• Song:

    Race For The Prize

  • Artist:

    Flaming Lips

  • Album:

    The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips
"race for the prize"

here are the chords used:

  Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)  Em7    F/C (133211@1) Cmaj7 (x32000@1)  G (320003@1)    
     C (x32010@1)e---0-------x------x------x------3------1------0-|
B---1-------3------1------0------3------1------1-|
G---2-------0------2------0------0------2------0-|
D---3-------0------3------2------0------3------2-|
A---3-------2------3------3------2------3------3-|
E---x------(0)-----x------x------3------1------x-|

N.B it's important to dampen the strings not being used in the intro to really emphasise the
walking down bass pattern of E D C B (the E in Fmaj7, the D in Em7, the C in C/F and the
B in Cmaj7) so keep the chords really tight and it'll sound great. The open E string on the
Em7 chord is optional, but i think it makes the chord sound "dirty".

INTRO

this is the keyboard part arranged for guitar with added chords for your strumming pleasure:

  Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)            Em7                   C/F (x4111x@5)              Cmaj7e--0------3-3-0-5--3-----------3-3-0-5--3---------3-3-0-5--3-----------------| (x32000@1)B--1------------------3--------------------1------------------0-------1--3---|
G---------------------0--------------------2------------------0-------2--4---|
D----------------------------------------------------------------------------|  X2
A----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E----------------------------------------------------------------------------|

  Ge-0-------| (320003@1)B------3--|
G---------|
D---------|
A---------|
E---------|


C (x32010@1)                 FTwo (133211@1)scientists were racing

        G (320003@1)            CFor (x32010@1)the good of all mankind

            FBoth (133211@1)of the side by side

C (x32010@1)             GSo (320003@1)Determined

C (x32010@1)              FLocked (133211@1)in heated battle

        G (320003@1)                CFor (x32010@1)the cure that is their prize

            FBut (133211@1)it's so dangerous

    CBut (x32010@1)they're determined


Fmaj7
Theirs is to win

Em7
If it kills them

Fmaj7
They're just humans
     GWith (320003@1)wives and children


REPEAT INTRO

C (x32010@1)            FUpwards (133211@1)to the vanguard

          G (320003@1)             CWhere (x32010@1)the pressure is too high

          FUnder (133211@1)the microscope

C (x32010@1)                  GHope (320003@1)against hope


C (x32010@1)             FForging (133211@1)for the future

       G (320003@1)              CBut (x32010@1)to sarcrifice their lives

             FBoth (133211@1)of them side by side

CSo (x32010@1)determined

Fmaj7
Theirs is to win

Em7
If it kills them

Fmaj7
They're just humans

     GWith (320003@1)wives and children

REPEAT INTRO

Fmaj7
Theirs is to win

Em7
It will kill them

Fmaj7
They're just humans

     GWith (320003@1)wives and children

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