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"What's Good"
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album _Until The End Of The World_
(Original Soundtrack, 1991)
written by Lou Reed
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Life's like a mayonnaise soda
and life's like space without room
And life's like bacon and ice cream
that's what life's like without you
Life's like forever becoming, but -
- life's forever dealing in hurt
Now life's like death without living
that's what life's like without you
Life's like Sanskrit read to a pony
I see you in my mind's eye strangling on your tongue
What good is knowing such devotion
I've been around, huh, I know what makes things run
What good is seeing eye chocolate
what good's a computerized nose
And what good was cancer in April
why no good, no good at all
What good's a war without killing
what good is rain that falls up
What good's a disease that won't hurt you
why no good, I guess, no good at all
What good are these thoughts that I'm thinking
It must be better, huh, not to be thinking at all
A styrofoam lover with emotions of concrete
no not much, not much at all
What good is life without living
what good's this lion that barks
You loved a life others throw away nightly
it's not fair, huh, not fair at all
What's good
oh baby, what's good
What's good
what's good, not much at all
Hey baby, what's good (what's good)
What's good (what's good)
what's good (what's good), not much at all
What's good (what's good)
what's good (life's good)
Life's good (life's good)
what's good (life's good), but not fair at all
opening * see tabs below
intro {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}
{D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}
{D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G} (Life's like a mayonnaise soda ...)
{D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G} (And life's like bacon and ice ...)
{D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G} (Life's like forever becoming ...)
{D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G} (Now life's like death without ...)
guitar {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}
{D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}
...
...
guitar {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}
{D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}
...
...
...
{D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G} (- good, oh, baby, what's good ...)
{D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G... (- good, what's good, not much at all)
drums ../x}
{D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G} (Hey, baby, what's good, What's ...)
{D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G} (- good (what's good), What's ...)
{D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G} (- good (what's good), What's ...)
{D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G} (- good (life's good), what's ...)
{D...
ending * see tabs below
* opening (similar to "Dorita" from the album _Magic And Loss_)
1e ------------------------------------------------------
2B --------------------------------------------2------x--
3G --4h5-5v---4----4h5-5-4---------------------2------x--
4D ------------------------5-4-5-4--4v---------2------x--
5A -------------------------------------5-4--0-0------x--
6E ------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------2------2-x--
------------------------------------------2-2--3------3-x--
--4h5-5v-5v---4h5-5-4---------------------2-2--2------2-x--
----------------------5-4-5-4-5b7r5-------2-2--0------0-x--
------------------------------------5-4-0-0-0--------------
-----------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------2-------2-x--
--4h5-5v-5v---4h5-5v--4-----------------------2-------2-x--
------------------------5-4-5b7r5-4-0---------2-------2-x--
--------------------------------------5v--4-0-0-------0-x--
-----------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------2----
-------------------------------------------2-------3----
--4h5-5v---4h5-5-4-------------------------2-------2---- ... fade out
-------------------5-4-5-4--5b7r5--4-------2-------0----
-------------------------------------5-4-0-0------------
--------------------------------------------------------
* riff
{D } {D / Em.D }{D } {Em / G }
1e --x-3-x-x-2--x-x--3-2---------x-3-x-x-2--2-2--0-0-0-3--3-3-3--
2B --x-3-x-x-3--x-x--3-3--0--3---x-3-x-x-3--3-3--0-0-0-0--0-0-0--
3G --x-2-x-x-2--x-x--2-2--0--2---x-2-x-x-2--2-2--0-0-0-0--0-0-0--
4D --x-0-x-x-0--x-x--0-0--2--0---x-0-x-x-0--0-0--2-2-2-0--0-0-0--
5A -----------------------2----------------------2-2-2-2--2-2-2--
6E ----------------------------------------------0-0-0-3--3-3-3--
* intro
{D }{D /Em. D}{D }{Em / G }
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--4--------------5--4--5--4---------------------
------------------------------5-----------------
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{D }{D /Em. D}{D }{Em / G }
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--2---2----------2/4---2--2---------------------
-------------------------------0----------------
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* ending (same as "Dorita" from the album _Magic And Loss_)
