Melt!
Artist: Siouxsie and the Banshees
Album: A Kiss In The Dream House
As played here: https://youtu.be/wrEfaTL591s?list=PLvQV6YPDLGpDeNS8b_WSt1tGMswNOzVfW
Tuning: Standard
[Intro]
(Each note is strummed super fast. Listen to the song to get it right.)
*You'll need a 24-fret neck to play this*
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[Verse 1]
First part of verse:
Em
You are the melting man
Cmaj
You are the situation
Em
There is no time to breathe
Cm
And yet one single breath
Second part of verse:
"Leads to an insatiable desire of suicide, in sex".
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[Verse 2]
Em
So many blazing orchids
Cmaj
Burning in your throat
Em
Making you choke
"Sigh in tiny deaths".
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[Chorus]
"So melt!, my lover, melt!, she said melt!, my lover, melt!"
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[Verse 3]
Em
You are the melting man
Cmaj
And as you melt
Em
You are beheaded
Cmaj
Handcuffed
"In lace and blood and sperm, swimming in poison, gasping in the fragrance, sweat carves,a screenplay of
discipline, and devotion".
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[Chorus]
"So melt!, my lover, melt!, she said melt!, my lover, melt!"
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[Verse 4]
"Can you see, see into the back"
(Each note is strummed super fast. Listen to the song to get it right.)
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Em
Of a long, black car
Cmaj
Pulling away
"From the funeral of flowers, with my hand between your legs, melting".
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[Verse 5]
Cmaj
She said melt
Em
My lover melt
She said
"Melt, my lover melt!".
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"So melt, my lover melt, she said".
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"Melt, my lover melt!".
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[Outro] [2:57 – 3:48]
Play this for the rest of the song:
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