Stereolab - Tempter

Stereolab - Tempter Tempter
Well... this song has no guitar! There's only a big Farfisa, a big Organ and some noises: I think that the pulse is made by a Moog rather than a low-fi drum machine, and the cracking noise by a Korg Monophonic Sinth (like M20); other noises in the final part are other moog's sounds and maybe a drum sample or drum machine or real drum???... these are just suppositions as the notes written down here. But, to me, these may be the real notes played (to catch them all I even made an analogic subtractor to hear the difference between the left and the right channel so that more notes can be grasped! I love electronics!). However a person does not have 4 hands, unless he's like a monkey, and so you could mix the two parts as you like! (notes with "|" should be played with left hand).

If you want to play this song with a guitar the chords are usual major chords:

D   A   G   A

Farfisa:
---------|--------|--------|--------||
           |        |        |        ||
---------|--------|--------|--------||
4          |        | #O     |        ||
/ ---------|--O-----|--------|--O-----||
4   O      |        |        |        ||
---------|--------|--------|--------||
           |        |        |        ||
---------|--------|--------|--------||
              O|                O|
               |                 |
               |                 |
--O|-----|---|----|--O|----|---|----||
     |     | O|    |   |    | O|    ||
---|-----|--------|---|----|--------||
4    |     |        | O|    |        ||
/ --O|-----|--------|--------|--------||
4          |        |        |        ||
---------|--------|--------|--------||
           |        |        |        ||
---------|--------|--------|--------||

Organ:

-#O------|--------|--------|--------||
           |        |        |        ||
--O------|--------|--------|--------||
4          |        | #O     |        ||
/ ---------|--O-----|--------|--O-----||
4   O      |        | O     |        ||
---------|--O-----|--------|--O-----||
           |        |        |        ||
---------|--------|--------|--------||
    O|        O|                O|
     |         |      #O|        |
     |         |        |        |
--O|-----|---|----|--O|----|---|----||
           | O|    |        | O|    ||
---------|--------|--------|--------||
4          |        |        |        ||
/ ---------|--------|--------|--------||
4          |        |        |        ||
---------|--------|--------|--------||
           |        |        |        ||
---------|--------|--------|--------||

Salvador Dalì - The Temptation of Saint Anthony, 1946 - oil on canvas - 89.7 x 119.5 cm - Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels. Visit www.dali-gallery.com for more.

(Lyrics are divided in quarters as the scores above; people with little screens like 640x480 may have a bad layout with lines breaking in more paragraphs; get the txt version of the song if this annoys you.)

|D                    |A                     |G                      |A
|                     |                      |                       |
|Midway between happi-|ness and sadness      |boiling but never      |overflowing,
|                     |                      |                       |
|Fails to only make a |better come back, more|powerful and poignant |and falls again
|                     |                      |                       |
|Destructive lust for |life erected,         |on the verge pricked up|like a picket
|                     |                      |                       |
|Fearing to respond to|the tempting but ma---|levolent call of       |the other side.

[all this with beautiful backing vocals:]

Dum di dum di dum di dum di dum dam...

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