day be is as real as what I'm saying Am C F Dm If something is nothing it must not be something in any possible way Am C F Dm Lo - Lo - Lose yourself in far off worlds that are right under your feet Am C F Dm Switch below with above all the way up into infinity F C Dm We should be thankful who we are F C Dm Am F C Dm Whether we know ourselves or not F C Dm Walking alongside myself F C Dm Am F C Dm Neither of us listens very well Am – Am – G – F x4 Dm – Dm – Dm - Dm Am G F I'm dreading a time that is not near Am G F As a man on a cross I have no fear Am G F I can't believe these words I'm saying Dm You gotta feel your lines You gotta feel your lines Repeat as many times as necessary. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One More Of Me ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuning: Standard Chords used: D xx0232 A x02220 G 355433 Bm x24432 Em 022000 D A G Now that the day has come Bm A G I see myself as everyone D A G I am what’s all around me Bm A G No, nothing it just cannot be Bm A G Feeling has come from the sun D A G Like most everything and everyone D A G D What seems lost is free from the force that slowly destroys us Em Bm A Em And kills all matter off Bm Em Bm A Em Bm Well, we don’t control the chance that plays with us Em Bm A Em Bm And we get existence back to hurting others Em Bm A Em Bm And when we go the other way it’s ourselves we hurt Em Bm A Em But who pushes on though eventually will see A Em Every moment’s first Bm Every moment is first G D A Em What’s gone will never come back G D A Em But it exists when you think of it G D A Em And what is anything, anyway G D Em Bm But a series of things running through your brain G D A Em All of the fucked things you do G D A Em Are the product of whats happened to you G D A Em Whatever you create from love G D Em Bm Is a gift from the place which some call above G D Em Bm There’s only the forces of hate and love G D Em Bm One breaks things down and one builds them up. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After The Ending ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuning: Standard F#m D A D Pain runs through life F#m D A D Pleasures’ other side F#m D A D Fear, some say, gives us such long lives F#m D A D Leads us where we drive F#m E D Time will soon be born F#m E D A Bm F#m It is starting all the dawn D A Bm F#m And the world is moving towards D A Bm F#m Things like opposites and wars D A Bm F#m And one knows to hear birds sing D A Bm Bm There was nothing till the beginning Yeesss D A Bm F#m And the water from my eyes D A Bm F#m Is because I care who dies D A Bm F#m Although death is transforming D A Bm There is nothing after the ending Everything is eternal Nothingness does not exist No thing has ever become nothing And nothing has never become something What is has always been and will always be =============================================================================== Japanese CD Bonus Tracks =============================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuning: Standard All chords are power chords. Bb5 Ab5 F5 Today will not be happening Ab5 Bb5 Ab5 F5 Ab5 Bb5 C#5 Eb5 Bb5 We've come too far away from being to be at all A ha C#5 Eb5 Bb5 x2 Ab5 Bb5 F5 C#5 Eb5 Bb5 We're putting the law back in your hands C#5 Eb5 Bb5 x2 Ab5 Bb5 F5 x3 Today we're setting our sights for a new land F5 Eb5 Bb5 F#5 C#5 Bb5 Lean into me cuz there's no signs on the vehicle Eb5 Bb5 F#5 C#5 Bb5 Look out and see cuz the city has no people Eb5 Bb5 F#5 C#5 Bb5 They don't know who you are but they know who you will be Eb5 Bb5 F#5 C#5 Bb5 Monsters of all colors and we're all distorted energy F#5 C#5 Bb5 F#5 C#5 Eb5 Bb5 Ab5 F5 Pain looks on up at me Ab5 Bb5 And when I am beat Ab5 Bb5 Ab5 Bb5 C#5 Eb5 Bb5 From the backseat I'll crash my car C#5 Eb5 Bb5 x2 Ab5 Bb5 F5 C#5 Eb5 Bb5 Incensed I feel like a fool when I'm feeling C#5 Eb5 Bb5 x2 Ab5 Bb5 F5 x2 C#5 Eb5 Bb5 Right off this blossoming hurts like I'm peeling C#5 Eb5 Bb5 x2 Ab5 Bb5 F5 C#5 Eb5 Bb5 Oh God I can't be found when I'm dreaming C#5 Eb5 Bb5 x2 Ab5 Bb5 F5 x3 Words hard I'm into the sound of their meaning Eb5 Bb5 F#5 C#5 Bb5 I am divorced from the image I've created Eb5 Bb5 F#5 C#5 Bb5 So many nights and days that are separate from the ages Eb5 Bb5 F#5 C#5 Bb5 Thank you for the lessons that I learned while John was sleeping Eb5 Bb5 F#5 C#5 Bb5 Whoever it seemed the creator did the teaching F#5 C#5 Bb5 F#5 C#5 Eb5 F#5 C#5 Bb5 F#5 C#5 Eb5 The creator did the teaching F#5 C#5 Bb5 F#5 C#5 Eb5 F#5 C#5 Bb5 F#5 C#5 Eb5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ah Yom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuning: Standard Bb F Cm I've got a million to choose from Bb F Cm A million ways things could be Bb F Cm In dull moments I feel like Bb F Cm Gm G There's a million options I see Eb Bb F Cm The trouble is choosing one Eb Bb F Cm The trouble is doing one Bb F Cm A slave in the fields one night Bb F Cm He's running along Bb F Cm Gets far enough to be a free man Bb F Cm Gm G And he's feeling so strong Eb Bb F That's how actions should be Cm Freeing Cm Eb Bb F Cm Bb F - Cm Step after step is our only choice in a walk Cm Eb Bb F Cm Bb F - Cm When we run at the mouth we jump back and forth Bb F Cm There's only one place I'm going Bb F Cm There's only one destiny Bb F Cm And if my mind tells me otherwise Bb F Cm Gm G Then it's a poor guide for me Eb Bb F Cm All of the energy in life Cm Eb Bb F Cm Bb F - Cm Is nothing more than a spark in a fire Cm Eb Bb F Cm Bb F - Cm The whole course of time is the blink of an eye Eb Bb Rain in the slums F Cm Ah Yom Eb Bb Into the cards F Cm Gm Aum Yaum Eb Bb Rain in the slums F Cm Aum Yaum Eb Bb F Cm Into another world Cm Gm G Aum Yaum Eb Bb Rain in the slums F Cm Ah Yom Eb Bb Into the cards F Cm Gm Aum Yaum Eb Bb Rain in the slums F Cm Aum Yaum Eb Bb F Cm Into another world Cm Gm Aum Yaum ===============================================================================
