Cicatriz Esp Cifras

Interviewer: What is your attraction to pedals and manipulating the sound of a guitar?
 
Omar Rodriguez: It stems from my lack of sophistication on the instrument. It was a way to hide that. And it
also comes from my own rejection of the instrument, because I didn't choose the guitar. I wanted to be a piano
 player, but I couldn’t get my ideas out fast enough on a piano. But when I grabbed the guitar, the ideas came
 out, so that was the vehicle. It was the immediate thing that helped me get to the point I was trying to make
 as quickly as possible. So I felt like I got stuck with it, and then it just turned into a thing where I was
 really moved by all the possibilities of the instrument once I stopped thinking about it in traditional
terms. Not to mention the fact that, I mean, how old is the guitar? And there are only 12 notes you can play
on it! When you think of it that way, it’s like, in terms of the guitar as a device, what else does technology
 offer? So you go into the gear, the pedals, the plug-ins and anything else that has been invented.
 
[Verse 1]
                       Em
Do you recall it's name
Em
As it suggested beck and call
               Am
This face and heel
Am
Will drag your halo through the mud
         Em
Ash of Pompeii
Em
Erupting in a statues dust
            Am
Shrouded in veils
Am
Because these handcuffs hurt to much
 
[Bridge]
C                       D                 Em
  Still scalpeing these ticketless applause
              C                      D                  Em
And when they drag the lake there is nothing left at all
 
[Verse 2]
Em
   sutured contusion
           Am
beyond the anthills of the dawning of this plague
                    Em
said I've lost my way
Em
even if this cul de sac would pay
 
[Bridge]
C              D          Em
  to reach inside a vault    whatever be the cost
C
  sterling clear
D            Ebm Em Fm G
blackend ice
          C                     D
when they drag the lake there's nothing left at all
 
[Chorus]
C    D   Em
I've de--fected [x4]
 
[Verse 2]
Em
   sutured contusion
           Am
beyond the anthills of the dawning of this plague
                    Em
said I've lost my way
Em
even if this cul de sac would pay
 
[Bridge]
C              D          Em
  to reach inside a vault    whatever be the cost
C
  sterling clear
D            Ebm Em Fm G
blackend ice
          C                     D                   Em
when they drag the lake there's nothing left at all
 
[Chorus]
C    D   Em
I've de--fected [x4]
 
[Verse 2]
           Am
beyond the anthills of the dawning of this plague
                    Em
said I've lost my way
Em
   even if this cul de sac did pay
           Am
beyond the anthills of, beyond the anthills oooof
                    Em
said I've lost my way  yeeaah
                                  Am
even if you, even if you, even if you
 
[Bridge]
Am
reach inside a vault whatever be the cost
C
  sterling clear
D            Ebm Em Fm G
blackend ice
          C                     D               Em
when they drag the lake there's nothing left at all
 
[Chorus]
C    D   Em
I've de--fected [x4]
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