My Brain Hurts Tab by Screeching Weasel


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From: OpenFace@aol.com
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 02:55:35 -0400


"My Brain Hurts"
performed by Screeching Weasel
written by Ben Weasel
(C) 1991 Screeching Weasel
from the Lookout! Records release My Brain Hurts (LK 50 LP/CS/CD)
transcribed by Mike Ripplinger (openface@aol.com)

[Notes]
* pm = palm-muted

***
["My Brain Hurts"]

[ A / E / D ] x4 (with lead)

[Verse]
A (pm)                                            D
  Time gets wasted every day, I watch the minutes tick away
   F#               E                D
My brain is melting like a chocolate ice cream bar
     A (pm)                                  D
Like characters on TV these people look like maggots to me
F#           E                D
And I wonder what the hell is wrong with me

[ A / E / D ] x2 (with lead)

[Verse]
Milk-fed little beauty queen, she's straight out of a magazine
She sits beside me breathing different air than me
Perfect generation sees that I'm infected with disease
And everything just crumbles and there's nothing left

[Chorus]
     A
If I wanna do something right
        D
I gotta do it myself cause someone else will fuck it up
   A
It isn't all black and white
             E
And now it's time to stop and figure out reality
       A
No one knows what they're talking about
   D
If what they're talking don't make any sense to me
  A
I gotta figure it out
      E
Cause I don't want something to believe in

[Solo is played over these chords:]

[ A / F# / D / E ] x2
[ A / C# / D ] x4

[Repeat Chorus]

A    D               A               E             A
  My brain hurts, my brain hurts, my brain hurts today
     D               A               E             A
  My brain hurts, my brain hurts, my brain hurts today


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Lead
E----------------------------------|
B----------------------------------|
G------6-7-6-----------6-7-6-------|
D--7---------9-7-9-----------9-7-9-|
A------------------7---------------|
E----------------------------------|
and repeat

Outro lead
E---------------------------------|
B--10-----------------------------|
G------9-11-7--9-7-6--7-6-4--6-4--|
D---------------------------------|
A---------------------------------|
E---------------------------------|
and repeat

Solo
   A               F#                      D
E--9-------9-------12----------12----------11----------11-----------|
B----9---9---9---9----12----12----12----12----11----11----11----11--|
G------8-------8---------11----------11----------10----------10-----|
D-------------------------------------------------------------------|
A-------------------------------------------------------------------|
E-------------------------------------------------------------------|
   E               A               F#                      D
E--9-------9-------9-------9-------12----------12----------11-------|
B----9---9---9---9---9---9---9---9----12----12----12----12----11----|
G------8-------8-------8-------8---------11----------11----------10-|
D-------------------------------------------------------------------|
A-------------------------------------------------------------------|
E-------------------------------------------------------------------|
                  E               A       C#     D
E-----11----------9-------9-------9-------9--9---10---------10----10--|
B--11----11----11---9---9---9---9---9---9------9----10---10----10-----|
G-----------10--------8-------8-------8----------------9--------------|
D---------------------------------------------------------------------|
A---------------------------------------------------------------------|
E---------------------------------------------------------------------|
   A       C#        D                         A       C#
E--9-------9-----9---10---------10------10-----9-------9-----9----|
B----9---9---9-----9----10---10----10------10----9---9---9-----9--|
G------8-------8-----------9----------9------------8-------8------|
D-----------------------------------------------------------------|
A-----------------------------------------------------------------|
E-----------------------------------------------------------------|
  D                         A       C#        D
E-10---------10------10-----9-------9-----9---10---------10------10--|
B----10---10----10------10----9---9---9-----9----10---10----10-------|
G-------9----------9------------8-------8-----------9----------9-----|
D--------------------------------------------------------------------|
A--------------------------------------------------------------------|
E--------------------------------------------------------------------|
   A (of chorus)
E--9-------------|
B----------------|
G----------------|
D----------------|
A----------------|
E----------------|