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------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RENT - RENT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tabbed by: FinkiusMaximus Email: dfinkelstein@sjs.org Tuning: Standard Main/Intro Riff Part A Part B e|-2-3-2---2-3-2---3---2-3---------3---2-3-----------------------------------| B|-------1-------1---1-----------1---1---------------------------------------| G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| Chord Progression for this part: Eb5 F5 C5 / Intro: Play Part A 4x, then Part B once Chord Progression goes 4x, then remain on C5 for the Part B tag Verse (Mark): C5 How do you document real life when real life's getting more like D5 Fiction each day C5 Head lines bread lines blow my mind and now this deadline e- D5 E5 viction or pay Gm Gm#5 Gm6 Gm#5 (tabbed below) Rent! Technically the chord is Gm#5, though it's essentially equivalent to Cm7 e|-3---3---3---3-------------------------------------------------------------| B|-3---4---5---3-------------------------------------------------------------| G|-3---3---3---3-------------------------------------------------------------| D|-5---5---5---5-------------------------------------------------------------| A|-5---3---5---5-------------------------------------------------------------| E|-3---3---3---3-------------------------------------------------------------| Verse 2 (Roger): C5 How do you write a song when the chords sound wrong though they once sounded D5 Right and rare? C5 But the notes are sour, where is the power you once had to ig- D5 nite the air? (Mark): F We're hungry and frozen (Roger): C Some life that we've chosen! [Chorus] Gm Gm#5 Gm6 Gm#5 How we gonna pay? How we gonna pay? How we gonna pay Eb F C Last year's rent? [Intro riff here] Verse 3 (Roger): C5 How do you start a fire when there's nothing to burn and it feels like something's D5 Stuck in your flue? (Mark): C5 How can you generate heat when you can't feel your feet, they're D5 E5 Turning blue? (Roger): F You light up a mean blaze (Mark): C with posters (Roger): and screenplays! Repeat chorus, then this solo thing once: e|-8-7-5-7-8-7-5-------------------------------------------------------------| B|---------------8----8-10-8-6-6-10-8----------------------------------------| G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| Verse 4 (Collins): C5 How do you stay on your feet when on every street it's trick or treat and to- D5 night it's trick? C5 Welcome back to town, oh, I should lie down, everything's brown and D5 E5 Oh, I feel sick (Mark): F Where is he? (Collins): C Gettin dizzy... Chorus (Mark): Am Em7 C Am G The music ignites tonight with passionate fire (Roger): Am Em7 C Am G The narration crackles and pops with incendiary wit. (Mark): Am Em7 C Am Zoom in as they burn the past to the ground and I'm feeling the heat G Of the future's glow (Together): D How do you leave the past behind when it keeps finding ways to E Get to your heart? D E F# It reaches way down deep and tears you inside out 'til you're torn apart (Rent!) D How can you connect in an age where strangers, landlords, lovers, your own E blood cells betray? D What binds the fabric together when the ragins shifting winds of change keep E F# Ripping away? (Benny): G D Draw a line in the sand and then make a stand. (Roger): G Use your camera to spar (Mark): D Use your guitar. (Together): G D When they act tough you call their bluff. Am Am#5 Am6 Am#5 (same shape as the previously tabbed chords, two frets up) We're not gonna pay We're not gonna pay We're not gonna pay F G D last year's rent this year's rent next year's rent rent rent rent rent rent We're not gonna pay rent 'cause Bb C D ev'rything is rent! | / slide up | \ slide down | h hammer-on | p pull-off | ~ vibrato | + harmonic | x Mute note ===============================================================================
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