An Ode to Locksmiths Tabs & Lyrics by Type O Negative

An Ode to Locksmiths

guitar tabs lyrics

Type O Negative

"An Ode to Locksmiths"
From DEAD AGAIN by Type O Negative
Tab by Raza Mahmood
Tune guitars 2.5 steps below standard
Low to High: B,E,A,D,F#,b

NOTES: First and second part of song are in triplet feel

^=hammer-on, pull-offs; +=bend and release

I. MAIN RIFF/INTRO (4 times)

b ||--------------------------------------|
F#||--------------------------------------|
D ||-------------------------2------------|
A ||-2^3^4-------------2^3^4---4--4-2^3^4-|
E ||-----------0-2^3^4--------------------|
B ||-------2-2----------------------------|

|--------------------------------------||
|--------------------------------------||
|-------------------------2------------||
|-2^3^4-------------2^3^4---4----------||
|-----------0-2^3^4--------------------||
|-------2-2--------------------2-/12\--||

VERSE:
"Been given the key..."
"Careful what you're..."
||--------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------||
||-4-------4-------4-------4----------2-------||
||-4-------2-------4-------2------2^4---4-2^0-||
||-2-------0-------2-------0------------------||
||--------------------------------------------||

"Thy rod and thy staff..."
(Half-time feel)
||------------------------------------------------||
||------------------------------------------------||
||-4-4-4--4-4---4-4-4--4-4-4--4-4---4-----2-------||
||-4-4-4--4-2---2-2-2--4-4-4--4-2---2-2^4---4-2^0-||
||-2-2-2--2-0---0-0-0--2-2-2--2-0---0-------------||
||------------------------------------------------||

"An earful..."
||--------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------||
||-4-------4-------4-------4----------2-------||
||-4-------2-------4-------2------2^4---4-2^0-||
||-2-------0-------2-------0------------------||
||--------------------------------------------||

REPEAT INTRO (2 times)

REPEAT VERSE

REPEAT INTRO (2 times)

II. BRIDGE:
(2 times)
||----------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------||
||-4^6----------------------4^6-----------------||
||------4+(4)-2---2^4-----------4+(4)-2---X-X-X-||
||--------------------2/4-----------------X-X-X-||
||----------------------------------------X-X-X-||

"Woe to the all women"
"Of land, air & sea..."
"Adam was..."
"Apple 'tween..."
(8 times)
||---------------------------||
||---------------------------||
||-4^6-6-4^6-4---------------||
||-4---4-4---4-4---4-2^4-----||
||-------------2---2-2---X-X-||
||-----------------------X-X-||

(2 times)
||----------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------||
||-4^6----------------------4^6-----------------||
||------4+(4)-2---2^4-----------4+(4)-2---X-X-X-||
||--------------------2/4-----------------X-X-X-||
||----------------------------------------X-X-X-||

"From the tree of knowledge"
"A metaphor..."
etc...
(8 times)
||---------------------------||
||---------------------------||
||-4^6-6-4^6-4---------------||
||-4---4-4---4-4---4-2^4-----||
||-------------2---2-2---X-X-||
||-----------------------X-X-||


III. ENDING:
(8 times)
||-----------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------||
||-0-0-3-0-5-0-6-0-7-0-10-0-11-0-12\-||

"We ain't goin' home got no where to go" (3times)
||----------------------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------------------||
||-----0-------------6--------------------------------------||
||---2-------0---4/----7\-----------------------------------||
||-3-------2---5--------------------------------------------||
||-------3----------------0-0-3-0-5-0-6-0-7-0-10-0-11-0-12\-||

"We ain't goin' home...." (4th time only)
||------------------------------------||
||------------------------------------||
||-----0------------------------------||
||---2-------0--7-7-7-7-7-7-7\--------||
||-3-------2----5-5-5-5-5-5-5\--------||
||-------3-----------------------/12\-||

"...no where to go..."
||-----------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------||
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||-0-0-3-0-5-0-6-0-7-0-10-0-11-0-12\-||