Artist: The Flaming Lips
Song: Fight Test
Album: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Transcribed by: J.P. Fowler
Tuning: EADGBe (standard)
This is another one of the more simple Flaming Lips
songs, it has a basic chord structure, and has a minor
feel a lot during the song. Here's the whole thing.
Chord chart for song:
E A C#m D F#m
e|-0----0----4----2----2--|
B|-0----2----5----3----2--|
G|-1----2----6----2----2--|
D|-2----2----6----3----4--|
A|-2----0----4----x----4--|
E|-0----x----x----x----2--|
Intro:
The test beings.....now!
A...C#m...D...E
A...F#m.......E ...to verse...
Verse I:
A C#m
I thought I was smart, I thought I was right
D E
I thought it better not to fight, I thought there
A F#m E A
was a virtue in always being cool. So it came time
C#m D E
to fight I thought I'll just step aside and at that
A F#m E A
time would proove you wrong, and that you would be the fool
Chorus I:
A C#m D E
I don't know where the sunbeams end and the starlight begins
A F#m E
it's all a mystery........
4/4.......
e|-------------|----------------|This is played throughout
B|-------------|----------------|the choruses by guitar 1
G|-------------|----------------|it has a hard phaser effect
D|-------------|----------------|on it, and is used to build
A|-0-2/4-2/4---|-0-2/4-2/4-2--2-|parts. Listen to the track
E|-----------5-|----------------|for timing of when to go into it.
Verse II:
A C#m D
Oh to fight is to defend if it's not now
E A F#m
then tell me when would be the time that you would stand up
E A C#m D
and be a man. For to lose I could accept but to surrender
E A F#m E A
I just wept and regretted this moment. Oh that I, I was the fool.
Chorus II:
A C#m D E
I don't know where the sunbeams end and the starlight begins
A F#m E A C#m
it's all a mystery........ And I don't know how a man decides
D E A F#m E
what's right for his own life, It's all a mystery..........
4/4......... ..and I dont know.. ..mystery..
e|-------------|----------------|------------|-----------|-------------|-------------|This is played with
B|-------------|----------------|------------|-----------|-------------|-------------|this chorus, listen
G|-------------|----------------|------------|-----------|-------------|-------------|to the track for timing
D|-------------|----------------|------------|-----------|-------------|-----------2-|of when to come in with it
A|-0-2/4-2/4---|-0-2/4-2/4-2--2-|------------|-2/4-2/4---|-2/4-2/4-2-2-|-2/4-2/4-----|
E|-----------5-|----------------|-5--4--2--0-|---------5-|-------------|---------0---|
Verse III:
A C#m D
'Cause I'm a man not a boy, and there are things
E A F#m
you can't avoid, you have to face them when your not
E A C#m
prepared to face them. If I could I would but you're
D E A
with them now it'd do no good, I should have fought him
F#m E A
but instead I let him... let him go
Chorus III:
A C#m D E
I don't know where the sunbeams end and the starlight begins
A F#m E A C#m
it's all a mystery........ And I don't know how a man decides
D E A F#m E
what's right for his own life, It's all a mystery..........
4/4......... ..and I dont know.. ..mystery..
e|-------------|----------------|------------|-----------|-------------|
B|-------------|----------------|------------|-----------|-------------|
G|-------------|----------------|------------|-----------|-------------|...to interlude...
D|-------------|----------------|------------|-----------|-------------|
A|-0-2/4-2/4---|-0-2/4-2/4-2--2-|------------|-2/4-2/4---|-2/4-2/4-2-2-|
E|-----------5-|----------------|-5--4--2--0-|---------5-|-------------|
Interlude:
D E D E
4/4.................
e|------------------------|-------|----------------|
B|------------------------|-------|----------------|Guitar 2 strums the
G|------------------------|-------|----------------|chords above the measures
D|-------------2-2-4/6--2-|-4-4-4-|-4-4-4/2-4/2--2-|while guitar 1 fingerpicks.
A|-5-5-7/9--5-------------|-------|----------------|
E|------------------------|-------|----------------|
Chorus IV:
A C#m D E
I don't know where the sunbeams end and the starlight begins
A F#m E A C#m
it's all a mystery........ 'Cause I don't know how a man decides
D E A F#m E
what's right for his own life, It's all a mystery..........
A C#m D E
I don't know where the sunbeams end and the starlight begins
A F#m E A
it's all a mystery........
(03:38)
4/4......... ..and I dont know.. ..mystery.. End on:
e|-------------|----------------|------------|-----------|-------------| |--5---|
B|-------------|----------------|------------|-----------|-------------| |--5---|
G|-------------|----------------|------------|-----------|-------------| |--6---|
D|-------------|----------------|------------|-----------|-------------| |--5---|
A|-0 2/4-2/4---|-0-2/4-2/4-2--2-|------------|-2/4-2/4---|-2/4-2/4-2-2-| |--5---|
E|-----------5-|----------------|-5--4--2--0-|---------5-|-------------| |--7---|
Song structure:
Intro
Verse I
Chorus I
Verse II
Chorus II
Verse III
Chorus III
Interlude
Chorus IV