... fade in
1e --2....----------------
2B --3....----------------
3G --2....----------------
4D --0....----------------
5A -----------------------
6E -----------------------
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------------------------------------------------2------x--
--4h5-5v---4----4h5-5-4-------------------------2------x--
------------------------5-4-5-4--5b7r5--4-------2------x--
------------------------------------------5-4-0-0------x--
----------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------2----
-------------------------------------------------------------2-----3----
--4h5-5v-5v---4h5-5v-4-5-4--5b7r5--4-------------------------2-----2----
-------------------------------------5-4-5-4--5b7r5--4-------2-----0----
-------------------------------------------------------5-4-0-0----------
------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------2-------2-x--
--4h5-5v-5v-4h5-5v-5v---4-5b7r5--4-------------------------2-------2-x--
-----------------------------------5-4-5-4--5b7r5--4-------2-------2-x--
-----------------------------------------------------5-4-0-0-------0-x--
------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------2...-----2-x--
--------------------------------------------2-------2-x---3...-----3-x--
--4h5-5v---4h5-5v-4-------------------------2-------2-x---2...-----2-x--
--------------------5-4-5-4--5b7r5--4-------2-------2-x---0...-----0-x--
--------------------------------------5-4-0-0-------0-x-----------------
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*** please note ***
h - hammer on
p - pull off
b - bend string up
r - release bend
/ - slide up
\ - slide down
v - vibrato
^ - harmonics
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"What's Good - The Thesis"
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album _Magic And Loss_
(Lou Reed, 1992)
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Life's like a mayonnaise soda
and life's like space without room
And life's like bacon and ice cream
that's what life's like without you
Life's like forever becoming, but -
- life's forever dealing in hurt
Now life's like death without living
that's what life's like without you
Life's like Sanskrit read to a pony
I see you in my mind's eye strangling on your tongue
What good is knowing such devotion
I've been around, huh, I know what makes things run
What good is seeing eye chocolate
what good's a computerized nose
And what good was cancer in April
why no good, no good at all
What good's a war without killing
what good is rain that falls up
What good's a disease that won't hurt you
why no good, I guess, no good at all
What good are these thoughts that I'm thinking
It must be better, huh, not to be thinking at all
A styrofoam lover with emotions of concrete
no not much, not much at all
What good is life without living
what good's this lion that barks
You loved a life others throw away nightly
it's not fair, huh, not fair at all
What's good
oh baby, what's good
What's good
what's good, not much at all
Huh, hey baby, what's good (what's good)
What's good (what's good)
what's good (what's good), not much at all
What's good (what's good)
what's good (life's good)
Life's good (life's good)
what's good (life's good), but not fair at all
.x} drums
intro {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}
{D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}
{D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G} (Life's like a mayonnaise soda ...)
{D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G} (And life's like bacon and ice ...)
{D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G} (Life's like forever becoming ...)
{D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G} (Now life's like death without ...)
guitar {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}
{D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}
...
...
guitar {D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}
{D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G}
...
...
...
{D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G} (- good, oh, baby, what's good ...)
{D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G... (- good, what's good, not much at all)
drums ../x}
{D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G} (Hey baby, what's good, What's ...)
{D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G} (- good (what's good) What's ...)
{D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G} (- good (what's good), What's ...)
{D}{D/Em.D}{D}{Em/G} (- good (life's good), what's ...)
{D...
* riff
{D } {D / Em.D }{D } {Em / G }
1e --x-3-x-x-2--x-x--3-2---------x-3-x-x-2--2-2--0-0-0-3--3-3-3--
2B --x-3-x-x-3--x-x--3-3--0--3---x-3-x-x-3--3-3--0-0-0-0--0-0-0--
3G --x-2-x-x-2--x-x--2-2--0--2---x-2-x-x-2--2-2--0-0-0-0--0-0-0--
4D --x-0-x-x-0--x-x--0-0--2--0---x-0-x-x-0--0-0--2-2-2-0--0-0-0--
5A -----------------------2----------------------2-2-2-2--2-2-2--
6E ----------------------------------------------0-0-0-3--3-3-3--
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transcribed by Shiroh KOUCHI (wildside@mx21.tiki.ne.jp)
http://ww21.tiki.ne.jp/~wildside/
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