Song: Leave 
Band: R.E.M.
Album: New Adventures in Hi-Fi (1996)
Tabbed by: Randy Simmons (s003rws@paladin.wright.edu)




* CAPO ON 1st FRET TO PLAY WITH THE ALBUM!!!


Guitar Riff: 
         

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 012200
F  112331       REMEMBER!!  CAPO ON 1st FRET !!!!
G  330023
C  010230
F* 000330

  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
  Leaving, leave


       Am            F
  It's Under, under, under my feet
      G                    G Am
  The sea spread out there before me.
G Am                   F
  Better I go, and the land touches sea.
  G                  G  Am
  There is _________ 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!!


Shifting the dream
Nothing could bring me further from rougher tide.
We're shifting the dream.
It's charging the sea.
I know where I marked the signs.

Suffer dreams of a world gone mad
I like it like that and I know it.
I know him well, ugly and sweet
A temper madness who believed in extreme.

That's what keeps me 
That's what keeps me
That's what keeps me down
I say they aren't gonna like me 
I say they don't know thier plane
Never left the ground.

(Chorus) x 1

Lift me, lift me,
I'll attain my dream.
I lost myself, I lost the,
Heartache calling me.

I lost myself in sorrow.
I lost myself in pain.
I lost myself in gravity.
Memory, leave, leave, leave.

(Chorus) x 2

In my hands my eyes are still
I walk into the sea
Shoot myself in a different place
And leave it.

Wait for this to take me,
It longed for my release.
Waited for the calling,
To leave, leave

Leave, leave, leave, leave
Leavin', Leavin'



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