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R.E.M. - LEAVE
 
From: Randy Simmons (s003rws@paladin.wright.edu)
 
 
This is obviously an electric guitar song.  So it is really
neat to play if you have an amp with good overdrive.  It
sounds better if you have a guitar with a pickup selector
switch like a Rickenbacker or a Les Paul, but that is just
for more flair and perfection.
 
Cool trick:
If you have a fairly good CD player, hit the pause button
(which should put the player in standby/play mode) then go
to track 6.  Now you should have an INDEX button on your
remote, hit Index to number 2 (usually it is a smaller number
on the digital display right next to the track number).  The
CD will automatically skip over the 1:01 min interlude/intro
on the acoustic guitar and right to the actual "beginning"
of the song!!!  Pretty cool!!  I assume this was done to
accommodate Radio DJ's who want not such a long song...
Now go check all of your other CDs to see who else did this!!
 
Amp Setting:
MEDIUM OVERDRIVE, MEDIUM GAIN, MEDIUM REVERB, MEDIUM CHORUS
 
 
* CAPO ON 1st FRET TO PLAY WITH THE ALBUM!!!
 
 
Guitar Riff:
             (put pickup selector switch in middle position)
 
s = slide to..    h = hammer on..     p = pick off to..
 
e|---------------------------------------|
B|------------------------ 7 s 9 -- 6 ---|
G|-- 2 s 3 -- 3 s 5 -- 6 ----------------|
D|---------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------|
 
e|------------------------------------------------|
B|------------------------- 7 s 9 -- 6 h 7 p 6 ---|
G|-- 2 s 3 -- 3 s 5 -- 6 -------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------|
 
Verses:
       (this is a sort of muffled overdrive so put pickup
        selector switch in BASS/RHYTHM pickup pos.)
strum each chord only once and let ring
 
Am 002210
F  133211       REMEMBER!!  CAPO ON 1st FRET !!!!
G  320033
C  032010
F* 033000
 
 
  Am                       F
  Nothing could bring me closer.
  G                    G Am
  Nothing could bring me near.
  Am                    F
  Where is the road I follow
  G        G Am
  To leave, leave?
 
 
       Am            F
  It's under, under, under my feet
      G                    G Am
  The sea spread out there before me.
G Am                      F
  Where do I go, when the land touches sea.
  G                 G  Am
  There is my trust in what I believe.
 
Chorus:
  (this really stands out so put pickup selector switch in MIDDLE position)
 
C
   That's what keeps me,
Am
   That's what keeps me,
   C                     G
   That's what keeps me down.
      C            Am    G
   To leave it, to leave it,
                  F        F*  F
   Leave it all behind.
 
The following verses and choruses are played the same,
sometimes with the Guitar riff and the chords, sometimes
just chords.  If you have two guitars (and two people)
play both!!
 
 
Shift into dream
Nothing could bring me further from my old friend time.
This shift into dream
It's charging the scene
I know where I marked the signs.
 
I suffer dreams of a world gone mad
I like it like that and I know it.
I know it well, ugly and sweet
I temper madness with an even extreme.
 
That's what keeps me
That's what keeps me
That's what keeps me down
Say that I'm a bantam lightweight
Say that I'm a phantom airplane
That never left the ground.
 
(Chorus) x1
 
Lift me, lift me,
I dream a dream.
I lost myself, I lost my...
Are they calling me?
 
I lost myself in sorrow
I lost myself in pain
I lost myself in gravity
Memory, leave, leave, leave.
 
(Chorus) x2
 
Lift my hands my eyes are still
I walk into the sea
Shift myself in a different place
And leave it.
 
I wait for this to take me,
I've longed for my release.
I've waited for the calling,
To leave, leave
 
Leave, leave, leave, leave
Leave it, leave it
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