Artist: John Frusciante
Song: The past recedes
Album: Curtains
Date: 6 July 2005, 2:00AM


A GREAT song! I just love it! Can't get enough of it! Enjoy playing!

Tabbed by Knut Zetterstr?m


G D Am Em (play this 3 times)
 
 G D Am
 
 G (320003@1)D (xx0232@1)AmEm    
And then the past recedes
G D Am Em
And I won't be involved
G D Am Em
The effort to be free
G D Am Em
Seems pointless from above
G D Am Em
Yor're looking down at' me
G D Am Em
I'd rather stay below
G D Am Em
Than have you staring up at me
GD                      Am (x02210@1) BTheres (x2444x@1)nowhere I want to goooooooo
 
C (x32010@1)      D7 (xx0212@1)            Em (022000@1)           DAy, (xx0232@1)this business of how long we try to stay alive
C (x32010@1)    D7 (xx0212@1)                 Em (022000@1)Why to be here you've first got to die
DSo (xx0232@1)I gave it a try
    C (x32010@1)         G (320003@1)
And what do you know
            Am (x02210@1)    D7Time (xx0212@1)was so long ago
 
G D Am Em
And thinks come back you see
G D Am Em
To where they don't belong
G D Am Em
And every drop of sea 
GD                     Am (x02210@1) BIs (x2444x@1)the whole ocean      oooooooohhh 
 
  C (x32010@1)         D7I (xx0212@1)lied to the greatest thieves
      Em (022000@1)         D (xx0232@1) 
About anything and everything
C (x32010@1)   D7 (xx0212@1)         EmI'm (022000@1)a figure of forgotten speech
DI'm (xx0232@1)our of reach 
C (x32010@1)             G (320003@1)I can't play it safe
            Am (x02210@1)        D7 (xx0212@1)But I might just in case
 
  [Here John plays a solo:) ] 
 
 C (x32010@1)  D7 (xx0212@1)          EmI'm (022000@1)disguised as a reaching hand
DI'm (xx0232@1)working man
  C (x32010@1)       D7 (xx0212@1)I dont understand why clockout
Em (022000@1)          DComes (xx0232@1)so slow every time
       C (x32010@1)        G (320003@1)          AmThat's (x02210@1)one line I stay right behind
       C (x32010@1)        G (320003@1)          Am (x02210@1)  BThat's (x2444x@1)one line I stay right behind
 
G D Am Em (3 times)
 
GD AmB  G (320003@1)