Band: System of a Down
Written By: Daron Malakian and Serj Tankian
Song: Needles!
Album: Toxicity (Sony/ATV Music Publishing)
Tuning(low-to-high): (down 1 full step-drop C) C G C F A D
Key: / = slide
h = hammer-on
p = pull-off
b = bend
r = release
* = pinch harmonic
( ) = ghost note
x = mute note
~ = vibrato
^ = let ring
PM^ = palm mute
# = stompbox on/off
Tab by: Keith Dillon guitarhero1@lycos.com
Intro:
|--4p3---4p3---4p3---4p3---4p3---4p3---4p3---4p3----|
|------3-----3-----3-----3-----3-----3-----3-----3--|
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PM^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
|--4p3---4p3---4p3--*4p3--*4p3--*4p3--*4p3--*4p3----|
|------3-----3-----3----*3----*3----*3----*3----*3--|
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PM^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
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||--5-6-(5)-6-(5)-6-(5)-6--5--6-(5)-6-(5)-6-(5)-6--||
PM^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
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PM^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
Verse:
1.I cannot disguise
2.I cannot deny
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all the stomach pains and the walking of the canes when
all the evil traits and the filling of the crates when
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|--5-------6-------5-------6-------5-------6-------5-------6-----5--|
|--5-------6-------5-------6-------5-------6-------5-------6-----5--|
you do come out and you
you (you) do come out (out) and you
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|--5-------6-------5-------6-------5-------6-------5-------6--------|
|--5-------6-------5-------6-------5-------6-------5-------6--------|
|--5-------6-------5-------6-------5-------6-------5-------6--------|
whisper up to me in your life of tragedy but
slither up to me in your pimpin' majesty but
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|--5-------6-------5-------6-------5-------6-------5-------6--------|
|--5-------6-------5-------6-------5-------6-------5-------6--------|
1.,2.I cannot grow 'til you
eat the last of me oh when will I be free and
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||---6p5p0---6p5p0---6p5p0---6p5p0---6p5p0---6p5p0---6p5p0---6p5p0-||
you a parasite just
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|--5-------6-------5-------6-------5-------6-------5-------6--------|
|--5-------6-------5-------6-------5-------6-------5-------6--------|
|--5-------6-------5-------6-------5-------6-------5-------6--------|
1.find another host just another stool to roast 'cuz
2.find another host just another stool to post 'cuz
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|--5-------6-------5-------6-------5-------6-------5-------6-------|| (end Verse)
|--5-------6-------5-------6-------5-------6-------5-------6-------||
|--5-------6-------5-------6-------5-------6-------5-------6-------||
Pre-Chorus:
YOU!
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||-5-----------------------1------------------------|
||-5-----------------------1------------------------|
||-5---------5/15---------1---------1/15----------|
my tapeworm tells me what to do
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|----6----61/--6----61/--6----61/--6----61/-----|
|----6----61/--6----61/--6----61/--6----61/-----|
|----6----61/--6----61/--6----61/--6----61/-----|
YOU!
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|--5-----------------------1------------------------|
|--5-----------------------1------------------------|
|--5---------5/15---------1---------1/15----------|
my tapeworm tells me where to go
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|----6----61/--6----61/--6----61/--6----61/----|| (end Pre-Chorus)
|----6----61/--6----61/--6----61/--6----61/----||
|----6----61/--6----61/--6----61/--6----61/----||
Chorus:
Pull the tapeworm out of your ass HEY!
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||-5----5---6---3----3---5---6----6-------5--------||
||-5----5---6---3----3---5---6----6---8---5---15--||
1.Pull the tapeworm out of your ass HEY!
2.Pull the tapeworm out of me (to interlude)
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|--5------------3------------6------------5--------|| (end Chorus)
|--5----5---6---3----3---5---6----6-------5--------||
|--5----5---6---3----3---5---6----6---8---5--------||
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|--5-6-(5)-6-(5)-6-(5)-6--5--6-(5)-6-(5)-6-(5)-6----|
|--5-6-(5)-6-(5)-6-(5)-6--5--6-(5)-6-(5)-6-(5)-6----|
PM^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
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|--6p5p0-6p5p0-6p5p0-6p5p0-6p5p0-6p5p0-6p5p0-6p5p0--|
PM^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
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Play Verse 2
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Play Pre-Chorus
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Play Chorus 2
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Interlude:
Bass (no guitar):
F|------------------------|-------------------------|
C|------------------------|-------------------------|
G|------------------------|-------------------------|
C|--6---61---1/5---5 ---|--/6---61---1/5---5 ---|
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|-------8h7--------8p0--------0-----------0---------|
|---5----------5-----------------4-----------0------|
|-------------------------6-----------6-------------|
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|------7p6--------7-0--------0------------0---------|
|--4----------4-----------------4------------4------|
|------------------------5------------5-------------|
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Interlude Verse
1.I'm sitting in my
2.man sitting in my
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room with a needle in my
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|------7p6--------7-0--------0------------0---------|
|--4----------4-----------------4------------4------|
|------------------------5------------5-------------|
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hand just waiting for the
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|-------8h7--------8p0--------0-----------0---------|
|---5----------5-----------------4-----------0------|
|-------------------------6-----------6-------------|
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tomb of some old dying
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|--4----------4-----------------4------------4-----|| (play Intelude Verse 2)
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MAN!
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|--5-6-(5)-6-(5)-6-(5)-6--5--6-(5)-6-(5)-6-(5)-6----|
|--5-6-(5)-6-(5)-6-(5)-6--5--6-(5)-6-(5)-6-(5)-6----|
PM^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
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|--5-6-(5)-6-(5)-6-(5)-6--5--6-(5)-6-(5)-6-(5)-6----|
|--5-6-(5)-6-(5)-6-(5)-6--5--6-(5)-6-(5)-6-(5)-6----|
PM^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
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|--6p5p0-6p5p0-6p5p0-6p5p0-6p5p0-6p5p0-6p5p0-6p5p0--|
PM^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
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|--------------------------6p5p0-6p5p0-6p5p0-6p5p0--|
|--6p5p0-6p5p0-6p5p0-6p5p0-6p5p0-6p5p0-6p5p0-6p5p0--|
PM^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
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Play Pre-Chorus
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Play Chorus
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Outro:
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||-5--5--6--6--8--8--6--6--5--5--3--3--6--6--5--5--||
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PM^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
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|--5-6-(5)-6-(5)-6-(5)-6--5--6-(5)-6-(5)-6-(5)-6----|
|--5-6-(5)-6-(5)-6-(5)-6--5--6-(5)-6-(5)-6-(5)-6----|
PM^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
PERFECT!
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|--5-6-(5)-6-(5)-6-(5)-6--5--6-(5)-6-(5)-6--5--6----|
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PM^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
