Smashing Pumpkins – The End Is The Beginning Is The End tab ver. 2

I figured this out so it could be played solo on an acoustic guitar.  The actual 
recording is tuned down a half step to Eb (as was the style at the time) but it 
can be played in standard tuning just as well.

INTRO:

(At it's most basic, it's these 2 chords...)

Gm    Em    Gm    Em    Gm    Em

(Then this figure just before getting into the verse...or a Gm chord works fine too)e|--------------------------|B|--------------------------|G|--------------------------|D|--------------------------|A|----0--1--2--1--0---------|E|-3-----------------3--0---|
                           
VERSE:

Here's an easy way to jump from Gm to Bb.  You can let the high e string ring for 
all the chords as an option; gives it more of that doom sound.

   Em            Gm      Bbe|-0-------------0-------0----|B|-0-------------3-------3----|G|-0-------------3-------3----|D|-2-------------0-------0----|A|-2-------------x-------1----|E|-0-------------3------------|


Em           Gm       Bb
  The sewers belch me up
Em            Gm      Bb
  The heavens spit me out
Em            Gm      Bb     Em
  From ethers tragic,  I am born again

Gm               Em
    And now I'm with you now
Gm              Em
    Inside your world of wow
Gm              Em
   To move in desires made of 

C6       Fmaj7b5    Em
deadly            pretends... Till the

C6       Fmaj7b5    Em
end times          begin

(Ok, those were some weird chords, so I'll tab them out...)

   C6     Fmaj7b5     Eme|-0--------0---------0-------|B|-1--------0---------0-------|G|-2--------2---------0-------|D|-x--------3---------2-------|A|-3--------3---------2-------|E|----------1---------0-------|



CHORUS:

Am                          Em
Is it bright where you are?   Have the people changed?
D                        Am
Does it make you happy you're so strange?
Am                       Em
And in your darkest hour, I hold secrets flame
D                          Am             Em
You can watch the world devoured in it's pain

(You can do this little run...or just play Gm to Em like the intro)  Gm                         Em        Gme|---------------------------0---------------------------------|B|---------------------------0---------------------------------|G|---------------------------0---------------------------------|D|---------------------------2---------------------------------|A|----0--1--2--1--0----------2-------------0--1--2--1--0-------|E|-3-----------------3--0----0----------3-----------------3--0-|                           Strange.........

VERSE 2:

Em       Gm      Bb
Climb my ribcage too
Em          Gm      Bb
The replays run for you
Em         Gm        Bb             Em
Unhook my lights to peek behind the flash
Gm          Em
   For I am crystal chrome
Gm          Em
  And I am shattered dome
Gm          Em
   And I am kremlin king of 

C6       Fmaj7b5    Em
angels            avenged... To
C6       Fmaj7b5     Em
destroy           the end

CHORUS:

Am                          Em
Is it bright where you are?   Have the people changed?
D                        Am
Does it make you happy you're so strange?
Am                       Em
And in your darkest hour, I hold secrets flame
D                          Am             Em
You can watch the world devoured in it's pain

BRIDGE:

(This part's a little tricky; requires some simple fingerpicking.  But here's the tab...)

   Bb9     F9      G9     F9              C9               Bb9e|-8-------3-------5-------1------1-----|------------------------------------|B|--------------------------------------|-3-----3-----3----1-----1-----1-----|G|------0-------0-------0------0-----0--|----0-----0----------0-----0--------|D|--------------------------------------|------------------------------------|A|--------------------------------------|-3-----3-----3----1-----1-----1-----|E|-6-------1-------3-------1------1- ---|------------------------------------|  (PLAY 3X)                              (PLAY 1X)

Gm             Am         Gm          Am         Gm        Am       Bb
Ahhh.........  Ahhh.....  Ahhh....... Ahhh...... Ahhh....  Ahhh...  Ahhhhhhhh!!

(Then back to the INTRO again, like you mean it!)

Em     Gm        Bb 
  The zeppelins rain upon us
Em    Gm      Bb
  The guns of love disastrous
Em    Gm     Bb
    A shadow lies amongst you
Em    Gm      Bb
  To defy the future cast

CHORUS:

Am                          Em
Is it bright where you are?   Have the people changed?
D                        Am
Does it make you happy you're so strange?
Am                       Em
And in your darkest hour, I hold secrets flame
D                          Am             Em
You can watch the world devoured in it's pain

(Then this thing again to the end...or just play Gm to Em as in the intro)e|---------------------------0---------------------------------|B|---------------------------0---------------------------------|G|---------------------------0---------------------------------|D|---------------------------2---------------------------------|A|----0--1--2--1--0----------2-------------0--1--2--1--0-------|E|-3-----------------3--0----0----------3-----------------3--0-|                           Strange.........